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Results for: Top HVAC service in San Diego comes from Reliable Standard Heating & Air’s commitment to excellence

  • By Nick Reichert |
  • April 1, 2015
Sarasota Film Festival: Reel Big Fest

Sarasota Film Festival’s programmers spend countless hours screening movies year-round. The result? More than 200 films for your viewing pleasure.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 12, 2024
Sleeping stranger chased from Sarasota man's home

Arriving home from work after midnight, a man finds his front door broken and a stranger sleeping in his bed. This and other Sarasota Police Department reports in this week's Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By David Conway |
  • September 20, 2016
Thunder by the Bay relocates to Lakewood Ranch

Following complaints from downtown Sarasota merchants and residents, the motorcycle festival is moving almost entirely out of the city and expanding its presence elsewhere in the region.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • February 3, 2022
Sarasota schools will add ID card readers to buses next year

Students will swipe their ID as they board, disembark school buses.

  • Sarasota
  • Schools
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 14, 2010
OUR VIEW: Rick Scott for governor

If you cut through all of the Bill McCollum and Alex Sink character-assassination attack ads; if you discard the standard operating procedure of the daily newspapers and their editorialists - which is to discredit anyone who has been a success in business; and if you judge Florida's gubernatorial candidates on their professional accomplishments, the choice for governor is overwhelmingly clear.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • October 19, 2020
Longboat Key church's seed packers hit milestone

At Christ Church of Longboat Key, Hope Seeds volunteers reach 100,000 mark.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Miri Hardy |
  • April 9, 2021
Bird of the Week: Laughing gull

Laughing gulls, common in our area, are aggressive feeders — which is precisely why they should not be fed by humans.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • June 8, 2012
Education key in illegal firework activity

Don Damron, senior fire reviewer for Sarasota County, at the June 7, meeting of the Siesta Key Association said ignorance is the cause of most illegal firework activity on Fourth of July.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • September 15, 2016
Sarasota police arrest 35 alleged drug dealers

The Sarasota Police Department this month concluded Operation Fresh Start, which resulted in the arrest of felons with more than 300 previous convictions.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • September 25, 2014
Cops Corner: Sarasota

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Observer Staff |
  • January 29, 2014
Occasions

The Observer welcomes welcomes three new East County residents and celebrates a 50th anniversary.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • March 9, 2017
Sarasota Athlete of the Week: 03.09.17

Sarasota Athlete of the Week: 03.09.17

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • November 16, 2024
Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance presents its annual Sandies awards

After 18 years with the Business Alliance, Cheri Kessler takes home the Networking Queen award.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • January 20, 2026
Affordable housing development finally leaves the station

Groundbreaking puts on track Mark Vengroff's fulfillment of his late father's vision to convert a Park East industrial site into affordable housing called Sarasota Station.

  • Sarasota
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  • By Jen Blanco |
  • January 30, 2013
Dominate 'D': Lakewood Ranch High girls soccer defeats Venice

The Lakewood Ranch High girls soccer team defeated Venice 1-0 in the Class 4A-Region 3 semifinals Jan. 26. The Lady Mustangs traveled to Plant City for the regional finals Jan. 29.

  • East County
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  • By Mark Bergin |
  • July 31, 2020
Longboat Key leaders continue to monitor Hurricane Isaias

Hurricane Isaias is forecast to come near the east coast of the Florida peninsula Saturday afternoon through Sunday.

  • Longboat Key
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  • By Liz Ramos |
  • October 2, 2019
Nolan Middle School students hooked on hockey

Tampa Bay Lightning Street Team introduces hockey at Nolan Middle School

  • East County
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