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Longboat Key

    By
  • Eric Garwood
  • November 14, 2018
Cops Corner: A report of uplifting noise

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
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Longboat Key Club Tennis Association President David Gutridge and Marcia Gutridge
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • November 13, 2018
Tennis association jumps into fall

The Longboat Key Club Tennis Association members gathered Nov. 13 for their annual Fall Frolic.

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    By
  • Katie Johns
  • November 13, 2018
Longboat Key republicans learn about red tide

Mote Marine Laboratory Senior Scientist Richard Pierce spoke to the club Nov. 13 at the Resort at Longboat Key Club.

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Bob Gary, guest speaker Rob Lorei and Longboat Key Democratic Club President Ken Marsh
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • November 13, 2018
Rob Lorei visits with Longboat Key democrats

The Longboat Key Democratic Club hosted its monthly luncheon Nov. 13 at Portofino.

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Cynthia Heil will serve as the director of the institute starting Jan. 1, 2019. Photo courtesy of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • November 13, 2018
Mote announces Red Tide Institute director

Cynthia Heil comes to Mote Marine Laboratory from Bigelow Laboratory in Maine, where she created a research program that focused on water quality, harmful algal blooms and ecosystem management.

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Mike Haycock
    By
  • Suzanne Elliott
  • November 13, 2018
Mike Haycock to run for town commission

Haycock to face Jim Brown in March election.

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    In Memoriam |
  • November 12, 2018
Sherman Cooper

Sherman Cooper, 86, of University Park Country Club, previously of Longboat Key, passed on November 9th, 2018. His obituary tribute is publishing in the Longboat Key & Sarasota/Siesta Key Observer.

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The bridge is 61 years old.
    By
  • Suzanne Elliott
  • November 12, 2018
Plans set for 2019 overhaul of Longboat Pass Bridge

The bridge is considered obsolete.

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  • Observer Staff
  • November 12, 2018
A coyote's tale: One Sunday on Longboat

Wandering coyote grabs the attention of Country Club Shores residents.

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    By
  • Katie Johns
  • November 11, 2018
Longboat Key Rotary Club salutes veterans

The Rotary Club of Longboat Key hosted a luncheon in honor of more than 200 local veterans Nov. 11.

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Mote Scientific has owned this property since 1982.
    By
  • Suzanne Elliott
  • November 10, 2018
Development plans once again up to Longboat voters

Mote Foundation land makes its second appearance on the ballot. In 2017, it came closer than any other to winning a density increase.

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    By
  • Katie Johns
  • November 9, 2018
Bacchus on the Beach toasts to 8th annual stone crab celebration

The eighth annual event took place Nov. 9 at The Resort at Longboat Key Club and benefited the Longboat Key Foundation and the Longboat Key Center for Healthy Living.

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    In Memoriam |
  • November 9, 2018
Robert Philip Coyne

Mr. Robert (Bob) Philip Coyne, of Longboat Key, Florida and Osterville, Massachusetts, born on November 28, 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts, to the late Eleanor Scully Coyne and the late George Kermit Coyne, Sr., passed away at age 76 on November 8, 2018.

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  • November 8, 2018
Longboat Key weather page photo: Nov. 8

Belinda Russell photographed this white ibis and roseate spoonbill at the Links on Longboat golf course one sunny afternoon.

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Previous Chamber Chairman Mike Doll, Andrew Vac, Sandy Tull and Tim Field
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • November 7, 2018
Chamber celebrates past and present chairmen

About 50 Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce members gathered at the Bridge Tender Inn & Dockside Bar Nov. 7 for the reception.

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