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Longboat Key

The plaza at 3170 Gulf of Mexico Drive has 3,200 square feet of living space and houses the mid Longboat Key real estate office of Michael Saunders & Co.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 10, 2015
Michael Saunders sells mid-Key plaza for $800,000

The Saunders Family Limited Partnership, a Florida limited partnership of Michael Saunders & Company Inc., sold the commercial plaza at 3170 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Fox 41 July 6.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • July 9, 2015
What we pay is none of Obama’s business

The president’s new rules for overtime will be another unnecessary intrusion into the relationship between employer and employee. Enough of this dictatorship.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Former Sand Cay manager Judy Paul was ordered Tuesday to begin serving a three-year prison sentence.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 9, 2015
Former Key condo manager ordered to begin three-year sentence

Former Sand Cay manager Judy Paul was ordered Tuesday to begin a prison sentence after being convicted of stealing more than $200,000 in association funds.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Moore's Stone Crab Restaurant announced its closure Wednesday via signs on the doors Wednesday.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 8, 2015
Moore’s Stone Crab Restaurant sold

New owners Mark Caragiulo and Tom Leonard have plans for a new Longboat Key restaurant similar to Shore on St. Armands Circle. The restaurant will stay closed for 10 months to a year.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Longboat Key Turtle Watch volunteers Jennifer Sargeant, Lindsey Conrad, Kelley, Jim and Niko Kuncis and Cyndi Seamon
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • July 8, 2015
Turtle Watch asks residents to share the beach

During turtle nesting season, visitors, residents and businesses are encouraged to move their belongings away from the beach to help turtles. Many, however, are leaving items behind, which can cause problems for nesting turtles.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Planning, Zoning and Building Director Alaina Ray is the director of a department that’s in the middle of a staffing crisis. (Kurt Schultheis)
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 8, 2015
PZ&B scrambles to keep up with permits

With the Longboat Key's building department hitting record-breaking permits numbers this year, the town is searching to find extra staff to keep up with a contractor demand for permits.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Longboat Key firefighter/paramedics want the Longboat Key Town Commission to tell them what they are worth.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 8, 2015
Millage rate stays flat at 2.1763 mills

The $504,061 increase from Longboat Key property value increases, along with other line item adjustments, reduces an estimated $426,000 deficit to $389,675.

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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 8, 2015
Cops Corner: Longboat Key 7.09.15

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
The exterior of the social center building will feature a wraparound veranda, a covered patio, an outdoor entertaining area with grills and a fire pit, and all new landscaping. (courtesy rendering)
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 8, 2015
Players Club undergoes $1.3 million renovation

Longboat Key Players Club unit owners approved a $1.3 million construction project for a new social center last year.

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  • News
Marvin Jaffe, 78, was found lying at the bottom of his pool in the 600 block of Halyard Lane around 10:30 a.m. June 23.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 8, 2015
Country Club Shores man found dead in pool

Country Club Shores man was found dead in the bottom of his swimming pool June 23, according to a Longboat Key police report.

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Wendy will now raise her three cygnets without Stan.
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • July 8, 2015
Stan sings his last swan song

Longboat said goodbye to Stan the swan on July 1.

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  • Neighbors
Unit 1 at 360 North, 260 N. Shore Road, has three bedrooms, three baths and 3,077 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,335,000.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • July 8, 2015
Three-bedroom 360 North condo sells for $1,335,000

A condominium at 360 North tops all transactions in this week's real estate.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Annette Rogers
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • July 8, 2015
Annette Rogers opens house with two new partners

Annette Rogers has formed a new realty group with Perry Corneau and Vittoria Rutigliano.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Glatz shares "Kasztner's Train," a book by Anna Porter about Rudolf Kasztner effort to save 1,684 Jews during the Holocaust.
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • July 8, 2015
Conversation with Rifka Glatz

Holocaust survivor Rifka Glatz shares her story.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Florence Katz
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • July 8, 2015
Florence Katz at 100: ‘I’ve loved every day’

Longtime Sarasota philanthropist Florence Katz turns 100 July 9.

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