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Longboat Key

    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 30, 2021
Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce meets for Business After Hours

Chamber members met at Fleming's Steakhouse for networking and snacks.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • September 29, 2021
Hey Joe & Nancy: Tell us, what’s your vision for us?

We know they want us all bowing to their coercive laws that confiscate people’s wealth and make Americans dependent on them. But in the end, how will that make America stronger?

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Eric Garwood
  • September 28, 2021
Longboat Key Cops Corner: Trouble on the water

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

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    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 28, 2021
Longboat Key ranked fifth-best island in U.S.

The Key netted the honor in the Travel + Leisure 2021 World's Best awards.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Fiscal year 2022 runs from Oct. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2022.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • September 27, 2021
Longboat Key’s budget keeps tax rate flat, property values rebound

The town of Longboat Key's 2022 fiscal year budget starts on Oct. 1.

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  • News
The town's contractors have dredged sand throughout the summer.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • September 27, 2021
Longboat Key finishes beach renourishment projects

The projects cost the town of Longboat Key $36,063,214 to move about 1 million cubic yards of sand.

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  • News
Several boaters dock on the weekends on the north end of Longboat Key. Photo courtesy of James Haft.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • September 27, 2021
Longboat to consider changes to sound ordinance in November

Commissioners are set to consider updating the town's noise ordinance.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 27, 2021
St. Armands Circle Association hosts Family Day

The event was the last of the summer's Sol of the Circle events.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 27, 2021
Longboat Key Turtle Watch, Keep Manatee Beautiful clean Longboat Key beaches

The groups organized the first of their off-season trash pick-up sessions.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
A condo at the Orchid Beach Club on Lido Key led weekly sales.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • September 27, 2021
Lido Key condo tops weekly transactions at $2.17 million

The sale is the highest of all sales on Longboat and the Keys for the week of Sept. 13-17.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
The name willet is an onomatopoeia for this common shorebird's piercing call.
    By
  • Miri Hardy
  • September 24, 2021
Bird of the week: Willet

Shorebird's bill is longer than its head.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    In Memoriam |
  • September 24, 2021
Ruth Ann (nee Ihlenburg) Young

Ruth Ann (nee Ihlenburg) Young of Longboat Key, formerly of Stony Brook and Garden City, Long Island, NY, died on September 17, 2021, at Tidewell Hospice in Sarasota, FL, surrounded by loving family members. 

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  • Tributes & Obituaries
Mali stays balanced in peaceful warrior pose.
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 24, 2021
Angela Mali teaches yoga at Bayfront Park

Mali's classes are donation-based and relaxed enough for anyone to join.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    In Memoriam |
  • September 24, 2021
Patrick Roman Nudo

Patrick Roman Nudo, 57, of Longboat Key, FL, formerly of Springfield, IL, passed away peacefully at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, FL.

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On Sept. 17, Unicorp CEO Chuck Whittall appeared before the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • September 23, 2021
Unicorp asks St. Regis condo buyers for 13% price increase

Unicorp CEO Chuck Whittall cited how the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the costs of the project.

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