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Results for: Reliable Standard Heating & Air is the best HVAC company in San Diego.

  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • December 17, 2025
Manatee County's River Club has a pig problem

Neighbors and the homeowners association have hired trappers to reduce the number of wild hogs.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • December 27, 2023
Sarasota Cops Corner: The Best of 2023

Family feuds, getaway drivers on tricycles and a foursome fracas — all that and much more from this year's reports of the Sarasota Police Department.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Lauren Tronstad |
  • May 24, 2023
Longboat police seek additional patrol vehicles

The seven additional vehicles will each be assigned to an officer, increasing department morale and vehicle lifespan.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Carter Weinhofer |
  • September 12, 2023
Longboat commissioners appointed to Florida League of Cities committees

Three Longboat Key town commissioners will join statewide committees to exchange ideas with other local officials.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Jay Heater |
  • June 29, 2021
Lakewood Ranch Wind Ensemble makes notable return

Lakewood Ranch Wind Ensemble is back after pandemic subsides to play July 4 concert at Sarasota Opera House.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • October 26, 2020
Longboat Key author builds home anew in novel

Peggy Lammers returns to small town Iowa with debut novel 'Onansburg, Iowa."

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Brendan Lavell |
  • November 4, 2020
No close calls in East County elections in races for Manatee County commission seats, Manatee school board and District 73 representative

Mary Foreman unseats incumbent Dave Miner in the Manatee school board race while State Representative Tommy Gregory earns a second term for District 73. Manatee County commission races are runaways.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Mark Bergin |
  • October 15, 2021
Gulfshore residents oppose proposed height requirements

Owners of mobile homes worry that potential new rules on flood-elevation could make fixing up or replacing their residences difficult to live with.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • August 19, 2021
Longboat Key couple finish renovation on historic Whitney Beach cottage

The Prices' home started life as a beach condo in the 1930s, and they tried to keep it true to its Old Florida roots.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Liz Ramos and Brynn Mechem |
  • September 9, 2021
9.11 Remembered: Teachers change how they approach history of attacks

Twenty years later, teachers are finding themselves teaching students who weren't alive on Sept. 11

  • East County
  • News
  • By Jay Heater |
  • February 3, 2023
Pulte heads partnership to provide Lakewood Ranch home to veteran

Pulte, Building Homes for Heroes and SMR combined to provide a mortgage-free home in Sapphire Point for veteran Lucio Gaytan.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • February 11, 2022
World of Wonder Academy provides home-school enrichment

The new academy in Lakewood Ranch supplements home-school education.

  • East County
  • Schools
  • By Guest Author |
  • February 17, 2022
Class Act: Sharing the Joy of Learning in the Arts

A talented artist developed an early childhood program for the Toledo Museum of Art, which remains a cornerstone of the museum’s education division.

  • LWR Life
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • April 23, 2021
Longboat Island Chapel walks the walk, talks the talk for Earth Day

The church put nature front and center during its first-ever ecological showcase.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • November 2, 2022
East Bradenton potter makes bowls for Empty Bowls

Panther Ridge's Denise Millett-Olverson uses her pottery talents to support Meals on Wheels Plus of Manatee County.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • August 17, 2022
Busy bees move hive found on the underside of a home eave

Tarawitt Drive on Longboat Key was abuzz when a beehive took over a soffit. So the neighborhood experts were called.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Harry Sayer |
  • August 25, 2022
Sarasota resident celebrates a lifetime of achievements with 100th birthday

Joe Jennings' near-century of life has been full of adventures and activity.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Jay Heater |
  • October 20, 2022
Rezone vote due for section of Lorraine Road in Lakewood Ranch

Blumenberry Farms owner says allowing light industrial would be a blow to agriculture.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Spencer Fordin |
  • October 26, 2022
Selby orchids exhibit celebrates vibrant photography

The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens treasury has more than 20,000 digital assets, and many of them are stunning photos of orchids.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Brendan Lavell |
  • February 17, 2021
Gardens provide escape from COVID-19

Two lifelong gardeners explain how plants can provide an escape from COVID-19

  • Health
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