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  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 25, 2012
News Briefs

Costco reels in applications for store; Sarasota sculptor honored in Boston; Trader Joe's building changes ownership

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Yaryna Klimchak |
  • August 14, 2013
Destination: VENICE

A beautiful beach, fishing pier and waterside meals make Venice the ideal destination for a little bit of staycation paradise. Even if you are not an avid beachgoer, downtown Venice offers great local restaurants and shops.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • November 13, 2009
Pirates stumble in season finale

The Braden River High football team fell to Palmetto 7-3 tonight in its final regular season game.

  • East County
  • Sports
Dr. Murray "Murf" Klauber has persuaded the 2013 Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam tour to make a stop at the Colony property on its way to a scheduled tour date in Miami.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • April 1, 2013
Colony to be demolished

The town of Longboat Key has approved a special-use permit to allow a monster-truck show to demolish the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
The home at 5940 Emerald Harbor Drive has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,788 square feet of living area. It sold for $627,500. Photo by Amanda Sebastiano.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • August 30, 2011
An Emerald Harbor home sells for $627,500

Sandra Drell, of Vilas, Wis., sold her home at 5940 Emerald Harbor Drive to David Jones and Susan McVeigh-Jones, of Newtown Square, Pa., for $627,500.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Step one: Draw your design.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • October 24, 2012
Area artist helps people become two-faced

Joannie Atkins has been doing special-effects makeup since 2003; she graduated from the Tom Savini School of Special Effects Makeup. She works with area photographers and production companies to produce some authentically scary-looking makeup.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Rod Thomson |
  • July 12, 2012
My View: City sadly fiddles with registry

Talk about fiddling while Rome burns. The city of Sarasota is facing a series of crises threatening to escalate further.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Robin Roy |
  • November 9, 2009
UPDATE: County commission axes tree ordinance

Developers and builders lined up to oppose a proposed ordinance that would have required developers to get special permission to remove "baby" grand trees, which are about half the size of grand trees.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 12, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 4, 2013
Sidelines

Manatee Admirals improve to 9-1; ODA girls basketball sinks St. Stephen's; Inspiration Academy names tennis director; IMG taps new director of baseball; Mooney cruises past Imagine School

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Pam Nadon |
  • June 17, 2009
Film Review: 'The Merry Gentleman'

Film Review: 'The Merry Gentleman'

  • Arts + Culture
Denise Kowal is a New Urbanist, downtown stakeholder of one of Sarasota’s most visible historic buildings and graduate of the SmartCode.
  • By Denise Kowal |
  • May 31, 2012
My View: We shall not abandon the plan

In adopting the Downtown Sarasota Master Plan in January 2001, the city of Sarasota embraced the responsibility for civic parking, after hosting over the course of several years an inclusive, informative and transparent process that gained consensus among our entire community for the plan.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 26, 2011
Top Cops of the Week

Enjoy the top Cops Corner stories that ran this week.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Artist Diana McConnell sold her jewelry at a past Siesta Fiesta. File photo.
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • April 12, 2012
Annual Siesta Fiesta returns to the Village

This weekend, the Siesta Key Village will close its streets for one of the last - and most popular - events of the season.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Read this week's Cops Corner.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 18, 2012
Cops Corner: Pelican Press

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Nolan Peterson |
  • September 11, 2013
My View: 16 names

"A plane flew into the World Trade Center," I overheard someone say.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 17, 2010
Bowling alley project in the gutter

Hubbard Entertainment's proposed bowling alley in Lakewood Ranch is the second project in the development's planned entertainment hub to fail.

  • East County
  • News
Ted Hamm is eager to start work as a chaplain for the U.S. Army. He will participate in chaplain training in South Carolina.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • August 7, 2013
Cornerstone pastor takes new post

Cornerstone's assistant pastor, Ted Hamm, will leave this month for Columbia, S.C., to become an Army chaplain.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • January 6, 2010
IS TOWN HALL TOXIC?

In a letter to Lakewood Ranch Community Development District supervisors last month, former Town Hall employee Sue Kara called it a 'toxic and dysfunctional environment.'

  • East County
  • News
  • By Kimberly Braun |
  • January 28, 2012
Never Thought About It---Blood, That Is...

Never Thought About It---Blood, That Is...

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
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