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Longboat Key

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  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 12, 2015
Bay Isles Beach Club catches one last wave

Bay Isles Beach Club members gathered one final time for the season on April 12.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 12, 2015
Sanctuary rides off into the sunset

Sanctuary residents said farewell until fall at the residence’s end-of-season party on April 12.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 11, 2015
Local artists show off their talent

Area artists displayed their proudest work at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts’ Florida Artists Group opening on April 11.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 11, 2015
Lido Beach gets jazzy

The Lido Key Residents Association held its inaugural big band concert on April 11.

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Mark Walsh, vice president of Ocean Properties, right, and Andy Berger, vice president of operations for Ocean Properties, have been making weekly trips to Longboat Key from Delray Beach to present a rough sketch of a future Key Club project.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 10, 2015
$100 million Key Club project takes shape

A new Longboat Key Club project consists of a 259-unit hotel and 93 condominiums and villa units, all located to the south of a reshaped Longboat Club Road.

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    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 10, 2015
Republican Club welcomes new leadership

Longboat Key Republican Club held its final meeting of the season on April 10.

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  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 9, 2015
Bird Key Yacht Club is en pointe

Ballet was the night’s theme at the art opening at Bird Key Yacht Club on April 9. Tim Jaeger displayed his paintings of Sarasota dancers.

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  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 9, 2015
St. Mary kicks up its boots

The Men’s Club of St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church wrangled up the community for its fifth annual Cowboy Cookout on April 9.

  • Longboat Key
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The estate is 5,126 square feet.
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 9, 2015
Longboat Key home sells for $3.2

The 5,126-square-foot home sold April 3.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Commissioner Pat Zunz believe there’s value in having town dispatchers on the island that know the ins and outs of the island’s roads.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • April 9, 2015
Zunz can speak up on dispatch discussion

The Florida Commission on Ethics ruled Longboat Key Commissioner Pat Zunz can participate in future discussions about Longboat Key police dispatch.

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Save Our Seabirds CEO David Pilston with the new sign, which will be posted on docks, launches, piers and bait shops throughout Sarasota and Manatee Counties.
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 8, 2015
Save Our Seabirds hopes signs will leave pelicans off the hook

More than 90 new signs educate the public about what to do if they encounter a tangled bird.

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This home at 602 S. Owl Drive sold for $4.55 million It has four bedrooms, four baths, two half-baths and 5,581 square feet of living area. Photo courtesy of Roger Pettingell
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • April 8, 2015
Four-bedroom Bird Key home sells for $4.55 million

A home on Bird Key tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Kerlyn Holdings Ltd. sold the home at 602 S. Owl Drive to Marie Baker and Mark Woglom, of Sarasota, for $4.55 million.

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  • Real Estate
Two of the seven buildings were repainted in the past two years, and the other five will be repainted beginning May 1.
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 8, 2015
Windward Bay recognized for comeback

The condominium is one of three small communities that the Florida Communities of Excellence named as a finalist in its ‘The Comeback Kid’ category.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 8, 2015
Letters to the Editor | Sound off: Another bridge

We asked you for your traffic solutions in the April 2 editorial, “Forget the Legacy Trail: We need another bridge,” and you responded.

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Michael Sarzynski, 92, golfs every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. On March 20, he shot an unheard-of round of 82. Photo by Kristen Herhold
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • April 8, 2015
92-year-old golfer has stroke of success

Longboat Key Club golfer Michael Sarzynski shocks fellow golfers with a round of 82 — 10 strokes below his age.

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