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

  • By Virginia Sanders |
  • June 15, 2010
TURTLE WATCH: Turtles continue to make their nests on Longboat

The famous line goes, "Summertime and the living is easy ... " It's not easy, however, if you're a female sea turtle and you have eggs to lay.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 9, 2010
IPOC offers 11th-hour compromise

Islandside Property Owners Coalition President Bob White offered a compromise to the Town Commission Wednesday that calls for a scaled-back hotel and the elimination of the golf course condominium towers.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 29, 2012
News Briefs

Teen on scooter injured in crash; Miracle League celebrates field opening; Expert panel discusses presidential leadership

  • East County
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • August 1, 2012
Comment: Going for the gold

Three months ago, the names Missy Franklin, Gabby Douglas and Ashton Eaton were merely that - just names. And yet, they've quickly become some of this summer's most recognizable faces.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • August 9, 2012
Red-light cameras get green light

Red light cameras have already recorded more than 10,000 violations since December. Plans to install more cameras are in the works.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 4, 2012
News Briefs

City plans repairs for Osprey Avenue Bridge; South Shade Avenue temporarily closed; O'Shea takes the helm at New College

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • March 8, 2012
News Briefs

Benderson proposes land purchase; Neighborhood group files Goodwill appeal

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • May 9, 2012
Athlete of the Week: Huntyre Elling

Lakewood Ranch High senior Huntyre Elling recorded her eighth shutout of the season, allowing three hits and one walk, while striking out seven en route to leading the Lady Mustangs to a 10-0 victory over New Port Richey River Ridge in the Class 6A-Region 3 finals May 1.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Brian Gunnell |
  • May 2, 2012
Bridge Bites: The power of deduction

This is not the most swashbuckling auction ever to appear in Bridge Bites, but the deal does provide a test for Declarer's powers of deduction. Cover up the E-W hands if you would like to test your own powers.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Rachel S. OHara |
  • May 4, 2012
Siesta Key preps for 40th sand-sculpting competition

The Sarasota County Parks & Recreation and the Pelican Press will co-sponsor the 40th Annual Sand Sculpture Contest.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • June 6, 2012
Braden River Pirates ready to set sail

Graduate Nick Breitwieser and fellow students have constructed two sailboats, dubbed The Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman.

  • East County
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  • 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 Kristen Pace |
  • February 6, 2012
VDay Contest: Tell us your favorite restaurant and be Hugh Hefner for the Day!

VDay Contest: Tell us your favorite restaurant and be Hugh Hefner for the Day!

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  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • February 9, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Hot Jazz for Cool Nights

Singer Sharon E. Scott doesn't need a red dress to call the audience's attention; she's vivacious and loud, and it wasn't just the volume she was singing. Between a phrase of perfectly-timed, raucous scats on Tuesday, Feb. 7, she yelled to Rodney Rojas, "You better play!"

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • November 21, 2011
Judge calls term limit ballot language 'deficient'

Senior Judge Jack Schoonover Monday, Nov. 21, declared 'very deficient' the language approved last week by the Sarasota County Commission for a proposed county charter amendment scheduled to go on the Jan. 31 ballot.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • November 2, 2011
Pirate football players share time, stories with Tara students

The Braden River football team read to fourth- and fifth-grade students at Tara Elementary Oct. 27 during the school's Sports Day. A group of players also read to Dehlia Garrity's first-grade class at Braden River Elementary Oct. 26.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • June 8, 2011
So long senior standouts

It's the time of year when I bid farewell to another group of talented athletes who have made the past year, and in some cases, the past four years, nothing short of memorable.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • June 22, 2011
Athlete of the Week: Connor Baldwin

The Greater Tampa Junior Golf Association recently named Lakewood Ranch High School golfer Connor Baldwin as its 2011 Player of the Year. Baldwin, who began playing GTJGA events six years ago, will represent the GTJGA in the boys 16-18 division of the Florida Junior Team Championships Aug. 6-7.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Paula Atwell |
  • August 10, 2011
Theater Review: 'The Savannah Disputation'

If you haven't been 'saved' yet, you'll feel holier than thou after you've seen 'The Savannah Disputation' at Florida Studio Theatre.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • April 6, 2011
Rental rule in jeopardy

The town of Longboat Key's 30-day rental rule could become obsolete if a bill proposed in the Legislature is approved.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
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