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File photo Even the most stringent growth controls fail to prevent growth in attractive places — it just makes them prohibitively expensive and clogged with traffic, lowering the quality of life for everyone.
  • By Adrian Moore |
  • January 19, 2017
Embracing growth and grappling with traffic

Tips on addressing the county's most pressing issues.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • May 7, 2015
County approves Siesta Key parking restrictions

Sarasota County commissioners approved a ban on commercial vehicles in the Siesta Key Village municipal parking lot Wednesday.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Join Emily Walsh for the Observer Daily Headlines. Image shown will not play video.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 3, 2012
April 3: Daily Headlines Video

Join us as we observe and report today's stories from Longboat Key, East County, Sarasota, and Siesta Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Liliana Aguilar and title sponsor Beatrice Friedman
  • By Black Tie Staff |
  • March 5, 2011
Sarasota Orchestra 'Behind the Mask' Gala

Sarasota Orchestra 'Behind the Mask' Gala

  • Black Tie
  • By Stephen Warne |
  • June 26, 2012
National HIV Testing Day

National HIV Testing Day

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
East County sports roundup: 12.04.17
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • December 4, 2017
East County sports weekend roundup: 12.04.17

East County sports weekend roundup: 12.04.17

  • East County
  • Sports
uncodnitionalgum
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • April 1, 2015
'Unconditional Surrender' statue gets April fooled

'Unconditional Surrender' statue gets April fooled

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
While the town of Longboat Key doesn't have a homeless issue like the streets of Sarasota, it has agreed to support a regional effort to combat the problem with a small donation.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • August 19, 2013
Town offers some homeless support

The Town Commission agreed to give Sarasota County $1,000 toward a regional homeless strategy effort.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • December 23, 2016
Top Story — February: Sarasota Ballet releases Managing Director Mary Anne Servian

Catch up on the hottest news items of the of the year with the Observer’s Digital Year in Review.

  • Arts + Culture
Deputy Brian Biegel and K9 Ryker attended 80 hours of training, which included searching dozens of vehicles, thousands of parcels and conducted more than a dozen building and area searches.
  • By Nolan Peterson |
  • March 28, 2014
K9 team certified in explosives detection

The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office recently added the only certified bomb detection team in Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte, Hardee, DeSoto and Highlands counties, and the first at this agency since 2004.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Lam Lum, owner of a Taste of Asia, stands behind the bar of the property he and is wife, Selina, will renovate to open their new restaurant.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • May 24, 2012
A Taste of Asia to leave Village

A week after the Pelican Press reported on the exit of two Siesta Key Village mainstays from the strip, business continues to shuffle with the departure of a couple of new faces.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Beginning last fall, city staff held a series of public workshops to get input as it develops a parks master plan.
  • By David Conway |
  • May 24, 2018
Parks staff shares master plan update

Sarasota city staff is working with a consultant on a strategy for ensuring residents are satisfied with their parks and recreation options.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • October 22, 2013
Blazers win regional title

The Sarasota Christian boys golf team shot a combined 291 to win the Class 1A-Region 6 title Oct. 21.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Ruben Poncia works on his piece “Flea Circus”.
  • By Rachel S. OHara |
  • November 5, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Sarasota Chalk Festival - Sunday

Thousands of people came out to see the finished chalk pieces Sunday, Nov. 4.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Best of Cops Corner
  • By Jay Heater |
  • December 26, 2018
Best of Cops Corner for Lakewood Ranch, Bradenton areas in 2018

Some of the most interesting Sheriff's Office reports in 2018.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
This home at 5415 Azure Way has three bedrooms, two baths, one half-bath, a pool and 3,063 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.1 million.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 31, 2013
Home in Siesta Isles sells for $1.1 million

Thomas Fuller, trustee, of Geneva, Ill., sold the home at 5415 Azure Way to Robert Hinkle and Brenda Hinkle, trustees, of Purcellville, Va., for $1.1 million.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
This home at 1368 Harbor Drive has four bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,484 square feet of living area. It sold for $3 million. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 10, 2013
Four-bedroom home in Harbor Acres sells for $3 million

A home in Harbor Acres tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Barbara Edgecombe, of Osprey, sold her home at 1368 Harbor Drive to Rebekah Parker, trustee, of Virginia Beach, Va., for $3 million.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
This home at 15007 Camargo Place in Lakewood Ranch tops all residential real estate transactions this week.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 8, 2017
Country Club East home tops sales at $872,000

Residential real estate transactions for Aug. 28 to Sept. 1.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
Sarasota Garden Club members Ginger Vance, Bill Dalgarno, Wilda Meier, Shirley Cook, Marvera Murphy and Jane Lawrence today planted a new tree at Forty Carrots.
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • April 21, 2011
Forty Carrots, Garden Club celebrate Arbor Day (VIDEO)

Preschoolers at Forty Carrots commemorated Arbor Day with the planting of a new tree by the Sarasota Garden Club and received tips on caring for it from Amy Meese of Sarasota County.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Yacht broker Roy Kaplan stands in front of the boat slips at the Hyatt Regency.
  • By Robin Roy |
  • May 5, 2011
'Bring back the boats'

As many in the community seek ways to revitalize the local economy, a Sarasota yacht broker believes one answer could be to rebuild the boat basin at the former Quay and Hyatt Regency hotel.

  • Sarasota
  • News
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