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Longboat Key | Neighbors

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  • Observer Staff
  • September 9, 2009
Obituaries

Obituaries

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 9, 2009
Summer survival

Off-season months are always tough for Longboat Key resorts, but this year, they faced the added hurdle of a slow economy. This summer, owners showed that they're up for the challenge.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Kent Chetlain
  • September 9, 2009
Key Real Estate

Orchid Beach unit sells for $2.35 million

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 9, 2009
Real Estate Reports

Real Estate Reports

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 9, 2009
Business Observer

Business Observer

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 9, 2009
Weather

This week's temperatures and forecast.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Jessica Luck
  • September 4, 2009
Where's Waldo?

Mote Marine Laboratory is offering a $500 reward for the return of Waldo, its missing scientific robot that searches Florida waters for signs of red tide.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 3, 2009
Bernthal to conduct his first SAKLC services Sunday

The Rev. Mark Bernthal, a Winter Haven native, will be installed as St. Armands Key Lutheran's senior pastor in October.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • September 2, 2009
Sailing Squadron to host Labor Day Regatta

The Sarasota Sailing Squadron will present its 63rd annual Labor Day Regatta Sept. 4 through Sept. 6.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 2, 2009
Tennis Gardens wins USTA honor

The Tennis Gardens at the Longboat Key Club and Resort was named one of 12 winners of the 28th annual United States Tennis Association Outstanding Facility Awards Program.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2009
Household wall repairs make for some great headlines

Village resident Graham Cox was making minor repairs to the wall of his home when he made a newsworthy discovery: issues of The Longboat Observer dating back to the late 1970s and 1980s.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2009
Let us hear what you have to say

Let us hear what you have to say

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2009
Injured toddler prepares for surgery

Libby Claire McGarity, the 22-month-old toddler who was critically injured July 10, when she fell from a loft in the Village home of her grandparents, Jim and Susan Pressly, will undergo surgery to replace her skull flap Thursday, Sept. 3.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 2, 2009
Where are they now? Art Falls

After 28 years of running six stores, including The Sea Stable, Art Falls is now retired and living in The Meadows, in Sarasota.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2009
Obituaries

Obituaries

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