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Longboat Key

Taffy's current Manager Don Povec and owner Jack Peffley
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • January 25, 2012
Taffy's celebrates colorful history

Fifty years ago, Jack Tafeen and his wife, Peggy, opened a high-end men's apparel store and tailor shop on St. Armands Circle. Today, Taffy's Menswear is the oldest retail merchant on the Circle.

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  • Observer Staff
  • January 25, 2012
Our View: Character counts: Romney

If you were to determine your vote on the basis of content and delivery in the Monday night debate (Jan. 23) in Tampa, go with Rick Santorum.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • January 25, 2012
Forks and Corks event entices Longboat foodies

Epicureans will unite this weekend for the fifth annual Forks and Corks Food and Wine Festival, which will showcase more than 50 Sarasota-Manatee independent restaurants and visiting winery owners and winemakers.

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  • January 25, 2012
Letters to the Editor

Do not destroy Gill, even if you disagree with him; Rev. Gill has served the chapel well; We hope Island Chapel does not oust Gill; The perfect clergyman does not exist

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Read this week's edition of Cops Corner.
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  • Observer Staff
  • January 25, 2012
Cops Corner: Longboat Key

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Longboat Key
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Karin Jones designed her entire house.
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  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • January 25, 2012
Neighbors: Karin Jones

Karin Jones has transitioned from being a self-made businesswoman to a life-long learner and teacher.

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  • Neighbors
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • January 25, 2012
Obituary: Richard Merrell 'Dick' Freeman

Richard Merrell "Dick" Freeman, of Sarasota, and formerly of Longboat Key and Chicago, died Jan. 17. He was 90.

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  • Neighbors
  • By Jorge Blanco
  • January 25, 2012
Castaway

Read this week's Castaway cartoon.

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The home at 668 Lyons Lane in Sleepy Lagoon has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,057 square feet of living area. It sold for $990,000. Photo by Mallory Gnaegy.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • January 25, 2012
Four-bedroom Lyons Lane home sells for $990,000

Paul and Sherri Stanley, Tampa, sold their home at 668 Lyons Lane, in Sleepy Lagoon, to Donald and Annette Niederpruem, Tampa, for $990,000. Built in 2008, it has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,057 square feet of living area.

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    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • January 25, 2012
BUSINESS OBSERVER

Longboat Key Club to unveil new tavern; Save Our Seabirds now charging admission; Jude Connally store opens on St. Armands; Sarasota Yacht Club is certified clean

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Meet this week's athlete, Hallie Schiffman
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  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • January 25, 2012
Athlete of the Week: Hallie Schiffman

If Hallie Schiffman could sail seven days a week, she would. The 11-year-old's father, Mark, works at Sarasota Sailing Squadron as the maintenance technician, and she has grown up around boats.

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71 — Highest percentage game for the week of Jan. 3, by Barbara Raphael and Isabella Wagner for all four bridge games in the Longboat Key Duplicate Bridge Club and Merrill Duplicate Bridge Club.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 25, 2012
JUST THE STATS

12:59:21 - The finish time for first place West Florida Performance Handicap Racing Fleet Non-Spinnaker boat Necessary Evil, skippered by Dave Olson, in the Snowbird Regatta.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 25, 2012
Bridge Bites: Wake-up call

On defense, when leading a suit, we follow certain conventions such as 'top of a sequence' or 'fourth best,' all the better to help partner figure out our holding in the suit.

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Laurie Adams submitted this sunset photo, taken on Holmes Beach.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 25, 2012
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

Laurie Adams submitted this sunset photo, taken on Anna Maria Island.

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Join Emily Walsh for the Observer Daily Headlines.
    By
  • Eddie Kirsch
  • January 24, 2012
JAN. 24: Daily Headlines Video

Join us as we observe and report today's stories from Longboat Key, East County, Sarasota, and Siesta Key.

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