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Longboat Key

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  • Observer Staff
  • August 11, 2010
Turtle Tracks

Turtle Tracks

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 11, 2010
LBK's guitar hero

LBK's guitar hero

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 11, 2010
Briefs 08.12.10

Bayflite responds to two Key accidents and Longboat police catch burglar.

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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • August 11, 2010
One project ends, another begins

A pipeline-upsizing project is nearing completion along Gulf of Mexico Drive, just in time for a paving project to begin in the same area.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • August 11, 2010
Plaza owner awaits closing

After more than a decade on Longboat Key, Andrew Hlywa is eager to say goodbye to Whitney Beach Plaza and the island itself.

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  • Observer Staff
  • August 11, 2010
OUR VIEW: We recommend ...

OUR VIEW: We recommend ...

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • August 11, 2010
Police department signs three-year contract

The department signed a three-year contract Friday. Meanwhile, the firefighters are at an impasse with the town.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • August 11, 2010
Vision Plan focus questioned

The Vision Plan Subcommittee will hold a comprehensive planning lesson, before moving forward with its revisions.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • August 11, 2010
Property owner fined for noncompliance

The Code Enforcement Board fined Key resident James Armstrong $50 a day for not obtaining building permits.

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  • Observer Staff
  • August 11, 2010
Cops Corner

July 31 "Dancing fool" 7:12 p.m. -- Off the Key. Disturbance. Police told several people to stop jumping off the south end of Longboat Pass Bridge. They were also told to turn their radio down and that it was illegal to drink beer on the island. As police started to walk away, one young man wearing a thong and holding a beer came out from under the bridge and started to gyrate his hips, telling police to come and get him. Police called for the police boat and the man was arrested after he started to incite the crowd by his drunken behavior. The man, who threatened to have his father get the officer who arrested him fired, later apologized for his actions, blaming the incident on too much Schnapps and vodka.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • August 11, 2010
Nesting Mode

Longboat Key Turtle Watch volunteers rise early every morning to patrol the beach for signs of sea-turtle nesting.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Donna Swan
  • August 11, 2010
Deal Us In: A Difficult Signal

West leads the deuce of spades, which dummy wins with the king. A trump is led from the dummy. How can East show a possibility of helping in the defense with his almost worthless hand?

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • August 11, 2010
Building Permits

These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of July 30 through Aug. 5, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive)

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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • August 11, 2010
Bird Key lot tops sales for final week of July

Terry and Mariann Moss, of West Des Moines, Iowa, sold the vacant, waterfront lot at 223 Robin Drive, on Bird Key to Leon and Kathie Pokoik, 571 Putter Lane, for $1,995,000.

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  • Observer Staff
  • August 11, 2010
Sunset Seabreeze

Bob Dizon submitted this sunset photo, taken near Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant and Pub on the north end of the Key. Please send your sunset (or sunrise) photos to The Longboat Observer, 5570 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, Fla., 34228, or e-mail them to [email protected].

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