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  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 27, 2021
St. Armands Circle Association hosts Family Day

The event was the last of the summer's Sol of the Circle events.

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    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 27, 2021
Longboat Key Turtle Watch, Keep Manatee Beautiful clean Longboat Key beaches

The groups organized the first of their off-season trash pick-up sessions.

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A condo at the Orchid Beach Club on Lido Key led weekly sales.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • September 27, 2021
Lido Key condo tops weekly transactions at $2.17 million

The sale is the highest of all sales on Longboat and the Keys for the week of Sept. 13-17.

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  • Real Estate
The name willet is an onomatopoeia for this common shorebird's piercing call.
    By
  • Miri Hardy
  • September 24, 2021
Bird of the week: Willet

Shorebird's bill is longer than its head.

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  • Neighbors
Mali stays balanced in peaceful warrior pose.
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 24, 2021
Angela Mali teaches yoga at Bayfront Park

Mali's classes are donation-based and relaxed enough for anyone to join.

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On Sept. 17, Unicorp CEO Chuck Whittall appeared before the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • September 23, 2021
Unicorp asks St. Regis condo buyers for 13% price increase

Unicorp CEO Chuck Whittall cited how the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the costs of the project.

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Homes are going to contract much faster in 2021 than they did in 2020.
    By
  • Eric Garwood
  • September 23, 2021
Reduced inventories keep Sarasota-area real estate prices climbing

Median prices in Manatee and Sarasota have been on a month-to-month rise since June 2020.

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  • Observer Staff
  • September 23, 2021
Longboat Key weather page photo: September 23

Joe Padorr captured this sunset on Longboat Key.

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Sarasota County has more than 6,600 ponds, of which more than 4,500 are classified retention ponds.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • September 22, 2021
Barancik Foundation grant donates $250,000 to Healthy Pond Collaborative

START is due to receive the money over a three-year period.

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A ShredQuick truck shredded paper documents at the town of Longboat Key's community open house in March 2020. Photo: Nat Kaemmerer
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • September 22, 2021
Longboat Key plans to host free shredding event

The event is set for 9 a.m. to noon on Oct. 20.

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    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 20, 2021
Sarasota Arts Live plays through rain

The Sol of the Circle event wrapped up the summer on St. Armands Circle

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 20, 2021
Writer Wilma Davidson and savant Diana de Avila team up for book

"Soldier, Sister, Savant" tells de Avila's story and the arrival of acquired savant syndrome.

  • Longboat Key
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Firefighter-paramedic William Lewis and firefighter-parameic Ron Koper sit inside one of Fire Station 91's bedrooms.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • September 20, 2021
Longboat's north-end fire station renovations get completed

Many of the same features that went into the rebuilding of the south-end station were part of $800,000 project.

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Pending approval from the Town Commission, Unicorp is scheduled to break ground Oct. 25 on the St. Regis development.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • September 19, 2021
Longboat Key's planning board advances St. Regis revisions

Town Commissioners in October will have final say on a series of changes Unicorp wants for condo, resort plan.

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    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • September 19, 2021
Lido Key condo sells for $3.6 million

The condominium at 1300 Ben Franklin Drive was the top seller on Longboat Key, Lido Key and Bird Key for the week of Sept. 6-10

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