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Results for: Seowriting AI Coupon Code SKV25 Get 25% Off on All Plans

  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 21, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Michael Harris |
  • April 1, 2025
APRIL FOOL: Longboat Key drivers will now pay toll to get on the island

Commissioners hope to curtail heavy traffic which has plagued Gulf of Mexico Drive for years.

  • April Fools
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • March 18, 2026
City Commission agenda includes citywide speed limit and parking fee discussion

In addition to discussions about speed limits citywide and parking fees, the Sarasota City Commission consider hiring a noise consultant and hear about possible impacts of property tax reform.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2012
Letters to the Editor

I support commissioners; To the commission; Learn how to park; Let us vote

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Carter Weinhofer |
  • September 20, 2023
New St. Regis parking lot plans move to second hearing

Unicorp National Developments presented new parking plans nixing the garage for the St. Regis Longboat Key and was met with few negative comments.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • December 31, 2019
Signups still open for Longboat's Citizens Academy

Weekly sessions begin Jan. 8 for series of presentations on how government works.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • April 19, 2011
Town seeks volunteers for boards

Applications will be accepted through Thursday, April 21, for five boards.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 5, 2011
News Briefs

Manatee County to honor Euphemia Haye chef; Commission meetings now available live-stream; Commission creates audit selection committee; ZBA, code enforcement meetings canceled

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • September 13, 2016
Sarasota deputies investigate shooting death in Vamo

The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting in the residential area off of South Tamiami Trail.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 27, 2013
June 26: Daily Headlines Video

Top Stories: Man robbed at gunpoint; Fort Hamer Bridge plan moves closer to approval; Whitney Beach likely to raise the bar; IN THE KITCHEN WITH: Mar Vista

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • June 15, 2016
Medallion considers three plans

The 20-acre project is wedged between I-75 and Town Center Parkway.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 15, 2009
In Brief

Community News and Notes

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Letter to the Editor |
  • January 6, 2026
Gulf of Mexico Drive isn't just Longboat Key's main street — it is its only street

Keeping the island's only thoroughfare as efficient as possible should be the primary goal of any Complete Streets plan.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • April 23, 2009
Tennis Center signs off at tournament

Longboat Key Code Administrator Randy Fowler saw the sign. And, according to the town's sign code, that means the Longboat Key Public Tennis Center's banner was improperly placed.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • January 26, 2012
Observer: At long last, a sign marks the site of No. 1 beach

Rob Lewis probably felt as though he had given birth last week. For months, Lewis, the county's executive director of planning and development services, was the person in charge of getting a photogenic sign up at Siesta Key Public Beach, something proudly proclaiming what Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman told a national TV audience last May: Siesta is the No. 1 beach in the country.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 13, 2011
Our View: Caution on beach schedule

Sarasota County is considering a dramatically revved-up schedule for the renovations of Siesta Key Beach, but needs to be cautious about entering into anything that could be financially constricting.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 25, 2012
Our View: Reviewing codes long overdue

Longboat Key commissioners don't get much credit, but for this we want to encourage them to forge ahead.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Bret Hauff |
  • December 13, 2017
Colony redevelopment slated for P&Z judgment

Unicorp National Developments Inc. is scheduled to testify on it application for redeveloping the former site of the Colony Beach and Tennis Resort

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By David Conway |
  • March 9, 2017
East Sarasota residents grapple with growth

A property owner hopes to develop a residential project near Beneva and Fruitville Roads, which has residents worried about what the final product will look like.

  • Sarasota
  • News
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