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Longboat Key

Volunteers traversed to Sister Keys by kayak and boat for the 2025 Sister Keys cleanup.
    By
  • Carter Weinhofer, Dana Kampa
  • April 16, 2025
Longboaters come together for annual Sister Keys Cleanup

A total of 48 volunteers traveled out to the "adopted islands" to haul back about 4,453 pounds of trash and debris on April 12.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Lynn Christensen says she's grateful her family and staff have been able to rebuild from the storms as well as they have.
    By
  • Dana Kampa, Ian Swaby
  • April 16, 2025
Residents learn from hurricane damage

After facing widespread infrastructure damage, local business owners and residents are finishing the last of their rebuilding and looking ahead to next season.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The real estate market on Longboat Key continues to evolve, including in residential areas like the Village.
    By
  • Eric Garwood
  • April 16, 2025
Post-hurricane real estate market hard to pin down

Generally, metro area's prices take a tumble, but that's not true everywhere.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
A May 2024 rendering of the Sarasota County library on Longboat Key.
    By
  • Carter Weinhofer
  • April 16, 2025
With $2.3M in pledges, Longboat Key's library vision comes closer to reality

Town officials are leading a final push to “Complete the Green” and raise the remaining $1.2 million needed for the larger meeting space and outdoor terrace.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
The Regent Place home has three bedrooms, four baths and 3,564 square feet of living area.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • April 16, 2025
Top residential real estate sales for March 31-April 4 in Longboat, Lido, St. Armands, Bird Key

A condominium in Regent Place on Longboat Club Road tops the week's sales at $3.9 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Artists Laurie Foote, left, and Deb Tucker, right, join business owner Heather Rippy at an open house for the newest addition to Driftwood Beach Home and Garden.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • April 16, 2025
Boutique featuring Longboat artists expands

Driftwood Beach Home and Garden now has two storefronts on the plaza, one catering to decor and the other furniture.

  • Longboat Key
  • Business
Which is greater: Christ’s birth, resurrection?
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • April 16, 2025
Which is greater: Christ’s birth, resurrection?

Which is the greater: Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ, or Easter, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ?

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Longboat is far different than it was in 1955
  • By Letters to the Editor
  • April 15, 2025
Longboat is far different than it was in 1955

Many things like gas and operating expenses cost more now than back then.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
The town of Longboat Key had to go back to the drawing board to redesign a potential roundabout at the intersection of Broadway Street and Gulf of Mexico Drive.
    By
  • Carter Weinhofer
  • April 15, 2025
Longboat likely to encumber $1.7M in costs for Broadway Roundabout

The new costs come as the Florida Department of Transportation takes on responsibility for the project but said some costs are still on the town’s dime.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Sisters Marilyn Woodstock, Paula Piekos and Jan Owens pay a visit to their favorite artist, Pat Lundy, at the annual Longboat Key Town Hall Art Exhibition and Artists' Reception.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • April 15, 2025
Longboat Key Town Hall extravaganza unites art appreciators

Attending this annual celebration of local artists has become an annual tradition for sisters living across the country.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
David Oliger, a firefighter and paramedic with the Longboat Key Fire Rescue Department, explains the origins of the station logos.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • April 15, 2025
Crafting the face of firefighting in Longboat

A Longboat Key firefighter gives insight into the creation of stations' iconic logos.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Hurricanes Helene and Milton caused vegetative damage across Longboat Key, including killing or severely damaging large trees.
    By
  • Carter Weinhofer
  • April 15, 2025
Exemption on the way for storm-related tree replacement

Longboat Key town commissioners discussed at length an exemption for storm-related tree replacements that would axe a two-for-one replacement requirement.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Air conditioner noise loud enough to warrant call to police
    By
  • Carter Weinhofer
  • April 15, 2025
Air conditioner noise loud enough to warrant call to police

A resident said the ongoing noise was impacting her well-being, and she planned to sell the residence. This and other Longboat Key Police reports in this week's Cops Corner.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
The Wicker Inn on Longboat Key is listed for sale at $15.5 million.
    By
  • Eric Garwood
  • April 14, 2025
Longboat Key's Wicker Inn tells its fans it won't reopen

Damaged in 2024's storms, the iconic resort is for sale.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Diver Jane-Ternay explains the process behind creating the artwork that won her first place in her division at the "Launching Leaders in the Arts" award ceremony hosted by the Sarasota Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.
    By
  • Dana Kampa
  • April 14, 2025
Pen Women uplift new cohort of artists

Students received scholarships for their works in art, writing and music at the 2025 Launching Leaders in the Arts award ceremony.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
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