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  • September 24, 2020
Sarasota weather page photo: September 24

Pamela Williams captured this glossy ibis at Celery Fields in Sarasota County.

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  • September 24, 2020
Longboat Key weather page photo: September 24

Nancy Rozance captured this sunrise from Grand Bay Condos on Longboat Key.

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  • September 24, 2020
East County weather page photo: September 24

Charleen Race captured this tricolored heron on Rivers Bluff Circle in Lakewood Ranch.

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    By
  • Eric Garwood
  • September 23, 2020
Children's book decades in the making

Daughter follows through in publishing her mom's children's story.

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Donna Marino. Photo by Liz Ramos.
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  • Pam Eubanks
  • September 23, 2020
COVID can't halt run for funds

Lakewood Ranch resident to run virtual race to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

  • East County
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Kylie Caffrey and Ava Laurie. Photo by Liz Ramos.
    By
  • Liz Ramos
  • September 23, 2020
Masked ninja in Lakewood Ranch

Summerfield residents try innovative ways to protect bird feeder.

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    By
  • Brendan Lavell
  • September 23, 2020
COVID blues? Try Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota.

Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota provides relief from the COVID blues.

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Spoonbills are tactile feeders whose rosy coloring comes from their diet of crustaceans. (Miri Hardy)
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  • Guest Author
  • September 23, 2020
Bird of the week: roseate spoonbill

Spoonbills hunt by sense of touch, stirring up small crustaceans, then snapping their beaks closed.

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Guests of the 2019 Taste of Downtown mingle on the main stage of the Sarasota Opera House.
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  • Eric Garwood
  • September 23, 2020
Taste of Downtown goes digital for 2020

Annual event benefits Sarasota Opera's Youth Opera.

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    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 22, 2020
Bolts from the blue

The Lazy Lobster is celebrating the Tampa Bay Lightning's Stanley Cup run.

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Pete Cumming (left)
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 22, 2020
Chief gets an award

Before his retirement, the Rotarians want to honor their police chief.

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Jim Purcell, John Kurgan, Bill Upton and John Short in 2018.
    By
  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 21, 2020
Tennis staple John Short dies at age 76

Short is best known for organizing group play with the Short Academy.

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Judy Polivy sits with the many donations collected at Temple Sinai.
    By
  • Brynn Mechem
  • September 21, 2020
Temple Sinai collects clothes during Rosh Hashanah

The temple's women's group Women of Sinai holds a collection of clothes each year in support of local agencies.

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  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 21, 2020
Longboat Key Turtle Watch has a bash with trash

The group participated in International Coastal Cleanup and removed 370 pounds of refuse from the beach.

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  • Nat Kaemmerer
  • September 21, 2020
St. Armands Key Lutheran Church bell ringers meet again

The bells and chimes musicians gathered (wearing masks) for the first time since March.

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