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Results for: Top-rated AC repair is provided by Reliable Standard Heating & Air in San Diego.

  • By Brian Gunnell |
  • August 1, 2012
Bridge Bites: The crocodile coup

Bridge has a number of exotic "coups," and for the next few weeks we'll look at some of them, starting with the aptly named Crocodile Coup.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Brian Gunnell |
  • August 8, 2012
Bridge Bites: Morton's Fork

We continue our look at some of bridge's exotic coups, and this week it is the Morton's Fork, a play that offers an opponent a choice of evils. Here, the Fork allows Declarer to bring home the 6♥ contract.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Brian Gunnell |
  • July 3, 2012
Bridge Bites: Take four

This week you are playing E-W, and because the problem is a tough one, you get four attempts to beat the contract.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Brian Gunnell |
  • May 9, 2012
Bridge Bites: Voyage of discovery

Forgive the grandiloquent title: We are not talking here about Lewis and Clark, nor the HMS Beagle, nor even Christopher Columbus.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Brian Gunnell |
  • February 8, 2012
Bridge Bites: An old ruse

Against 3NT, West leads his fourth-best Spade. East's Jack is taken by Declarer's Queen, then a Diamond to Dummy and the losing Club finesse. At this point, West can count nine or 10 tricks for Declarer, via two Spades, four Diamonds and three or four Clubs.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • September 17, 2012
In the Kitchen: Dale Sprintz

Dale Sprintz is a resident of Longboat Key. Sprintz owned her own catering business in Chicago for 25 years called Temptations Unlimited, as well as a company that is still operational under different owners called "Lunch at Hand."

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Yaryna Klimchak |
  • February 7, 2013
Student Spotlight: Madeline Epstein

Eighth grade Booker Middle School student strives for excellence in all she does.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • September 6, 2018
Sarasota Athlete of the Week: Madison Brown

The Cardinal Mooney volleyball junior talks playing Venice High and her favorite movies

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • February 6, 2015
Weekend's best bets: Friday, Feb. 6

Weekend's best bets: Friday, Feb. 6

  • Arts + Entertainment
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  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 12, 2014
James Redborn

1948 - 2013

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 4, 2013
Community Golf Scores

Golf scores from East County golf courses.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Madison Bierl |
  • September 20, 2025
Hole-in-one makes Communi-Tee Golf Classic even more fun

The fundraiser by and for Lakewood Ranch Community Activities at Calusa Country Club is a "win-win."

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Edward Alley |
  • December 14, 2017
'Too Hot to Handel' and 'Lou Harrison at 100' offer unique evenings of music

Choral Artists of Sarasota and ensemblenewSRQ were behind two of the week's most dynamic performances.

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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • August 31, 2017
The $102 million bike trail

Sarasota County property taxpayers will be asked in 2018 to fund another $65 million in bonds to extend the Legacy Trail. That’s one heck of a legacy. Like beach parking, users should pay a price.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • June 11, 2014
Summer bucket list: Top nine things to do

If you're sticking out the summer showers and 90-degree temperatures, here are suggestions for the most dogged of days.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2022
Boil advisory lifted for Longboat Key residents

Residents are no longer advised to use boiled or bottled water for cooking and drinking.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 12, 2009
Three workers involved in lift station accident

Three Woodruff & Sons workers were taken to Manatee Memorial Hospital after they were overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes at about 11:25 a.m. today while working on a Manatee County lift station.

  • East County
  • News
  • By David Conway |
  • August 2, 2016
Pressure washers clean up Unconditional Surrender

The Sarasota bayfront's iconic "kissing sailor" statue got hosed down Tuesday morning.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • December 22, 2015
Emerald Harbor Drive needs investigated

Water accumulation and cracking on Emerald Harbor Drive will be investigated next year as part of a road project.

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