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Longboat Key Public Tennis Center member Andy Thoms serves the ball during a game Monday.
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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 29, 2015
Tennis Center supporters volley for respect

The Longboat Key Public Tennis Center isn’t a moneymaker for the town. But commissioners realize it adds value and want to reserve dollars for its upkeep.

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  • April 29, 2015
Pension flames Longboat Key firefighter hiring problem

Six firefighters must retire in 2016. Fire Chief Paul Dezzi worries lagging salaries and high pension costs for employees will make it difficult to fill the void when they leave.

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  • April 29, 2015
Briefs

CDD boards change guards; County grows green

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Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber
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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 29, 2015
Who’s who in the case of the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort

The once iconic resort at 1620 Gulf of Mexico Drive remains shuttered after nearly five years. The following players hold key roles in determining its future.

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Joel Fedder, right
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  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 29, 2015
Fedder cultivated passion for the environment

Joel Fedder spent his career in Baltimore as an estate, trust and real estate lawyer and, later, a real estate developer, but his true passion was the environment.

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Each year turtles lay more than 2,000 nests from Longboat Key to Venice.
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  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 29, 2015
Sea turtles enter nesting mode on Longboat

As the snowbirds of Longboat flock home, new island residents will swim in to take their place: turtles.

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This home at 1570 Harbour Cay Lane has five bedrooms, six and a half baths, a pool and 5,918 square feet of living area. It sold for $3.65 million. Photo courtesy of Cheryl Loeffler
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  • Adam Hughes
  • April 29, 2015
Bay Isles home sells for $3.65 million

A home in Bay Isles tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Andre and Jean Butterfield, of Harrogate, England, sold their home at 1570 Harbor Cay Lane to Phineas and Sara Demink, of Bemus Point, N.Y., for $3.65 million.

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Debby McClung. Photo by Molly Schechter
    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • April 29, 2015
AEROBIC GRANDMA | Summer stretch a first for Bayfront Park yoga classes

It was more than a little bit of good luck for year-round residents of Longboat Key and the surrounding area when the former Debby Debile married Michael McClung in 2014 and moved here

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Susan Phillips has been a Longboat Key resident since 1998.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 29, 2015
Q+A with Susan Phillips

Assistant to the Town Manager Susan Phillips has sat through more Longboat Key Town Commission meetings (17 years’ worth and counting) than any commissioner

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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 29, 2015
State of the beach

$20 million. In the next two years, that’s the amount of money the town is prepared to spend on three separate Longboat Key beach projects.

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Larry Cohen. File photo
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 29, 2015
Larry Cohen reigned as Sleep King

In his famous Sleep King ad from 1983, Larry Cohen offered free two-hour naps and proclaimed he would get you your mattress on the same day, even if he had to deliver it on his back. He never changed the ad.

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The first turtle nest on Longboat Key was found April 28.
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 28, 2015
First turtle nests of 2015 come early

The first turtle nests from Longboat Key to Venice were found April 25, 27 and 28.

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Town Manager Dave Bullock and Longboat Key Mayor Jack Duncan have worked for the past two months to gain support for the regional traffic analysis among neighboring counties and municipalities.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 28, 2015
MPO requests FDOT traffic study

The Florida Department of Transportation will conduct a comprehensive analysis of all of the traffic points that affect traffic from the barrier islands to the mainland.

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Temple Beth Israel Rabbi Jonathon Katz has been urging the town for years to assist him in his quest to reduce the number of signs that the Florida Department of Transportation places along Gulf of Mexico Drive.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 28, 2015
Katz urges for sign reduction

The Longboat Key Town Commission has directed staff to work with the Florida Department of Transportation to discuss the myriad of signs along Gulf of Mexico Drive and see if any can be removed.

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Key resident Lenny Landau suggests a town wastewater pipe’s life span may be longer than the town thinks.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 27, 2015
Landau outlines pipe assessment

The town of Longboat Key attempted two separate ultrasonic tests underwater in 2007 and failed to get a reading on the interior health of the pipe.

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