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Preia Hayes, 9, and sister, Iyleigh, 6, with Lilly Gerling, 4, and sister Grace, 6 enjoy at a Longboat beach last summer.
  • By Kristen Herhold |
  • July 13, 2016
Summer Bucket List

Enjoy everything the island and surrounding areas have to offer, minus the crowds.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • February 3, 2021
Teaching dogs new tricks in Lakewood Ranch

Pups and their owners enjoy Doggy Bootcamp Agility Class in Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • News
Cardinal Mooney has preseason football game canceled because of rain.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • August 16, 2019
Three Sarasota preseason football games canceled because of rain

Cardinal Mooney High has its preseason football game canceled because of rain, but Riverview, Sarasota and Booker are still scheduled to play.

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
A group of town officials and Key residents are working to create a list of questions that will be used to find out what the town wants and where it’s headed.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 13, 2013
Town Provides Consultant Draft Questions

Town Manager Dave Bullock facilitated a town working group meeting Monday that got together to create a list of questions it expects a consultant to answer later this year.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Shaina Swan, Traci and Mike Smullen and Julie Swan
  • By Harry Sayer |
  • March 14, 2020
A Life Story Foundation celebrates at Big Top

The Cirque to Cure gala was held March 14.

  • Black Tie
"I pay attention to a lot of film fests," says Allison Koehler, pictured here in SFF's education classroom. "I think the quality of our festival is right up there with Sundance and SXSW."
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • April 6, 2011
Sonic youth

Allison Koehler makes sure area students get the red-carpet treatment during SFF's youthFEST.

  • Arts + Culture
Members of the Waterlefe Book Club served popcorn. Pictured are Janet Stepp, Vicki Joshpe, Kim Hogan, Janis Bumgarner, Linda Gratsch and Ken Bumgarner.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • December 21, 2011
Freedom Elementary families party at the park

Freedom Elementary School hosted a special Party in the Park event Dec. 14 for its students at Manatee Mobile Home Park.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Bret Hauff |
  • August 13, 2018
Longboat gets AA+ credit rating for firehouse projects

Longboat Key sought a credit rating as it prepares to go to the bond market to fund a voter approved project to renovate the island's fire stations.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Colony Lender now has a 95% interest in the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort's tennis courts.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • May 20, 2011
Colony Lender's ownership share increases

Colony Lender LLC now has a 95% interest in the recreational/resort assets at The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort. That interest includes the tennis courts.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Staff members plant young coral in a nursery near damaged reef in Grenada. Photo courtesy of Mote Marine Laboratory.
  • By Katie Johns |
  • September 13, 2016
Mote Marine and The Nature Conservancy sign MOU for coral restoration initiative

The goal of the initiative is to restore more than one million coral reefs across the region.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
The renovation for the north Longboat Key Fire Rescue Station at 5492 Gulf of Mexico Drive less extensive, according to Fire Chief Paul Dezzi. Lt. Bryan Clark works on a truck while airing out the apparatus bays, Terry O'Connor
  • By Terry O’Connor |
  • December 21, 2016
Station renovation plans show two-for-one price

After being told to bring down costs, Longboat Key Fire Rescue will ask the Town Commission for renovations to both fire stations on the island.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Impact100 SRQ co-founders Tilly Valls McFadden and Jane Watt, Impact100 founder Wendy H. Steele, Violeta Huesman and Deborah M. Johnson  met at the Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida building.
  • By Harry Sayer |
  • September 15, 2020
Impact100 and Girl Scouts Gulf Coast Florida host suffragist celebration

The Equalitea event celebrated 100 year's of the fight for women's right to vote.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • June 20, 2012
School Board budget projects surplus

Superintendent Tim McGonegal hopes to use the extra dollars to give district employees a 1% bonus.

  • East County
  • News
"One has made me a much better the other," Noah Racey says about choreography versus performing.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • November 13, 2013
Noah Racey: Song-and-dance man

Noah Racey returns to Sarasota to charm Asolo Rep audiences for a second time. Although he's just here to choreograph "Show Boat," he's sure his Sarasota ship hasn't set sail.

  • Arts + Culture
Cops Corner
  • By Jay Heater |
  • April 18, 2018
Sarasota woman has nasty case of shingles

Cops Corner for Lakewood Ranch, East County areas — Interesting reports from the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
Lily Potter carefully rethreads the needle before sewing a hem on the plastic bag.
  • By Jessica Salmond |
  • April 13, 2016
Recycling becomes fashionable in Manatee County Library System

Library's fashion show displays teenagers' ingenuity.

  • East County
  • News
B.B. Gault
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • October 3, 2012
Pupcake Pooch Parties: Meet the models

Shannon Gault got some of Longboat Key's most prominent pups to model for her new business, Pupcake Pooch Parties. Here are the furry faces that agreed to work - but only for food.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
A years-long legal dispute involving the former Colony Beach & Tennis Resort has come to an end.
  • By John McGuire |
  • August 9, 2017
Unicorp and Colony Association end litigation

The two parties have been involved in legal disputes since 2010.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Violinist James Ehnes was the soloist for Sarasota Orchestra’s “Summer to Winter” Masterworks 3 concert Jan. 4-6. Courtesy photo
  • By Edward Alley |
  • January 7, 2019
Sarasota Orchestra pulls at audiences' heartstrings in Masterworks 3 concert

"Summer to Winter" kicked off 2019 with an unforgettable performance of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
  • By Greg Bortnichak |
  • March 19, 2013
An interview with American opera composer Carlisle Floyd

An interview with American opera composer Carlisle Floyd

  • Arts + Culture
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