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Brooke and Hayley Obando show off their national championship jackets and medals.
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • March 4, 2020
Lakewood Ranch cheerleaders stick landing at national championship

New Lakewood Ranch cheerleading team sticks landing at national championship

  • East County
  • News
Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association President Jay Yablon doesn't believe redevelopment issues will pose a problem.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • November 3, 2010
Town issues Colony deadline

The town says The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort must be operational within a year or it could lose about 129 grandfathered tourism units on its 18-acre site.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By John Ewing |
  • July 25, 2012
Earthdance: an art, music and energy festival for world peace

Earthdance: an art, music and energy festival for world peace

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Stu Drymon and Darrell Jackson both love researching beers and trying to create new recipes.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • November 20, 2019
Partners brew new business in Bradenton

Longtime friends start a microbrewery in East County.

  • East County
  • News
Commissioner Terry Turner felt it wouldn't be fair to allow two board appointments if they were just going to be voided.
  • By Robin Roy |
  • April 29, 2011
City commission pushes for Planning Board appointments

In their last meeting in office, three outgoing city commissioners pushed to appoint members to the Planning Board, even though the city attorney advised them other potential candidates were not given enough time to apply.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam Nadon |
  • April 16, 2018
'Chappaquiddick' is a strong biopic on the power of wealth

The tale of Senator Edward Kennedy's drunk driving tragedy sticks to the facts, allowing viewers to make their own judgment.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
Eagle Trace is a 131-unit private gated community at 1808 John Taylor Road in the East County.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • February 9, 2011
County approves Eagle Trace

The bank-owned 131-acre community will be located just south of State Road 64 and west of Pope Road.

  • East County
  • News
This conceptual rendering shows the future boathouse looking northeast. Courtesy image.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • January 10, 2018
Benderson boathouse dream still afloat

SANCA, foundation officials say boathouse construction was never promised.

  • East County
  • News
Erick Heidt is making a desktop stand which would let the user stand up to work on the computer.
  • By Jessica Salmond |
  • June 1, 2016
Different dreams

Braden River, Out-of-Door Academy seniors say goodbye to high school life.

  • East County
  • News
Julie McGue
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • May 7, 2021
Longboat author finds her family closer than she could have imagined

Julie McGue searched for her birth family and discovered a brother within sight of their Michigan home.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 16, 2014
Cops Corner: Longboat Key

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
John “Lightnin” Campbell is a fifth-generation Cortezian who has been fishing and stone crabbing Cortez waters most of his life.
  • By Su Byron |
  • February 20, 2020
Cortez Village: Yesterday and Today

To the proud residents of Cortez Village, history is a family affair.

  • LWR Life
Chef Danny Barbos slides a pizza into what he calls the Lamborghini of pizza ovens, a Marana.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • December 30, 2020
Put down your dough on this pizza in Lakewood Ranch

Legacy Golf Club in Lakewood Ranch introduces a pizzeria within its clubhouse.

  • East County
  • News
The Big Pass inlet has never been dredged.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • January 24, 2013
Sarasota eyes Big Pass for sand

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is analyzing the inlet as a sand source to renourish Lido Key.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Former Colony Beach & Tennis Resort General Manager Katie Moulton says helping parties achieve settlements as a professional mediator allows her to be with people again, and it just might help her heal from the one legal dispute she couldn’t settle.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • August 12, 2015
Where is Katie Moulton now?

Five years after the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort’s closing, longtime general manager Katie Moulton and owner Murf Klauber still talk Colony every day.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Kori Clark volunteers to run the online Create for Care: Art Projects for Kids.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • June 10, 2020
Boredom gets brush off in Lakewood Ranch with free art class

Artist Kori Clark keeps Lakewood Ranch area children busy with free online classes.

  • East County
  • News
Town staff hopes to begin construction on the $50 million utilities project next year.
  • By John McGuire |
  • May 26, 2017
Longboat's underground utilities project ahead of schedule

Town staff hopes to begin construction on the $50 million project next year.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Howard Millman lounges on Banyan Theater Company's "The Sty of the Blind Pig" set in the Cook Theatre — a stage with which he's extremely familiar.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • July 30, 2014
Storied Turnaround

Director Howard Millman prepares to open Banyan Theater Company's 'Collected Stories.' The man who saved Asolo Repertory Theatre from closing twice has a few stories of his own.

  • Arts + Culture
Martine and Pierre Filiatrault pose with a photo taken in front of their castle in Gaujac, France.
  • By Anna Brugmann |
  • April 20, 2017
Opsrey couple inherits French castle

Castle on a Hill

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
The property to be called the Braden River Preserve provides access directly to the Braden River. Courtesy image.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 9, 2018
Foundation sets $1 million goal for Bradenton preserve

Conservation group hopes to defray costs for River Club, Braden Woods residents affected by proposed taxing district.

  • East County
  • News
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