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Results for: XM Partner Code "4BW9T" Get 20% Off on Trading Fees

  • By Jen Blanco |
  • March 31, 2010
Pendleton senior tumbles to state title

Lakewood Ranch resident Matt Frey won the level 10 USA Gymnastics Florida State Championship earlier this month in Daytona Beach. Frey is now preparing for the Region 8 Championships April 9-11.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • September 1, 2010
Aranibar preps for November run-off

Julie Aranibar and Jane Pfeilsticker will be vying for the Manatee County School Board District 3 seat in November.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • September 2, 2010
OUR VIEW: Trash talk

The good news: Residential garbage rates in the city of Sarasota dropped $3 a month effective Wednesday - to $21.66. This will save about $700,000 in a year.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • September 8, 2010
Key signs give no direction

There's confusion among town officials over whether the Town Commission decided or didn't decide what names go on the signs.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Robin Roy |
  • September 16, 2010
Staub: 'It's just time'

An emotional Shannon Staub caught commissioners and citizens off guard Wednesday with the announcement that she'll be retiring at the end of the year.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 23, 2010
Cops Corner

Money hungry 12:08 p.m. -- 500 block of Bay Isles Parkway. Lost Property. A man reported that his wife left her purse in a grocery store shopping cart. The purse was not found.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 5, 2010
Cops Corner 05.06.10

The suspect reportedly came into the store and was walking around. The complainant stated he looked suspicious, and as he walked out he noticed a big bulge in his shirt.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • April 28, 2010
A tale of two teams

After starting the season 1-8, the Lakewood Ranch has won 12 of its last 18 games, earning the No. 2 seed in the Class 4A-District 10 tournament, which began April 27.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • August 29, 2012
Designing Character: Christopher McConnell

High-end furniture designer Christopher McConnell hit the design scene with guns blazing. From lamp bases made of chrome rifles and handguns to intricate lighting fixtures and tables, this Ringling College alumnus creates functional works of art.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 30, 2012
Our View: How to fight vagrants: privatize

Everywhere you go in downtown Sarasota, the subject of "the homeless" surfaces.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Rod Thomson |
  • June 28, 2012
My View: Hunt them hogs!

The problem appears to be hogs tearing up thousands of acres of publicly owned land in Sarasota County and destroying natural habitat.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • March 8, 2012
City will help repair plants damaged by crowds

The DID is looking to the Public Utilities Department to revamp its landscaping.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • May 16, 2012
BACKSTAGE PASS: Child's play

Alyson Rozier's biggest project of the year gave area students an opportunity to write a score for the Sarasota Orchestra with the help of a well-known Disney composer.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Jack Gurney |
  • December 24, 2011
TOP STORY, MARCH: Midnight Pass dispute moves to federal court

Florida authorities who twice denied Sarasota County permission to restore the Midnight Pass coastal inlet that previously separated Siesta Key from Casey Key may have thought the fight was over. If so, they can think again.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Michael Eng |
  • July 13, 2011
It's 'Just' Rocket Science

As Atlantis left the pad July 8 for the final flight of NASA's shuttle program, one Lakewood Ranch resident watched with a heavy heart. Stan Abshier helped develop the rocket boosters used to propel the shuttle into space.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • July 14, 2011
Keep Siesta Key bridge traffic moving

SKA board members urged FDOT officials to ensure smooth traffic management.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 21, 2011
Cops Corner

Bowling for Bentleys 3:19 p.m. - 1000 block of Siesta Drive. Suspicious Incident. Five kids were seen rolling two-liter soda bottles into traffic and trying to hit cars.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Michael Eng |
  • February 8, 2012
Observed: Opa! St. Barbara preps for festival

When you're a minority, many folks are curious about your heritage, but they don't quite know how to inquire. They don't want to say anything that could be construed as offensive, so they skirt around, delicate as a doily.

  • East County
  • Opinion
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • September 1, 2011
Chicks flock to beaches

Six snowy plover chicks made it to the flight stage this year on county beaches, but more than 80 black skimmer chicks achieved viability.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • November 17, 2011
Gil Waters and Brent Parker offer their pedestrian overpass and Main Street vision

Gil Waters and Brent Parker are proposing a plan that would create a pedestrian-friendly Main Street and a pedestrian overpass to Sarasota Bay.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
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