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Longboat Key | Neighbors

Longboat Key Kiwanis Club President Michael Garey shares memories of the Café on St. Armands.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • February 3, 2025
Longboat Kiwanis welcomes new members amid busy season

Kiwanis Club members held their first monthly meeting of 2025, making plans for pancake socials and more.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Val Evanko, Joyce Mazurek and Dona Petruccelli run the counter at the Lord's Warehouse reopening.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • February 3, 2025
Lord's Warehouse reopens to community acclaim

The Lord's Warehouse, badly damaged by last year's hurricanes, fully reopened for the season over the weekend.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Belinda Bauer and Pete Haselhorst join the community cleanup.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • February 3, 2025
Community cleans nearly 500 bags of storm debris

Longboat Key community members joined a large-scale volunteer effort to clean Gulf of Mexico Drive from remaining storm debris

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Eric Snider
  • January 30, 2025
Take a trip back to Longboat Key's humble beginnings

From pirates to luxury resorts, discover the fascinating facts behind Longboat Key's unique history as it approaches its 70th anniversary.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Marty Fugate, Su Byron
  • January 30, 2025
Local restaurants dish up an assortment of international cuisine

Skip the hassle of airports and long flights. A culinary odyssey awaits in our area’s islands in the sun.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Eat + Drink
This Longboat Key estate provides a ready escape to the water.
  • By Robert Plunket
  • January 30, 2025
Longboat Key estate boasts features that make it a boater's dream come true

Set on two acres overlooking peaceful Bishop’s Bayou, this waterfront masterpiece is both eye-catching and private.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Kei Sulhi and Dr. Ann Stephenson-Moe receive recognition for their musical contributions to the community.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • January 29, 2025
Temple's 46th gala celebrates the arts

Temple Beth Israel celebrated musical talents of Kei Sulhi and Dr. Ann Stephenson-Moe at its annual gala.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Linn Torres, All Angels by the Sea administative assistant and art sale coordinator, shows one of the pieces that will be available at the 'New to You' art sale starting Feb. 3.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • January 29, 2025
Find treasures at 'New to You' art sale

All Angels by the Sea is holding its fifth annual art sale, starting Feb. 3, to support the nonprofit Turning Points, which helps residents avoid homelessness.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Stephen Norman, senior event manager at the St. Regis Longboat Key Resort, interviews job fair candidates.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • January 28, 2025
St. Regis job fair adds employees front to back

St. Regis Longboat Key Resort recently sought recruits within the community at an in-house job fair

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Musician Billy Lindsey, performing as Elvis Presley, gives lei necklaces to all the ladies in the audience, including Sharyn Ford.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • January 28, 2025
Elvis kicks off Longboat Harbor social calendar

Longboat Harbour Condominiums has a full slate of social events planned for 2025, and the events kicked off Jan. 25 with a performance by musician Billy Lindsey.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Kid Dutch and company lead a raucously fun night of music.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • January 28, 2025
All that Jazz: NOLA comes to Longboat Key

Kid Dutch and fellow jazz artists brought the smooth sounds of the classic New Orleans music scene to Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The Center of Anna Maria Island Executive Director Chris Culhane, Manatee County Commissioner Mike Rahn and Anna Maria Oyster Bar owner John Horne helped get the rock band to play a benefit concert in Manatee County.
    By
  • Eric Snider
  • January 28, 2025
Local groups pull together to pull off big-time benefit concert

Rock concerts, especially ones produced on short notice, can be rife with challenges and obstacles. This one, to raise money for local hospitality workers battered by storms, came together nicely.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Lydia Zorzi, who recently authored her first book of poetry, chats with visitor Debra Garret at the Art on the Gulf showcase on Jan. 22.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • January 27, 2025
Up-and-coming artists featured at showcase

This week's "Art on the Gulf" showcase highlighted the works of six local artists, ranging from jewelry design to poetry to painting.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Artist Michael George chats with visitors at the St. Armands Circle Art Festival.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • January 27, 2025
St. Armands Circle Art Festival returns in full force

According to organizers, the long-running St. Armands Circle Art Festival is back in full swing since the hurricanes hit Longboat Key at the end of last year.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Celebrants cut the ribbon for the official opening of Café on St. Armands.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • January 27, 2025
Revamped St. Armands restaurant blends new, classic styles

Owners of the newly opened Café on St. Armands blended the familiar feeling of the 100-year-old building with an updated aesthetic, hoping to help revamp St. Armands Circle.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
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Longboat Key Police Chief Russ Mager speaks at a Rotary Club of Longboat Key meeting Tuesday, Sept. 16. Mager, who spent nearly three decades in law enforcement primarily in Delray Beach, said LBKPD has training requirements similar to the much larger city of Delray and that officers on the Key are well prepared for any event that may take place thanks to partnerships the department has with neighboring jurisdictions.
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Lucie Lapovsky, president of the Longboat Key Democratic Club, and Nick Gladding, president of the Republican Club of Longboat Key, are two members of Miracle on the Key, a group which aims to find common ground among hot-button political issues.
  • December 3, 2025
Longboat Dems, GOP join together to find common ground

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