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The commission identified its 2013-14 legislative priorities during a meeting at Town Hall.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 13, 2013
Longboat presents legislative priorities

The Longboat Key Town Commission identified 12 priorities that will be discussed at a Sarasota County meeting next week.

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  • News
Writer Marty Fugate has an infinite, sometimes terrifying, and hilarious knowledge of an imagined future, which he occasionally turns into science fiction anthologies.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 12, 2013
Sept. 12: Daily Headlines

Today's Stories: School Board to dish out 3% raises; Siesta Key seawall project put on hold; Deputies find two men with loaded weapons; Town attorney announces maternity leave; Out of this World

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  • News
Town attorney Maggie Mooney-Portale is expecting a baby in November and will be on maternity leave until January.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 12, 2013
Town attorney announces maternity leave

Former town attorney David Persson will fill in when the town's new attorney is on maternity leave.

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  • News
The apparatus has a 75-foot ladder and 500-gallon water tank. (Courtesy Longboat Key Fire Rescue)
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 12, 2013
Longboat Key Fire Rescue gets new apparatus

The new ladder truck went into service earlier this week.

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  • News
Longboat Key Public Works service worker Tony Porter places flags along Gulf of Mexico Drive Tuesday afternoon in preparation for the 12th anniversary of Sept. 11. Porter received frequent honks of appreciation from motorists.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 11, 2013
VIDEO: Longboat Key's 9/11 tribute

In 2002, Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce Executive DirectorE Gail Loefgren proposed lining Gulf of Mexico Drive with nearly 3,000 flags in memory of each life lost in the attacks.

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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 11, 2013
Our town: Holiday Inn: Thanks for the memories

Longboat Key firefighter/paramedic Tom Batchelor read the 'Closing Time' story about the 10 years since the Holiday Inn closed in last week's Longboat Observer and was reminded of fond memories.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Casa del Mar General Manager Mark Meador
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 11, 2013
Our town: Meador celebrates 28 years at Casa del Mar

Mark Meador showed up for his first day of work Casa del Mar Sept. 4, 1985, in the aftermath of Hurricane Elena.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
George Heitler
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 11, 2013
Our town: Plymouth Harbor resident nets 98th birthday

Plymouth Harbor resident George Heitler spent his 98th birthday at one of his favorite places: a tennis court at the Longboat Key Public Tennis Center.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Sean and Mary McGrath
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 11, 2013
Our town: Anniversary is gold for couple

Sean and Mary McGrath celebrated their 50th anniversary Aug. 10.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The cover of the Sept. 13, 2001 issue of the Longboat Observer.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • September 11, 2013
Our view: 9/11: 2,977 + 4

Perhaps it's good that Sept. 11, 2001, continues to evoke emotions of sadness, anger and a sickness in our stomachs. We are not forgetting. Those who witnessed it never will.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Bob Gault
  • September 11, 2013
Letters to the Editor: Out of the jaws of victory

Recently our Town Commission and town manager have done a responsible job of 'stopping the bleeding' from our underfunded employee pension plans by freezing them.

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  • Opinion
  • By Bradford Saivetz
  • September 11, 2013
My view: ULI group needs wider representation

Most of the task force members have connections to the town's 'body politic' of Town Hall insiders.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 11, 2013
Longboat Lore: 9/11 is a day of remembrance

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks hit close to home on Longboat Key, where President George W. Bush began that fateful day.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Even on a Thursday afternoon in the slow month of September, shoppers and diners filled up St. Armands Circle.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • September 11, 2013
Longboat Key businesses experience summer surge

Hotels and business owners aren't experiencing the summer slump that was once synonymous with the month of September.

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Unit 5 at 360 at 280 North Shore Road has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,834 square feet of living area. It sold for $750,000.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • September 11, 2013
Bay Isles home sells for $1,855,700

The following residential real-estate transactions took place between Aug. 26 and Aug. 30.

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