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Longboat Key | Neighbors

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  • Observer Staff
  • November 28, 2012
Glass half full at Tennis Center

The long-awaited day was more than a year-and-a-half in the making. Saturday, Nov. 24, beer and wine sales opened at the Longboat Key Public Tennis Center.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 28, 2012
Light up our lives and the Key

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • November 28, 2012
FIVE FAST FACTS: Sea lions

Read up on sea lions before Stella, Rose and Kitty make their debut in Mote's "Sea Lions: On the Water's Edge" exhibit.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Marilyn Bendell's artwork included many portraits in her Arts Center years but expanded into more abstract styles after moving to Santa Fe, N.M.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • November 28, 2012
Historic art-ifacts

Village residents Winnie Nelon and Carol Weiss have gathered an exhibit that focuses on four key figures in the Arts Center's 60-year history.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Stella
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • November 28, 2012
Sea lion exhibit is furry first for Mote

Patagonian sea lions Stella, Rose and Kitty will be the first furry marine mammals to be featured at Mote's aquarium.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The royals totally created with Legos in Hamleys Toy Shop.
  • By Stuart and Lois Scheyer
  • November 28, 2012
London and Paris Revisited

The Observer travel editors share outtakes from their recent travel log.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Joanne Sheehan submitted this sunset photo, taken at Beach Harbor Club on Longboat Key.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 28, 2012
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

Joanne Sheehan submitted this sunset photo, taken at Beach Harbor Club on Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The Longboat Island Chapel had a reception with refreshments after the service.
    By
  • Yaryna Klimchak
  • November 20, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Interfaith Thanksgiving Worship Service

The Longboat Island Chapel hosted the 32nd annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Worship Service on Tuesday, Nov. 20 in the chapel to worship with community. Various religious organizations got together to all worship together and be thankful. 'Personally I am touched every year,' said Board of Trustee Member John Holtzermann. 'The sense of community is palpable.'

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Pat Shutello snapped this bald eagle photo in early November. Photo courtesy of Pat Shutello.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 20, 2012
Bald eagle causes hope to soar

Longboat Key resident Pat Shutello was sitting on her patio, worrying about the damages Superstorm Sandy inflicted on her New Jersey home, when she received a good omen.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 20, 2012
Breaking news: Santa coming to town

You read it first here: Santa Claus is coming to town.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
One of Plymouth Harbor's great-horned owls. Courtesy of Dr. Lou Newman.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 20, 2012
Owl pair seldom seen, often heard

Nighttime at Plymouth Harbor has been a real hoot lately.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Courtesy of Mary Lou Johnson
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 20, 2012
Johnson wins top honors for Key photos

Longboat Key photographer Mary Lou Johnson won first place at Saturday's Sarasota Bay Water Festival for her photo, "Mystic Morning," that she took early on a foggy morning on the north end of Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 20, 2012
Sally and Sam Shapiro Day honors couple's contributions

Sarasota Mayor Suzanne Atwell has proclaimed that Nov. 11 be known as Sally and Sam Shapiro Day.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 20, 2012
Obituary: Robert Steichen

Robert Steichen, 77, of Longboat Key, died Nov. 12.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Loshaek
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 20, 2012
Obituary: Samuel Loshaek

Samuel Loshaek, 88, of Longboat Key, died Nov. 7.

  • Longboat Key
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