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  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 12, 2012
News Briefs

Town interviews planning consultants; Town accepting Toys for Tots donations

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 19, 2014
Cops Corner: Sarasota

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
Longboat Key projects manager James Linkogle shows how the town's undergrounding utility service will replace FPL poles.
  • By Mark Bergin |
  • September 8, 2020
Phase one of Longboat Key's undergrounding project is near completion

The town of Longboat Key's plan is to have its $49.1 million undergrounding project finished by the end of 2022.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
ODA volleyball
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • October 31, 2013
Sidelines

ODA volleyball; Riverview Rams win district crown; Sarasota cruises to district titles; Cougars victorious at homecoming; Falcons open new athletic center

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • In Memoriam |
  • February 10, 2020
Dr. James Edmond Green

James Edmond Green, Ph.D., of Lakewood Ranch and Leakey, TX departed this world quietly and unexpectedly in the early hours of Feb. 1, 2019, after a life steered in the “fast lane” and filled with remarkable academic, professional and personal accomplishm

  • East County
  • Tributes & Obituaries
Sirius Day Spa manager Jenn Devine took her time touching up Lindsey Golonka 's hair.
  • By Harry Sayer |
  • May 19, 2020
The Mane Event

Professional hair care can't come soon enough after weeks of lock down.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Stan Horwich flips through the letters.
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • September 2, 2019
Call leads to a connection with Longboat Key man's wartime past

Longboater Stan Horwich gets a call that brings him back to Australia . . . in 1942.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 5, 2013
Obituary: Donald Sayre FitzGibbon

Donald Sayre FitzGibbon, 88, of Longboat Key and Frederick, Md., died May 25.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Longboat Key Police issued an arrest warrant for a Beachplace woman's son-in-law after she reported $20,000 in missing jewelry and other items.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 24, 2015
Police charge woman’s son-in-law for jewelry theft

A Longboat Key woman reported more than $20,000 worth of valuables missing from her Beachplace unit in May.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Blue daze on a bush at the park's front.
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • July 20, 2020
Check out Durante Park to meet your natural neighbors

An informed walk-through of some of the trails of Joan M. Durante Park.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 13, 2020
Longboat Key weather page photo: February 13

Pamela Kemper captured an image of a glorious sunset overlooking Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Kuniko Yamamoto’s “Oh, Origami” takes place Sunday, Feb. 3. Courtesy photo
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • January 30, 2019
Critic's Picks: SaraSolo Festival Week 2

The 2019 SaraSolo Festival continues. Here’s another idiosyncratic selection of the second weekend’s one-person shows.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • May 24, 2017
This Week in Sarasota: Thursday, May 25

A look at our favorite events taking place this week.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • September 12, 2012
SIDELINES

LWR Mustangs win quad match; Lakewood Ranch tops The Out-of-Door Academy

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Observer Staff |
  • January 16, 2013
Our View: Town center? It can be more

Of course Longboat Key resident Joe Wolfer would be thrilled if the town of Longboat Key paid a market-rate price for his three-acre property next to Publix and the Longboat Key Public Tennis Center.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Harry Sayer |
  • March 5, 2020
Planned Parenthood touts "Unstoppable" coalition at dinner

Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida's Sarasota Dinner and Silent Auction: Together We Are Unstoppable was held March 5 at the Circus Arts Conservatory

  • Black Tie
The Riverview High volleyball team is now 16-1.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • October 8, 2015
Riverview extends winning streak

The Riverview High volleyball team won its ninth straight match Oct. 7.

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
Terry Gans took the at-large seat vacated by Hal Lenobel during Tuesday’s special commission meeting. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • July 18, 2012
Gans gets at-large seat

Terry Gans is known for taking a stand on Key issues, and now he has a new seat at Longboat Key Town Hall: on the dais of the Longboat Key Town Commission.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Benderson Development has decorated its shopping plazas in the University Parkway corridor with millions of Christmas lights.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • November 29, 2017
Benderson Development lights up 300 acres of UTC

Developer has plans to expand and further develop its holiday light display along Cattlemen, University Parkway.

  • East County
  • News
Carolyn Popp and Alicia Taylor Tomasko perform in "Native Gardens." Photo by Matthew Holler
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • February 7, 2018
New FST production begs the question 'whose yard is it anyway?'

“Native Gardens” blossoms with conflict and comedy at Florida Studio Theatre.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
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