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Longboat Key

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  • Observer Staff
  • April 9, 2020
Longboat Key weather page photo: April 9

Brian Wamback captured this sunset from the beach on Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Eric Garwood
  • April 9, 2020
Local map of COVID-19 cases adds visitors to positive-test totals

State lists account for seven cases connected to Longboat Key, local "heat map" adds five more.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Bruce Schaefer leaves palms at a neighbor's door.
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • April 9, 2020
Palm Sunday, delivered

Since churches aren't meeting, congregants take the church outside.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The town's beaches drew high marks in the town survey.
    By
  • Eric Garwood
  • April 9, 2020
Town survey hits high marks for quality of life

About 97% of respondents called Longboat an excellent or good place to live.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Unit 36 at 1 Benjamin Franklin Drive was built in 1968. It has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,389 square feet of living area.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • April 8, 2020
St. Armands Towers condo sells for $940,000

Residential real estate transactions for March 23-27.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Beach Fishing Adventures proprietor Steven Herich (left) communicates with former client, now-friend Steve Nicolai while fishing Saturday on Longboat Key.
    By
  • Brendan Lavell
  • April 8, 2020
Outdoors-focused tourism operators struggle

Perfect weather in the height of the season can't help business, they say.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • April 8, 2020
What about the 99%?

One-size-fits-all shutdowns don’t make sense. Public officials should shift their focus to reopening the economy.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Allan Goldfarb and Earl Gordon
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • April 7, 2020
Earl "The Pearl" Gordon dies at age 87

Gordon served as president of Temple Beth Israel and was active in his community.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Eric Garwood
  • April 7, 2020
Longboat Key Cops Corner: A bottle of trouble

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
The town in recent weeks installed an interactive speed limit sign on Broadway Street. A second is planned.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • April 6, 2020
Village residents keep pushing for resident-only parking

The town will eventually decide whether to require restaurants to provide a parking space for every 150 square feet of floor.

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    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • April 6, 2020
Longboat Publix adding curbside pickup amid COVID-19 pandemic

Town Manager Tom Harmer said it will take at least two days for the Longboat Key Publix store to implement curbside service.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Some of Brown's group stayed in a rental home, while he stayed on his boat. Photo courtesy of Jim Brown.
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • April 6, 2020
Where's Jim? Longboat Key resident social distances on his boat

Jim Brown took a trip to Useppa Island, but he'll probably be staying in place for a while now.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
David Green
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • April 6, 2020
Commissioners reappoint Green to Planning and Zoning Board

The commission voted to postpone nominating a seventh candidate to the Planning and Zoning Board.

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Town Manger Tom Harmer (left), Mayor Ken Schneier (middle) and Town Clerk Trish Shinkle (right) are shown at town hall on Monday, April 6.
    By
  • Mark Bergin
  • April 6, 2020
Sound issues delay virtual Longboat Key Town Commission meeting

The town will hold its essential meetings virtually for the foreseeable future to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

  • Longboat Key
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Greta and her eggs. Photo courtesy of David Novak.
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • April 6, 2020
Longboat Key swans expecting cygnets

If the eggs remain viable, this will be the first time in three years that the swans have cygnets.

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