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By Andrew Warfield |
September 3, 2025

Sarasota completes removal of sidewalk and crosswalk art

Interim City Manager Dave Bullock told the Sarasota City Commission non-compliance with a state order to remove all right of way art would risk $67 million in state funding.

Sarasota
News

By Eric Garwood |
October 2, 2025

Rock pioneer Dickey Betts could be memorialized on Sarasota highway

The longtime Sarasota County resident would join a wide and varied list of luminaries honored in Sarasota County by Florida since 1932.

Sarasota
News

By Lesley Dwyer |
August 28, 2023

Manatee County in state of emergency as Idalia approaches

The county says Freedom Elementary School in Bradenton will be a shelter site along with two others not in East County.

East County
News

By Eric Garwood |
September 23, 2021

Reduced inventories keep Sarasota-area real estate prices climbing

Median prices in Manatee and Sarasota have been on a month-to-month rise since June 2020.

Sarasota
News

By Kurt Schultheis |
September 10, 2009

Key resident disputes Key Club survey

John Summers, a retired marketing professor, disputes The Longboat Key Club and Resort's phone survey that was conducted this summer.

Longboat Key
News

By Robin Hartill |
February 17, 2010

SYC officials continue to race to meet Cuba regatta deadlines

Snowstorms in Washington, D.C., have delayed a decision about the revived Sarasota-Havana Regatta scheduled for May, which is limited to 100 boats.

Longboat Key
News

By Robin Hartill |
May 7, 2009

Ed Shapiro made the time to help those around him

Slowing down wasn't Ed Shapiro's style. Technically, he retired from his career with Isotoner, a women's glove company, in 1980. But Shapiro kept plugging.

Longboat Key
Neighbors

By Robin Roy |
January 1, 2010

TOP STORY, September: Vendors to control farmers market

The City Commission ruled Sept. 9 that the Downtown Farmers Market vendors would run the market instead of the Downtown Partnership. The partnership's chairman said the change was an insult to those who've worked to make the market a success.

Sarasota
News

By Dana Saltz and Kate Vega |
April 7, 2010

Film festival moves into classrooms

This week, two students from The Out of Door Academy and Booker Middle School review "Alma."

Arts + Culture

By Stephanie Hannum |
August 12, 2010

BACK TO SCHOOL 2010: The Sassy Swimmer: Ann Marie Brasacchio

An incoming junior at Pineview School, 16-year-old Ann Marie Brasacchio is incredibly sassy ... or, rather an incredible SASSY swimmer.

Sarasota
Neighbors

By Kathy Bolam |
September 23, 2010

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Charter review candidate responds

Your stated view of the Bolam/Dent issue was that "Bolam is taking the standard way out by blaming someone else." I would like to add a few more facts to the mix, and then tell me if you think I am taking the standard way out.

Sarasota
Opinion

By Observer Staff |
August 2, 2012

Cops Corner: Sarasota

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

Sarasota
Cops Corner

By Alex Mahadevan |
August 23, 2012

County approves rezoning of parcel to prepare for sale

Sarasota County Commissioners approved the rezoning of a 2.2-acre tract of land, which may reach the private sector midway through 2013 - or not at all.

Sarasota
News

By Steve Whidden |
August 10, 2012

Golf Tips: Find YOUR Percentage To More Consistent Golf

One of the most over used reasons for hitting a bad shot I hear from students is that they "swung too fast."

East County
Sports

By Observer Staff |
August 16, 2012

Cops Corner: Pelican Press

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

Sarasota
News

By Eddie Kirsch |
January 25, 2012

Comment: Emmons' legacy lives on

Legacies define the way in which we'll be remembered.

East County
Sports

By Pam Eubanks |
October 13, 2010

Business Observer 10.14.10

Third-quarter data by Neal Communities shows the company has posted well more than 100 home sales in just the last two months, with 100 contracts signed in August and another 24 signed in September.