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  • By Loren Mayo |
  • July 1, 2010
Paddleboarding craze creates major waves

The Sarasota Stand Up Paddleboarding Beach Festival with Ark Paddleboards and Sarasota Paddleboard Co. will be July 17-18.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • December 15, 2010
Polo Club celebrates 20 years

The Sarasota Polo Club at Lakewood Ranch will kick off its 20th season with The Polo Grill and Bar Cup Dec. 19.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Stephanie Hannum |
  • June 24, 2010
RECIPE AND A RESERVATION: Beach Bistro

Beach Bistro owner Sean Murphy shares an exclusive recipe with YourObserver.com readers.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Stephanie Peters is a Sarasota hairstylist and artist-about-town.
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • May 11, 2011
Scene & Heard

Perales places first at RCAD exhibit; 'Joint Collective' comes to State Street; CEO receives Broadway award; Ringling Museum flashes; and Hot Tickets.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Robin Roy |
  • June 17, 2010
County: 2012 to be turnaround

Sarasota County will trim $16.7 million from its budget this fiscal year.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • November 11, 2009
Palm-Aire chef serves up slices of heaven

Sylvia Parker opened Sylvia's Heavenly Cheesecakes about 10 years ago.

  • East County
  • News
Josephine Eisenberg, left, Associate director of development, Jewish Family & Children's Service
  • By Molly Schechter |
  • April 11, 2012
EDIBLES: Your favorites 'to go'

To a New Yorker like me, moving to Sarasota presented a huge change on the "to-go" front.

  • Arts + Culture
Paul Berriff was interviewed by the Longboat Observer shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In the photo, he shows what his filmmaking equipment looked like after it had been in the debris. File photo.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • September 7, 2011
9/11 Looking Back: Paul Berriff

Paul Berriff was filming an Animal Planet series Sept. 11 in Manhattan, N.Y., when he heard that the North Tower of the World Trade Center had been struck by a plane.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Guest food editor Lynn Barrie with her English Sherry Trifle.
  • By Molly Schechter |
  • April 27, 2011
Edibles - Lynn Barrie: exotic meets engaging

British by birth, Lynn Barrie has lived not only in England, but West Africa and Pakistan and Westport, Conn., all before moving to Sarasota. And all that experience comes together in her personal style and in how she entertains.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • January 12, 2012
Bartolotta has support to stay put

Three out of five commissioners believe the city manager should not be fired or suspended.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 16, 2009
Our View: Still time to kill health bills

Our View: Still time to kill health bills

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
The Holiday Inn sign was torn down after it closed.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • September 4, 2013
Key people reflect on Holiday Inn's closing

The Longboat Key Holiday Inn closed in September 2003 to make way for the luxury 29-unit Positano condominium. Ten years later, how has that closing impacted the Key?

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • March 6, 2013
Our View: Economics of blackmail

For all those Tea Partyers chafing over Gov. Rick Scott's switcheroo to accept Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid spending in the state, sometimes you just have to take ipecac.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • October 28, 2009
Historic Homecoming

For nearly three decades, the sand-based seahorse sculptures at the Lido Casino were a Sarasota icon. Now, two of the sculptures have found a new home.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Designing Women Boutique founder Jean Weidner, Ronald Taub and Marcia Jean Taub, wearing one of her late mother's outfits.
  • By Molly Schechter |
  • April 20, 2011
Black Tie & Tales

A fitting memorial; Now that's cooking!; A big hug back to Betty; Tidbits; Black Tie Affair

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • July 21, 2010
Arts anchor (WITH VIDEO)

Sarasota radio host Lynne Bernfield has delved into the minds and hearts of Sarasota's most beloved artists and entertainers.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 27, 2010
Cops Corner

May 18 Disco divas 1:45 a.m. - 3500 block of Fruitville Road. Suspicious Incident. Someone called the police to report six cars in a parking lot with loud music blaring and four or five women dancing provocatively.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • November 17, 2010
Cops Corner 11.18.10

The suspect stole two prepaid cell phones, three T-shirts and a pair of headphones. The total value of the merchandise is $132.76.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • May 26, 2010
Longboaters learn secrets of community-center success

Approximately 20 Longboat residents toured the Anna Maria Island Community Center facility May 18, to learn about a non-profit model of community-center development.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
This home at 13623 Legends Walk Terrace has five bedrooms, fourth baths, a pool and 4,476 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.21 million. Photo by Pam Eubanks
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 1, 2014
The Concession home sells for $1.8 million

A home in Concession tops all transactions in this week's real estate.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
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