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  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • December 22, 2011
County suggests pedestrian safety option

The County Commission supports the Siesta Key Condominium Association in seeking painted crosswalks on Midnight Pass Road without warning signs in the middle of them.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 23, 2012
Cops Corner: Pelican Press

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Keely Carney |
  • January 20, 2012
Places: Yume Sushi

Places: Yume Sushi

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Eat + Drink
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • July 14, 2011
Traffic, rainy delays top concerns with Siesta Key bridge project

Smooth traffic management and making sure the work is completed before tourist season begins in earnest: Those were the foremost concerns voiced July 7, when the Siesta Key Association board of directors hosted Florida Department of Transportation officials for a discussion of the 2012 north Siesta Key bridge rehabilitation project.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • February 8, 2012
Publix plan gets go-ahead

The Longboat Key Town Commission approved plans for a new Avenue of the Flowers store. The store is slated to open in December.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Robin Roy |
  • May 26, 2011
'Thanks' and 'goodbye'

Jim Ley had positive things to say about the residents and staff for which he served more than a decade as the chief executive of Sarasota County.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Anna Dearing |
  • November 22, 2011
Dance Review: 'Diamonds' and 'The Two Pigeons'

Surely the Sarasota and Clearwater audiences would agree that there could not have been a program so expertly combined with George Balanchine's neoclassical masterpiece, 'Diamonds,' and Sir Frederick Ashton's heartwarming story ballet, 'The Two Pigeons.'

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • November 23, 2011
Merchants denounce Main Street project

Downtown business owners believe now is not the time for a Main Street streetscape project that will tear up the street and sidewalks.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • November 10, 2011
Panhandling draws fine line

The city of Sarasota has a much more lax ordinance for street panhandlers than those enforced by neighboring municipalities and counties.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • November 17, 2011
Siesta Key's No. 1 beach signs nearly ready

County staff appears to be in the final stages of creating new signs proclaiming Siesta Key's beach as No. 1 in the nation.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • November 2, 2011
Cheryl Losey: Harp's delight

Last year Cheryl Losey appeared in a PBS documentary. This year she cut an album. Meet the Sarasota Orchestra harpist landing major grants and making a beautiful racket.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • December 1, 2011
Majority of condos opposed to FDOT plan

Eight days before a meeting on a pedestrian island proposal for Midnight Pass Road, 27 of 34 condominium complexes had affirmed opposition to the plan.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • December 1, 2011
Island Beat: Key people getting into the holiday spirit

With Light Up the Village marking the formal beginning of the holiday season on the Key, plans are being finalized for the annual Christmas Lighting Contest for Condominiums.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • January 20, 2011
Cops Corner

Jan. 7 Sweet little girl 9 p.m. - 8200 block of South Tamiami Trail. Battery. A 13-year-old girl began yelling at a 14-year-old girl, because she didn't like the way that the older girl looked at her. The 14-year-old turned and walked away. The 13-year-old grabbed the girl's hair and began slapping her in the face. The younger girl was arrested.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Rod Thomson |
  • June 8, 2011
MY VIEW: Needed: immigration principles

Immigration reform frustratingly died in the Florida Legislature last month. What is so difficult about making everyone play by the same rules?

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • January 12, 2011
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 01.13.11

To send in your letters, please e-mail them to [email protected] or mail them to The East County Observer, 8788 State Road 70 E., Suite 103, Bradenton, FL., 34202.

  • East County
  • Opinion
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • November 3, 2010
Town issues Colony deadline

The town says The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort must be operational within a year or it could lose about 129 grandfathered tourism units on its 18-acre site.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • September 15, 2011
Island Beat: Manatees spark light-hearted comments

The subject matter was serious, but both Siesta Key Association directors and audience members injected more than a little levity into the Sept. 1 discussion about protecting the manatees in the Grand Canal.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • September 22, 2011
Chalk Festival off, back on again

The Sarasota Chalk Festival, scheduled for Nov. 1, was in jeopardy of being canceled because of the Sarasota City Commission's grant-permitting change.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Rachel S. OHara |
  • August 11, 2011
Robert Martini teaches youth the wonders and dangers of the water

His travels in pursuit of water competitions have taken him as far as Hawaii and Australia, but Robert Martini is most at home on the Key.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
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