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Longboat Key

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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 6, 2010
Sand arrives at eroded North Shore Road beach access

The town began placing 600 cubic yards of sand Tuesday at the North Shore Road beach access to protect the road and utilities in the area. The sand cost the town $12,000.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 6, 2010
Key Club project contains fewer issues

Longboat Key Club Attorney John Patterson is hopeful the club's Islandside application has fewer issues and will move along more quickly at the Town Commission level.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Signs of the silly season

Signs of the silly season

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  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 6, 2010
Arts Center programs promise to make waves

The Longboat Key Center of the Arts will kick off its winter season with a 'Making Waves' exhibit by artist Malcolm Robertson that runs from Jan. 15 through Feb. 11.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 6, 2010
Education Center prepares for a sumptuous season

The Longboat Key Education Center began its winter semester Jan. 4. But new classes will also be offered later this month and in February and March.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 6, 2010
Cops Corner

Dec. 15 Safe and secure 8:50 p.m. - 500 block of Kingfisher Lane. Suspicious Circumstance. A woman reported a suspicious pickup truck leaving the area. Police responded and could not find the truck but found an unlocked sliding-glass door at a nearby residence. Nothing was stolen and the house was secured.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Stuart and Lois Scheyer
  • January 6, 2010
Travel outlook

Make 2010 your year to be an 'Energetic Traveler.'

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Longboat Key - Building Permits

These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the weeks of Dec. 18 through Dec. 31, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive)

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  • By Kent Chetlain
  • January 6, 2010
Longboat Key - Realty sales on Key rise to get in under deadline

In the four weeks from Nov. 30 through the Christmas holidays, 51 real-estate sales were recorded at the Sarasota and Manatee county courthouses. Of these, 18 were for more than $1 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 6, 2010
Business Observer

Linda Loscalzo, who owned the former Isabelle's Eatery until 2004, is now managing restaurant operations at Whitney Beach Deli & Wines, 6810 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

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  • Neighbors
  • By George Rauch
  • January 6, 2010
Market watch: What will the next year hold?

Dec. 31, 2009, represented the closing of the worst decade in U.S. stock market history. Although it is not possible to guess what the next decade will render, it is possible to look ahead at a few of the challenges facing our economy in 2010.

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  • Neighbors
  • By Donna Swan
  • January 6, 2010
Deal Us In

Be prepared

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  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Bright beginning

Graeme Daley submitted this sunset photo, taken the first day of 2010 at The Sanctuary. 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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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 5, 2010
Town creates pipeline Web site

The replacement of water pipes along Gulf of Mexico Drive will cause temporary pedestrian and vehicular delays through September 2010.

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