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Longboat Key

  • By Edmund Adams
  • May 26, 2010
My View

College survival kit is not essential to success

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • May 26, 2010
Longboaters learn secrets of community-center success

Approximately 20 Longboat residents toured the Anna Maria Island Community Center facility May 18, to learn about a non-profit model of community-center development.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • May 26, 2010
Condominiums see sand loss due to Islander groins

Unit owners at En Provence condominium and Villa Di Lancia say the two groins built behind The Islander Club are quickly eliminating their beaches.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • May 26, 2010
Town prepares its oil response plan

The U.S. Coast Guard has a strategy in place for the oil spill in the Gulf that includes plans for Longboat Pass and New Pass.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • May 26, 2010
Owner says former Mattison's building remains up for lease

Town Plaza II, located in the back of the Avenue of the Flowers complex, has four tenants and four vacancies.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Maria Amodio
  • May 26, 2010
Key resident helps others fashion lasting memories

Rita Glosser makes Reminkie Memory Bears and pillows out of various materials, including fur, baby blankets and neckties.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • May 26, 2010
Swan family reunites after separation

The Longboat Key swan family was reunited on Saturday, May 22 after a period of separation.

  • Longboat Key
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  • By Jessica Luck
  • May 26, 2010
Ringling engages community in creative solutions

Ringling College of Art and Design hosted a Creativity@Work Retreat May 13 and May 14, at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 26, 2010
Cops Corner

May 17 Real Christmas-tree car scent 1:56 a.m. -- 600 block of GMD. Traffic Violation. Police pulled over a woman leaving the Chart House parking lot late at night. It was discovered the woman was a receptionist for a real-estate agency and was working late. Police, however, found it odd that the woman had a dead Christmas tree lying in the back of her car. She said it was too heavy for her to carry.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • May 26, 2010
Realtors report spike in pending home sales

The Sarasota Association of Realtors announced in a recent statement that April pending sales totaled 1,160, a four-year high in Sarasota County.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Donna Swan
  • May 26, 2010
Deal Us In

Loser on loser

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 26, 2010
College Grads

Matthew and Sadge Moore, daughter of Alana and Darla Moore, and Laurin Pletzke, daughter of Jeff and Kathi Pletzke, recently graduated from college.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Maria Amodio
  • May 26, 2010
Commencement Celebration

Every spring marks the end of one journey and the beginning of another for area graduates. This year, we asked high school graduates from Longboat, Lido, St. Armands and Bird keys to reflect upon their favorite high school moments, as well as share with us their plans for the future. Future plans for some include travel, volunteering and attending law school and medical school. Congratulations to all!

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • May 26, 2010
Building Permits

These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of May 14 through May 20, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive)

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • May 26, 2010
Beach Residences unit sells for $2.65 million

In the top sale of the week, Robert and Lourdes Ziegenfuss, of Sarasota, sold Unit 401 at the Ritz-Carlton Beach Residences, 1300 Benjamin Franklin Drive on Lido Key, for $2.65 million to Daniel and Julie McGuire, of Old Field, N.Y.

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