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This home at 512 Cutter Lane in Country Club Shores has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,592 square feet of living area. It sold for $550,000. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
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  • August 8, 2012
Manchester Bay home sells for $1 million

Thomas and Gwendolyn Watson, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3505 Fair Oaks Court to Norman and Hannah Weinberg, of Longboat Key, for $1,025,000.

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  • By Brian Gunnell
  • August 8, 2012
Bridge Bites: Morton's Fork

We continue our look at some of bridge's exotic coups, and this week it is the Morton's Fork, a play that offers an opponent a choice of evils. Here, the Fork allows Declarer to bring home the 6♥ contract.

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CVS opened its new Longboat Key store at 7 a.m. Sunday.
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  • August 6, 2012
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Open for business

Longboat Key's new CVS opened its doors Sunday morning, one month ahead of schedule.

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Volunteers count the number of hatched eggs during a public nest opening last summer. File photo.
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  • Robin Hartill
  • August 6, 2012
LBK Turtle Watch holds first nest opening tonight

The nest opening is the first public excavation of the summer.

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Jackie Goryl Williams, Marinda “Zoe” Holland and Pamela “Joy” Whitesell pose in front of a sailboat with a SHS banner during the kickoff to their 40th high school reunion weekend, Friday, Aug. 3, at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron.
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  • Rachel S. OHara
  • August 4, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: SHS Class of '72 reunion kickoff party

The Sarasota High School class of 1972 held a kickoff party, Friday, Aug. 3, at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron. There will be between 125-150 people attending the reunion festivities this weekend.

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  • August 3, 2012
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CVS was moving products into the store earlier this week.
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  • August 3, 2012
Longboat CVS to open Sunday

The new CVS will open this Sunday, a month ahead of the September opening originally planned.

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  • August 2, 2012
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General Harris Street experienced flooding this morning. Courtesy Rusty Chinnis.
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  • Robin Hartill
  • August 1, 2012
North Key experiences floods

Some streets on the North end are flooded today because of high tides and the upcoming full moon.

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  • August 1, 2012
Violin vacation on the Key

Stephanie Bork, 23, from Ann Arbor, Mich., performed Saturday, July 28, on St. Armands Circle, while on vacation in Sarasota.

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  • August 1, 2012
Hitting a high note

Charles Chocallo is a 2007 graduate of Pineview and his parents, Chris and Bill Chocallo are Longboat Key residents.

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  • August 1, 2012
Association seeks extension

The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association is petitioning the Town Commission to seek an 18-month extension of a Dec. 31 deadline for re-opening the resort.

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