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  • March 11, 2021
Longboat Key weather page photo: March 11

Kerstin Seymore captured this photo of the sunset at Seaplace on Longboat Key.

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  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • March 11, 2021
Longboat Key Club golfers get in an essential round

Golfers dressed up as essential workers for the most recent member-guest day at the club.

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  • Neighbors
  • By Sage Longboat Key Residences Staff
  • March 11, 2021
Sage Longboat Key Residences Surpasses 50% Sold

The boutique beachfront luxury development has sold half of the available residences in just five months since launch.

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  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • March 9, 2021
Longboat Key women's golf associations gather to Go For the Cure

Both the Key Niners and the Women's Golf Association came together for a round of golf.

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Courtesy photo.
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  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • March 9, 2021
Thanks, employees

Town of Longboat Key thanks employees on Employee Appreciation Day.

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Donna Sharp Blaney and Suzy Brenner
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  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • March 9, 2021
Paradise Center plans for socially distanced gala

The center will host a silent auction in its rec room.

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  • Neighbors
The proposal for a new resort evolved over the years.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • March 9, 2021
Unicorp proposes changes to St. Regis development

In February, Unicorp closed on a settlement to dissolve the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort's condominium association.

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  • Observer Staff
  • March 8, 2021
Longboat Key Cops Corner: Bad behavior

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

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Crews began water-sample testing on July 1 near the site of the sewage spill. Photo courtesy of www.rustychinnis.com.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • March 8, 2021
Longboat Key seeks funding from engineering firm after June 2020 sewage break

Greeley and Hansen provided inspected the pipe and gave the town a report in August 2017.

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Barbara Harrison in her home with her art
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  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • March 8, 2021
Longboat Key artist Barbara Harrison is bringing it all together

As Harrison continues with her art and yoga, she's continuing the threads of her childhood dreams.

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  • Neighbors
George Spoll served as Longboat Key mayor in 2010, 2018 and 2019.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • March 8, 2021
Longboat Key commissioner George Spoll reflects on his tenure

George Spoll served on the Longboat Key Town Commission from 2005-2011, and then again from 2017-2021.

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The town of Longboat Key continues to sort through enforcement of the resident permit parking program in the Longbeach Village neighborhood, which started on Jan. 1.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • March 8, 2021
Longboat Key preps for spring break visitors

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about some changes along with new parking rules implemented at the start of the year.

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A Water Club penthouse tops this week's Longboat sales at $2,965,000. It previously sold for $2.7 million in 2016. (Photo courtesy of Ryan Ackerman with Coldwell Banker Realty)
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • March 8, 2021
Water Club penthouse sells for nearly $3 million

The $2,965,000 sale tops this week's Longboat real estate transactions.

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Guest piper Ross Allen. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • March 8, 2021
Scottish service survives

Christ Church of Longboat Key held its annual Kirkin O' the Tartans service.

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  • Neighbors
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • March 8, 2021
Longboat Key's island neighbor gets some TLC

Suncoast Waterkeepers and Sarasota Bay Watch organized a cleanup on Sister Keys.

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