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City ratifies Teamsters' Union three-year contract

A compromise on pensions allowed the city to come to terms on a new three-year contract agreement.

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  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • July 28, 2011
Summer brings honors, possibilities for CB's

The Siesta Key business has found itself in the national spotlight at the same time it weighs plans for a site it just bought on the Key.

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  • July 28, 2011
Cops Corner

Dead on arrival? 11:06 p.m. - 4000 block of North Tamiami Trail. Suspicious Person. A man was found lying on the front doorway of a funeral home. No, he was not a delivery. He was just loitering and was asked to leave.

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  • July 28, 2011
Memorable Reunion

Riverview High School's class of 1991 celebrated its 20-year reunion Saturday, July 23, at Michael's On East.

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Travis and McKayla Taaffe rowed at the 2011 Club National Championships in July, at the Indianapolis Rowing Center.
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  • Loren Mayo
  • July 28, 2011
Brother, sister duo to compete at CanAmMex Games

Last August, McKayla Taaffe, a senior at Pine View School, claimed her first gold medal at the 2010 U.S. Rowing Club National Championship, in Oak Ridge, Tenn. This August, she and her younger brother, Travis, a Pine View sophomore, are planning to take home the gold when they compete in the CanAmMex Games, in Canada.

  • Sarasota
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  • Rachel S. OHara
  • July 28, 2011
Reverend follows his heart for trip

Rev. Michael Mansperger, of Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, plans to take a sabbitical for the first time in his more than 30-year career.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
The Gulf-front Casey Key home at 1011 Casey Key Road has six bedrooms, six baths, four half-baths, a pool and 10,291 square feet of living area. It sold for $7,575, 000.
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  • Adam Hughes
  • July 28, 2011
Casey Key home sells for $7.6 million

A home on Casey Key in Treasure Island Shores tops all real-estate transactions from July 11 to July 15. Ermon and Linda Pickard, of Savannah, Tenn., sold their home at 1011 Casey Key Road to Kenneth Rowe Investments Limited Partnership for $7,575,000. Built in 2004, it has six bedrooms, six baths, four-half baths, a pool and 10,291 square feet of living area.

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  • July 28, 2011
Business Observer

Community Foundation names new chief of staff; SMH opens Stickney Point Urgent Care Center; New Sarasota shop celebrates fine wine; USF Sarasota-Manatee appoints council members

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  • Observer Staff
  • July 28, 2011
Weekly Winner: Sky Light

T. Richard Chen submitted this sunset photo, taken in Palmer Ranch.

  • Sarasota
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The sign would read, “Drive Safely. In Memory,” and also feature the name of the deceased.
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • July 27, 2011
County adopts roadside memorial-marker policy

To memorialize people killed in car crashes, families can ask the county to create a personalized memorial sign to place near the site of the accident.

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Sarasota city commissioners postponed a hiring freeze Tuesday at City Hall.
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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • July 27, 2011
City postpones hiring freeze

The Sarasota City Commission agreed to postpone a potential hiring freeze until September so some crucial open positions can be filled.

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We found a pumpkin sculpture sitting in a parking lot on Tamiami Trail.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • July 27, 2011
PHOTO OF THE DAY: The great pumpkin

Have you seen this pumpkin before?

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • July 27, 2011
TEDB board officially ceases to exist

By a unanimous vote of the County Commission July 26, the Sarasota County Tourism and Economic Development Board ceased to exist.

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Beverly Bartner, Steve Seidensticker and Judi Gallagher
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  • Observer Staff
  • July 27, 2011
Make him an offer he can't refuse

Innocently enough, Libby's Cafe + Bar owner Steve Seidensticker came to greet a table of ladies who were lunching in his restaurant on a recent summer day.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Jorge Blanco
  • July 27, 2011
The Castaway

This week's Castaway cartoon.

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