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

  • By Amanda Morales |
  • June 11, 2015
ODA partners with Swain family for farm field trip

Out-of-Door Academy partners with the Swain family for an educational farm day.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • April 7, 2021
Sarasota Athlete of the Week: Conner Whittaker

The Sarasota High senior pitcher talks his curveball and wanting to read minds.

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • July 9, 2020
New podcast wants listeners to feel like part of the newsroom

The Observer is promoting transparency in journalism with 'The Convo.'

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Nick Reichert |
  • April 8, 2015
Studio Space: Barbara Banks

Photographer Barbara Banks may capture her subjects on film, but it’s the memories that leave a lasting impression.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • October 12, 2013
Quotes Observed: Oct. 5 - Oct. 12

Each weekend, we bring you a collection of quotes from the biggest (or quirkiest) Observer and national news stories of the week.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • April 12, 2017
Players Follies gets personal with musical revue

Life has its ups and downs. It’s how life shapes you that counts. With ‘… And I’m Here,’ The Players Follies pays tribute to the idea through song, dance and monologue.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Jay Heater |
  • October 14, 2020
Emergency help on the way to Lakewood Ranch and Sarasota

Lakewood Ranch Medical Center's ER at Fruitville scheduled for Dec. 1 opening.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • January 6, 2023
Sarasota city leaders side with Bath & Racquet redeveloper in appeal

With a 4-1 vote, commissioners have decided that neighbors opposed to the project failed to reach "aggrieved" status.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 18, 2012
Our View: The anti-American president

He just leaves you breathless, dumbfounded ... enraged.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • October 23, 2013
Sarasota gets crabby

If stone-crab season is like Florida's Christmas, then Moore's Stone Crab Restaurant is the North Pole.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Brynn Mechem |
  • May 20, 2021
Historical resources department protects Sarasota County's history

As they celebrate the centennial year, historical resources employees reflect on the past and look toward the future.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Terry O’Connor |
  • October 5, 2016
Longboat Key town attorney lobbies against Bondi water noise opinion

Can a municipality do anything about it when noise from boaters reaches levels intolerable to residents?

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • August 1, 2024
Newtown is largest Black historic district in state thanks to coalition effort

The preservation project helped Sarasota become only the second city to win the Stewards of Heritage Award.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By David Conway |
  • February 23, 2017
Hyde Park residents seek to slow traffic

A street in South Poinsettia Park located next to Southside Village wants to stop cars and trucks from cutting through the residential area, but solving the problem won't be easy.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • January 28, 2026
Midtown Plaza redevelopment wins partial sign-off

Receiving partial sign-off from Sarasota's Development Review Committee is the proposed redevelopment of the southern portion of Midtown Plaza at 1299 S. Tamiami Trail.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 20, 2011
OPINION: Grant the Colony extension

Everybody on Longboat Key invariably comments about the tragedy of the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Dana Kampa |
  • May 14, 2025
The Paradise Center has until August to raise support

With the recent sale of the Tidewell building and subsequent rent increase, the nonprofit has until August to raise funding to relocate.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 20, 2009
Garden Club flies in to SOS

The Longboat Key Garden Club had birds on the brain Wednesday, May 6, when 22 members toured the Save Our Seabirds facility.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 20, 2009
Garden Club flies in to SOS

The Longboat Key Garden Club had birds on the brain Wednesday, May 6, when 22 members toured the Save Our Seabirds facility.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • June 24, 2011
Kiddie Academy kids splash into summer (VIDEO)

Preschoolers today celebrated Water Day.

  • East County
  • Schools
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