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  • Jess McIntyre
  • May 15, 2018
Summer Break from adulthood

Lighten your load this summer by setting aside playtime for your inner child.

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Janet and Kevin Allen, with daughter, Summer, and dog, Bixbi
  • By By Kevin Allen | Contributor
  • May 15, 2018
The Jolly Rancher

What’s it like to be the new guy on the Ranch?

  • LWR Life
    By
  • Robert Plunket
  • May 15, 2018
Family values

A home in the Country Club is the perfect place to make memories.

  • LWR Life
Todd Beckwith is AltMed's marketing executive and spokesman.
  • By Mark Gordon | Contributor
  • May 14, 2018
Out of the weeds

A local company aims to deliver a big dose of top-notch service to the nascent medical marijuana industry.

  • LWR Life
Head out to one of Central Florida's natural springs for a cool summer treat.
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • May 14, 2018
Into the blue

Hot beach got you down? Fill up an inner tube and a tank of gas and head to Central Florida’s beguiling backwaters, where cool springs eternal.

  • LWR Life
Doug Hay, a 62-year-old retired maintenance mechanic, is a Lakewood Ranch snake charmer.
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • May 14, 2018
Snake Charmer

Doug Hay, Florida snakes, Lakewood Ranch

  • LWR Life
The Bujibaja is $108.
  • By Kaleigh Omang | Contributor
  • May 14, 2018
Get Your Weave On

Natural fiber woven bags are all the rage. And why not? They fit with just about anything and can go anywhere.

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Zander and Zella Ribar, both 4, present the colors at last year’s Tribute to Heroes Parade.
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 14, 2018
Calendar — summer 2018

lakewd ranch calendar

  • LWR Life
Vince Cera reads to second-graders at Palmetto’s James Tillman Elementary School.
    By
  • Eric Snider
  • May 14, 2018
By the Book

Lakewood Ranch Rotary Club

  • LWR Life
“I’m starting to compose pieces that are even too difficult for me to play,” says Bank, who was as a finalist last month in the ASCAP Foundation’s Morton Gould Young Composer Awards.
    By
  • Eric Snider
  • May 14, 2018
Renaissance Girl

Publix, lakewood ranch, isabella bank

  • LWR Life
Hannah Sage scored on "Jeopardy!"
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • May 14, 2018
Sage Wisdom

Hannah Sage, Jeopardy, lakewood ranch

  • LWR Life
  • By Carrie Nathans | Contributor
  • May 14, 2018
Green Days

LWR Life, Lakewood Ranch

  • LWR Life
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 14, 2018
Up, up and away

LWR Life, lakewood ranch

  • LWR Life
The launch pad at Gilchrist Blue Springs State Park
    By
  • Kat Wingert
  • May 14, 2018
The magic of summer

Lakewood Ranch, LWR Life

  • LWR Life
It's easy to declutter. Get rid of your stuff.
    By
  • Jess McIntyre
  • February 22, 2018
Clutter Got You Down? Purge, Don’t Protest

You can fake spring-cleaning by just giving away your stuff.

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