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Rebeccah Hazelkorn, a senior biologist, along with Sgt. Bruce King with the Sarasota Police Dept. work to get the whale on the trailer and dry land.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 26, 2017
Top Story - June: Rare whale found dead on Siesta Key

Catch up on the top news items of 2017 with the Observer's Digital Year in Review.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
The new watering schedule impacts neighborhoods in every Lakewood Ranch Phase 1 community development district.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • February 21, 2018
Complaints flow about Lakewood Ranch irrigation schedule

Lakewood Ranch Phase I residents upset about stinky watering during prime hours.

  • East County
  • News
A Canadian developer has planned a Dairy Queen for Stickney Point Road.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • September 20, 2016
Dairy Queen planned for Stickney Point

A Dairy Queen and two retail spaces are slated east of the intersection of South Tamiami Trail and Stickney Point Road.

  • Sarasota
  • News
A real estate brokerage firm has classified two neighborhoods in the city of Sarasota as highly walkable.
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 21, 2016
Sarasota neighborhoods rank high in walkability

Real estate brokerage firm Refin has ranked Main Street and the Rosemary District among the top 10 walkable neighborhoods in Florida

  • Sarasota
  • News
Anu Tali directs “Songs of Wars I Have Seen.” File photo
  • By Niki Kottmann |
  • October 25, 2017
Anu Tali announces she will leave Sarasota Orchestra in 2019

Tali says she will step down as music director of the Sarasota Orchestra to focus on her international career.

  • Arts + Culture
Student safety, finding additional revenue sources and alleviating overcrowding in county schools are items on Dr. Diana Greene's to-do list for 2016.
  • By Amanda Sebastiano |
  • January 6, 2016
People to watch

Manatee County Superintendent Dr. Diana Greene focuses on capacity and revenue issues in the New Year.

  • East County
  • News
Water and sewer impact fees were suspended during a slow time for development in the city. With construction on the rise, the city will consider restoring those fees.
  • By David Conway |
  • January 15, 2016
City considers restoring water and sewer impact fees

In 2011, the city agreed to suspend the fee on new developments for more than a decade. With the building climate improving, the City Commission will discuss reversing that decision.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Polo Grill and Bar owner Tommy Klauber and relative Spyder Broussard, who grew up in Houma, La., outside New Orleans.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • July 8, 2015
Polo Grill heats up with Cajun fun

The Polo Grill and Bar will host its annual fish fry and shrimp boil this weekend.

  • East County
  • News
hueweb
  • By Ashley Pawelczyk |
  • July 21, 2015
Let's Talk Locks: A brand new hue

Let's Talk Locks: A brand new hue

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Eric Garwood
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • January 11, 2017
New managing editor arrives at Observer

Journalist grew up and spent most of his career in Florida

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Winners Cathy and Larry Duguay recently celebrated Cathy’s 60th birthday by traveling to Greece and Turkey with their family. They took a moment to catch up with the East County Observer in Istanbul before the Blue Mosque’s nightly light show.
  • By Katie Johns |
  • November 9, 2016
It's Read Everywhere brings Observer around the world

Observer readers didn't forget to pack an Observer paper when jet setting around the world.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Tanja Hofmann has operated A Taste of Germany on Siesta Key for nearly five years.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • June 5, 2015
A Taste of Germany opens on south Siesta

After more than four years in Siesta Key Village, Tanja Hofmann moved her bakery and deli to the other side of the barrier island.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Devin McDermott
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • August 31, 2015
East County Sidelines 09.03.15

East County Sidelines 09.03.15

  • East County
  • Sports
Rotary Club of Longboat Key President Carol Erker informed the Town Commission Monday it has a $10,170 contribution for a dog park at Bayfront Park.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • September 23, 2015
LBK Rotary donates $10,170 to dog park

Bayfront Park has now received $12,270 in funding gifts for a new children’s playground and $10,170 for a future dog park.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Christine Goodall, Sarasota Police Chief Bernadette DiPino, artist Joe Cuffaro and Mike Evanoff
  • By Amanda Morales |
  • December 2, 2015
Sarasota Police Department shows artistic side

Local artist transforms part of the Sarasota Police Department headquarters into a community space with new mural.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • December 9, 2015
News Briefs: Longboat Key 12.10.15

Unicorp seeks to prevent Colony meeting; Six Longboat Key firefighters receive life-saving award; Town collects items for Toys for Tots

  • Longboat Key
  • News
An Atlanta-based development firm, Carter, plans to begin construction next week on 180 apartments in downtown Sarasota, in a project that dates back at least three years.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 23, 2015
Developer to break ground on 180 downtown apartments

Following a $7 million acquisition, Atlanta-based Carter aims to start construction next week on a downtown Sarasota project originally conceived by local entrepreneur Jesse Biter.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 29, 2015
WHAT'S HAPPENING | Week of Oct. 29

Check out a rundown of this week's news.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Longboat Key Town Commissioner Sid Ochs, Education Center founder Laura Taubes and Mayor James Edmundson cut the ribbon at the new Education Center in 1985.
  • By Kristen Herhold |
  • February 17, 2016
Education Center celebrates 30 years

Lifelong learning is the mission of the Longboat Key Education Center.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The overpass, as Schroeder-Manatee Ranch officials suggest, would dead end into Cattlemen Road, somewhere north of the southern boundary of the lake at Nathan Benderson Park.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 18, 2015
Traffic solution

Schroeder-Manatee Ranch unveils its preferred route for an I-75 overpass between University and Fruitville.

  • East County
  • News
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