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Longboat Key

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  • Observer Staff
  • February 9, 2017
REVITALIZATION TASK FORCE’S ANALYSIS OF DENSITY VOTE

The entire analysis is available with one click.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 8, 2017
Longboat Harbourettes lunch at Lazy Lobster

Members of the group gathered at the Longboat Key restaurant on Feb. 8.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Keep Longboat Special co-founders Pete and Carla Rowan and Frank Morneau, who will oversee a political action committee opposing the Colony referendum.
    By
  • Alex Mahadevan
  • February 8, 2017
Colony opposition takes form of Longboat PAC

A group of residents from several condominiums around the former Colony Beach & Tennis Resort are organizing against the coming referendum.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Rick Stewart and Herman Kruegle have spent the past two years trying to fund the restoration of the San Francesco, which is in the water at the Seafood Shack in Cortez.
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 8, 2017
Cortez Classic Yacht Guild works to keep historic ship floating

Two men take deep pride in restoring Italian craft with the goal of creating an educational platform.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 8, 2017
Longboat Key Obituaries

Dudley Chipley Barrow and Abbott Buegeleisen,

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Hugh predicted that the New England Patriots would win Super Bowl LI.
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 8, 2017
Mote Manatee Hugh ups his Super Bowl game

Hugh correctly predicted that the New England Patriots would win Super Bowl LI.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • John McGuire
  • February 8, 2017
Rises and falls in Key emergency calls

After crunching the numbers for 2016, police and fire departments provide Town Commission with a public safety update.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Susan and Tim Clarke stand with an image of the state flag of Florida before entering the Florida Sunshine Ball. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 8, 2017
Longboaters head to D.C. for sunny celebration

Susan and Tim Clarke attended the Floridian Sunshine Ball at the request of Gov. Rick Scott.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • John McGuire
  • February 8, 2017
Plans to renovate Longboat fire stations in limbo

Town staff are still working to decide how much is enough.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Janet Walter, Henry Winkler and Kat Haynes. Courtesy photo
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 8, 2017
Oh,my, it's "Happy Days!"

Longboat realtors meet teenage heart throb.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Tito and Liana Vitorino may not own Amore, but they run the Longboat Key restaurant like it’s their own.
    By
  • Alex Mahadevan
  • February 8, 2017
Longboat to lose ‘joyful’ couple with Amore closure in May

As the Longboat Key restaurant prepares to close in May, husband-and-wife team Tito and Liana Vitorino reflect on creating an island hangout.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Audrey Alford and Julie and Kevin Bales, incoming St. Armands Residents Association president
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 7, 2017
St. Armands residents gather for annual dinner

The annual meeting and dinner took place on Feb. 7 at the Sarasota Yacht Club.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
File photo
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 6, 2017
Tangerine Bay doctors aid heart attack victim

The man underwent surgery at Sarasota Memorial Hospital today.

  • Longboat Key
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The town of Longboat Key has fired Building Official Darin Cushing.
    By
  • Alex Mahadevan
  • February 6, 2017
Town fires Longboat building official

Longboat Key Building Official Darin Cushing has been terminated for undisclosed reasons.

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Members gathered after the Sunday morning service for a Super Bowl lunch.
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • February 5, 2017
Longboat Island Chapel celebrates Super Bowl Sunday

Following the Sunday morning service, 74 chapel members gathered for lunch in the fellowship hall.

  • Longboat Key
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