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  • Robin Roy
  • December 17, 2009
Late hours could take hit

The cheerleader for late store hours downtown, Jake's Downtown, has gone out of business, and some fear the closing could set the late-hours movement back a step.

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  • Loren Mayo
  • December 17, 2009
A new generation of givers

The Suncoast Communities Blood Bank has partnered with students from Sarasota High School and the Ringling College of Art and Design to create a blood-drive campaign called Generation Give.

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  • Robin Roy
  • December 17, 2009
City accommodates Ritz-Carlton expansion

Zoning code would have required the hotel to eliminate some of its entryway landscaping to construct a building liner. City commissioners voted to allow it to skip that requirement.

  • Sarasota
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  • December 17, 2009
OUR VIEW: Still time to kill health care bills

Americans don't want the $1 trillion Obama-Pelosi-Reid health care bill.

  • East County
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  • By Rod Thomson
  • December 17, 2009
MY VIEW: Global-warming e-mails matter

Quite the brouhaha has erupted over revelations that scientists at the heart of studying global warming have apparently been cooking the data and then trying to cover it up.

  • Sarasota
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  • December 17, 2009
Cops Corner 12.17.09

A man with a cloth over his face was seen reaching out to passing cars.

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  • Adam Hughes
  • December 17, 2009
An Oaks II home sells for $895,000

Timothy and Teresa Finley, of Osprey, sold their home at 620 MacEwen Drive to Frank and Marie Mineo, of Osprey, for $895,000.

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  • Robin Roy
  • December 16, 2009
Parking garage builders present vision

Two downtown groups vote to accept three recommendations by Suffolk Construction, which won the contract to build the Palm Avenue parking garage.

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  • Molly Schechter
  • December 16, 2009
Black Tie & Tales

Read this week's social column, Black Tie & Tales.

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  • Loren Mayo
  • December 15, 2009
USF students create gingerbread house

University of South Florida students entered their USF-style gingerbread house into a mall contest to benefit community youth.

  • Sarasota
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  • Robin Roy
  • December 15, 2009
Southgate post office to remain open

Initially on a list that threatened its closure, the Siesta Drive post office will remain as it has for decades.

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  • Observer Staff
  • December 14, 2009
Pirate singers to present holiday concert

The Braden River High School Choral Department will present its annual Holiday Silent Auction and Choral Concert at 6 p.m., Dec. 15, at the school, 6545 S.R. 70 E.

  • Arts + Culture
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  • Robin Roy
  • December 14, 2009
Committee to discuss $250,000 for arts fest

If the county's Festival Steering Committee provides the money to the Ringling International Arts Festival, which is run by out-of-town organizers, criticism from local arts groups likely will increase.

  • Sarasota
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  • Robin Roy
  • December 11, 2009
Alleged Ponzi couple extradited

John and Marian Morgan are flying back to the United States from Sri Lanka, where they have been in jail since August.

  • Sarasota
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  • Robin Roy
  • December 11, 2009
Alleged Ponzi couple extradited

John and Marian Morgan are flying back to the United States from Sri Lanka, where they have been in jail since August.

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