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Joni Hill, Cate Douglas and Gaby Hayashi make their way across the beach.
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • December 14, 2025
Holiday spirit gets moving at Sandy Claws Beach Run

The annual Sandy Claws Beach Run, which is held on Siesta Key Beach and brings a festive spin to running events, is now in its 49th year.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Jolly (Flynn Nolen, center) is surrounded by the other characters including Candy (Christiana Allison), Mrs. Claus (Jillian Hurley), Jangle (Ray Barber), Tinsel (Vanessa Smith), Jingle (Mareece Love) and Santa Claus (Dellan Short).
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • December 9, 2025
'Deck the Halls' celebrates the holidays, Sarasota-style

The annual production by Florida Studio Theatre has become a holiday tradition for audiences.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Santa greets visitors from the window of 9605 Governor's Club Place in The River Club.
  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • December 20, 2025
Christmas decorating isn't just for kids

River Club's Guy Vilt has fun bringing technology into his Christmas display.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • November 13, 2025
Life in Sarasota is back to normal for the 2025-26 season

With recovery from the 2024 hurricanes largely complete, the Sarasota you return to is largely back to normal, among other news to catch up on from while you were away.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Lyndon Usher speaks with Pastor Carl Jenks of Radiance Church of Sarasota.
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • December 2, 2025
Community comes together to serve homeless during Thanksgiving

Numerous organizations were involved in helping to serve those in need at the Thanksgiving Wednesday Community Luncheon.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Mote SEA lures guests to its new location for Oceanic Evening
  • By Janet Combs |
  • October 26, 2025
Mote SEA lures guests to its new location for Oceanic Evening

The annual event served as the new aquarium's grand opening gala as well, giving many patrons their first look at the new center.

  • Black Tie
Students from the Riverview High School Kiltie Band march along the parade route.
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • November 11, 2025
Generations honor sacrifices at Sarasota Veterans Day Parade

Amid cold weather, the parade featured various local organizations and clubs, schools and government departments.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Keep calm and party on: Co-Chairs Renee Phinney, Lauren Dixon, Lauren Wohlwend and Allison Imre along with event planner Minta Getzen (center) make sure that every detail of Wine, Women & Shoes is handled with the utmost care.
  • By Janet Combs |
  • November 15, 2025
Wine, Women & Shoes steps up in support of Forty Carrots Family Center

The annual fundraiser welcomed more than 400 partygoers to The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota Nov. 14 to raise money for parent and children services.

  • Black Tie
Dimmitt Automotive Group President Peter Dimmitt says Bentley Tampa Bay and Bentley Sarasota will have a "symbiotic" relationship. They can "have a greater inventory to work out of," he says.
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • September 30, 2025
Downtown Sarasota to get Bentley franchise in 2026

A Bentley franchise has been awarded to Dimmitt Automotive Group, which has experience selling what the company's CEO calls "reward automobiles."

  • Sarasota
  • News
Members of the Del Webb Lakewood Ranch Association of Veterans and Military Supporters and MacDill personnel take a photo together in 2019 before the COVID pandemic changed the operation.
  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • November 26, 2025
Lakewood Ranch nonprofit feeds veterans for Thanksgiving

Operation Thanksgiving feeds active duty military personnel stationed out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Rabbi Jessica Spitalnic Mates delivers the central sermon at the 45th interfaith Thanksgiving service hosted by St. Armands Key Lutheran Church on Nov. 18. She was joined by SAKLC's Rev. Kenneth Blyth, Longboat Island Chapel's Rev. Brock Patterson, Christ Church of Longboat Key's Rev. Julia Piermont, All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church's Rev. David Marshall and St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church's Fr. Robert Dziedziak.
  • By Dana Kampa |
  • November 19, 2025
Religious leaders across faiths celebrate unity for Thanksgiving

Leaders on Longboat and St. Armands keys have been working to unite community members at Thanksgiving for 45 years.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Kymistrii Young (left), Elijah Golden (center) and Macaiden Brown (right) listen to coach Jared Clark's speech during Cardinal Mooney's early signing period ceremony.
  • By Jack Nelson |
  • December 3, 2025
Cardinal Mooney and Booker football celebrate 11 early signees

National Signing Day was Dec. 3 to mark the beginning of the NCAA's early signing period.

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
Paul Nicholas and David Cantor form an unlikely friendship in Florida Studio Theatre's "A Tailor Near Me."
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 9, 2025
The best things to do in Sarasota, Lakewood Ranch, Longboat for Dec. 11-17

Don't miss these arts and entertainment events around Sarasota and Manatee counties this week.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Anxious travelers are desperate to contact loved ones after they are stranded in Gander, Newfoundland, in Asolo Rep's production of "Come From Away."
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • November 19, 2025
Asolo Rep tells a story of Canadian hospitality with 'Come From Away'

When 7,000 travelers were grounded in Gander on 9/11, locals opened their homes — and their hearts.

  • Arts + Culture
Gunnar, a police dog with the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office, alerted to the potential presence of drugs in a car stopped by Sarasota Police, leading to the arrest of a Sunrise man.
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • September 29, 2025
Sunrise man arrested on drug charges within sight of Sarasota PD building

A traffic stop at an adjacent intersection leads to the search and fentanyl discovery.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Construction of the Ritz-Carlton Residences II in The Quay. The project will add 78 condos to downtown.
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • December 11, 2025
Thousands of new residences are planned now and soon in downtown

Cranes dot Sarasota's skyline as multifamily construction continues infill redevelopment with a growing trend toward rental units.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Sue Wertman has rung the bell outside the Publix on Longboat Key on behalf of the Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key since 2013.
  • By Dana Kampa |
  • December 21, 2025
Longest-serving Longboat bellringer attributes motivation to family

Sue Wertman, among her numerous other contributions to the community, has been ringing the bell for the Salvation Army on Longboat for 12 years.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
At a Junior Achievement "Discovery Center'' in Tampa, elementary-aged students run a mock city.Two similar facilities are proposed to be set up at Emma Booker Elementary and Booker Middle schools in Sarasota.
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • December 17, 2025
Rejections sent to Manatee, Sarasota Schools of Hope requesters

Manatee and Sarasota counties say no to a pair of companies seeking campus space. But that might not be the end of it.

  • Sarasota
  • Schools
A rendering by SB Architects of 1000 Boulevard of the Arts, which will include 117 condominiums in the west tower (right) and a Hyatt Centric Harborside hotel in the east.
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • May 6, 2025
Hyatt redevelopment adjustment upheld

The Sarasota City Commission affirmed its confirmation of the Planning Board approval of a driveway relocation for the Hyatt Regency redevelopment, paving the way for site plan consideration.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Tim Norwood
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • November 27, 2025
Entrepreneur harvests sea salt from local barrier islands

Tim Norwood created his own company, Sea Salt Florida, using sea water off the islands of Siesta, Longboat and Lido Key, among others.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
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