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Neighbors

Andrea Knies labels bags for shells and findings while Karen Jensen sifts through the findings.
    By
  • Amanda Morales
  • June 28, 2016
Digging up history

Members of the public help archaeologists learn about life during the Manasota midden.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Amanda Morales
  • June 28, 2016
CYD helps turn the page with Forty Carrots

Community Youth Development SRQ Volunteens spend the morning reading to preschoolers at Forty Carrots Family Center.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • June 27, 2016
Bird Key Yacht Club gets tacky

Bird Key Yacht Club hosted a Tacky Tourist party June 25.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Jett Hawker of Lakewood Ranch successfully completes an inflatable obstacle course.
    By
  • Jessica Salmond
  • June 25, 2016
Kids rock Lakewood Ranch

Spotlight Events Entertainment hosted its first children's event on Main Street.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • June 24, 2016
Bayside saddles up for Bible camp

Campers focused on the "The Big Trail."

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By H. Terrell Griffin
  • June 23, 2016
Chapter 5: Trouble in Paradise

Chapter 5: Trouble in Paradise

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kristen Herhold
  • June 23, 2016
Garden Club visits Mote

Members and guests of the Longboat Key Garden Club enjoyed a morning at Mote Marine Aquarium June 23.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Charles Preston Rawls captured this shot of an approaching storm over Celery Fields.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 23, 2016
Sarasota weather page photo: June 23

Charles Preston Rawls captured this shot of an approaching storm over Celery Fields.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club resident Leann Spofford snapped this photo of a rainbow.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 23, 2016
East County weather page photo: June 23

Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club resident Leann Spofford snapped this photo of a rainbow.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Shelley Barker captured this shot of a Longboat Key sunset.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 23, 2016
Longboat Key weather page photo: June 23

Shelley Barker captured this shot of a Longboat Key sunset.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Amanda Morales
  • June 23, 2016
Redeemer campus grows with congregation

Church of the Redeemer members met this month to discuss a three-phase plan for expansion in downtown Sarasota.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Day camp director Beca Franca holds up the parachute as Noelle Stead runs through.
    By
  • Jessica Salmond
  • June 22, 2016
Peace Presbyterian Church hosts traveling day camp

This year’s theme was nature.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Trevor Schmid, Nicholas Almeida, Alex den Boggende, Jayden Halas, Gabriel Klein, Blake Boules, Garrett Day and Jacob Crum try to form a circle without letting go of each other's hands.
    By
  • Jessica Salmond
  • June 22, 2016
Harvest United Methodist Church campers spelunk for spirituality

The Lakewood Ranch church held its annual vacation Bible school with an underground theme.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • June 22, 2016
The temptations of ‘OPM’

Longboat Key’s Shakedown Fund is flush with millions of dollars for parks. Commissioners should resist the urge to splurge with OPM — other people’s money.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
The Rev. Daniel P. Smith
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • June 20, 2016
Lakewood Ranch pastor dies

The Rev. Daniel Smith, of Our Lady of the Angels church, died suddenly.

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