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Longboat Key

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  • Observer Staff
  • January 5, 2011
Key comes close to white Christmas

Longboat Key didn't get a white Christmas, but, just a few days after Christmas, the island did get frosty.

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  • Neighbors
Cecilia Edmundson and Lucy Hunsinger
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 5, 2011
Local author signs copies of book

Celia Edmundson signed copies of her book, "Letters to Lee," Dec. 23, at Circle Books, on St. Armands Circle.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Reina Berman and Mary Brugger browse T-shirts.
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  • Observer Staff
  • January 5, 2011
Turtle Watch debuts colorful choices

The 2011 Longboat Key Turtle Watch T-shirts went on sale Jan. 1 at the Whitney Beach Antique and Art Fair. New this year are tank tops in shades of yellow and green.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 5, 2011
Decorations flow during annual Lido Beach Christmas celebration

Here's a unique Christmas tradition: Every year, a group of Lido residents and visitors trek to Lido Beach, where they set up tables, food and Christmas trees and take pictures of beachwalkers so that they'll have a keepsake to take home.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
With David Sutton, of The Salvation Army, making the final kettle collection on Christmas Eve are Publix Manager Andy Lappin and dedicated bell ringer Edith Barr Dunn.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 5, 2011
Sounds of season ring in donations for Salvation Army

The sounds of season could be heard from the week of Thanksgiving through the end of December at the Longboat Key Publix, where volunteers rang The Salvation Army bell in 90-minute shifts.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 5, 2011
Nominations wanted for Kiwanis Citizen of the Year

The Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key is seeking nominations for its 2010 Longboat Key Citizen of the Year award.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Commissioner Phillip Younger wants the town to ask voters for a single $15 million referendum to construct north-end structures and recover some sand to renourish portions of the island's erosion hot spots.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 5, 2011
Younger submits new beach project option

The Town Commission will meet again Thursday to discuss the proposed $15 million beach project option.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 5, 2011
Cops Corner

Classic Cops Dec. 27, 2006 1:46 p.m. 5200 block of GMD. Missing Person. Officer responds to a call about a missing juvenile. Father says his son had been at the beach looking for seashells and had wandered off. Officer takes description of the juvenile and gives it out on the radio. About 2:10 p.m., a citizen located the youth, walking on the beach in the 4200 block, near LaPlaya condominiums. The father is contacted and arrives to pick up the boy. The son tells the officer he had been walking and didn't realize how far he had gone.

  • Longboat Key
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Tom Aposporos sees his role as chamber president as being a resource for all member businesses.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 5, 2011
7 in 11: Tom Aposporos

The Longboat Key, Lido Key, St. Armands Key Chamber of Commerce president puts his politics, business and theater background to work.

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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 5, 2011
Building Permits

These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of Dec. 23 through Dec. 29, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive)

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Unit No. 2PH-A at Regent Place Tower Two, 675 Longboat Club Road, has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms and 3,564 square feet of living area. It sold for $3.8 million.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 5, 2011
Key Real Estate: Regent Place condo sells for $3.8 million

Between Dec. 27 and Dec. 31, a total of 12 sales were recorded at the Sarasota and Manatee county courthouses.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Commissioner-elect Jack Duncan will make Longboat Key Town Hall his home away from home in March.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 5, 2011
7 in 11: Jack Duncan

Harbourside resident Jack Duncan is now the District 2 commissioner-elect after another resident bowed out of the race in December.

  • Longboat Key
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Bill and Judy Carman
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 5, 2011
Business Observer

RVA named manager of Beach Castle Resort; Carman's Shoes closes after 45 years on the Circle; PFG Asset Management Group to open Key office

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 5, 2011
Our View

First job for Scott: Derail the train

  • Longboat Key
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  • By Donna Swan
  • January 5, 2011
Deal Us In

South is beyond careless here

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