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Longboat Key

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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 3, 2009
Commissioner wants to form economic round table

Commissioner Gene Jaleski hopes to hold an economic round table made up of Longboat Key residents sometime in October.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 3, 2009
Bernthal to conduct his first SAKLC services Sunday

The Rev. Mark Bernthal, a Winter Haven native, will be installed as St. Armands Key Lutheran's senior pastor in October.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 2, 2009
Consultant fees debated

Longboat Key Commissioner Gene Jaleski urges Town Manager Bruce St. Denis to reduce consultant costs across the board.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • September 2, 2009
Sailing Squadron to host Labor Day Regatta

The Sarasota Sailing Squadron will present its 63rd annual Labor Day Regatta Sept. 4 through Sept. 6.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 2, 2009
Tennis Gardens wins USTA honor

The Tennis Gardens at the Longboat Key Club and Resort was named one of 12 winners of the 28th annual United States Tennis Association Outstanding Facility Awards Program.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2009
Household wall repairs make for some great headlines

Village resident Graham Cox was making minor repairs to the wall of his home when he made a newsworthy discovery: issues of The Longboat Observer dating back to the late 1970s and 1980s.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2009
Let us hear what you have to say

Let us hear what you have to say

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2009
Injured toddler prepares for surgery

Libby Claire McGarity, the 22-month-old toddler who was critically injured July 10, when she fell from a loft in the Village home of her grandparents, Jim and Susan Pressly, will undergo surgery to replace her skull flap Thursday, Sept. 3.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 2, 2009
Longboat Key vs. Sanibel

The city of Sanibel raised its millage rate from 1.7291 mills to 2.5 mills for three years to build up its disaster reserve in case of storms.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 2, 2009
Tax increase debated

Town Manager Bruce St. Denis said a maximum millage rate of 1.6 mills needs to be adopted to offset anticipated losses in revenue.

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  • Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2009
In Brief

Community news and notes

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    By
  • 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.

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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.

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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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