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Maiya Gardner and Amy Donato attended the Mother's Day Tea.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • May 5, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: ODA Mother's Day Tea

Out-Of-Door Academy students honored their mothers with a tea party for Mother's Day.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Ron Vaughn, Fritz Faulhaber and Gerri Aaron pose together at the opening of the G. WIZ Faulhaber Fab Lab Thursday, May 5 at G. WIZ.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • May 5, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: Fab Lab

People enjoyed themselves at the opening of the G. WIZ Faulhaber Fab Lab Thursday, May 5 at G. WIZ.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Twin sisters Lydia Chapdelain and Jessica Kingsley hold Chapdelain's twins, Spencer and Charlotte, who were born Feb. 1.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • May 5, 2011
MOTHERLY LOVE

The relationship between twin sisters changed forever when one offered to carry the other's children.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Sky Kreithen
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 5, 2011
Students eat like royalty

In honor of the royal wedding, the little ones at Goldie Feldman Academy recently held an English garden tea party.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 5, 2011
Local sauce cuts the mustard

Hundreds of mustards competed in the 2011 World Wide Mustard Competition, but there's one Sarasota mustard that deserves special recognition.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Yacht broker Roy Kaplan stands in front of the boat slips at the Hyatt Regency.
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • May 5, 2011
'Bring back the boats'

As many in the community seek ways to revitalize the local economy, a Sarasota yacht broker believes one answer could be to rebuild the boat basin at the former Quay and Hyatt Regency hotel.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Abigail Swindell, 7, feeds Gertrude and Margilow Monday, May 2 at her home in Sarasota.
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • May 5, 2011
CLUCK makes noise at county level

Sarasota County is going to be urged to allow its residents to keep chickens in backyards of all residential areas, including on barrier islands.

  • Sarasota
  • News
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • May 5, 2011
Voters to decide on 21 changes to city's charter

Twenty-one changes to the city's charter --  Sarasota's constitution - passed muster with city commissioners and will now go to city voters.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 5, 2011
News Briefs

Planning Board reappointments on hold; Citizen sits during City Commission prayer; and Rep. Buchanan praises Osama bin Laden killing.

  • Sarasota
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Kindergartner Lena Zide tells us what makes her mom special.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • May 5, 2011
Southside kids get sweet on their moms (VIDEO)

The Sarasota Observer caught up with students at Southside School to talk about their moms and Mother's Day. (VIDEO)

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 5, 2011
OUR VIEW: Newtown needs fresh leaders

Newtown is a community black eye that Sarasota leaders have been trying feverishly to put mascara over to protect the important tourism industry. That effort will be successful, and Sarasota and her beaches, golf courses and snowbird industries will recover. Memories are often short.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Charles Hewett, executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Jackson Laboratory, stands at the proposed site of research lab in eastern Collier County last summer before the institute abandoned the project at the end of 2010.
  • By Carolann Cahill and Jim Lampl
  • May 5, 2011
MY VIEW: Go slow on Jackson Lab

The non-profit Jackson Laboratory has a solid reputation in its field and a demonstrated track record of success in securing public funding. But that does not justify Sarasota County jumping on the Jackson Lab bandwagon heading our way.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Robin Roy
  • May 5, 2011
SCOPE seeks community improvements

SCOPE seeks to tap residents' wisdom to keep Sarasota County thriving.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Unit 703 at The Savoy on Palm has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms and 2,975 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.37 million.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • May 5, 2011
Savoy on Palm condo sells for $1.37 million

Stanley and D'Ann Wernick sold their Unit 703 condominium at 401 S. Palm Ave. to Arthur and Joan Schwartz, of Sarasota, for $1.37 million.

  • Sarasota
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 5, 2011
Cops Corner

11 a.m. - 3500 block of South Tamiami Trail. Petit Theft Shoplifting. A lingerie-shop employee called police after two women stole $600 worth of perfume.

  • Sarasota
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