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Longboat Key

Longboat Key resident Eve Kommel loves to prepare traditional dishes for company, and her favorite to serve is a simple Hungarian Goulash.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • October 19, 2011
IN THE KITCHEN WITH: Eve Kommel

Longboat Key resident Eve Kommel was born in Berlin in 1930 and learned how to cook from her Hungarian grandmother.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
On Friday, Oct. 14, then Acting Town Manager Al Hogle was notified that Planning, Zoning and Building Department employees complained of a problem with PZ&B Director Monica Simpson. File photos.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • October 19, 2011
Longboat Key faces Town Hall turmoil

After emergency Longboat Key Town Commission meetings Monday and Tuesday, assistant to the town manager Susan Phillips was named acting town manager.

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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • October 19, 2011
P&Z sends north-end cell tower support signal

The Longboat Key Planning & Zoning Board voted 8-1 to recommend an ordinance for an Outline Development Plan for a proposed cellular tower at Longboat Island Chapel.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • October 19, 2011
Mediation appeals to both sides in Colony dispute

U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday made his long-awaited rulings last week, but both sides now hope the case won't be decided in court.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Former Longboat Key Building Official Randy Fowler
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • October 19, 2011
Former building official assesses Simpson

Former Longboat Key Building Official Randy Fowler, who resigned in June 2009 amid frustrations with the Planning, Zoning and Building Department and the management style of former Town Manager Bruce St. Denis, said he's not surprised that Planning, Zoning, and Building Director Monica Simpson was placed on administrative leave amid allegations of verbally abusing employees.

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  • Observer Staff
  • October 19, 2011
News Briefs

Mote, UF study could benefit coral reefs; Commission to discuss redistricting proposal; Lenobel, Zunz qualify to run for re-election; Town monitoring tropical disturbance

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  • News
People danced the night away to Blues Pig’s songs at last year's Fish Fry. File Photo.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • October 19, 2011
Fish-fry fundraiser to help keep history alive

Could the Longboat Key Historical Society Museum soon be history?

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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • October 19, 2011
Key Club asks judge to toss writ challenge

Sarasota County Judge Charles Roberts heard arguments last week in the Longboat Key Club and Resort's request to dismiss a petition for a writ of certiorari.

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Max Goldner's owners think he deserves his day at the beach on Longboat Key. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • October 19, 2011
Dog owners seek line in the sand

Key canine owners plan to ask commissioners to allow their pets test access to the island's beaches.

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Read this week's Cops Cornet
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 19, 2011
Cops Corner: Longboat Key

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner

  • Longboat Key
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Donna and Jeff Lenobel escort their daughter, Jessica, the soon-to-be Mrs. Ian Paige, down the aisle.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • October 19, 2011
Beach wedding captures perfect Key moment

Jessica Lenobel, granddaughter of Longboat Key Commissioner Hal and Hazel Lenobel, married Ian Paige Saturday, Oct. 15, on the beach at the Longboat Key Club and Resort. Scarsdale, N.Y., resident Jessica and Roslyn, N.Y., resident Ian met in 2000 at the University of Michigan, where they both studied.

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  • Neighbors
Dorothy Robinson works on "Bone-Jangles," which glows in the dark.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • October 19, 2011
Neighbors: common threads

The Sarasota chapter of the Embroidery Guild of America welcomes any crafter who uses a needle with an eye to make her creations, but for club members, it would be 'unseamly' to use anything else.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 19, 2011
Our View: Fatal flaws of public schools

Last week provided great political-media entertainment in our little part of Florida. It also brought to light - again - the fatal flaws of public education.

  • East County
  • Opinion
  • By Jorge Blanco
  • October 19, 2011
Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Unit 803 at the Promenade, 1211 Gulf of Mexico Drive, has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,585 square feet of living area. It sold for $638,300. File photo.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • October 19, 2011
Queens Harbour home sells for $1.7 million

The following residential real-estate transactions took place between Oct. 3 and Oct. 7. A home in Queens Harbour tops all transactions in this week's real estate.

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