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  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 19, 2013
Submissions

Send in your favorite holiday moments to be included in our Jan. 9 issue.

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Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing with their daughter, Diver.
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • December 25, 2013
Video Year in Review: April 2013, Hymn for Her turn up the heat with new album

After two years of touring and living out of their Airstream trailer, roots-rock duo Hymn for Her has found a home in Sarasota - but they're not getting too comfortable.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Kylie Giasson and first-grade teacher Amy Pedler
  • By Heather Merriman Saba |
  • August 16, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: Meet the Teacher night at Southside Elementary

Southside Elementary School held its Meet the Teacher night Thursday, Aug. 15. Students and parents met their new teachers, picked up school supply lists and caught up with friends just in time for school to start Monday.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Chris Sancin, Joan Campo-Liga, Hayley Wielgus and Aynne Manning
  • By Heather Merriman Saba |
  • August 29, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: Designing Women Boutique Summer Salon Luncheon

Designing Women Boutique held its Ambassadors' Guild Summer Salon Luncheon on Thursday, Aug. 29, at Designing Women Boutique. Hayley Wielgus, anchor of ABC-7 News Sunrise and Noon spoke at the event.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • October 25, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: Circus City Architectural Salvage Big Top Benefit

PHOTO GALLERY: Circus City Architectural Salvage Big Top Benefit

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Mark Stackhouse, Barbara Richards Thomas Graff talk during a meeting.
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • September 28, 2023
Project 180 turns life around for formerly incarcerated individuals

The nonprofit offers support to people starting over after serving a prison sentence.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Participants of the 2017 VIP Program put on a show. Photo courtesy
  • By Brynn Mechem |
  • July 7, 2021
Florida Studio Theater to offer camp to youth on the autism spectrum

The Puzzle Project will be offered to children ages 7-12 who are on the autism spectrum.

  • Sarasota
  • Schools
Protestors for and against returning to school line up outside board chambers in July.
  • By Brynn Mechem |
  • October 13, 2020
Safety measures added to Sarasota School Board meetings

Following protests, disruptive residents, meeting participants will be checked with a metal detector before entering chambers.

  • Sarasota
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Deputy Director of Utilities Kevin Morris and Utilities Director Evan Pilachoswki prepare for a presentation to commissioners on Jan. 17.
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • January 26, 2023
Manatee trash collections could drop to once per week

Trash haulers are operating at a loss with twice-weekly collections, and county commissioners expressed concerns around the possibility of overburdening certain residents with rate increases.

  • East County
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David Wolff Jr. works to tie off a series of mini reefs in Longboat Key. Similar installations have been made in Siesta Key's Grand Canal. (Photo by Eric Garwood)
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 7, 2022
Siesta residents begin gathering data from canal project

Mini reefs and oyster gardens are intended to attract the kind of marine life that will naturally cleanse the water.

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The Sarasota County Property Appraiser pegged the value of the transfer station site at $2.42 million in 2020, with the land valued at $1.28 million.
  • By David Conway |
  • April 8, 2021
Officials endorse removal of downtown SCAT station

The city is encouraging the county to sell the bus station site to facilitate the redevelopment of the property.

  • Sarasota
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Carroll the bear will be doing a paw painting demonstration during the Teddy Bear Tea Party May 7 at Bearadise Ranch in Myakka City.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • April 28, 2022
It's tea time with mama bear at Myakka ranch

Conservation habitat facility Bearadise Ranch in Myakka City is hosting education and demonstration events with its bears.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Commissioner Vanessa Baugh wants Manatee County to begin creating workforce housing through land trusts as soon as possible. (File photo)
  • By Jay Heater |
  • September 8, 2022
Florida Housing Coalition seminar provides key workforce housing tips

Manatee County commissioners could identify some land trust possibilities by late this year.

  • East County
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  • By Robin Roy |
  • November 25, 2009
Five Points Park plans resurrected

Improving the downtown park was, at one time, the No. 1 project for the Community Redevelopment Agency. Those priorities changed over time, but now downtown groups want to revive the plans.

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  • By Stephanie Hannum |
  • June 17, 2010
Sarasota Small Business of the Year Awards: Grapevine Communications Int'l Inc.

Small Business of the Year -- Winner

  • Sarasota
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Meg Pierce's work is inspired by the colors and spirit of India.
  • By Loren Mayo and Molly Schechter |
  • July 13, 2011
Scene & Heard

YPGers distracted by unusual suspect After 300 hours, artist deems work is done WBTT, Players Theatre announce open auditions Spirit of India inspires colorful exhibition

  • Arts + Culture
  • By John Ewing |
  • February 13, 2012
A Love Letter to Sarasota - by Pamela Beck

A Love Letter to Sarasota - by Pamela Beck

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  • By Jen Blanco |
  • November 9, 2011
Collegiate players take center court

Lakewood Athletic Center will host the 2011 Intercollegiate Dick Vitale Clay Court Classic Nov. 11-13.

  • East County
  • Sports
Marcia Freedman displays one of her more recent watercolor paintings. She prefers painting watercolors to oil paintings.
  • By Rachel S. OHara |
  • September 21, 2011
Neighbors: Marcia Freedman

Artist Ed Whitney once commented on a painting, done by Marcia Freedman, saying that the artist was "a person having a love affair with color."

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • April 4, 2012
Neighbors: Vince Vizzaccaro

After six years of writing, the Lakewood Ranch resident has released his first novel.

  • East County
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