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Results for: Reliable Standard Heating & Air is recognized as the best HVAC company for emergency AC repair.

  • By Mark Bergin |
  • February 18, 2021
P&Z Board approves Chiles Group's cottage, parking lot plans

Plans call for the Chiles Group's historic cottage to permanently sit at 6920 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 22, 2009
Our View

Micromanging City Hall

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • September 11, 2009
Sarasotans purchasing Quay site

Four Sarasota-area businessmen want to construct an event center and hotel and perhaps retail and residential units on the 15-acre site of the former Sarasota Quay.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 3, 2010
Ranch residents challenge incorporation study

More than 150 Lakewood Ranch residents attended a discussion on incorporation at Town Hall Feb. 24.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • February 29, 2012
BACKSTAGE PASS: Supporting Role

Phyllis Silverman may be Rebecca Hopkins' right-hand gal, but she's everyone else's favorite fill-in. The longtime Florida Studio Theatre staffer explains why she loves being at everyone's disposal.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • September 5, 2012
Highlights: Black Diamond Burlesque strips down the past two years

Black Diamond Burlesque started in about the same amount of time it takes a person to disrobe, assuming she doesn't have to fumble with a 100-hook corset.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Kurt Schultheis and Pam Eubanks |
  • April 26, 2012
Saks Fifth Avenue vacating Southgate

The anchor will move into a larger space at the new Mall at University Town Center in East Sarasota.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Jeffrey Weisman |
  • February 9, 2012
My View: Halt those morning greetings from half-eaten chicken legs

For the most part, Siesta Key's streets appear very clean. But one's first impression is that the entryways to the Key, particularly on weekends, could stand some work.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By June LeBell |
  • November 2, 2011
Music Review: Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly' performed by the Sarasota Opera

I have wept through many a moving 'Madama Butterfly,' from the Met and New York City Opera to companies abroad and cinematic versions that broke my heart, but the fall production mounted by Sarasota Opera is the most convincing, honest, moving and beautiful I've seen yet.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • June 15, 2011
Lido Beach property sells for $2.55 million

The sale was the largest of 12 key sales recorded during the shortened week of May 31 through June 3 at the Sarasota and Manatee county courthouses.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • July 27, 2011
Lido Beach home sells for $2.3 million

John and Suzette Lodge, of Osprey, sold the home at 1 John Ringling Blvd. in Lido Beach Division A to JRB LLC, a Florida limited-liability company with a Sarasota address, for $2.3 million. Built in 1973, the 1,511-square-foot home has three bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms and sits on more than a half-acre of land. According to the Sarasota County Property Appraiser's website, sarasotaproperty.net, the last recorded sale related to the parcel was for $10,000 in August 1971.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • December 28, 2010
TOP STORY, JUNE: SmartFarm takes root

Four women are working to build a sustainable, organic community farm and educational facility in Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • May 11, 2011
Whitney Beach owner welcomes modifications

The Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board reduced a proposed height modification for Whitney Beach Plaza from five stories to four stories.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By June LeBell |
  • March 14, 2012
Kitchen Classics: Julia Hyman

Julia Hyman, a world-renowned sculptor who lives in Venice with her also-famous husband, pianist Dick Hyman, likes almost any food. Any, that is, except the dreaded liverwurst.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • November 7, 2012
Cops Corner: Longboat Key

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 27, 2016
Top Story — June: Westfield, Benderson and Dillard’s settle lawsuit

Catch up on the hottest news items of the of the year with the Observer’s Digital Year in Review.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • December 7, 2018
'All Shook Up' offers a little less conversation, more action at Players

The theater company delivers this Shakespearean comedy in the key of Elvis.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • April 24, 2019
FSU commits help Mustangs baseball have dominant season

Lakewood Ranch has three players committed to the Seminoles.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Niki Kottmann |
  • May 3, 2019
Artist Series Concerts' 'An Afternoon of Operetta' celebrates unique genre

This Mother’s Day, Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota is offering the present of a two-century-old art form.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By David Conway |
  • January 5, 2018
Gil Waters, Ringling Bridge advocate and community leader, dies at 90

A forceful advocate for progress in the public and private realm, Gil Waters shared his vision with Sarasota in a variety of capacities.

  • Sarasota
  • News
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