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  • By Robin Hartill |
  • November 17, 2010
Key Real Estate: Sales climb to 17 during first week of November

Sales nearly tripled between the last week of October and the first week in November, with 17 sales recorded on Longboat, Lido, St. Armands and Bird keys during the week of Nov. 1 and Nov. 5, compared to six during the previous week.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 27, 2011
News Briefs 04.28.11

Dragon boats race into East County; Anti-incorporation group launches drive; Lakewood students honor teachers, staff; Non-profit to host golf tourney; Tidewell Hospice names new directors; Clarification

  • East County
  • News
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • September 22, 2020
Longboat Key Cops Corner: No day at the park

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Bret Hauff and Katie Johns | Staff Writer and Community Editor |
  • August 6, 2018
Longboat Key gears up to deal with red tide's fish kills

The smell of dead fish pervaded the island over the weekend as public works crews worked to assess the scope of the problem.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Jay Heater |
  • September 20, 2018
Team Tony shifts gears for cancer fundraiser in Sarasota

Team Tony shifts gears for cycling cancer fundraiser at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota

  • East County
  • News
  • By David Conway |
  • June 7, 2018
City prepares to craft transportation master plan

The city hopes a holistic approach will improve Sarasota's traffic situation.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Eric Snider |
  • June 10, 2019
Loaded Cannon Distillery brings locally made alcohol to Lakewood Ranch

The distillery produces the full spectrum of spirits and features a pirate-themed tasting room.

  • LWR Life
  • By Samantha Chaney |
  • March 28, 2019
Recruitment, retainment struggles in Sarasota County Schools reflect nationwide teacher shortage

Sarasota County offers warm weather, sunny beaches and the second-highest average salary for Florida teachers. Even so, the district — like many others — struggles with open positions, recruiting and retention efforts.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • April 8, 2019
Whiskey Obsession Festival 2019 set to put visitors in high spirits

The seventh annual event offers sips of world-class whiskey with a chaser of education.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Eat + Drink
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • August 30, 2017
Bring back my country

What’s happening to the country we knew and loved? The best way to bring it back is to continue doing and teaching our loved ones to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Molly Schechter |
  • September 24, 2014
Fitness classes are only the beginning of Ed Center choices

There's a Longboat Key phenomenon that happens annually right after the tourist traffic finally fades because kids are going back to school and right before the car carriers start to unload their seasonal shipments. It is the arrival of the humble-in-appearance but ever so rich-in-content catalog from the Longboat Key Education Center.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Adrian Moore |
  • March 13, 2024
Sarasota’s own answer to crime reduction

The most intractable problem of crime is that of repeat offenders. Solving that is no easy task, but in Sarasota, an impressive nonprofit called Project 180 is showing it can be done.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • December 14, 2023
Riverview High mourns loss of longtime principal Edward Brown Jr.

One retired teacher called Brown Jr. "The founding father of Riverview High School."

  • Sarasota
  • Schools
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • March 28, 2023
Sarasota initiative guides homeowners to help combat red tide

County stormwater ponds are only preventing around half the red tide-fueling pollution they are designed to filter. The Healthy Pond Collaborative released a pond maintenance guide to help.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Jay Heater |
  • July 21, 2023
Gifted student eligibility requires a complete package

IQ, motivation, leadership and more figured into the equation before moving a student into the gifted program.

  • East County
  • Schools
  • By Jay Heater |
  • October 16, 2024
Boo Run gives charities a boost

Race director has no fear Boo Run will continue to be successful in Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 29, 2025
'Mighty' Siesta Key Kiwanis Club helps children, one community at a time

Poverty can happen anywhere. The Siesta Key Kiwanis Club is working to insulate Sarasota kids from its effects.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Jim DeLa |
  • February 18, 2025
Cracker Trail lures riders to a vanishing Old Florida

The Cracker Trail Ride "either gets on you or in you."

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • December 27, 2010
TOP STORY, MAY: Jaleski Resigns

Commissioner Gene Jaleski resigned from the Town Commission Tuesday, May 25. In his resignation letter, he apologized to the Longboat Key Public Interest Committee, which he offended in an e-mail he sent Saturday, May 22.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • August 17, 2016
School Board District 3 candidates sound off

Read this Q&A with contenders for the Manatee County School Board.

  • East County
  • News
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