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Veteran marathoners Betsy and Peter Laughlin and James Williamson
    By
  • Josh Siegel
  • May 4, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: Girls on the Run 5K

Nathan Benderson Park played host to a Girls on the Run 5K May 4. Proceeds from the event, sanctioned by the Manasota Track Club, went to Girls on the Run, a program of Girls Inc. of Sarasota County.

  • Sarasota
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City Commissioners discuss sound enforcement.
  • By Amanda Heisey
  • May 3, 2013
May 3: Daily Headlines Video

Top Stories: City Commissioners to discuss sound enforcement Monday; GMD lights modified for turtle season; Tennis Resorts Online names Key club No. 12 resort; Weekend Best Bets

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Fifth grade teacher Donna McGarry’s class wins the 2007 World Series against the Atlanta Braves.
    By
  • Yaryna Klimchak
  • May 3, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY : Ashton Elementary World Series

Ashton Elementary 5th graders played the 1992 and 2007 World Series games Friday, May 3 at Twin Lakes to have fun and use the baseball bucks they had been earning throughout the semester. Fifth grade teachers Donna McGarry and Stacy Sanders teamed up to organize the World Series day for the seventh year in a row. The idea started when one of McGarry's classes read 'In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson,' 12 years ago before she came to Ashton Elementary. This year teachers were granted the Edge of Excellence Grant for $500 that they used to purchase t-shirts for approximately 130 fifth graders.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Sarasota Police Chief Bernadette DiPino and Sgt. Demetrios Konstantopoulos will present to City Commissioners in the afternoon session.
    By
  • Roger Drouin
  • May 3, 2013
City Commissioners to discuss sound enforcement Monday

Commissioners will also consider a city-fee waiver for the Chalk Festival; discuss a possible CRA extension.

  • Sarasota
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A committee has chosen Stamford, Conn.-based JHM Financial Group LLC to redevelop the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort.
    By
  • Eddie Kirsch
  • May 3, 2013
May 3: Morning Headlines

Morning Headlines: Colony subcommittee picks developer

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Officials OK 10th and 14th street roundabouts
  • By Amanda Heisey
  • May 2, 2013
May 2: Daily Headlines Video

Top Stories: City receives settlement offer on State-Street Sunshine complaint; Officials OK 10th and 14th street roundabouts; Bearadise Ranch preserves bears' history; Amateur sculptors carve their niches

  • Siesta Key
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Courtesy image.
    By
  • Yaryna Klimchak
  • May 2, 2013
Sarasota County schools select School-related Employee of the Year

The Sarasota County School District named Merscilla Gill as School-Related Employee of the Year for her positivity and commitment to the workplace.

  • Sarasota
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The site of the planned garage is now home to a 139-parking space lot.
    By
  • Roger Drouin
  • May 2, 2013
City receives settlement offer on State-Street Sunshine complaint

Citizens for Sunshine made a settlement proposal to the city April 23 that would allow the city to move forward with the parking garage.

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  • Observer Staff
  • May 2, 2013
Key to the city

More than 100 community members and leaders, friends and family surprised Paul Thorpe, one of the founding members of the Downtown Association of Sarasota, April 25, at The Gator Club, to show their appreciation and celebrate the strides he's made for Sarasota over the past four decades.

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Michelle Stauffer. Photo by Yaryna Klimchak.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 2, 2013
Clean sweep

Roughly 38 volunteers picked up trash Saturday, April 27, on Siesta Key Beach, as part of Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 2, 2013
Our View: Onward with Atwell, Dorfman

You know the cliche: A picture is worth 1,000 words.

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Lift Station 87 is 90% complete. The city is slated to hire engineering firm McKim & Creed to complete the project.
    By
  • Roger Drouin
  • May 2, 2013
Lift station project progresses

Since December, Sarasota officials have been working to get a long-delayed and troubled $12.5 million lift-station construction project back on track.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Roundabout advocate Rod Warner says the first two roundabouts will bring “a remarkable” change to the bayfront.
    By
  • Roger Drouin
  • May 2, 2013
Officials OK 10th and 14th street roundabouts

The project is entirely funded, but construction work is still at least four years away.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Proponents of narrowing this stretch of Fruitville Road say it is daunting to cross, and making the roadway two lanes instead of four would unite downtown with neighborhoods and commercial areas to the north.
    By
  • Roger Drouin
  • May 2, 2013
Fruitville stretch could lose two lanes

The concept would 'pedestrianize' the busy, four-lane roadway that cuts between downtown Sarasota and the Rosemary District.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Roger Drouin
  • May 2, 2013
Residents petition court removal

Current plans for the Sarasota High School renovation show that the tennis courts will be demolished to make way for a new bus drop-off and stormwater retention.

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