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Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.
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  • Observer Staff
  • October 18, 2018
Cops Corner: Sarasota 10.16.18

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • October 17, 2018
Local amendments

Our recommendations on local questions.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
The Bayfront master plan does not include the GWIZ building, built in 1976 as the Selby Library.
    By
  • David Conway
  • October 16, 2018
GWIZ preservation effort falls short

Despite a campaign to save the former Selby Library building, a majority of the commission supports demolition.

  • Sarasota
  • News
If the purchase is approved, the hospital hopes to acquire the property by January and have employees move in by May.
    By
  • Kevin McQuaid
  • October 16, 2018
Sarasota Memorial Hospital OKs purchase of Herald-Tribune building

The hospital board is voting on a $17.34 plan to buy and renovate the property at 1741 Main St., which the newspaper departed in 2016.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Shane Donglasan
  • October 15, 2018
World Lemur Festival brings awareness to world's most endangered primate

All things lemur took over Ringling College of Art and Design's Alfred R. Goldstein Library for Sarasota's first World Lemur Festival.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Filming took place in April.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 15, 2018
January-February TV dates set for locally filmed 'Antiques Roadshow' episodes

Team filmed a full day in in April at Ca’ d’Zan.

  • Sarasota
  • News
    By
  • David Conway
  • October 15, 2018
Selby Gardens secures $21.8 million for master plan

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens hopes to raise $92 million as it works to implement a series of renovations at its bayfront campus.

  • Sarasota
  • News
    By
  • Shane Donglasan
  • October 15, 2018
Giving Hunger the Blues & Jazz returns to rock the Van Wezel

The 22nd Annual Giving Hunger The Blues & Jazz continues to give back to those in need while supporting local music.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Shane Donglasan
  • October 15, 2018
Howl-O-Ween Movie Night Spooktacular brings scary sights to Ed Smith Stadium

Ed Smith Stadium hosted Halloween fun on Oct. 13.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Shane Donglasan
  • October 14, 2018
Yo ho ho for the Sarasota Garden Club's 80th Annual Flower Show

Sarasota Garden Club’s annual Flower Show & Plant Sale celebrates 80 years.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
The police said the perimeter was established out of an abundance of caution as the investigation proceeds.
    By
  • David Conway
  • October 13, 2018
Authorities investigate suspicious packages at post office

City and federal authorities secured a perimeter around the downtown Sarasota building. The packages were ultimately determined not to be hazardous.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Ryan Kohn
  • October 12, 2018
Pirates football sinks Sailors 51-19

Braden River led Sarasota 44-6 at halftime

  • East County
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Sarasota football roundup: 10.12.18
    By
  • Ryan Kohn
  • October 12, 2018
Sarasota football roundup: 10.12.18

Sarasota football roundup: 10.12.18

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
Sarasota police blocked access to Madison Drive while city crews worked on the broken water pipe farther down the street.
    By
  • Eric Garwood
  • October 12, 2018
Water main break floods St. Armands street

Crews are working to fix a broken pipe associated with construction near the future site of a city parking garage on the Circle.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 12, 2018
Sarasota weather page photo: Oct. 11

Ben Cooper captured this seaside flora at North Lido Beach.

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