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Results for: Scoop Hero Mesa is a local poop scooping company in Mesa, AZ

  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • February 22, 2023
Longboat Luau is a labor of love on WSLR

Gary Saunders returns to the radio after a 30-year hiatus. The Ho Dad is live and in color from the Monkey Room.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • February 28, 2023
Manatee commissioners discuss a closer examination of library materials

Some residents say the commissioners should leave the evaluation of materials to the professionals they hired to run the system.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • April 27, 2023
Manatee commissioners shift stance on library control

Friends of the Lakewood Ranch Library are cautiously optimistic that commissioners will trust the librarians and the current advisory committee to do their jobs.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Jay Heater |
  • February 9, 2022
Lakewood Ranch man helps make the Bradenton Area River Regatta the area's premier event

Lakewood Ranch's Mike Fetchko is the driving force behind the Bradenton Area River Regatta.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Spencer Fordin |
  • February 14, 2022
Sarasota native Luca Stine returns home as mature artist

The trumpet player left Sarasota to pursue his musical dreams at the University of Miami, but he's coming back to play Selby Gardens with his own compositions for the first time as a professional.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • March 2, 2022
Neighbors near east Bradenton Airbnb irked by the noise it creates

Short-term rental's neighbors in east Bradenton don't consider Shangri-La to be paradise.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • June 17, 2022
Town hall reveals proposals to address workforce housing crisis

Sarasota's recent success isn't equally distributed as the resulting spike in housing costs are pricing essential workers out of the city.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • June 26, 2022
Cardinal Mooney High School brothers represent Puerto Rico in the Lacrosse U21 World Championship

East County's Christian and Sean Laureano will play in the lacrosse world championships Aug. 10-20 in Limerick, Ireland.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Niki Kottmann |
  • June 14, 2017
Performance of a Lifetime: Sailor Circus set to perform at Smithsonian Folklife Festival

When Alice Hafner joined Sailor Circus, she just wanted to learn to unicycle. Now, she and 30 other members will head to Washington, D.C., to unicycle, walk the tightrope and more for millions later this month.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • May 24, 2022
Tara community residents seek more traffic-calming measures

Speed tables and a crosswalk have slowed traffic in Tara, but residents want more help from Manatee County.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Spencer Fordin |
  • May 31, 2022
This Week in A+E: June 2-8

Comedy, improv and laser light shows are all on the schedule this week, and Sarasota will also have its usual heaping helping of art, music and theater.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • May 19, 2022
Building height incentive removed from city comprehensive plan amendment — for now

Citing a lack of accurate public knowledge about building heights, the commission moves the proposed amendment to add downtown density to create attainable housing onto Tallahassee without taller buildings as a tool.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Guest Author |
  • April 28, 2021
A parent speaks out …

New Yorker Andrew Gutmann expresses what many Americans are feeling about the false charge of systemic racism and how they’re fed up with their children being brainwashed at school.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • September 27, 2022
Seven years later, Bobby Jones Golf Club is visibly taking shape

Multiple plan changes and a two-year closure later, project leader Richard Mandell says Donald Ross' century-old vision is being restored.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Lauren Tronstad |
  • November 30, 2022
Sarasota School Board moves forward with Asplen termination talks

Board members voted 4-1 to continue with negotiations for Superintendent Brennan Asplen's resignation.

  • Sarasota
  • Schools
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • November 30, 2022
The choice was Asplen’s

It may have appeared to be an orchestrated effort to oust the Sarasota superintendent. But there are multiple sides to this.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • April 1, 2022
Families excited about new opportunities at Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy

The K-12 charter school, which opens in August, already has a waitlist for every grade it offers.

  • East County
  • Schools
  • By Spencer Fordin |
  • August 17, 2022
Elling Eide Center brings a unique focus on Chinese culture

It's more than 7,000 miles away from Beijing, but because of the passions of its former resident, a Sarasota research library and nature preserve has become a leader of China studies.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Eric Snider |
  • August 27, 2022
Scribes club prides itself on giving writers good feedback — the kind way

A Lakewood Ranch writers’ club meets twice monthly to critique each other’s work and build lifetime bonds.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • October 28, 2009
Update: Key Club pushes project approval

The Longboat Key Club and Resort's Islandside renovation and expansion project hearing will continue Nov. 5 and Nov. 6, at Temple Beth Israel.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
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