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The home at 1535 Hillview Drive has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,707 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,275,000.	Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
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  • Adam Hughes
  • September 22, 2011
Harbor Acres home sells for $1,275,000

Jonathan and Natalie Rosenthal, Atlanta, sold their home at 1535 Hillview Drive, in Harbor Acres, to Robert Stack, Bradenton, for $1,275,000.

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Corey Shenkin submitted this sunrise photo, taken in Osprey.
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  • September 22, 2011
Weekly Winner: Morning Glory

Corey Shenkin submitted this sunrise photo, taken in Osprey.

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  • September 22, 2011
Our View: This is the best we can do?

Seriously? The sign on this page is the best that Sarasota County could come up with not only to celebrate the Siesta Key Beach's top national ranking but to commemorate it for future visitors?

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Read one of our favorite Cops Corner entries from the archives.
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  • September 21, 2011
Classic Cops of the Day: Sarasota

Enjoy a classic Cops Corner entry from the Sarasota Observer archives.

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Alex Fontecha, 13, looks quizzically at the edible "oobleck!" she made during Ms. Munson's eighth grade "fear factor" science lab at the Imagine School at Palmer Ranch.
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  • Rachel S. OHara
  • September 21, 2011
Photo of the Day: A gooey situation

The eighth graders in Ms. Laura Munson's class at the Imagine School at Palmer Ranch touched, created and ate odd things as part of a "fear factor" science day.

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All other Sarasota County libraries will be open Saturday, Oct. 1 while the Selby Public Library closes that day as part of its renovation project.
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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • September 21, 2011
Selby Library closes temporarily Oct. 1

Sarasota County's busiest library, the Selby Public Library, must close temporarily Oct. 1 and will re-open Oct. 3.

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  • September 21, 2011
UPDATE: Hospital board keeps same millage rate

The nine-member Sarasota Memorial Hospital Board of Directors Sept. 19 approved an ad valorem millage rate of 1.0863 for fiscal year 2012, which is unchanged from the previous fiscal year.

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Enjoy this week's edition of Castaway.
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  • September 21, 2011
Castaway

Enjoy this week's edition of Castaway.

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Rod Thomson
  • By Rod Thomson
  • September 21, 2011
My View: Cease fire on company poaching

Using Sarasota County taxpayer money to steal Hoveround from Manatee County is just wrong. The two counties need a cease and desist order.

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The bachelors boogied their way down the runway.
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  • Rachel S. OHara
  • September 20, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: BYOB auction

The second annual Buy Your Own Bachelor (BYOB) brought out hundreds of people Tuesday, Sept. 20, at McCurdy's Comedy Club. Over $15,000 was raised for the American Cancer Society by two teams who put on the event and are participating in the upcoming Making Strides Against Breast Cancer fundraising walk.

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First-grader Macy Meshad got Wendy’s and was enjoying a Frosty. When her dad Gavin was her age, he looked forward to walking down Orange from St. Martha’s to church because he got to leave school.
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  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • September 20, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: Southside Elementary Brings its Dads to Lunch

PHOTO GALLERY: Southside Elementary Brings its Dads to Lunch

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  • Neighbors
Hannah Smith, 3, puts decorative, little holes into her clay slab.
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  • Rachel S. OHara
  • September 20, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: Creating with clay

Clay artist Judy Pirkey brought tons of air-dry clay and taught children how to create their very own Florida fossil plaques Tuesday, Sept. 20, at the Selby Public Library. Students were each given a slab of clay and were taught how to add textured backgrounds, use stamps, make clay molds of fish and seashells and were even allowed to glue on real seashells that had been found earlier in the day along the beach by Pirkey.

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A boil water advisory has been issued while Sarasota County Utilities fixes a water main break.
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  • Eddie Kirsch
  • September 20, 2011
Water main break causes concern for drinking water

Precautionary boil water advisories have been issued for residents on Coronado and Crooked Creek drives.

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No member of the public appeared to comment on the millage rate or budget, said Kim Savage, spokeswoman for the medical center.
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • September 20, 2011
Hospital board keeps same millage rate

The nine-member Sarasota Memorial Hospital Board of Directors Sept. 19 approved an ad valorem millage rate of 1.0863 for fiscal year 2012, which is unchanged from the previous fiscal year.

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Read one of our favorite Cops Corner entries from the archives.
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  • Observer Staff
  • September 20, 2011
Cops Corner: Sarasota

Enjoy a classic Cops Corner entry from the Sarasota Observer archives.

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