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  • July 16, 2014
Observer wins 61 awards at newspaper contest

Six newspapers in the Observer Media Group garnered 61 total awards, including 24 first-place finishes, at the 2013 Florida Press Association Better Weekly Newspaper contest held July 10 to July 11, at the Biltmore in Coral Gables.

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Photo courtesy of Lou Newman Alan and Beverly in 2012 with three of their cygnets, none of which survived.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • July 16, 2014
Alan the swan dies of unknown causes

The Bay Isles swan leaves behind his mate, Beverly, but no surviving cygnets.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • July 16, 2014
Cops Corner: Longboat Key

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

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Photo by Kelsey Grau This home at 165 Whittier Drive has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,743 square feet of living area. It sold for $3,496,000.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • July 16, 2014
John Ringling Estates home sells for $3,496,000

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

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  • Real Estate
Robert Bernhard submitted this sunset photo of light emanating from the Sarasota skyline. The photo was taken from Grand Bay on Longboat Key.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • July 16, 2014
Weather: Longboat Key

Robert Bernhard submitted this sunset photo of light emanating from the Sarasota skyline. The photo was taken from Grand Bay on Longboat Key.

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Esther Howard holds a photo of her son, Tim Howard, whose performance earned him acclaim at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • July 15, 2014
World Cup sensation Tim Howard has roots on Key

Tim Howard's mother, Esther Cook, is a Sarasota resident who previously lived on Longboat Key, and his grandparents were longtime Key residents.

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Storm clouds roll in as the sun sets on Lido Beach.
    By
  • Kelsey Grau
  • July 15, 2014
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Stormy Sunset

Lido Beach is alive with activity just before sunset July 14, despite the loud cracks of thunder from an approaching storm.

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The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort closed in August 2010.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • July 14, 2014
Colony Lender places winning bid for resort assets

Colony Lender LLC submitted a winning bid for $15,200,100 but plans to sell its assets to Orlando-based Unicorp.

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Jack Flovig, 8, prepares his optimist boat as Alex Berndt watches.
    By
  • Kelsey Grau
  • July 13, 2014
PHOTO GALLERY: Sarasota Yacht Club Summer Camp

Children of the Sarasota Yacht Club learned to sail during a morning summer camp session July 11. The two-week sessions also include activities like trips to the beach, swimming, kayaking and paddle boarding.

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Sand stopped pumping onto the north end of the island July 3 and the contractor spent the last week smoothing out the sand and grooming the newly shaped coastline.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 11, 2014
Beach project wraps up

Approximately 100,000 cubic yards of sand was placed on the north end of the Key from North Shore Road to Broadway.

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"A predator will break the egg open and eat the yoke, but leave the baby," said Holly West.
    By
  • Kelsey Grau
  • July 11, 2014
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Flippered Friends

Mote Marine Laboratory's Holly West washes a baby sea turtle that was brought in after a coyote attacked its nest July 10. Sea turtles face a variety of predators while they're nesting, but Mote strives to help them by caring for any wounds, administering antibiotics and releasing them off shore when they're strong enough.

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Groins like these structures that were built behind The Islander Club will be built next summer near North Shore Road
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 10, 2014
Groin project costs come in under $2.5 million

The groins will be built next summer near the North Shore Road beach access to help hold sand in place on the north end that is swept off the Key

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Steve Gianopolus, Design 2000, Penelope Mabrey, ServPro of Bradenton, and Gary Humphreys, Longboat Limo
    By
  • Kelsey Grau
  • July 10, 2014
PHOTO GALLERY: Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce Luncheon

The Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce hosted a networking luncheon July 10, at Beachhouse Restaurant in Bradenton Beach

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Two tourists were involved in a wave runner collision near the Lido Beach Resort Wednesday.
    By
  • Alex Mahadevan
  • July 10, 2014
Man dies in Lido wave runner crash

Zachary Collins, 25, died Wednesday night, after his rented watercraft crashed into another vessel driven by 25-year-old Keaton Fowler near the Lido Beach Resort.

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Police received a call at 2:18 p.m. July 8, about a burglary in progress on Buttonwood Drive.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • July 10, 2014
Longboat police stop burglary in progress

Police arrested Charles Joseph Griffith Jr., who they say could be responsible for additional burglaries on the Key.

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