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Sarasota

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  • Observer Staff
  • August 20, 2009
Our View

The Feckless Foursome

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • August 20, 2009
Elderly victim to fight back

A man steals a woman's purse and throws her belongings out his car window during a high-speed chase. Said the 87-year-old victim: 'I want to hit him over the head with my cane.'

  • Sarasota
  • News
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • August 20, 2009
Sea cow snuggle

Two Mote Marine trainers explain the 'wow-factor' in working with manatees.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Maggie Pahos
  • August 20, 2009
Neighbors: Helen Vetter

Neighbors: Helen Vetter

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 20, 2009
Cops Corner

A man walked out of a bar without paying his $52 bar tab. He drank eight Budweisers and five vodka cocktails. The manager followed him outside and gave him one last chance to pay his tab. The man began to argue with the manager and then got in his pickup truck and drove away. But he forgot one very important thing, he left his driver's license at the bar when he opened the tab.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • August 20, 2009
Siesta Key home sells for $835,000

A home in Harmony tops all real-estate transactions for the week of July 23 through July 29.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 19, 2009
St. Armands BID board will remain property owners only

On Aug. 17, the Sarasota City Commission rejected a request to allow merchants to serve on the St. Armands Business Improvement District board.

  • Sarasota
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  • Robin Roy
  • August 18, 2009
Merchants issue rallying cry

Spurred by the announcement that Sarasota News and Books is closing at the end of the month, downtown merchants will gather in Five Points Park to spread the message, 'I believe in downtown.'

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • August 18, 2009
St. Armands BID board to remain property owners only

On Aug. 17, in a 4-1 vote, the Sarasota City Commission rejected a request to allow merchants to serve on the St. Armands Business Improvement District board.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • August 17, 2009
Commission approves parking meters

City commissioners voted Monday to approve a $510,000 contract to institute a paid-parking program downtown.

  • Sarasota
  • News
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • August 17, 2009
Selby Gardens receives research grant

A grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services will enable the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Center for Tropical Plant Sciences and Conservation to establish a new molecular research program.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • August 14, 2009
Supporters vow to save iconic bookstore

Upon hearing that the economy may claim Sarasota News and Books as one of its victims, Sarasotans take to the Internet to try to save it.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Maggie Pahos
  • August 13, 2009
THE PERFORMER: Charley Leonard

Booker Middle School: Charley Leonard finishes helping a slew of first- and second-graders across a low-wire balance beam, finds another counselor to watch her group of campers and sits down in one of the Pal Sailor Circus' plastic audience seats to talk.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • August 13, 2009
THE KINDERGARTNER: Ansley Morris

Southside Elementary: Ansley Morris is all about chocolate. When she spots her mother, Amanda, stirring a bowl of chocolate-pie filling, the soon-to-be kindergartner doesn't have much interest in discussing school.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • August 13, 2009
Back to School: The Graduate Taylor Stein

Taylor Stein loves the feeling of starting something new. As Riverview High School student body president, Stein will be the first person to walk across the stage and graduate from the renovated school, leading the way for her fellow students - the class of 2010.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
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