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A new Costco under construction at Westfield Sarasota Square Mall is expected to open this summer.
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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • February 2, 2012
Palmer Ranch adding homes, jobs, businesses

Approximately 600 homes and hundreds of jobs in new businesses are coming to Palmer Ranch.

  • Sarasota
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  • Observer Staff
  • February 2, 2012
News Briefs

Hotel projects need further examination

  • Sarasota
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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • February 2, 2012
CRA Advisory Board recommends project

An advisory board will recommend the city approve seven downtown projects and a roundabout.

  • Sarasota
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  • By Sean Roth
  • February 2, 2012
SNN6 could be facing a sell-off of its assets

A lender to SNN has received a final judgment to sell off the TV channel's assets, but an SNN owner calls it a partnership squabble that will be resolved.

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Bicyclists must now stop and wait for traffic to clear before crossing Central Sarasota Parkway on The Legacy Trail.
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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • February 2, 2012
Legacy Trail intersection modified

An intersection at Central Sarasota Parkway and The Legacy Trail is designed to give motorists the right of way at all times.

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Rod Thomson, Editor-at-Large
  • By Rod Thomson
  • February 2, 2012
My View: Hold back the heavy hand

Sarasota County staff recently presented heavy-handed code changes to landscaping that would have required even more bureaucracy to oversee onerous burdens on a struggling industry.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Carol B. Green lives in Sarasota.
  • By Carol Green
  • February 2, 2012
My View: More specifics on job creation, please

Too bad. Too bad Florida's Republican voters couldn't unite behind the perfect candidate. There is no such thing as the perfect candidate.

  • Sarasota
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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • February 2, 2012
FULL STORY: City picks Romney by wide margin

Both Sarasota County and state Republican voters overall chose Mitt Romney as their GOP candidate.

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Read this week's Cops Corner.
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  • Observer Staff
  • February 2, 2012
Cops Corner: Sarasota

Read this week's edition of Cops Corner

  • Sarasota
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  • Nick Friedman
  • February 2, 2012
Symposium on Parkinson's disease to feature worldwide distinguished doctors

The Neuro Challenge Foundation and the Sarasota Memorial Health Care System will host the annual Suncoast Parkinson's Symposium, the largest gathering of its type in the nation, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at Sarasota Memorial's Institute for Advanced Medicine.

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Michelle Zemil
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  • Observer Staff
  • February 2, 2012
Ovations

Congratulations are in order.

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    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • February 2, 2012
Four county schools make state's Top 20 lists

Pine View School, Sarasota School of Arts & Sciences, Sarasota Middle School and Laurel Nokomis are ranked in the Top 20 for their respective state categories.

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Sarasota Chalk Festival founder Denise Kowal talks with the news media after appearing to pick up Legoman Jan. 26 in Venice. Photo courtesy of the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • February 2, 2012
Observed: Legoman 'sprung' from custody, but public's questions remain

If the Legoman appearance on Siesta Key last fall was a publicity stunt for the Chalk Festival, why not say so?

  • Sarasota
  • News
John Gudritz is the co-owner of an investment management firm.
  • By John Gudritz
  • February 2, 2012
My View: Village atmosphere can be detriment to Key's future

Siesta Key Village has changed over the last 12 years, and not in a way that I would have anticipated or chosen.

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  • Observer Staff
  • February 2, 2012
Letters to the Editor

Citizens group offers fuller explanation of efforts; Parking meters should be bagged immediately

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