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Results for: Funded Futures Network Promo Code "SKV50" Get 50% Off On All Plans

  • By Observer Staff |
  • March 31, 2010
Letters to the editor

To send in your letters, please e-mail them to [email protected], or mail them to The Longboat Observer, 5570 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, 34228. The Longboat Observer gives priority to letters of local interest and about local issues. The Observer will print all letters to the editor if it feels they are of general interest, but only if the letter is signed and the author's street address and phone number are given. The editor reserves the right to condense letters.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By June LeBell |
  • June 15, 2010
Music Review: Sarasota Music Festival, part two

Sometimes we have to die a little before we can really live. That seems to be what's happened to the Sarasota Music Festival. It almost went under last year, but now it's back.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 13, 2010
Cops Corner

May 4 Cosmetic fix 1:10 p.m. - 1700 block of South Tamiami Trail. Reckless Driving. The complainant called police to report a woman swerving in the road. When he caught up to her at a stoplight, he saw why she was having trouble staying in her lane. She was staring in the rearview mirror while applying her makeup.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • August 8, 2012
Manchester Bay home sells for $1 million

Thomas and Gwendolyn Watson, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3505 Fair Oaks Court to Norman and Hannah Weinberg, of Longboat Key, for $1,025,000.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • July 18, 2012
Budget talks prolong conflict

A homeowners association said if the CDD changes its taxing method, it would drop a 2011 lawsuit, and some residents want a maintenance contract on the auction block.

  • East County
  • News
  • 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 Observer Staff |
  • August 9, 2012
News Briefs

City Manager Barwin's contract approved; Van Wezel ranked No. 1 in North America

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 6, 2012
Three-bedroom home in Siesta Properties tops transactions

The following residential real-estate transactions took place between Aug. 20 and Aug. 24.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
  • By June LeBell |
  • May 9, 2012
Music Review: Sarasota Orchestra's 'Journeys to Genius': Shostakovich

It's been only a few seasons since Sarasota Orchestra began its "Journeys to Genius" series.

  • Arts + Culture
  • 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 Kurt Schultheis |
  • February 23, 2012
Two developers: Angus Rogers

The chief executive officers of Sarasota-based Floridays Development Co. and Atlanta-based Jebco Ventures Inc. have different visions for a downtown Sarasota hotel.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • February 2, 2012
Four county schools make state's Top 20 lists

Pine View School, Sarasota School of Arts & Sciences, Sarasota Middle School and Laurel Nokomis are ranked in the Top 20 for their respective state categories.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 21, 2011
Siesta Key home sells for $1.8 million

Brent Cooper, trustee, of Rockville, Md., sold the home at 99 Beach Road to Christy Ramsey, of Bristol, Ind., for $1.8 million. Built in 1940, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 1,742 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.65 million in 2009.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • July 21, 2011
Neighbors: Adam DeClerico

A 29-year-old East Sarasota resident founded the Italian American Club last September to celebrate Italian culture.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 22, 2011
Our Town

Picture this: a Fourth of July photo-op; Kiwanian canine comes to breakfast; Historical Society seeks T-shirt designs; Key Club honors its outstanding employees; Philanthropy runs in the Kreindler family

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Robin Roy |
  • July 7, 2011
Committee upholds police complaint rulings

In its second meeting, the Police Complaints Committee reviewed complaints against officers and found no fault with police actions. of police.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • January 12, 2011
KEY REAL ESTATE: Tangerine Bay Club unit sells for $1.26 million

The sale was the largest of six transactions recorded at the Sarasota and Manatee county courthouses during the week of Dec. 20 through Dec. 24 on Longboat, Lido, St. Armands and Bird keys.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • November 11, 2010
Historical Society makes voyage across the bay

The Historical Society's 18th annual Cruise and Tour of Sarasota Bay took place Sunday, Nov. 7.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • August 25, 2011
Siesta Key on track again to top tourist tax collections

Based on figures through June, Siesta Key brought in $32,000 more in tourist tax collections than the city of Sarasota.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Robin Roy |
  • April 1, 2011
The other Jackson Lab eyes Sarasota

APRIL FOOLS - With the world-renowned Jackson Lab possibly looking elsewhere to build its new genetics-research facility, Sarasota County has found another Jackson Lab to take its place, but its impact will be much different.

  • Sarasota
  • News
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