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Results for: Vanity Wagon Discount Code “AVA”– Save Up To 40% on All Orders

  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 20, 2009
A Package Deal

Eric Baird has constantly pushed himself to do better at what is now his $26 million packaging and shipping company. The next push: $100 million in annual revenues by 2012.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • July 15, 2021
Wrong time for new tax

It makes little sense for the Sarasota County Commission to adopt a new tax for mental health services — especially when living costs are rising rapidly and the county is awash in federal cash.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 14, 2010
OUR VIEW: Rick Scott for governor

If you cut through all of the Bill McCollum and Alex Sink character-assassination attack ads; if you discard the standard operating procedure of the daily newspapers and their editorialists - which is to discredit anyone who has been a success in business; and if you judge Florida's gubernatorial candidates on their professional accomplishments, the choice for governor is overwhelmingly clear.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Edmund Adams |
  • September 19, 2012
My View: Yes, they built businesses; I've seen it firsthand

I was paying the owner of a Lake Cumberland, Ky., boat store for fixing the fuel gauge on our boat.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Jay Heater |
  • April 3, 2019
Embrace Temptations ... build an amphitheater in Lakewood Ranch

Lakewood Ranch could use an amphitheater to draw rockers, other music acts.

  • East County
  • Opinion
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • July 18, 2024
Freedom Elementary custodian takes pride in 26 years with Manatee schools

Patricia Heffner's love for cleanliness shows in her work.

  • East County
  • Schools
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • November 11, 2015
Welcome Back: Town fails to lure peacock trapper

While you were away, the 150 peacocks in Longbeach Village didn’t leave town.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • February 22, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Historical Society Lecture Series

The speaker originally scheduled, Kent Chetalin, could not be in attendance, but Dennis Kauser saved the day on Feb. 21. For the second lecture of the Historical Society of Longboat Key's series, Kauser spoke about Historic Spanish Point. The lectures take place at Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design. Kauser is a docent and member of the speaker's bureau from the Historic Spanish Point Museum.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Molly Schechter |
  • January 25, 2012
EDIBLES: Nancy's Bar-B-Q: worth the wait

Can a Jewish girl from Cleveland find true happiness making North Carolina-style barbecue in Florida? For Nancy Krohngold, the answer is a resounding "yes," and her peculiar confluence of circumstances is making a lot of other people happy as well.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • February 27, 2020
Longboat residents learn more about town's beach efforts

Ballot issue for upcoming renourishment projects before voters on March 17.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • February 1, 2012
Lakewood Ranch falls in district semis

The Lakewood Ranch High girls basketball team saw its season come to an end with a 58-40 loss to Palmetto in the Class 6A-District 12 semifinals Feb. 1.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Eddie Kirsch |
  • September 9, 2011
County Sheriff's Office concludes Operation to Stop Impaired Driving

Deputies of Sarasota County Sheriff's Office arrested 40 drivers who were under the influence.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • May 12, 2011
Chamber plans to make splash with LBK Challenge

The race is scheduled for 9:30 a.m., Sunday, beginning at the Longboat Key Town Dock.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Eddie Kirsch |
  • July 12, 2012
July 12: Daily Headlines Video

Join us as we observe and report today's stories from Longboat Key, East County, Sarasota and Siesta Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Anthony Paull |
  • April 25, 2012
Artist Clay Olson Plans 'Disco Indian Rocker' Art Show

Artist Clay Olson Plans 'Disco Indian Rocker' Art Show

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • December 14, 2011
Newtown shooting suspect arrested

A suspect involved in a Sunday morning shooting incident has been arrested, but more suspects are still involved in the shooting.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • December 16, 2011
Second suspect arrested for Newtown shooting

Bobby U. Sharpe, 22, of Ellenton is the second suspect to be arrested for Newtown shootings last Sunday that injured three people.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 29, 2010
WEEKEND BEST BET: Sarasota Chalk Festival

The Sarasota Chalk Festival, featuring 250 street painters from the U.S., Italy, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands and Slovenia, takes place from 8 a.m. to midnight Oct. 30 to Oct. 31, along South Pineapple Avenue in Burns Square.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • October 3, 2019
Lakewood Ranch man killed in traffic crash

Lakewood Ranch man killed in traffic crash at S.R. 70 and Greenbrook Boulevard.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • August 3, 2019
Lakewood Ranch kids enjoy page-turning celebration

Ranch Readers program completes first summer.

  • East County
  • News
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