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Longboat Key

TripAdvisor names Mote Aquarium the fifth best aquarium in the U.S. and 15th best in the world. Reviews on the website particularly mention Mote's limited-time exhibit Oh Baby, which focuses on baby marine animals.
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  • Kristen Herhold
  • July 21, 2015
TripAdvisor names Mote the fifth best aquarium in the U.S.

TripAdvisor listed Mote Marine Aquarium the fifth best aquarium in the U.S. and 15th best in the world in its 2015 Travelers’ Choice awards.

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Moore’s Stone Crab Restaurant at 800 Broadway in Longbeach Village sold for $3.2 July 7.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 21, 2015
Moore’s Stone Crab Restaurant fetches $3.2 million

It will take at least a year for the new Longboat Key restaurant owners to get a new restaurant approved and built at 800 Broadway.

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This home at 524 N. Spoonbill Drive has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,425 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,670,000.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • July 21, 2015
Three-bedroom Bird Key home sells for $1,670,000

The home is on 524 N. Spoonbill Drive.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Longboat Key Rotary Club members Bob and Teresa accepted the award July 15.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 20, 2015
Longboat Key Rotary Club receives grant for food pantry

From January through May, the Longboat Key Rotary Club supplied 13,556 pounds of food and 11,296 meals to needy Sarasota families.

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    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • July 18, 2015
Amore by Andrea savors its sounds

The Fiati Five wind quintet and soprano Katie Dukes performed music by both American and Italian composers on July 17.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is still processing a federal permit for a project that will bring approximately 250,000 cubic yards of sand from a sand source in the middle of the state.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 17, 2015
Town attains state permits for beach projects

All that stands in the way for three separate beach projects bringing millions of dollars worth of sand to the shores of Longboat Key is federal permits.

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  • News
Town Manager Dave Bullock provided the Coalition of Barrier Island Elected Officials with a city of Sarasota transportation update Wednesday.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 16, 2015
Bullock provides transportation update

A comprehensive traffic analysis being performed by the Florida Department of Transportation will be ready sometime this fall.

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    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • July 15, 2015
Great information for every LBK taxpayer

Kudos to Town Manager David Bullock and town staffers who produced the online information about the underground-utility referenda. It’s a ‘must-read’ for an informed electorate.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • July 15, 2015
Key Club summer camp an ace

Until Aug. 14, the Longboat Key Club will welcome children ages 4 to 17 each week for its summer sports and tennis camps.

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Longboat Pass Bridge is closing 12 a.m. to 5 a.m. the nights of Tuesday, July 14 and Wednesday, July 15 for bridge maintenance work.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 15, 2015
Longboat Pass Bridge closes tonight

The Florida Department of Transportation will close Longboat Pass Bridge 12 a.m. to 5 a.m. the nights of Tuesday, July 14 and Wednesday, July 15 .

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1070 Westway Drive
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • July 15, 2015
Four-bedroom Lido Key home sells for $2.8 million

The home is on 1070 Westway Drive.

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Kurt and Catherine Schulz
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • July 15, 2015
In the same boat

New Longboaters Kurt and Catherine Schulz explain what life is like when your backyard is the ocean.

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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 15, 2015
Cops Corner: Longboat Key 7.16.15

Cops Corner: Longboat Key 7.16.15

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Commissioner Lynn Larson was the guest speaker at the Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key’s July 9 breakfast meeting.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 15, 2015
Larson Lines: Town Commissioner Lynn Larson discusses town issues

Longboat Key Commissioner Lynn Larson was the guest speaker at the Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key’s July 9 breakfast meeting. Larson term limits out as a commissioner after six years of service in March.

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Longboat Key Detective Sgt. Robert Bourque used Facebook to help find who stole a Longboat Key Lexus in April.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 15, 2015
Facebook assists police in car theft arrest

Longboat Key Police got an arrest warrant and a juvenile pick-up order on two suspects associated with a Longboat Key car theft after a Facebook thread comment implicated those involved.

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Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key President Danielle Gladding welcomes guest speaker Longboat Police Chief Russ Mager to update members about his approach to leadership since he assumed the role last autumn at the April 2 meeting.
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St. Regis at Longboat Key is a gulf-facing resort and condo development on the barrier island of Longboat Key. The Unicorp-developed property opened in 2024 at the former site of the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort.
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