• Alternate Text

  • Loading

  • Sand Bucket List
  • Health Observed
  • Crossword
  • Contests
  • Newsletters
  • e-Newspaper App
  • Longboat
    • News
    • Cops Corner
    • Real Estate
    • Business
    • Neighbors
    • Opinion
  • East County
    • News
    • Real Estate
    • Business
    • Neighbors
    • Schools
    • Sports
    • Opinion
  • Sarasota
    • News
    • Cops Corner
    • Real Estate
    • Business
    • Neighbors
    • Schools
    • Sports
    • Opinion
    • Siesta Key
  • Arts + Entertainment
    • Eat + Drink
    • Arts + Culture
    • Reviews
    • Things To Do
    • Black Tie
    • Spotlight Partners
  • Things to Do
  • Galleries
  • More
    • Hurricane Season
    • Elections
    • Health Observed
    • Sand Bucket List
    • Calendar
    • Celebrations
    • Contests
    • Tributes
    • Submit a Celebration
    • Submit a Tribute
    • Public Notices
    • Classifieds
  • Longboat
    • Longboat
    • News
    • Cops Corner
    • Real Estate
    • Business
    • Neighbors
    • Opinion
  • East County
    • East County
    • News
    • Real Estate
    • Business
    • Neighbors
    • Schools
    • Sports
    • Opinion
  • Sarasota
    • Sarasota
    • News
    • Cops Corner
    • Real Estate
    • Business
    • Neighbors
    • Schools
    • Sports
    • Opinion
    • Siesta Key
  • Arts + Entertainment
    • Arts + Entertainment
    • Eat + Drink
    • Arts + Culture
    • Reviews
    • Things To Do
    • Black Tie
    • Spotlight Partners
  • Things to Do
  • Galleries
  • More
    • More
    • Hurricane Season
    • Elections
    • Health Observed
    • Sand Bucket List
    • Calendar
    • Celebrations
    • Contests
    • Tributes
    • Submit a Celebration
    • Submit a Tribute
    • Public Notices
    • Classifieds
  • Sand Bucket List
  • Health Observed
  • Crossword
  • Contests
  • Newsletters
  • e-Newspaper App

Sarasota

Former Sailor star Alexis Johns is hitting .400 for Florida Atlantic as of March 2. Photo courtesy FIU Athletics.
    By
  • Ryan Kohn
  • March 5, 2020
Prose and Kohn: Going big, not home

Local alumni are tearing up the collegiate sports scene.

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
Cougars senior Molly Donaghy is the team's leading scorer. She had seven goals against Saint Stephen's on March 3.
    By
  • Ryan Kohn
  • March 5, 2020
Cougars girls lacrosse on pace to smash 2019 record

Cardinal Mooney is in the first year under head coach Brooke Eisenacher.

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
The newsstand near Mattison’s City Grille on Main Street has generated concern from some downtown business owners, but the publications in the stand want it to remain.
    By
  • David Conway
  • March 5, 2020
Downtown merchants take aim at newsstands

A group of business owners wants to remove a newsstand from Main Street and Lemon Avenue, but the city is still considering alternative options.

  • Sarasota
  • News
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan appears alongside Sarasota Memorial Hospital officials to discuss the local response to COVID-19 at a press conference Tuesday, March 3.
    By
  • David Conway
  • March 5, 2020
Officials mobilize local response to coronavirus

As a confirmed case of COVID-19 is being treated at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota, medical and governmental leaders are coordinating their efforts to deal with the disease.

  • Sarasota
  • News
The Feb. 24 Community Transforum event was held to update the public on the Sarasota-Manatee Metropolitan Planning Organization’s long-range transportation planning effort.
    By
  • David Conway
  • March 5, 2020
Planners present long-term vision for regional transportation

The Sarasota-Manatee Metropolitan Planning Organization is working with residents and officials to produce community-backed goals for the future of the area.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 5, 2020
Cops Corner: Sarasota 3.5.20

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
    By
  • Brynn Mechem
  • March 4, 2020
Sarasota County School Board sets superintendent timeline

The board plans to have a new superintendent hired by June 22.

  • Sarasota
  • Schools
Some commissioners suggested using the current Longboat Library site as the location for a new county-run library. File Photo
    By
  • Brynn Mechem
  • March 4, 2020
Sarasota County library could be added on Longboat

Longboat and Sarasota County commissioners discussed the possibility of adding a permanent Sarasota County Library on the key.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
The new maps were issued Dec. 31, 2019, updating flood zones throughout the area.
    By
  • Eric Garwood
  • March 4, 2020
Flood map open house is March 5

Residents can view new FEMA maps, ask questions and make comments at event set for Suncoast Technical College.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Whitney Elfstrom
  • March 4, 2020
RCLA speaker delivers stark view of opiate abuse

Sam Quinones, Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and former L.A. Times reporter, was the fourth speaker in the RCLA series.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Sarasota Suncoast Academy is one of 12 charter schools in Sarasota County.
    By
  • Adrian Moore
  • March 4, 2020
If charter schools are 'not as good as advertised,' why are families flocking to them?

Charter schools provide greater benefits than a report appears to show.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
The new zoning regulations will affect the Midtown Plaza property, which formerly housed a Winn-Dixie, and all other Commercial General properties larger than one acre.
    By
  • David Conway
  • March 3, 2020
City OKs mixed-use zoning for commercial sites

Despite disagreement about an affordable housing provision, the city approved regulations it hopes will spur redevelopment of older commercial centers such as Midtown Plaza.

  • Sarasota
  • News
James Fiorica, Sarasota Memorial Hospital's chief medical officer, discusses the hospital's COVID-19 response at a press conference Tuesday, March 3.
    By
  • David Conway
  • March 3, 2020
Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Buchanan discuss coronavirus response

Hospital officials hope state and national protocols will be adjusted to allow for more COVID-19 testing, a cause U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan says he will support.

  • Sarasota
  • News
The bow-bearer knob-lizard was discovered in 1911 and is a contender for largest mosasaur ever found.
    By
  • Whitney Elfstrom
  • March 2, 2020
Mote travels back in time with new exhibit

Savage Ancient Seas will be open through May 31.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Ringling students Kitt Kippenverger, Charlotte Yiu and Chloe Piedmont
    By
  • Whitney Elfstrom
  • March 2, 2020
Downtown Sarasota gets eclectic at Le Marche Bohemian

The open-air market took place on Feb. 29.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
« 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 »
The best of Your Observer, delivered directly to your inbox

Get the latest in news, sports, schools, arts and things to do in Sarasota, Siesta Key, Longboat Key and East County.

Sign Up

Latest in Sarasota

1
Work is underway at 28 N. Boulevard of the Presidents in the first phase of Tom Leonard’s plan to bring the Shore Restaurant back to St. Armands Circle.
  • May 18, 2026
Shore’s return to St. Armands underway with gutting of building
2
Sarasota County this week activated the traffic light, the first of its kind in a roundabout in the area, the county said.
  • May 15, 2026
Traffic signal added to Apex Road roundabout
3
Kayla Taylor
  • May 15, 2026
Sarasota researcher wins international STEM award
4
Officer Ryan Block and K-9 Partner Kodak have become Sarasota Police Department's second certified explosive detection team.
  • May 15, 2026
SPD K-9 team earns explosive-detection certification
5
A lane closure will affect traffic on the John Ringling Causeway during an FDOT maintenance project.
  • May 14, 2026
Roadwork will close Ringling Causeway lane at Bird Key

App

Download the Your Observer app

Stay in the know with the latest local news. Any device, anytime, anywhere.

DOWNLOAD NOW

Contact

  • 1970 Main St.
  • Third Floor
  • Sarasota, FL 34236
  • Phone: 941-366-3468
  • FPN Verified

Extra, Extra!

  • Newsletters
  • App
  • Crossword
  • Contests

more

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Classifieds
  • Advertise
  • Rack Locations
  • Jobs
  • Privacy Policy
  • Accessibility Options

sister sites

  • Business Observer
  • Jax Daily Record
  • Orange Observer
  • Accessibility Options
  • Copyright © 2026 Observer Media Group Inc., All Rights Reserved
Sign Up for Daily Headlines

A daily dose of news from Longboat Key, East County, Sarasota and Siesta Key.

Sign Up for In Case You Missed It

A Saturday dose of the week's top stories from Sarasota, Longboat Key and East County.

Anytime. Anywhere. Observer.

From in-depth local reporting to real-time breaking news, stay connected to the stories shaping our community with the Your Observer app.

Download Now for Free