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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 6, 2010
Term limit revision stands

Mayor Lee Rothenberg told those opposing his decision to run for another two-year term that he has done nothing wrong.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 6, 2010
Briefs

Briefs

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 6, 2010
Sand arrives at eroded North Shore Road beach access

The town began placing 600 cubic yards of sand Tuesday at the North Shore Road beach access to protect the road and utilities in the area. The sand cost the town $12,000.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 6, 2010
Key Club project contains fewer issues

Longboat Key Club Attorney John Patterson is hopeful the club's Islandside application has fewer issues and will move along more quickly at the Town Commission level.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Signs of the silly season

Signs of the silly season

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 6, 2010
Arts Center programs promise to make waves

The Longboat Key Center of the Arts will kick off its winter season with a 'Making Waves' exhibit by artist Malcolm Robertson that runs from Jan. 15 through Feb. 11.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 6, 2010
Education Center prepares for a sumptuous season

The Longboat Key Education Center began its winter semester Jan. 4. But new classes will also be offered later this month and in February and March.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 6, 2010
Cops Corner

Dec. 15 Safe and secure 8:50 p.m. - 500 block of Kingfisher Lane. Suspicious Circumstance. A woman reported a suspicious pickup truck leaving the area. Police responded and could not find the truck but found an unlocked sliding-glass door at a nearby residence. Nothing was stolen and the house was secured.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Stuart and Lois Scheyer
  • January 6, 2010
Travel outlook

Make 2010 your year to be an 'Energetic Traveler.'

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Longboat Key - Building Permits

These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the weeks of Dec. 18 through Dec. 31, in order of dollar amounts. (GMD = Gulf of Mexico Drive)

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Kent Chetlain
  • January 6, 2010
Longboat Key - Realty sales on Key rise to get in under deadline

In the four weeks from Nov. 30 through the Christmas holidays, 51 real-estate sales were recorded at the Sarasota and Manatee county courthouses. Of these, 18 were for more than $1 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • January 6, 2010
IS TOWN HALL TOXIC?

In a letter to Lakewood Ranch Community Development District supervisors last month, former Town Hall employee Sue Kara called it a 'toxic and dysfunctional environment.'

  • East County
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    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • January 6, 2010
Donna Hayes takes county's top seat

District 5 Commissioner Donna Hayes will lead the Manatee County Board of County Commissioners in 2010.

  • East County
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    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • January 6, 2010
Residents bring military tradition to Sarasota

Lakewood Ranch's Gene Sweeney and Michael Evers are offering horse-drawn caisson burials for service members who died from enemy action.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Michael Eng and Pam Eubanks
  • January 6, 2010
Despite economy, church growth continues out east

Living Lord Lutheran Church completed recently its 3,500-square-foot expansion, while RiverLife Church is in the middle of the largest change in its 90-plus-year history.

  • East County
  • News
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • January 6, 2010
SISTER ACT

Siblings Kaitlyn and Sarah Wolfe are a dual threat on the Lakewood Ranch High soccer field this season.

  • East County
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 6, 2010
Business Observer

Linda Loscalzo, who owned the former Isabelle's Eatery until 2004, is now managing restaurant operations at Whitney Beach Deli & Wines, 6810 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By George Rauch
  • January 6, 2010
Market watch: What will the next year hold?

Dec. 31, 2009, represented the closing of the worst decade in U.S. stock market history. Although it is not possible to guess what the next decade will render, it is possible to look ahead at a few of the challenges facing our economy in 2010.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Donna Swan
  • January 6, 2010
Deal Us In

Be prepared

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Bright beginning

Graeme Daley submitted this sunset photo, taken the first day of 2010 at The Sanctuary. Please send your sunset (or sunrise) photos to The Longboat Observer, 5570 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, Fla., 34228, or e-mail them to [email protected].

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • January 6, 2010
IN-DEPTH: A Soldier's Diary

Sgt. Maj. Steve Valley kept a journal from the day he was mobilized for war to the day he left the Middle East on Jan. 30, 2005. Now, his story is available to the public.

  • East County
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Cops Corner 01.07.10

The complainant reported the theft of his gargoyle statue. He doesn't know who took the statue. However, he stated there were young adults hiding and playing around in his yard and the neighbors' yards during the night.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Birth Announcements 01.07.10

Congratulations to the East County parents who celebrated recent births. The East County Observer will publish birth announcements each month.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Adam Hughes
  • January 6, 2010
Lakewood Ranch home sells for $2.45M

LDG Lakes II LLC sold the home at 7937 Waterton Lane to Joseph and Susan Brielmann, Lakewood Ranch, for $2,450,000.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 6, 2010
Business Observer 01.07.10

Ellen Ferber Evans and Alan Evans, formerly of Lakewood Ranch Realty, have joined Wagner Realty at its new Lakewood Ranch office, 11509 Palmbrush Trail.

  • East County
  • News
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • January 6, 2010
Athlete of the Week: Sam Severson

The Observer spotlights Lakewood Ranch midfielder Sam Severson.

  • East County
  • Sports
    By
  • Robin Roy
  • January 5, 2010
Five Points to be four-way stop

A weeklong construction project will put the traffic lights out of order temporarily.

  • Sarasota
  • News
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 5, 2010
Town creates pipeline Web site

The replacement of water pipes along Gulf of Mexico Drive will cause temporary pedestrian and vehicular delays through September 2010.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • January 5, 2010
Neal buys more land in Country Club

Neal Communities is expected to start construction of the new neighborhood late this year.

  • East County
  • News
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 5, 2010
Census Bureau to hold job testing on keys

Testing will take place at Longboat Island Chapel, SunTrust Bank and St. Armands Key Lutheran Church.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • January 5, 2010
Community Golf Scores 12.17.09 to 01.02.10

East County golfers post amazing numbers on area courses.

  • East County
  • Sports
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • January 5, 2010
Mustang signs with USF Bulls

Lakewood Ranch offensive lineman Austin Reiter graduated early and will enroll at the University of South Florida this month.

  • East County
  • Sports
    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • January 5, 2010
EMB Midget squad finishes 5th in the nation

The East Manatee Bulldogs Midget cheerleading squad finished fifth in the nation in the Advanced Division of the Pop Warner National Cheer and Dance Championships Dec. 11 at Disney's Wide World of Sports.

  • East County
  • Sports
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 5, 2010
Commission postpones Moore's request

The Longboat Key Town Commission postponed a decision on Moore's Stone Crab Restaurant's Comprehensive Plan change. Owner Alan Moore asked for a continuance because a full commission board wasn't present.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Pam Eubanks
  • January 4, 2010
TOP STORY, DEC.: SMR sells Ranch Realty

Officials from the Lakewood Ranch developer said the sale is part of its long-term business plan.

  • East County
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