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Shannon Snyder announced Nov. 18 his intention to run for City Commission.
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  • Robin Roy
  • November 19, 2010
Snyder announces commission candidacy

Charter Review Committee member Shannon Snyder will compete for outgoing Mayor Kelly Kirschner's City Commission seat.

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Honorees Matt and Lisa Walsh with their family
    By
  • Black Tie Staff
  • November 18, 2010
AJC Civic Achievement Award Dinner honoring Matt and Lisa Walsh

AJC Civic Achievement Award Dinner honoring Matt and Lisa Walsh

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Chairwomen Mindy Mast, Kathy Bush and Carol Williams
    By
  • Black Tie Staff
  • November 18, 2010
High Tea at High Noon

High Tea at High Noon

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Sydney Gruters, Daria Furst, Emily Furst and Stephanie Cestero
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • November 18, 2010
Mistletoe Mingle

Junior League hosted its Mistletoe Mingle, a shopping extravaganza and ladies night out, Thursday, at Robarts Arena.

  • Sarasota
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Sydney Gruters, Daria and Emily Furst and Stephanie Cestero
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • November 18, 2010
Mistletoe Mingle

Mistletoe Mingle

  • Sarasota
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Ron Hallam and Joyce Dalbey
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • November 18, 2010
Mr. Beery's hosts business event

The Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce held its Business Card Exchange Thursday at Mr. Beery's, in Gulf Gate.

  • Sarasota
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Devin O’Brian, Beth Giovanell, Pat Donnelly and Rick Harris
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • November 18, 2010
LLSA Chamber unwinds at Encore Motorcars

The Longboat Key, Lido Key, St. Armands Key Chamber of Commerce held its latest Business after Hours at Encore Motorcars of Sarasota, Inc., Thursday, Nov. 18. By 7 p.m., members and their guests were just starting to depart from the casual networking event.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Band members Justin Whitmer, Jesse Spiegel and Mikal Mancini have recorded three demo tracks.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • November 18, 2010
Young band thinks outside of the box (WITH VIDEO)

A trio of Pine View high-school students is representing the state in the School Jam USA contest. Online voting ends Nov. 30.

  • Sarasota
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Donor Harold Ronson and Bob Carter, Senior Friendship Center President and CEO
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 18, 2010
The Sarasota swing

The Senior Friendship Center dedicated a new Harold and Kay Ronson dance floor at its Sarasota campus Nov. 3, in honor of Harold Ronson's chairmanship of its successful "Night at the Opera" fundraiser last March.

  • Sarasota
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SASSY swimmers and Gators end the clinic with a cheer
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 18, 2010
SASSY swimmers host Florida Gators

The Sarasota Aquatics Synchronized Swimming Team (SASSY) hosted the University of Florida Synchro Team for a clinic Nov. 6 and Nov. 7, at the YMCA Selby Aquatics Complex.

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The completion date of the 287,000-square-foot parking garage is slated for December.
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • November 18, 2010
Retail Therapy

The city will not lease the storefronts at the Palm Avenue parking garage and instead will seek one buyer.

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    By
  • Robin Roy
  • November 18, 2010
Neighborhood fed up with crime

Residents in the Indian Beach/Sapphire Shores have had enough - enough of the crime, enough of the drug dealing, enough of the prostitution that they say is ruining their neighborhood.

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Some tennis players have refused to play on the three courts nearest to the police headquarters, because the air-conditioner noise is too loud for them.
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • November 18, 2010
Loud racket annoys tennis players

The air-conditioning system at the new police headquarters on Adams Lane is loud enough that it is bothering people in nearby buildings and a park.

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Many residents along South Palm Avenue want to protect the residential nature of the street by preventing commercial development and keeping building setbacks to at least 20 feet from the public right of way.
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • November 18, 2010
South Palm Avenue to get overlay district

The new zoning district essentially reverses the 2005 zoning change that allowed commercial development.

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  • Observer Staff
  • November 18, 2010
Our View

At last, a good decision; Our Obsession with Inflation: What Others are Saying about Dollar, Gold

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