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Results for: Playvital Discount Code "AVA10" Get 10% Off On All Products!

  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • December 1, 2016
Siesta Key trolley edges closer to reality

The county is accepting proposals from private vendors to operate a trolley service on Siesta Key, but the route likely won’t start running until March.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By David Conway |
  • December 8, 2016
Downtown circulator plans move ahead

The city is nearing an agreement with a private operator to run a new transit service offering on-demand rides in downtown Sarasota.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam Nadon |
  • April 11, 2016
Movie review: 'Demolition'

Jake Gyllenhaal explores the odd side of grief.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
  • By Katie Hendrick |
  • April 11, 2013
Local tennis player opens up before Sarasota Open

IMG Academy student Christian Harrison has overcome wrist and hamstring injuries in recent years.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • January 11, 2014
TWIS Tour Guide: Open mic nights

TWIS Tour Guide: Open mic nights

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • October 8, 2013
The Good News: Karen DeRitter

Karen DeRitter is a bridal consultant at Brides Against Breast Cancer. Read more about her and watch a video in this week's Good News.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
  • By David Conway |
  • December 6, 2013
Lido residents strategize to rally support for beach project

At a meeting with the Army Corps of Engineers today, Lido Key residents discussed how to communicate their support for a proposed Lido Beach renourishment project.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Letter to the Editor |
  • February 21, 2024
Don’t stop. Complete Longboat Key library project now.

Longboat's mayor writes to urge on progress for the library project at the Town Center Green.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Carter Weinhofer |
  • September 2, 2024
New boat lift for LBK Police will help with response time, increase patrol hours

The department now has three boat lifts on the island, which will help the officers be more efficient on the water, according to Chief of Police George Turner.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • October 22, 2025
Tuttle Elementary gets moving with hip-hop educational theater

Performing artists and educator Paige Hernandez, the current artist in residence with Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation, visited the school.

  • Sarasota
  • Schools
  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • March 24, 2023
Longboat Key resident shows at Art Center Sarasota

Jeanne Guertin-Potoff's "Adjust Your Focus" exhibition is on display through April 29.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • September 8, 2010
East County remembers 9/11

A ceremony commemorating the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attack will be held at 9 a.m., Sept. 10, at Manatee Technical Institute in Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Niki Kottmann |
  • January 21, 2017
Asolo supporters celebrate opening of ‘The Originalist’

Guests enjoyed dinner and cocktails before the performance on Jan. 20.

  • Black Tie
  • By Katie Johns |
  • February 19, 2019
Longboat Chamber, residents meet, greet and eat

The Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce opened its annual Meet, Greet and Eat expo to island residents this year.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • May 11, 2016
Aldi opens new store

The new store in East County will ease overcrowding at the Cortez location.

  • East County
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  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • March 7, 2016
Robin Roberts talks Oscars, Nancy Reagan in Sarasota visit

Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts spoke during the Ringling College Library Association Town Hall Lecture Series today.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Kristen Herhold |
  • December 18, 2014
Joan M. Durante Park installs new playground

The playground is made from post-consumer recycled materials.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Amanda Sebastiano |
  • April 17, 2014
PHOTO GALLERY: 'The Three F's...Fables, Folktales and Fairy Tales'

Students in Marti Bhame's second-grade class, at Braden River Elementary, embodied fictional characters and brought their stories to life during their production of "The Three F's...Fables, Folktales and Fairy Tales," April 17. The students performed three bite-sized renditions of "The Grasshopper and the Ant," "Dinerella" - "Cinderella" with dinosaurs - and "Stone Soup." Each mini play represented a different type of story to coincide with fairy tale and other story-themed curriculum Bhame has been teaching.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Yaryna Klimchak |
  • October 2, 2013
Phillippi Farmhouse Market re-opens

Phillippi Farmhouse Market, 5500 S. Tamiami Trail, will be open 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays through April.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • October 15, 2013
UPDATE: Southgate Mall reopens after shutdown

The Sarasota Police Department says the FBI is assisting in the search for a suspect who threw an unknown, non-hazardous powder material into a store at the mall.

  • Sarasota
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