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Siesta Key | Neighbors

Courtesy photo Winner Jim Hoseth devoured three veggie burgers.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • February 9, 2012
Veg hosts burger contest

Veg celebrated its second anniversary in grand fashion Feb. 4, at the restaurant on Gulf Gate Drive.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • February 9, 2012
Volunteers needed for cleanup

Volunteers are welcome to help members of the Siesta Key and Siesta Key Village associations Feb. 18, when they gather for their quarterly Adopt-A-Road clean-up effort.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Dogs roll in the dirt at Sarasota County’s 17th Street Paw Park. Photo by Mallory Gnaegy.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • February 9, 2012
Dog washes no longer welcome at park

Dog owners are complaining about the county asking a mobile dog-washing business to stop coming to the 17th Street Paw Park in Sarasota.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Debra Jacobs, executive director of The Patterson Foundation
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • February 9, 2012
Patterson Foundation focuses on partnerships

During the first of seven scheduled sessions, Patterson Foundation Executive Director Debra Jacobs outlined Tuesday the specific partnerships and projects of the organization, with an emphasis on its guiding philosophy.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Janice Howle has many fond memories of the hundreds of children she raised on Siesta Key.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • February 9, 2012
Neighbors: Janice Howle

Janice Howle, better known as Miss Janice, opened the Key's first day-care center in 1950.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
This home at 528 Beach Road has two bedrooms, three baths and 2,016 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.5 million. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • February 9, 2012
Sarasota Beach home sells for $2.5 million

A home in Sarasota Beach tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Mi Playa LLC sold the home at 528 Beach Road to Resia L. Rinker Revocable Trust for $2.5 million.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Ed Schmidt is one of the co-coordinators of the Beach Ambassadors.
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • February 9, 2012
Siesta Key Beach Ambassadors harbor passion for education

The organization helps visitors learn more about the area.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Nicole Parisi submitted this sunset photo, taken on Siesta Key beach.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • February 9, 2012
Cool Today Weather Photo Contest Winner

Nicole Parisi submitted this sunset photo, taken on Siesta Key beach.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Justin Flagg
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • February 9, 2012
Athlete of the Week: Justin Flagg

Justin Flagg is one of the newest faces of CrossFit in Sarasota County. Flagg moved from Huntington Beach, Calif., to Sarasota with his wife, Stacy, and two little girls, Sloan and Hayden, in October 2011.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Matthew Anderson delivers a joke to the meeting.
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • February 8, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Siesta Key Kiwanis Club Meeting

The Siesta Key Kiwani Club held its weekly luncheon at Cafe Baci Wednesday, Feb. 8. Pineview Key Club president Sarah Brickman and secretary Sammy Glover joined club members for the meeting. Attendees enjoyed lunch before hearing a presentation from Barbara Richards and James Holmes from Project 180, which seeks to reintegrate former criminal offenders into community life.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Brian Moran watches as his wife, Erin, does the sign for “cake” and their daughter, Aura, 19 mos., tries to imitate.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • February 7, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Toddlers learn to sign at Gulf Gate Library

The Baby Rhyme and Sign Time at Gulf Gate Library is a program for babies and toddlers from 0 to 24 months that has become quite a popular program at the library over the last four years.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
"Sho-Nuff Strawberry" was just one of the many delectable and delightfully named mini desserts made by Annie Clyde’s Homemade Cakes.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • February 6, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Siesta Key Craft Festival

The Siesta Key Craft Festival brought thousands of people out of their homes and into the village on Saturday, Feb. 3 and Sunday, Feb. 4.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Mark and Christine Tuchman of Mr. Beery’s
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • February 3, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Siesta Key Chamber Networking Luncheon

The members of the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce gathered Friday, Feb. 3, at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse to hold a networking luncheon. Siesta Key business owners mingled and shared a meal.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
The Rev. Dr. Jay Rock
    By
  • Nick Friedman
  • February 2, 2012
Interfaith Partnership seeks to promote tolerance

St. Boniface Episcopal Church hosted the first of several gatherings planned by a new partnership, the Sarasota-Manatee Interfaith Partnership, Sunday, Jan. 29.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Bill Freund has written his first children's book.
    By
  • Rachel S. OHara
  • February 2, 2012
Neighbors: Bill Freund

One Siesta Key resident puts his money where his pen is and writes a children's book.

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  • Neighbors
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