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Longboat Key | Neighbors

Teresa Alexander submitted this sunset photo.
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  • Observer Staff
  • August 21, 2013
Weather photo: Longboat Key

Teresa Alexander submitted this sunset photo.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Steve Moyer and Andrew Vac
    By
  • Heather Merriman Saba
  • August 20, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: St. Armands Circle Association Meeting

Members joined for a St. Armands Circle Association meeting at Help at Home Homecare on Tuesday, Aug. 20.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Larry Stults, Christine Johnson, Pierre Schutte, Rusty Chinnis, Steve Gieger and Sandy Gilbert
    By
  • Heather Merriman Saba
  • August 17, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: Sarasota Bay Watch Scallop Search

More than 165 volunteers joined at Mar Vista for Sarasota Bay Watch's scallop search Saturday, Aug. 17.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Chris Caswell, Dan Gagne and Ron Shields
    By
  • Heather Merriman Saba
  • August 15, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: Networking at Noon Luncheon

The Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce held its Networking at Noon luncheon on Thursday, Aug. 15, at Bridge Street Bistro. Longboat Key Dental's new owner Dr. Michael O'Neil sponsored the luncheon.

  • Longboat Key
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The 2013 Kiwanis Foundation Scholarship recipients
    By
  • Heather Merriman Saba
  • August 15, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: Kiwanis Scholarship Breakfast

The Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key Foundation presented academic scholarships to 25 recipients during its annual scholarship breakfast Thursday, Aug. 15, at the Longboat Key Club Harbourside dining room.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Molly Klauber and Ethan Biter. Photo by Cliff Roles.
    By
  • Yaryna Klimchak
  • August 15, 2013
Going to the chapel ...

Sarasota resident Ethan Biter proposed to his now-fiance, Molly Klauber, in late June on a private cruise in the Bahamas.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Heather Merriman Saba
  • August 14, 2013
Couple sets sail to matrimony

Kelsey Brooke Lashway, daughter of Wayne and Toni Lashway, of Longboat Key, married Alan Daniel Yim, of Boston, July 28. Yim is the son of Ming Do and Wah Kit Yim.

  • Longboat Key
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Susan Phillips and Phyllis Black wait for bail. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Heather Merriman Saba
  • August 14, 2013
Partners in crime bail out of lock-up

Susan Phillips, assistant to the town manager, and her partner in crime, friend Phyllis Black, were "arrested" Aug. 7 at Longboat Key Town Hall and "booked" at Ruth's Chris Steak House.

  • Longboat Key
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C.J. Wickersham has been an avid fisherman since he was 4 years old. Courtesy photo
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • August 14, 2013
Rescue reenactment airs on 'Trip Gone Bad'

The Outdoor Channel aired a reenactment last week of the 2011 bull shark attack that injured C.J. Wickersham.

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  • Observer Staff
  • August 14, 2013
OBITUARY: Sherwin 'Sonny' Welson

Sherwin "Sonny" Welson, 84, of Longboat Key and West Hartford, Conn., died Aug. 5.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 14, 2013
OBITUARY: Jeanette Schoener

Jeanette Helen Schoener, 87, of Longboat Key and formerly of West Orange, N.J., died Aug. 5.

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Landry
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 14, 2013
OBITUARY: Christopher Kevin Landry

Christopher Kevin Landry, 69, of Boston and Longboat Key, died Aug. 1.

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Sergio Albuquerque submitted this sunset photo, taken on Coquina Beach.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 14, 2013
Weather Photo: Longboat Observer 08/14/13

Sergio Albuquerque submitted this sunset photo, taken on Coquina Beach.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Sirlene and Jerry Bonney with Jackie and Lynn Millikin
    By
  • Heather Merriman Saba
  • August 11, 2013
SYC's Black & White Ball

Masked and dressed in black and white, members of the Sarasota Yacht Club enjoyed their annual Black and White Ball Saturday, Aug. 10.

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Volunteers will count the number of eggs that hatched and check for stragglers at the excavation.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • August 8, 2013
Turtle Watch to excavate nest

Longboat Key Turtle Watch volunteers will excavate a nest that hatched recently this Saturday.

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