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Longboat Key

    By
  • Adrian Moore
  • June 3, 2021
The replacement for gas taxes

Mileage-based user fees offer multiple benefits to consumers and governments compared to gas taxes, but a big concern is making them replace gas taxes, not become just another new tax.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Fire department employees and Publix employees chatted when the cakes were dropped off. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • June 1, 2021
A slice of thanks

Publix sent their usual thank-you cakes to Longboat's first responders.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • June 1, 2021
You Observed: Longboat Key Club tennis gets patriotic

The tennis players of the club came dressed in their Memorial Day best.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Barry Gaines has seen enough film festivals to know what he likes and what he wants to leave out of GainesCon.
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • May 31, 2021
Longboat Key IT specialist Barry Gaines launching sci-fi and fantasy film festival

Gaines hopes to give small sci-fi filmmakers and actors a chance to show themselves with GainesCon in November.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Eric Garwood
  • May 31, 2021
Longboat Key Cops Corner: A topless swimmer, a frisky raccoon and very lost wallet

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • May 31, 2021
Summer sips continue on Longboat Key

J. McLaughlin manager Melanie Dale will continue to host Sip and Shop when requested.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Behind the gates of 612 Juan Anasco Drive are two homes built in 1998. The first has four bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 8,080 square feet of living area. The second has two bedrooms, one bath and 896 square feet of living area.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • May 31, 2021
Bayfront property on Juan Anasco Drive sells for $7.5 million

Residential real estate transactions for May 17-21.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
All seven members of the Longboat Key Town Commission attended the May 18 workshop meeting.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • May 31, 2021
Town Commission could continue Zoom use after pandemic ends

The Longboat Key Town Commission has used Zoom in some capacity since April 2020.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Susan McGuire and Nancy Rozance led the wave of Rotary Club members in the 2019 parade.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • May 31, 2021
Town leaders to decide on Freedom Fest celebration and parade

The measure is expected to be on the Town Commission's June 7 consent agenda.

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  • News
The town of Longboat Key is considering a partnership with the FWC to examine four approaches to shorelines using Bayfront Park as a test area pilot study.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • May 31, 2021
Longboat Key considering other options after FDEP rejects wet well lining project

The town is now proposing an $180,000 Bayfront Park shoreline study.

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  • By Mark Bergin and David Conway
  • May 31, 2021
Footbridge denied on Sarasota's bayfront

Crosswalk to close while construction progresses.

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  • News
(Miri Hardy) Photo 1 Caption: Like all owls, Eastern screech-owls swallow small prey whole, with parts that cannot be digested, such as bones and hair, expelled as pellets.
    By
  • Miri Hardy
  • May 31, 2021
Bird of the week: Eastern screech owl

They don't really screech, but the species is heard more often that it's seen.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • May 29, 2021
Club honors tennis director

The club gathered to celebrate their Top Coach in America.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Florida’s state universities are in the vortex of the Critical Race Theory movement.
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • May 28, 2021
Misguided obsession with race

Here is a sampling of how Florida universities are brainwashing students that the United States is systemically racist.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Margie, left, and Chuck shortly after their release following their arrival in Longboat Key.
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • May 28, 2021
Nesting swan on Longboat Key dies

The swan had been incubating six eggs, which now have no chance of hatching.

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The home at 6161 Gulf of Mexico Drive sold for $8 million. Built in 1997, it has three bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 4,224 square feet of living area.
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