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  • Loren Mayo
  • March 8, 2010
STORE AROUND THE CORNER: Butterfly Effect

Butterfly Effect owner Shayna Teicher offers natural, ingredient-conscious products for women.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Robin Roy
  • March 8, 2010
Garage construction schedule set

Suffolk Construction schedules utility work to begin this week at the Palm Avenue parking garage.

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  • Maria Amodio
  • March 5, 2010
Event takes steps to end world hunger

The 2010 Sarasota Area Crop Walk will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 21, starting at St. Armands Key Lutheran Church.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Robin Roy
  • March 5, 2010
City to discuss costs of retirement benefits

With health-plan expenses rising about 10% each year, the city wants to find a strategy that will help contain those costs.

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  • Robin Roy
  • March 4, 2010
Three teens caught burglarizing Coral Cove home

The victims got the teens' license plate number as they allegedly drove away from the house. Deputies captured them just minutes later.

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  • Observer Staff
  • March 4, 2010
Our View: Our 'in-the-margin' governor

"Government in the margins" certainly makes it easier to get elected or re-elected, but it does little to address what should be addressed.

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  • Loren Mayo
  • March 4, 2010
Tennis pros to battle in Meadows event

The Meadows Tennis Center is gearing up to host the 2010 "Battle of Club Professionals." Sixteen tennis pros from nine of the area's top clubs will participate in a doubles shootout and compete for $1,000.

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  • Loren Mayo
  • March 4, 2010
Couple celebrates golden anniversary

Nick and Jean Maxwell Catsakis celebrated their golden wedding anniversary recently surrounded by friends with a reception at Boca Royale Country Club and at a banquet at the Oaks Country Club.

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    By
  • Robin Roy
  • March 4, 2010
Transients set up camp in warehouse

Unbeknownst to the property owner, a group of transients had furnished an empty warehouse and were living in it. After one resident's complaint, the cleanup has begun.

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  • Robin Roy
  • March 4, 2010
Group endorses elected mayor

Fifteen of Sarasota's previous mayors met to discuss their ideas for a mayor directly elected by the voters, and the majority want to follow Tallahassee's example.

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  • Loren Mayo
  • March 4, 2010
Marathon men and women gear up

Local runners are hitting the road to prepare for the fifth annual First Watch Sarasota Half Marathon, to be held Sunday, March 14.

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    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • March 4, 2010
High school celebrates its silver anniversary

The Cardinal Mooney Catholic High School family will gather together in tradition and fellowship Saturday, March 13, for a gala "Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence," at the school's Selby Center.

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    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • March 4, 2010
Students and their families celebrate at Purim carnival

The Temple Beth Sholom School held its annual Purim family carnival Feb. 28. Purim is a festive Jewish holiday that celebrates Queen Esther's heroic efforts in saving the Jews during ancient times.

  • Sarasota
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  • Loren Mayo
  • March 4, 2010
World War II B-25 bomber offers flights for locals

Come and fly with Lt. Col. Richard E. Cole and the crew of Panchito, the B-25J Mitchell twin-engine bomber made famous during the Doolittle Tokyo Raid April 18, 1942, when the first bombs were dropped on Japan during World War II.

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  • Robin Roy
  • March 4, 2010
Blackburn Point Park begins to take shape

After two years, Sarasota County is moving closer to beginning construction on the additional 11 acres of land it intends to combine with Blackburn Point Parks's original five acres.

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