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Longboat Key can expect rainy conditions today as the remnants of Hurricane Isaac continue to bring tropical moisture onto the island.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • September 10, 2012
Key expects rainy conditions today

Intermittent heavy downpours are expected today on Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
The challenges relate to the Longboat Key Club and Resort’s proposed $400 million Islandside redevelopment project.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • November 3, 2011
IPOC drops DCA challenge

The dismissal ends pending administrative actions, but two challenges remain in Sarasota County Court.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Small cell poles have been erected around the city and Sarasota and surrounding unincorporated areas.
  • By Mark Bergin |
  • December 13, 2021
Town Commission could assume role in deciding on cell poles

If Longboat Key's rules change, the Town Commission would consider Verizon's proposal to build nine small cell poles and antennas to improve cell signal on the north end of the island.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  Longboat Limousine recently drove a customer to Ohio.
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 7, 2020
Car service replaces airplanes for a few Longboaters

Longboat Limousine places few limits on serving customers.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • December 11, 2019
Celebrating community support during the holidays in Lakewood Ranch

Lakewood Ranch Women's Club hosts third annual Holidays on Broadway dinner theatre charity fundraiser

  • East County
  • News
Cardinal Mooney junior Tayven Clark made his first varsity start at quarterback in his uncle Jared Clark's first game as head Coach.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • June 3, 2021
Our columnist's favorite moments of the HS sports season

Prose and Kohn: Ryan Kohn

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
The traffic monitoring device can be moved to any on town-owned pole on the island.
  • By Bret Hauff |
  • February 7, 2018
Longboat police purchase traffic monitoring device

The department hopes the technology, which measures the number of vehicles and the speed they travel, will help focus enforcement efforts

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Whitney Elfstrom |
  • March 19, 2020
Sarasota organizations to feed families amid school closures

What coronavirus school closures means for Sarasota students.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Queen Zabriskie, assistant professor of sociology
  • By Whitney Elfstrom |
  • February 5, 2020
New College to host symposium

New College will hold its annual New Schools of Black Thought symposium on Feb. 8.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • July 22, 2015
It’s time: peacocks must go

Round up all of them. Keeping a dozen male peacocks won’t change this fact: They’re a nuisance.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 3, 2016
Truck cited for Ringling Bridge stoppage

For the third time in the last two weeks, a truck forced the closure of westbound lanes of the major thoroughfare this morning.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Superintendent Rick Mills, center, flanked by his senior leadership team at a press conference Friday, said the school district remains upbeat about the future. Photo by Josh Siegel
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • May 7, 2014
Audits cost district $7 million

The Manatee County School District must cut $9.3 million in the 2014-15 budget to meet reserve requirements.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • January 12, 2011
Seguso family celebrates daughter's christening

Lennon Shy Charlotte Seguso, the youngest daughter of Robbie and Carling Bassett Seguso and granddaughter of Sue Bassett Klauber, was baptized Jan. 2, at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.
  • By David Conway |
  • January 18, 2018
Cops Corner: Man finds gun on the beach

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • In Memoriam |
  • November 9, 2018
Robert Philip Coyne

Mr. Robert (Bob) Philip Coyne, of Longboat Key, Florida and Osterville, Massachusetts, born on November 28, 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts, to the late Eleanor Scully Coyne and the late George Kermit Coyne, Sr., passed away at age 76 on November 8, 2018.

  • Longboat Key
  • Tributes & Obituaries
  • By David Conway |
  • May 6, 2021
Cops Corner: Sarasota 5.6.21

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
Michael Wallace, Bob Schauer and Eric Walsh. Courtesy photo.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 28, 2011
University Park shines at charity ball

Members of the University Park Women's Club and their guests sparkled Dec. 10, during the club's seventh annual Diamond and Crystal Charity Ball

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 2, 2014
News Briefs

APRIL FOOLS' - You've got three minutes; Town hires therapist for board members; The EDC praises Colony as local job creator; Healthcare.gov architect to heal town website

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Paul Crotty, Mary DuBois, Robert Foti, Chairwoman Terri Maze, Jan Tomlinson and Janet Burtnett
  • By Kayleigh Omang |
  • February 10, 2018
Catholic Charities goes mad for Mardi Gras

The Mardi Gras Madness Gala was hosted on Feb. 10 at Michael's On East.

  • Black Tie
Members of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens board of trustees pose before shoveling dirt at today’s groundbreaking ceremony.
  • By David Conway |
  • June 3, 2021
Selby Gardens breaks ground on campus renovations

The botanical garden celebrated the commencement of the first phase of a master plan it intends to implement over the next decade.

  • Sarasota
  • News
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