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Longboat Key | Neighbors

    By
  • Nick Reichert
  • October 9, 2015
SARTQ's Key Influence exhibit opens at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts

Running through October 30, the show featured work from a dozen Sarasota member artists of the artist collective SARTQ.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Cheryl Press submitted this photo taken at Bay Isles Beach Club, noting that the waves on Longboat Key were bigger than those of North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 9, 2015
Longboat Key photo contest winner: Oct. 8

Cheryl Press submitted this photo taken at Bay Isles Beach Club, noting that the waves on Longboat Key were bigger than those of North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • October 7, 2015
Bird Key Sea Gals soar to season

The women of Bird Key Yacht Club gathered for Sea Gals on Oct. 7.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Last year’s Grand Marshal and World War II veteran Lee Auslander, then 100, with Andy Hooker and Andy Sawyer.
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • October 7, 2015
Rotary Club to honor veterans

The Rotary Club of Longboat Key will host its second annual Veterans Day Parade on Nov. 11.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Carol Erker volunteers at Tuttle Elementary School’s food panty, a biweekly event organized by the Rotary Club of Longboat Key.
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • October 7, 2015
Conversation with Carol Erker

Carol Erker serves as the Rotary Club of Longboat Key's president.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Virginia Sanders
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • October 6, 2015
Virginia Sanders turns 93

Longboat celebrity Virginia Sanders celebrated her 93rd birthday Tuesday.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The cleanup aims to reduce bird and other animal fishing-line entanglements .
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • October 5, 2015
Volunteers help clean up area waters

Volunteers at the seventh annual Fishing Line Cleanup picked up fishing equipment and other trash in an effort to clean up area waters and beaches.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • October 3, 2015
Scallopalooza helps restore the bay's ecosystem

More than 160 people helped benefit Sarasota Bay scallop restoration in the at Sarasota Bay Watch’s fifth annual Scallopalooza Oct. 3.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • October 2, 2015
Designing Daughters enjoys Bourbon & Beauty

Designing Daughters and The Met hosted Bourbon & Beauty on Oct. 1.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Kevin Geary submitted this photo of a pelican fishing at sunset at the Bay Isles Beach Club on Longboat Key.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 1, 2015
Longboat Key photo contest winner: Oct. 1

Kevin Geary submitted this photo of a pelican fishing at sunset at the Bay Isles Beach Club on Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Ciao! Italia was closed Sept. 7 to 27 and reopened Sept. 28.
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • October 1, 2015
Longboat restaurants begin opening for season

Many Longboat Key restaurants closed for the month of September. See when your favorite ones opened or are due to open.

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  • News
Kiwanis Club Treasurer Jim Larson deposits Team Renick's $10,000 Platinum Partner Check.
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • September 30, 2015
Lawn Party to dish out new ticket, raffle structure

The Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key’s biggest fundraiser of the year is changing.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
John Kisgen
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • September 30, 2015
Publix welcomes new manager

John Kisgen is the new manager at Longboat Key's Publix.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Barbara Koetsier, co-chair of the Aging in Paradise Resource Center
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • September 29, 2015
Aging in Paradise to hold Powerful Tools for Caregivers

Beginning Oct. 5, the Aging in Paradise Resource Center will host the six-week Friendship Center course, Powerful Tools for Caregivers.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Chamber Ambassador Vince LaPorta and President Gail Loefgren
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • September 28, 2015
Celebrate the end of summer with Business After Hours

The Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce will host its monthly Business After Hours networking event tomorrow at Tommy Bahama.

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  • Business
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