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  • Kurt Schultheis
  • May 8, 2009
Town boards approve pension fix

At special meetings Thursday, the town's three pension boards approved a proposal to pay back $21 million in unfunded liabilities over 20 years.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 8, 2009
In Brief

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  • East County
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    By
  • Robin Roy
  • May 8, 2009
Tiger Bay fishes for economic ideas

Area tourism and chamber leaders give their thoughts on what's needed to turn around Sarasota County's economy.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Robin Roy
  • May 8, 2009
Paid parking progresses

Vendors will begin the bidding process to install and maintain parking meters on downtown streets.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • May 7, 2009
Application hinges on road

Longboat Club Road is a point of contention in The Longboat Key Club and Resort's Islandside application.

  • Longboat Key
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  • By Pam McTeer
  • May 7, 2009
Carraway wins vintage quilt

SMR Farms' Mac Carraway won the quilt from the Manatee County Agricultural Museum and Palmetto Historical Park.

  • East County
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • May 7, 2009
Obituary: Morton Goodman

Morton Goodman, 85, of Sarasota and formerly of Longboat Key and Rockville Centre, N.Y., died May 3.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Jen Blanco
  • May 7, 2009
Ranch Lightning finish undefeated season

The Lakewood Ranch Lightning youth lacrosse team completed an undefeated season for the first time in the program's six-year history.

  • East County
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    By
  • Jen Blanco
  • May 7, 2009
Rosedale announces Women on Course

Rosedale Golf and Country Club’s Head Golf Professional and PGA Master Professional Mike Clayton has announced a new golf instruction course for women.

  • East County
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 7, 2009
Letters to the Editor

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  • May 7, 2009
Our View: Taxing cigs won't cure a thing

America's do-gooders love to bash and villify the smokers.

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  • May 7, 2009
Cops Corner

Cops Corner

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  • May 7, 2009
In Brief

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    By
  • Robin Roy
  • May 7, 2009
Tricks of the trade

The city of Sarasota's parking-enforcement supervisor warns against drivers attempting illegal parking practices.

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 7, 2009
Re-Vital revs up SMJF's Israel Independence Day celebration

More than 250 community members attended the Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Federation's celebration of Yom HaZikaron, Israel Remembrance Day, and Yom HaAtma'ut, Israel Independence Day, Sunday, April 26.

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  • May 7, 2009
Season's first turtle nest spotted

Casey Key can lay claim to the first sea-turtle nest of the season in Sarasota County.

  • Sarasota
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 7, 2009
New best friends monkey around

Spider monkeys Willie and Bonnie bonded instantly. After each suffered the loss of a cage mate, both monkeys needed a new friend. Willie moved to Sarasota Jungle Gardens from Gatorama, in Palmdale.

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  • Robin Roy
  • May 7, 2009
Transient crime plummets

Sarasota police credit their zero-tolerance policy for a 49% decline in transient crime.

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    By
  • Robin Roy
  • May 7, 2009
Five Points limits denied

Residents asked for tighter restrictions in their 'front yard,' including shorter hours and a smoking ban.

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 7, 2009
Court tosses arena appeal

Schroeder-Manatee Ranch is the sole owner of the unfinished hockey arena.

  • East County
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  • By Pam McTeer
  • May 7, 2009
Southeastern Guide Dogs to hold open house

Southeastern Guide Dogs will host an open house from 9 a.m. to noon, May 23 in honor of our military veterans.

  • East County
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  • By Pam McTeer
  • May 7, 2009
Planners consider North Manatee projects

The Manatee County Planning Commission will make recommendations on several North Manatee projects at its regular meeting today.

  • East County
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  • By Donna Swan
  • May 7, 2009
Deal Us In: Under Playing

"Can you justify your bold bidding by making this slam?" asks Joyce Jones, of Traverse City, Mich. "When the dummy came down, I thought it would be easy to make the slam. But I managed to go down."

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 7, 2009
Business Observer

Business Observer

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • May 7, 2009
Real Estate Reports

Real Estate Reports

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 7, 2009
Three businesses to open in San Marco Plaza

Pedigree Lily Pet Spa and Boutique, Underseas Paradise, and Larry G. Harness with Edward Jones Investments all will open in the Lakewood Ranch shopping plaza in the coming months.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Kent Chetlain
  • May 7, 2009
Key Real Estate: Two condos sell for $3.8 million

During the height of the recent real-estate boom, developers Jay Tallman and Tom Brown, together with their U.S. Assets Group, took on some major residential projects.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
    By
  • Heidi Kurpiela
  • May 7, 2009
Change of Art

Sarasota kitsch is out. Season of Sculpture is hoping a New Jersey sculpture park can help raise the bar for public art on the bayfront.

  • Arts + Culture
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 7, 2009
Obituary: Claire Louise Henkle

Obituary: Claire Louise Henkle

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 7, 2009
Worship Services

Worship Services

  • Longboat Key
  • News
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • May 7, 2009
Ed Shapiro made the time to help those around him

Slowing down wasn't Ed Shapiro's style. Technically, he retired from his career with Isotoner, a women's glove company, in 1980. But Shapiro kept plugging.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • May 7, 2009
For 25 years, volunteer did things by the book

When the Longboat Library prepared for special events, its volunteers called on fellow helper Irene McCann.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • May 7, 2009
Exhibit offers snapshots of couple's adventures

Virginia Sanders was a painter and sketcher. But it wasn't until she and her late husband, Dr. Jack Sanders, became a couple that she became a photographer as well.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 7, 2009
Cops Corner

Cops Corner

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 7, 2009
Our View

They can have those jobs

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 7, 2009
BRE teacher selected for ExxonMobil academy

Braden River Elementary School Teacher Sue Curry has been selected from more than 1,600 teachers nationwide to attend the 2009 Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy.

  • East County
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