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Siesta Key

Bruce St. Denis. File photo.
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • November 3, 2011
FULL STORY: St. Denis only Sarasota County semi-finalist who remains

The Mercer Group pared its original list of 45 applicants for former Administrator Jim Ley's replacement down to eight. The former Longboat Key town manager remains the only local left.

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Once again, paid parking rates are at their maximum level in downtown Sarasota. Photo by Norman Schimmel
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • November 3, 2011
FULL STORY: Parking meter rate increase in effect

The city of Sarasota is reminding the public that parking meter rates rose Nov. 1, as planned previously by the Sarasota City Commission.

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The event will be held at 303 E. Venice Ave. Photos by Norman Schimmel.
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • November 3, 2011
Public ceremony to mark opening of trail's overpass

At 9 a.m. Saturday, at the Venice Train Depot in Venice. Sarasota County officals will gather with other community representatives - and, undoubtedly, more than a few cyclists - to celebrate the opening of the Legacy Trail pedestrian overpass.

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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • November 3, 2011
Business owners push First Street renovation

Downtown business owners want downtown renovation dollars to be spent to upgrade a rundown First Street near U.S. 41.

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The Florida Department of Transportation has given county officials a permit to use its right of way at the north Siesta bridge for offloading spoil material from Palmer Point Park. Photo by Norman Schimmel.
    By
  • Mallory Gnaegy
  • November 3, 2011
Palmer Point Park project awaiting one more permit

The county needs a Florida Department of Environmental Protection permit before a contractor can use state right of way by the north Siesta bridge.

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Tim Holliday
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • November 3, 2011
Neighbors: Tim Holliday

When he was a teenager, Tim Holliday joked that whenever he had children, he would send them off to an island to be raised by a nanny.

  • Sarasota
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Oct. 25, Joel Fried, a Siesta resident who also saw Legoman on the beach that morning, did some sleuthing of his own and found the Ego Leonard website with images similar to the Legoman.
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • November 3, 2011
Island Beat: Legoman puts international spotlight on Siesta Key

From coast to coast and across Europe, it appears Legoman has drawn even more attention to the Key than the No. 1 beach ranking this year.

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A condominium in Gulf and Bay Club, which has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,335 square feet of living area, sold for $600,000. Rachel S. O'Hara.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • November 3, 2011
Gulf and Bay Club condo tops sales at $600,000

A condominium in Gulf and Bay Club tops all transactions in this week's real estate. George Dyer Jr. and Selma Dyer, trustees, Sarasota, sold the Unit 409 condominium at 5790 Midnight Pass Road to David Gubler and Ellie Foster, of Ontario, Canada, for $600,000.

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Samantha Bisceglia submitted this photo of the sun rising on Siesta Key.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 3, 2011
Weekly Winner: Siesta Sunrise

Samantha Bisceglia submitted this photo of the sun rising on Siesta Key.

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Photo by Loren Mayo.
    By
  • Loren Mayo
  • November 3, 2011
Athlete of the Week: Cary Cohenour

Cary Cohenour, founder and head coach of Sarasota's Celsius Tennis Academy, was recently named the United States Tennis Association's Florida Junior Competitive Coach of the Year.

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Sarasota Crew rowers Grant Golub, Travis Taaffe, Andrew Konecny, Carson Green and Ryan Hails accept the first-place trophy at the Head of the Charles Regatta. Courtesy photo.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • November 3, 2011
JUST THE STATS

13 - Number of seconds by which Sarasota Crew Boys 4+ bested 76 boats to win first place in the Head of the Charles Regatta, held Oct. 22 to Oct. 23, in Cambridge, Mass.

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Angela Mejicanos dressed as a web and dressed her daughter, Stella, 7 mos., as an itsy bitsy spider, Monday, Oct. 31, at ODA.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • November 1, 2011
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Itsy Bitsy Spider and her Web

Angela Mejicanos got crafty and spun a costume for herself and her daughter that was just the right amount of Halloween with a ton of cuteness.

  • Siesta Key
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Mario, Jack, 4, Marissa, 7, and Ann Marie Govic trick-or-treated as a family throughout the Village.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • October 31, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: Siesta Key Village Trick-or-Treating

Hundreds of children and their parents took went trick-or-treating, Monday, Oct. 31, in Siesta Key Village.

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President of the Board of Trustees, Michael vonWaldner, John LaCirita, Ariane Dart, David Mahler, Wade Wolfe and Ryan Tremblay
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • October 31, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: ODA celebrates new Lower School Athletic Pavilion

Students, faculty and parents joined together to celebrate the opening of the Lower School Athletic Pavilion, Monday, Oct. 31, at Out-of-Door Academy. The new pavilion was donated by the Dart Family and was constructed by Willis Smith Construction.

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The workshop will be held in the Green Room at the Sarasota County Twin Lakes Complex, 6700 Clark Road, Sarasota.
    By
  • Rachel Brown Hackney
  • October 31, 2011
New workshop planned on metals ordinance

Sarasota County and the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office will hold a workshop at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, to discuss proposed changes to a county ordinance regulating the purchase of secondhand goods, precious metals and scrap metal.

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