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Swans Susie and Sully glide through the water with their three cygnets Saturday. Courtesy of Lou Newman
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  • May 6, 2015
Oh, babies! New cygnets hatch

Swan keeper David Novak hopes the newest cygnets will show strength in their critical first days of life.

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Eugenie Clark died Feb. 25. She was 92.
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  • May 6, 2015
Community remembers Mote’s Shark Lady

Eugenie Clark’s colleagues, friends and family honor her legacy on what would have been her 93rd birthday.

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Obituary: Jayne McAuliff

Jayne McAuliff, 89, of Longboat Key and Lake Geneva, Wis., died April 25.

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Obituary: Florence Ward

Florence Ward, 87, of Longboat Key and Peters Township, Penn., died May 2.

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News briefs

Town manager addresses boat mooring; C.C. Shores seeks turn lane

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Betty Blair
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  • May 6, 2015
Blair served as VOICE for community

Betty Blair, a longtime activist with the former Longboat Key Public Interest Committee, died April 29. She was 91.

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  • May 6, 2015
Grads: Contact us to be featured in our graduation special

Do you know a soon-to-be graduate who lives on Longboat, Lido, St. Armands or Bird keys?

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Stone crab season ends May 15.
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  • May 6, 2015
Last chance: stone crab season ends May 15

It’s that time of year: Turtles are nesting, snowbirds have vanished, and you have one more week to savor stone crabs.

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The Longboat Key Club
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  • May 6, 2015
Mark Walsh: No vote on Islandside could bring more traffic

Ocean Properties’ Mark Walsh says voters should check ‘yes’ on their May 12 referendum ballots if they don’t want more traffic on Gulf of Mexico Drive.

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This home at 424 N. Washington Drive has six bedrooms, four and a half baths, a pool and 4,465 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.25 million. Photo by Kristen Herhold
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  • May 6, 2015
John Ringling Estates home sells for $2.25 million

A home in John Ringling Estates tops all transactions in this week’s real estate.

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Cheryl Moore submitted this photo of an ibis, taken on Lido Key.
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  • May 6, 2015
Longboat Key photo contest winner: May 7

Cheryl Moore submitted this photo of an ibis, taken on Lido Key.

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Longboat Key residents Robert and Bonny Israeloff with Karen and Tom Bernstein went on safari in Tanzania and Kenya and visited Serengeti National Park in Tarangire, Tanzania.
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  • May 6, 2015
Attention, globe trotters: Five months left to submit photos for the ‘It’s Read Everywhere’ contest

Attention, globe trotters: You have five months left to submit photos for the ‘It’s Read Everywhere’ contest.

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  • May 6, 2015
Rotary Kids Club reaches high of five

Attendance at the Rotary Club of Longboat Key Kids Club was up 150% at its May 1 gathering over its inaugural March 27 get-together: The Kids Club drew five children, compared to the first Kids Club, which garnered two young attendees.

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  • May 6, 2015
Operation Kindness raises $65,000

The tally is in for the March 31 Operation Kindness event at the Longboat Key Club: The event raised $65,000 for Operation Kindness Florida, a nonprofit organization with the mission of raising funds for veterans who have sustained emotional and physical trauma

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  • May 5, 2015
Plymouth Harbor enjoys its "Feathers"

Lou Newman held his ninth annual wildlife photography exhibit on May 5.

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