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Longboat Key

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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • March 28, 2012
St. Armands focuses on parking garage

Now that a median project has been completed, St. Armands Circle officials are now focused on burying power lines and building a parking garage on the Circle.

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Read this week's Cops Corner.
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  • March 28, 2012
Cops Corner: Longboat Key

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

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Mary Mitchell recently published a book that archives 30 years of her work as a fashion illustrator.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 28, 2012
Neighbors: Mary Mitchell

This fashion illustrator went from rags to designer garments.

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The Rev. Bryan O'Carroll
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  • Dora Walters
  • March 28, 2012
Sandpipers group learns about local aid

The Rev. Bryan O'Carroll, of St. George's Episcopal Church, in Bradenton, was the guest speaker at the March 20 meeting of All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church Men's Sandpipers Group.

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Matt Orr, brainchild of This Week in Sarasota, and Matt Walsh, Editor and CEO of the Observer Group
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  • March 28, 2012
Observer Group inks new partnership

The Observer newspapers launch a unique partnership with ThisWeekinSarasota.com to create a larger digital footprint in the Sarasota market.

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The Land's End Marina today.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 28, 2012
Land's End Marina holds decades of memories, Longboat history

Memories begin where the 'land ends' on Longboat Key.

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This home at 524 N. Spoonbill Drive on Bird Key sold for $1.15 million. Photo by Mallory Gnaegy.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • March 28, 2012
Bird Key home tops sales at $1.15 million

Susan and Paul Stokes, St. Petersburg, sold their home at 524 N. Spoonbill Drive, on Bird Key, to Paul Welch, trustee, Sarasota, for $1.15 million.

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    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 28, 2012
BUSINESS OBSERVER

Longboat Key Club & Resort receives glittering award; Additional players confirmed for the 2012 Sarasota Open; 2012 Nick Bollettieri Open seeks junior tennis players

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  • Observer Staff
  • March 28, 2012
JUST THE STATS

3.5 - The Super Senior team from the Longboat Key Public Tennis Center that won the District Championship Monday, March 19. They will play in April in Daytona.

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  • By Brian Gunnell
  • March 28, 2012
Bridge Bites: A choice of promotions

Here is a hand where E-W can beat South's 3♥ contract in one of two ways, each involving a trump promotion.

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David Johnson submitted this sunset photo, taken on the north end of Longboat Key.
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  • Observer Staff
  • March 28, 2012
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

David Johnson submitted this sunset photo, taken on the north end of Longboat Key.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 28, 2012
Longboat Library to convert to cafe

APRIL FOOLS - Buoyed by a $75,000 financial boost from Sarasota County to replace the roof at the Longboat Library, the library's board has decided it's time to go all-out and enter the new millennium.

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  • March 27, 2012
Obituary: Dr. Robert G. Addison

Dr. Robert G. Addison, of Chicago and Longboat Key, died March 15. He was 90.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 27, 2012
Obituary: Catherine L. 'Kay' Ronson

Catherine L. "Kay" Ronson, 78, of Longboat Key and New York City, died March 26.

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Join Emily Walsh for the Observer Daily Headlines. Image shown will not play video.
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  • Eddie Kirsch
  • March 27, 2012
March 27: 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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