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Elizabeth Crowell, Mar Echevarria, Xavier Keogh, Andrew Kotick, Alejandro Martino and Mariana Zapata
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  • May 30, 2013
SCHOOL BOARD BULLETIN

Six New College students will travel to France to teach English to elementary school students

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Cardinal Mooney quarterback Reese Vita scrambles for yardage in the second half.
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  • Jen Blanco
  • May 30, 2013
Cougars roll past Pirates

The Cardinal Mooney High football team showed promise in all three facets of the game during its 32-13 spring-game victory over Braden River May 23.

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  • May 30, 2013
SPRING FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

Rams best Seminoles in their spring game; Booker shut out in spring action; Turnovers prove costly for Sailors

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  • By Melanie Mason
  • May 30, 2013
Moments in time

According to an advertisement in the June 1, 1978, issue of the Pelican Press, Siesta Maintenance Painting offered full house painting for only $150.

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In 1961, Barbara Glidden was named Tarpon Queen at the Sarasota Tarpon Tournament.
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  • Yaryna Klimchak
  • May 30, 2013
YOUR NEIGHBOR: Barbara Glidden

Barbara Glidden basks in the sunlight of her Siesta Key home as she flips through old photographs of herself in New York, Mexico and the Caribbean.

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Tom Caffrey submitted this photo taken on the fishing pier near the Ringling Bridge.
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  • May 30, 2013
Weather Photo: PERFECT PERCH

Tom Caffrey submitted this photo taken on the fishing pier near the Ringling Bridge.

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  • Yaryna Klimchak
  • May 29, 2013
New College graduates largest class in its history

New College of Florida graduated 197 students Friday, May 24 the largest in the history of the school.

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Nicole Batistas
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  • May 29, 2013
Girl Scouts give dogs a bone

Girls in Girl Scout Troop 764 made more than 500 homemade dog bones and 300 hand-sewn catnip toys for Lakewood Ranch-based Honor Animal Rescue last month.

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  • May 29, 2013
Palm-Aire women welcome officers

Ladies in the Palm-Aire Women's Club held their last meeting of the season May 10, and made sure to install the club's new officers before they left.

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Brett Gastman. Courtesy photo.
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  • May 29, 2013
Key gets thumbs up from travel writer

Brett Gastman, 10, vacations on Longboat Key with his family. His grandparents, Ted and Sara Gastman, have owned a Beachplace unit for more than 20 years.

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  • May 29, 2013
College honors Nellie Wilson

Mary Baldwin College honored Longboat Key resident Nellie Wilson with the Admissions Volunteer Excellence Award.

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  • May 29, 2013
Kiwanis remembers veterans of wars oft forgotten

Frank Buckles, the last surviving American World War I veteran, died more than two years ago at 110.

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Guest Speaker Rabbi Noam Marans is AJC’s Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations and oversees national interfaith outreach, dialogue and advocacy, and interethnic efforts of Belfer Center for American Pluralism.
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  • Yaryna Klimchak
  • May 29, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY : AJC's 2013 Summer Lunch and Learn

The American Jewish Committee hosted their first AJC Summer Lunch and Learn of the season Wednesday, May 29 at Michael's On East to educate the public on Jewish Catholic relations. Guest speaker Rabbi Noam Marans flew in from New York to discuss the topic 'A New Pope and the Future of Catholic-Jewish Relations,' at the fifth summer series. More than 150 people attended the luncheon and participated in a question and answer session after the talk.

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  • Pam Eubanks
  • May 29, 2013
Family Trade: Kibler Ranch

The 1,009-acre Kibler Ranch site will be sold June 6, for the first time in about 100 years.

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Out-of-Door Art teacher Paula Kozak encourages her student, Claire Cornetet, to use more green. Maria-Francesca Massaro and Francisco Marcano watch.
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  • Josh Siegel
  • May 29, 2013
Creative Healing: Paula Kozak

Cancer patient Paula Kozak, an Out-of-Door Academy art teacher, led a project for her students to create art to benefit local cancer patients.

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