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  • Loren Mayo
  • June 9, 2011
TV show gobbles up TurDucKen

We stopped by the Alpine Steakhouse to check out Authentic Entertainment's 'TurDucKen' filming for the Food Network show, 'The Best Thing I Ever Ate,' which is scheduled to air this fall.

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  • Robin Hartill
  • June 9, 2011
Observer Group acquires Pelican Press

The locally owned Observer Group is the new owner of the 40-year-old Sarasota weekly.

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Sarasota police department TVs display live footage from remote cameras around the city. Views can be changed by joy sticks and a computer operated by Capt. Jeff Karr.
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  • Robin Roy
  • June 9, 2011
Surveillance-camera system expands

What started as just a few cameras installed at crime hot spots around the city has grown to a system of 43 devices. More are scheduled to go online within the next few months.

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The strip of 12 individual newspaper and magazine boxes at Ocean Boulevard and Calle Miramar would be replaced by two homogenous green boxes to hold all of those publications.
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  • Robin Roy
  • June 9, 2011
Siesta Key to transform newspaper boxes

The mix of newspaper racks on Siesta will be replaced by uniform racks, which Key leaders hope will make the Village more attractive.

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The Mable Ringling Memorial Fountain opened on Arbor Day 1936 at Lukewood Park.
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  • Robin Roy
  • June 9, 2011
Historians uncover hidden tribute

The Mable Ringling Memorial Fountain, in Lukewood Park, was covered after World War II.

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Landscaped bulbouts will separate angled parking spaces on Ringling Boulevard from the Palm Avenue roundabout.
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • June 9, 2011
Ringling roundabouts take shape

One lane of traffic will remain open on Ringling Boulevard during construction of two roundabouts.

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  • Observer Staff
  • June 9, 2011
Briefs

Briefs

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    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • June 9, 2011
Neighbors: Rod Hartwick

Neighbors: Rod Hartwick

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  • Observer Staff
  • June 9, 2011
Letters to the Editor

Parking meters a bad idea, getting worse

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  • Observer Staff
  • June 9, 2011
Cops Corner

Midnight - 1800 block of Bayonne Street. Disturbance. A mother has refused to allow her daughter's boyfriend into the house. On the above date, the mom suspected the boyfriend was in the house again and searched for him. She found him hiding in her daughter's bedroom closet. Mom asked police to give him a trespassing warning from her home. Officers complied.

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The home at 1201 Tree Bay Lane has three bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 5,518 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.45 million.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • June 9, 2011
Tortoise Estates home sells for $1.4 million

A home in Tortoise Estates tops all real-estate transactions from May 23 to May 27.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
"My style tends to be more classic but with a modern infusion." - Brenda Michel
    By
  • Black Tie Staff
  • June 8, 2011
Guest Fashion Editor - Brenda Michel

Guest Fashion Editor - Brenda Michel

  • Black Tie
Pearl, a 4-year-old all-white alligator with pink eyes, will live at Smugglers Cove for the next year.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • June 8, 2011
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Pearly whites

Smugglers Cove Adventure Golf has welcomed a unique visitor -- an albino alligator.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Maj. Kurt Hoffman will remain the Sheriff's Office's general counsel and administrative division commander.
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • June 8, 2011
Hoffman declines county administrator role

Maj. Kurt Hoffman would have had to reduce his retirement benefits to serve as interim Sarasota County administrator.

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    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • June 7, 2011
YPG to host annual conference on 'Young Professionals Day'

The city of Sarasota, Sarasota County and State of Florida Rep. Ray Pilon have proclaimed June 17 'Young Professionals Day.'

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