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Longboat Key | Neighbors

    By
  • Dora Walters
  • December 16, 2009
Player flip-flops on love for tennis

Jane Oaks attracted a lot of attention at Cedars Tennis & Fitness Club's recent Welcome-Back party. She was wearing flip-flops adorned with miniature tennis balls.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Dora Walters
  • December 16, 2009
Longboat resident blazes a trail on his bike

Carl Meyers vowed to ride 80 kilometers Dec. 3 on his bike to celebrate his 80th birthday.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Dora Walters
  • December 16, 2009
Dual launch party at Mar Vista goes by the book

Longboat authors Celia Edmundson and Terry Griffin held a joint book launch Dec. 13, at Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Dora Walters
  • December 16, 2009
Sale-goers leap for the printed word

Virginia Sanders was one of the featured authors at Mote Marine's annual Christmas book sale.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Dora Walters
  • December 16, 2009
Speaker gives All Angels a healthy outlook

Dr. Henry E. Simmons, president of the National Coalition on Health Care, was the guest speaker at the Dec. 8 meeting of the Sandpipers of All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • December 16, 2009
Harry's wine-ds up for latest event

Harry's Continental Kitchens will hold its next wine tasting from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17, at Harry's deli, 525 St. Judes Drive. The event will benefit Longboat Island Chapel's Aging in Paradise Resource Center. Cost is $10. Call 383-0777.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • December 16, 2009
Black Tie & Tales

Read this week's social column, Black Tie & Tales.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • December 16, 2009
Longboat Key holds worship services

Longboat Key holds worship services

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • December 16, 2009
Celebration of life gathering to be held for Claudia Fuller

A celebration of life gathering for 2008 Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key Citizen of the Year Claudia Fuller will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, 811 S. Palm Ave., Sarasota. The date coincides with what would have been Fuller's 80th birthday. Fuller, 79, died Oct. 21. The celebration will feature a band, hors d'oeuvres and cash bar. Guests are invited to bring a memory of Fuller to share.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Jessica Luck
  • December 16, 2009
The bold and the beautiful

We announce the winners to this year's 'Light Up the Keys' contest.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • December 16, 2009
Longboat fitness options now include new classes

There is quite a bit of news about fitness classes on Longboat Key this season, led by the return of the mind-body fitness methodology, Nia.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Donna Swan
  • December 16, 2009
Deal Us In

How to play for success

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • December 16, 2009
Grand awakening

Ann McCarthy submitted this sunrise photo, taken at Grand Bay condominium. Please send your sunset (or sunrise) photos to The Longboat Observer, 5570 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, Fla., 34228, or e-mail them to [email protected].

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • December 14, 2009
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson dies at 94

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor spent winters on Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • December 14, 2009
Obituary: Dorothy Mylan Rooney

Rooney, 102, was a former Longboat Key resident and retired teacher.

  • Longboat Key
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