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Longboat Key

Robert Peltier, Hailey Childress and Logan Brisson
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  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • April 9, 2012
Key Club employees rescue teens

After noticing two teens swimming Friday in the Gulf of Mexico were in distress, two Longboat Key Club employees rescued them via kayaks.

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A rendering showed at Wednesday's meeting depicted the two-story building that was proposed for the site.
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  • Robin Hartill
  • April 6, 2012
Arts Center withdraws site-plan request

The Ringling College division withdrew its request after hearing concerns from the Longbeach Village Association.

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  • Robin Hartill
  • April 6, 2012
Pedestrian's husband seeks damages against town, other agencies

The notice sent to the town and other agencies describes the area on Gulf of Mexico Drive as poorly lit with no crosswalk available.

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  • April 6, 2012
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  • April 6, 2012
Lido Shores home sells for $7.1 million

The transaction is the highest-priced Sarasota County sale recorded in 2012.

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  • Eddie Kirsch
  • April 5, 2012
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  • April 5, 2012
Obituary: William Varnell

William Varnell, of Longboat Key and Dade City, died March 22.

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  • April 5, 2012
Obituary: Lucia Ellis Uihlein

Lucia Ellis Uihlein, of Longboat Key and formerly of Lake Bluff, Ill.. died Feb. 29. She was 94.

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  • April 5, 2012
Obituary: Cornelia Van Hook Futor

Cornelia Van Hook Futor, of Sarasota, died March 28. She was 82.

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Ringling Assistant Vice President/Director of Facilities Jeff Poleshek discusses plans with Village residents
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  • Robin Hartill
  • April 5, 2012
Arts Center to submit application tomorrow

The Ringling College division seeks to amend its site plan to allow for a four-phase plan that would eventually result in a new, two-story building.

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  • April 4, 2012
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  • April 4, 2012
The turtle that was left behind

Mote's Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital received a patient unlike any it has ever helped.

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  • April 4, 2012
Key resident flounders around

It's not a fluke - it's an 18-inch flounder caught by Diane Foxman, of Longboat Key, at the Mote Park Pier.

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  • April 4, 2012
A rose is a rose

Casa del Mar is home to a world-famous cotton plant and a beautiful orchid garden and a month ago Casa del Mar staff planted its newest addition - a rose garden.

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The new store is slated to open before the end of this year, but for the eight months between now and then, the island will be without a supermarket for the first time in nearly 32 years.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • April 4, 2012
Publix to close Saturday

The nearly 32-year-old Longboat Key supermarket will close starting this weekend for eight months of construction of a new store.

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