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Longboat Key

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  • April 20, 2011
Key of Sea Chorus ends season on high note

The Key of Sea Chorus concluded the season with a spring concert March 24, at The Players Club.

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  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 20, 2011
Hats off to St. Armands Key Lutheran ladies

A Palm Sunday tradition at St. Armands Key Lutheran Church is the wearing of Easter bonnets.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 20, 2011
Cops Corner

Classic Cops - April 7, 1986, 5:10 a.m. 3700 block of GMD. Suspicious auto. People were looking for (and saw) Halley's comet.

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The 14-unit Grand Mariner condominium sold for $9.5 million.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • April 20, 2011
A couple from Lido Shores purchases Grand Mariner

Ralph and Sheri Trine, of Lido Shores, are the buyers of the 14-unit Grand Mariner condominium. The $9.5 million sale was reported in the April 14 issue of the Longboat Observer.

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A unit at the Ritz-Carlton Beach Residences sold for $3.85 million in March 2010.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • April 20, 2011
Sales Snapshot

March real-estate overview for keys

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  • Real Estate
Mei
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • April 20, 2011
Real Estate Reports

Coldwell LBK earns Premier Office Award; Barbara Mei joins Signature Sotheby's; SAR announces property sales high since Sept. '05

  • Longboat Key
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Jim Bakle
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • April 20, 2011
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Jim Bakle

Jim Bakle has been playing tennis for 50 years and is the captain of the Longboat Key Public Tennis Center's 75 Division 1 team.

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  • By Donna Swan
  • April 20, 2011
Deal Us In

Would you double with East's hand?

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Walt Michno submitted this sunset photo, taken on the northern tip of Longboat Key.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 20, 2011
WEEKLY WINNER: SET POINT

Walt Michno submitted this sunset photo, taken on the northern tip of Longboat Key.

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Jahrel Thompson, Leymis Bolanos Wilmott and Alyson Dolan perform.
    By
  • Dora Walters
  • April 19, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: Longboat Key Center for the Arts

"Shall We Dance?" was the final program in the And All That Jazz concert series held this season at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design. And dance is just what the audience did April 19.

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Key property owners are invited to attend a tree pruning educational session 9 a.m., April 21.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 19, 2011
Longboat hosts tree-pruning class

The town of Longboat Key will host a tree pruning class and education session Thursday to teach residents the proper way to prune their island vegetation.

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  • News
Applications are accepted at the town clerk's office, located at Longboat Key Town Hall.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • April 19, 2011
Town seeks volunteers for boards

Applications will be accepted through Thursday, April 21, for five boards.

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William Carroll Mott was an executive for General Motors Overseas Corp.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • April 18, 2011
OBITUARY: William Carroll Mott

William Carroll Mott, 83, was a resident of Longboat Key for more than 20 years.

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Lauren and Kim Pierce volunteered at last year's Sister Keys Cleanup.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • April 18, 2011
Sarasota Bay Watch seeks volunteers for Sister Keys cleanup

The third annual cleanup will take place Saturday, May 7.

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  • Neighbors
The repairs should not create traffic delays, Florida Department of Transportation officials said.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 18, 2011
Bridge repair starts today

The signal atop the New Pass Bridge that warns motorists when the bridge is about to go up will be repaired today.

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