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Longboat Key

    By
  • Molly Schechter
  • December 8, 2009
Black Tie & Tales

Read this week's Black Tie & Tales by Molly Schechter.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • December 8, 2009
Key Niners celebrate living on Longboat

The Key Niners celebrated living on Longboat Key at its annual holiday luncheon. This year's theme was "It's a Good Life."

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • December 8, 2009
Vision plan can be reviewed

Town attorney David Persson believes commissioners can discuss the town's vision plan as long as it steers clear of any Key Club Islandside project discussion.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • December 8, 2009
Obituary: Richard Schaefer

Richard Schaefer, 79, was a former Longboat Key Zoning Board of Appeals member.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • December 7, 2009
Commission approves Moore's zoning request

Moore's Stone Crab Restaurant owner Alan Moore said Moore's wouldn't survive unless the town granted his zoning request.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • December 7, 2009
Binjara Traders re-opens on Circle

The opening comes three weeks after the business lost its entire inventory to smoke damage from a fire.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • December 7, 2009
Former St. Mary bookkeeper pleads guilty to felony grand theft

Margaret Carroll, 68, of Sarasota, will be sentenced within 90 days.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • December 7, 2009
Commission to consider Moore's request, term limit revisions

The Longboat Key Town Commission tonight will consider a request by Moore's Stone Crab Restaurant owner Alan Moore to approve a Comprehensive Plan amendment and a request to change the zoning of the restaurant from commercial to residential.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • December 6, 2009
Colony will reopen this month

The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort plans to open its resort two months after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • December 4, 2009
Club presents counter conditions

The Longboat Key Club and Resort rejects four of the 40 condition that town staff presented to the Planning and Zoning Board Friday, Dec. 4.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • December 4, 2009
Mote scientists attend red tide symposium

The findings they presented were gathered over a 10-year period.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • December 3, 2009
Arvida claims Islandside density rights

Arvida/JMB Partners, the original owner of The Longboat Key Club and Resort's property, claims the club must get its permission before claiming density rights for Islandside.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Dora Walters
  • December 3, 2009
Man on the street: Shopping schedule

We asked Longboat resident what their plans were for holiday shopping this season.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • December 3, 2009
Swine flu vaccine available to Longboaters

Sarasota County Health Department is offering free swine-flu vaccinations to all Longboat Key residents.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • December 3, 2009
MIS director receives certification

Longboat Key Management Information Services Director Kathi Pletzke has completed a program designed for those in an executive technology leadership position.

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