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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • April 27, 2022
Longboat deserves better

Longboat’s mayor says the Key faces ‘an uphill struggle’ obtaining funds from Sarasota County for a community center. How is that for gratitude?

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • March 7, 2012
Neighbors: Dorian and Janine Irizarry

It was August 1997, and Garth Brooks was playing a free concert in Central Park.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Pam Nadon |
  • May 30, 2012
Summer movie preview

Enjoy our summer movie preview list.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • December 27, 2010
TOP STORY, MAY: Gov. Crist signs bill

Gov. Charlie Crist signed the Mark Wandall Traffic Safety Act at the Manatee Chamber of Commerce's Lakewood Ranch branch. The bill is named after an East County man who was killed in 2003 by a red-light runner.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Niki Kottmann |
  • September 4, 2019
Scene & Heard 09.05.19

Get caught up on the latest news to hit the A&E scene this week with The Sarasota Ballet, Key Chorale and The Players Centre for Performing Arts .

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
  • By Ryan Butler & Katie Johns |
  • September 5, 2017
Longboat Key gears up at stores, gas station, marina

Around the island, Longboaters made sure they were prepared in case Hurricane Irma strikes.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • March 29, 2018
The new Coug: Cardinal Mooney girls basketball finds its next coach

Prose and Kohn: Ryan Kohn.

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • October 9, 2013
Over the Hill Gang

Golf and friendship are par for the course for a group of four nonagenarians who meets three mornings a week to play golf at the Islandside golf course.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By S.T. Cardinal |
  • October 28, 2025
School of fishermen dispelled from Longboat Pass Bridge

A disgruntled contractor threatened to dump debris on a property if he wasn't paid. This and other Longboat Key police reports in this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Spencer Fordin |
  • February 8, 2022
This Week in A+E: Feb. 10-16

Tribute acts and actual legends play Sarasota this week, and theater, concerts and circus artists are also on the bill.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • November 10, 2020
An election with Grace in Lakewood Ranch

Students at the Lakewood Ranch elementary school vote in their own election.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • August 24, 2012
Parking enforcements comes to Whole Foods garage

An agreement was reached to enforce parking restrictions in the Whole Foods garage and on-street parking along First Street and Second Street.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • November 9, 2010
SCF Manatees Volleyball wins conference honors

The State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota Manatees volleyball team won individual conference honors after winning the 2010 Suncoast Conference Championship.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 19, 2011
New College poet celebrates first book of poems

Alexis Orgera, above, held a book-release party for her first book of poetry, "How Like Foreign Objects," Saturday, May 14, at Red Panty Press Studio, in The Rosemary District.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Roger Drouin |
  • February 6, 2013
Dementia expert trains local first responders

One in eight older Americans has Alzheimer's disease.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Amelia Hanks |
  • January 27, 2019
Key Chorale's festival honors heroes

The Sarasota Chorale Festival focused on local first responders.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Katie Johns |
  • May 18, 2018
First Presbyterian sends off preschool grads

Thirty children graduated from First Presbyterian Preschool on May 18.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By David Conway |
  • March 14, 2018
Car catches fire at Whole Foods parking garage

Emergency personnel are responding to a vehicle fire at the downtown Whole Foods on First Street.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Jessica Salmond |
  • August 24, 2015
McNeal Elementary welcomes students for first day of school

Parents snapped photos and walked children to class.

  • East County
  • Schools
  • By Observer Staff |
  • January 2, 2024
Sarasota's first baby of 2024 arrives at SMH

A girl was born at Sarasota Memorial Hospital at 1:56 a.m. Jan. 1.

  • Sarasota
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