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Results for: Top HVAC service in San Diego comes from Reliable Standard Heating & Air’s commitment to excellence

  • By Carter Weinhofer |
  • February 11, 2025
Republican Club of Longboat Key ready to kick off 2025 year with first event

After a brief hiatus, the club is looking to return better than ever, starting with its first event on Feb. 18.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Carter Weinhofer |
  • February 26, 2025
SeaHorse owners, guests happy to return to Longboat condo-hotel resort

Staff and owners were the core of the recovery process, which now brings SeaHorse Beach Resort back to fully operational.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • December 17, 2023
Lake Club residents grant Manatee children's Christmas wishes

The Lake Club Santa's Sleigh Project supports 80 children in need at the Boys & Girls Club of Manatee County.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Emily Leinfuss |
  • January 22, 2024
Graffiti-inspired drawings come to Art Center Sarasota

The images in artist Christopher Skura’s upcoming exhibition, “Social Studies,” were drawn from the collective subconscious with a style he began developing during the pandemic.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Carter Weinhofer |
  • March 9, 2024
Future of Longboat Pass Bridge up for discussion

Keeping the current bridge would mean "increasingly costly maintenance and repair projects causing continued disruption to traffic," FDOT says.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Carter Weinhofer |
  • March 26, 2024
New surveys will provide updated report on canal conditions

Last year’s pitch to start the canal maintenance program on Longboat Key was met with commission confusion.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • June 27, 2024
County delays new circuit court file storage building

Sarasota County commissioners task staff to explore the commercial real estate market for a better deal on an existing structure.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Adrian Moore, Max Gulker |
  • November 20, 2024
Price gouging: Much ado about nothing

As Floridians rebuild and recover from Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the issue of price gouging always captivates politicians and the media.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By S.T. Cardinal |
  • September 2, 2025
FDOT removes Gulf of Mexico Drive signs, town to talk renaming

Longboat Key officials will hold a public meeting in October to discuss a potential renaming of the town's main thoroughfare.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 20, 2024
The best things to do in Sarasota, Lakewood Ranch, Longboat for Aug. 22-28

Don't miss these arts and entertainment events around Sarasota and Manatee counties this week.

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  • By Dana Kampa |
  • March 3, 2026
Longboat writer shares process of co-authoring book on bridging divides

Robert Gary of Longboat Key welcomes discussion on the book he co-authored with Imam Azhar Subedar, titled "I Am the Other."

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • April 5, 2017
This Week in Sarasota: Thursday, April 6

A look at our favorite events taking place this week

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 11, 2023
Top residential real estate sales for June 26-30 in Lakewood Ranch

A Concession home on Ganton Avenue tops the week's sales at $3.8 million.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
  • By David Conway |
  • April 27, 2017
Development community responds to STOP

A new group, which includes planning and real estate professionals, is challenging the resident activist group STOP’s claims about growth in the city.

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  • News
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • August 2, 2023
Lakewood Ranch Chargers U16 boys reach national playoffs

The team traveled to Denver for the NPL Finals, held July 6-12, where it finished 1-1-1.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • August 22, 2023
Court rules Siesta Key hotels violate density caps

Sarasota County's 1989 Comprehensive Plan restrictions trump the 2021 approval of two hotel projects, according to Judge Hunter Carroll.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Brendan Lavell |
  • May 25, 2021
Manatee County Commissioners appoint Hopes to be administrator

Manatee County commissioners remove interim tag, appoint Scott Hopes as administrator.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • October 7, 2020
Buyers claim more than half of St. Regis condos

Deposits taken on 39 of the planned 69 units at Longboat Key project, developer says.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • October 21, 2020
More parents sending kids back to campus in Lakewood Ranch

Lakewood Ranch-area elementary and middle schools will no longer offer hybrid option as more students return full time.

  • East County
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  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • February 7, 2023
Longboat couple finds love after loss

Walter and Gale Frank are in their 80s and celebrated their first wedding anniversary last month.

  • Longboat Key
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