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  • July 21, 2011
Monument donor celebrates 90 years

Thousands of folks have taken photos at the "Unconditional Surrender" monument in Bayfront Park. How appropriate, then, that the famous photo of a sailor kissing a nurse should adorn the 90th birthday cake of Jack Curran, who donated the statue to city of Sarasota.

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  • July 21, 2011
'Stay silver and sexy'

Bea Wollheim won't go anywhere but Hooters (she likes her wings mild and breaded) for her birthday.

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  • July 21, 2011
Interdependence Day

The July 3 wedding of Melissa Jekonski and Dr. Brad Lerner was a wonderful addition to the Fourth of July weekend for the family and friends of the couple.

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Josh and Michele Reich
  • By Elaine Glickman
  • July 21, 2011
Turtle Beach havdalah event unites generations

Turtle Beach was the beautiful setting, as more than 100 members and guests of Temple Emanu-El gathered on June 18 for the third annual Beach Cookout and Havdalah.

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  • July 21, 2011
Pine View senior named 'very best'

Stevie Peacock, a senior at Pine View School, has been named one of 22 teenagers with the title of "2011 Nestle Very Best In Youth."

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  • July 21, 2011
News Briefs

Casey Key sees record home sale for 2011 Family Dollar store proposed near brownfield Five Points Park privatization on hold

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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 21, 2011
State Street garage plan moves forward

The city of Sarasota will begin a two-phase plan to build a State Street parking garage that could be completed by October 2013.

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  • July 21, 2011
Our View: Put land buying on hold

If the government buying up land in Sarasota County for environmental protection is not a low priority in this economy, nothing is. And it may be a growing risk.

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The municipal parking lot between Avenida Madera and Avenida de Mayo is one of two commercial lots on Siesta not linked to specific businesses.
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  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • July 21, 2011
SKVA gets update on parking, housing rentals

A county code enforcement officer says Siesta Key property owners are charging drivers up to $20 a day to park illegally in residential areas. Some property owners are violating a county ordinance that supersedes a state law on short-term rentals.

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  • July 21, 2011
Injured officer enlists some courtroom help

An elbow to the face by a young man resisting arrest crushed Officer Kelvin Williams' orbital bone and put him out of action for four months.

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  • July 21, 2011
Cops Corner

Bowling for Bentleys 3:19 p.m. - 1000 block of Siesta Drive. Suspicious Incident. Five kids were seen rolling two-liter soda bottles into traffic and trying to hit cars.

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  • July 21, 2011
Going on a treasure hunt...

Sarasota Architectural Salvage features thousands of unique items that line the shelves, walls, nooks and crannies at the store.

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"Growing up (in an Italian family) was exciting," says Adam DeClerico. "(I was) surrounded by family and loved ones and was entrenched in the food and social cultures that epitomize Italians."
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • July 21, 2011
Neighbors: Adam DeClerico

A 29-year-old East Sarasota resident founded the Italian American Club last September to celebrate Italian culture.

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Ryan Tisdale is one of six Fulbright Scholars this year at New College. Tisdale will leave in September for Seewiesen, Germany, to begin his year-long research project.
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  • Rachel S. OHara
  • July 21, 2011
New College student headed to Germany

The 22-year-old Fulbright Scholar will study the sleep patterns of urban and rural blackbirds.

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  • July 21, 2011
Business Observer

Octex expansion plans for 80 new jobs American Advertising Federation elects governor Sir Speedy receives sales volume award Mercedes Medical adds home testing market Florida Bar Foundation names first vice president

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