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Longboat Key

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  • Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2009
In Brief

Community news and notes

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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 2, 2009
Colony disputes foreclosure

Bank of America seeks to recover assets that include penthouse hotel units, The Colony Dining Room, the Monkey Room bar and tennis courts.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 2, 2009
Venice sand site rejected

White sand near Venice was deemed too shelly for the Key's beach.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 2, 2009
Where are they now? Art Falls

After 28 years of running six stores, including The Sea Stable, Art Falls is now retired and living in The Meadows, in Sarasota.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2009
Our View

Health care = USPS, schools

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  • September 2, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

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  • By George Rauch
  • September 2, 2009
If not for debt, 'bull' would be back

U.S. factories and consumers are poised for a rebound. The holdup is inflationary deficit spending in Washington.

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  • Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2009
Cops Corner

A Sarasota landscaper was asked why he took two wheelbarrows full of shell and 11 bags of mulch from a Country Club Shore yard. The landscaper told police he received permission to take the items from the landscaper in charge of maintaining the home.

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  • September 2, 2009
Obituaries

Obituaries

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  • By Kent Chetlain
  • September 2, 2009
$1.25 million sale at Water Club II

The sale of Unit 4 in the 11-story, 86-unit Water Club II tower for $1.25 million was one of three more than $1 million sales that highlighted the 10 realty transactions recorded on the keys during the third week of August.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 2, 2009
Family business takes flight on Longboat Key includes family ties

Sandra Ceshker's friends aren't yet used to the fact that she isn't always free for a mid-morning tennis game.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Donna Swan
  • September 2, 2009
Deal Us In: Second hand low

We often hear 'second-hand low,' but, in this week's hand, this would be a major error.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2009
Weather

This week's temperatures and forecast

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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 2, 2009
Engel & Volkers absorbs Wedebrock sales division

Longboat Key-based Wedebrock's 25 sales agents will become part of Engel & Völkers, a Germany-based firm.

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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 1, 2009
Public Tennis Center construction continues

The new Longboat Key Public Tennis Center building has been under construction while tennis players used the courts this summer, but the rest of the project is on hold for now.

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