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Longboat Key

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  • Observer Staff
  • March 21, 2012
New Briefs

Town to hold interviews for P&Z director; Town, Chamber to unveil advertising program; Publix receives extended construction hours; Commission holds off on charter review

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    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 21, 2012
Kiwanis Club gets good marks for 2012 scholarship distribution

The Kiwanis Club raised $35,000 this year.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Art Tankersley checks out sketches of concepts for Longboat Key's north end.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • March 21, 2012
North end on the brain at PIC forum

The Longboat Key Revitalization Task Force discussed the ideas generated as part of a community-based planning exercise.

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Managerial team, Blonde Ambition, before one of their team workouts: Kristi Bonsak, Sandra Rios, Jennifer Wilson, Liz Bright, Theresa Zupon and their trainer, Barbara Bertelle
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 21, 2012
Key Club rolls out program to achieve a healthy lifestyle

Longboat Key Club and Resort rolled out a Wellness Campaign in January to help members, guests and associates collaborate to get healthy physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, socially and environmentally.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • March 21, 2012
Resident questions future land-use map

Town staff is researching four town-owned properties designated as open space that may have zoning that is inconsistent with their uses.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 21, 2012
Letter to the Editor

We will miss the people at Publix

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Read this week's Cops Corner.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 21, 2012
Cops Corner: Longboat Key

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Longboat Key
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George Rauch, Longboat Key, is chief executive officer of Bradenton-based General Propeller and a former Wall Street investment banker.
  • By George Rauch
  • March 21, 2012
Market Watch: Public debt and our investments

Investment decisions need to factor in several items, such as government debt and its economic effect.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Chef Ray Arpke gets ready to cook yucca.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 21, 2012
Chef Ray teaches foodies how to prepare a Caribbean meal

Euphemia Haye hosted its third sold-out cooking class in the winter series Wednesday, March 14. Chef Ray Arpke taught the "Still on Island Thyme" course, featuring a piquant salad of cucumbers, grouper Jamaican with yucca and onion sauce and a sponge cake with mocha butter cream planter's cake.

  • Longboat Key
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Jane Buckman, Carol Weiss and Winnie Nelon look through the archives.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 21, 2012
Arts Center to celebrate 60th anniversary

The Longboat Key Center for the Arts was founded Dec. 2, 1952, and it will be celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.

  • Longboat Key
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  • By Dean Kalahar
  • March 21, 2012
My View: The Afghanistan 'thank you' to the U.S.

The thanks America received for its efforts?

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Attorney General Pam Bondi. Photo by Mallory Gnaegy.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 21, 2012
Our View: The new general takes charge

It's like inhaling the shock of cool, sweet air at dawn in a blossoming orange grove. Or the nose-clearing smell of pine in the cool breeze of the Rockies.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 21, 2012
Obituary: Charles S. Sandler

Charles S. Sandler, of Longboat Key, died March 11. He was 79.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Unit 302 at The Water Club I, 1241 Gulf of Mexico Drive, has three bedrooms, five baths and 3,400 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.3 million. File photo.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • March 21, 2012
Water Club I condo sells for $2.3 million

Douglas Hoeksema, trustee, Winter Park, sold the Unit 302 condominium at the Water Club I, 1241 Gulf of Mexico Drive, to Tracy Beswick, trustee, of Ontario, Canada, for $2.3 million.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • March 21, 2012
SCOREBOARD

Women's Golf Association Go for the Cure Sports Day

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