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  • By Kent Chetlain |
  • February 3, 2010
Longboat Key - Real estate

Lido Beach home sells for $1.5 million

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • February 2, 2010
Mustangs fall in district final

Lakewood Ranch boys soccer will face Tampa Jesuit tonight in the regional quarterfinals.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • April 23, 2009
MTA students brighten smiles

Fourth-level students in MTI's Dental Assisting Program provided dental cleaning services to about 25 children.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Robin Roy |
  • January 28, 2010
School employee questioned for sending doctored e-mail

A Sarasota middle-school receptionist changed a news story to make it appear a former ABC 7 news anchor made a bomb threat to his old TV station.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • January 27, 2010
Key loses 100 businesses in the last five years

Planning and Zoning Board member Walter Hackett said the town can do a better job of supporting business on Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Rod Thomson |
  • March 2, 2011
MY VIEW: Anti-growthers reliably wrong

Local governments have wisely been reducing or ditching new home taxes known as impact fees to spur the economy. Opponents are spitting mad.

  • East County
  • Opinion
  • By Matt Orr |
  • November 15, 2012
TWIS Travel: Savor the perfect cruise experience on Celebrity

TWIS Travel: Savor the perfect cruise experience on Celebrity

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 23, 2012
Our View: Destined to mediocrity?

Congratulations to the citizens of Pensacola. They had the courage to recognize and admit their city was going nowhere, and that it needed a leader, a champion, to raise it up.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Siesta Village property owners have been waiting for months on county maintenance staff to address problems, including the removal of dead palm trees in front of the Michael Saunders office on Ocean Boulevard.
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • July 21, 2011
Village property owners demand upkeep oversight

With county staff proposing to take over Siesta Village maintenance, property owners insist they need to keep control.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • February 23, 2011
CDD 4 tackles security issue

The board will not contract with the Manatee Sheriff's Office for services but instead will look for another security provider.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • January 14, 2010
Top chef

After corporate downsizing in 2002 caused her to lose her job of more than 24 years with IBM, Tricia Dickerson turned her passion for cooking into a full-time profession.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • January 13, 2010
Black belt trains for U.S. National Team

Braden River High School sophomore Paige Oswald received her second-degree black belt in martial arts at the end of this past year.

  • East County
  • Sports
Danielle Brown and Ricardo Graziano dance the pas de deux from "Diamonds" at the Kennedy Center. Photo by Frank Atura.
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • November 9, 2011
Sarasota Ballet: 'Diamond' Exchange

As Sarasota Ballet gets ready to stage its hometown performance of 'Diamonds,' five dancers reflect on what it was like to dance the piece at the Kennedy Center in the company of a Balanchine muse.

  • Arts + Culture
Three of the four recent fatal accidents in the area occurred in the East County near University Parkway.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • February 9, 2011
Car, pedestrian collisions spike

The Florida Highway Patrol reported four fatalities and three serious injuries resulting from collisions with both bicyclists and pedestrians in the region in the last two weeks.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Joe Hendricks |
  • March 21, 2013
Out and about on Election Night (Part 2): The after-parties

Out and about on Election Night (Part 2): The after-parties

  • Arts + Entertainment
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  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 22, 2011
News Briefs: 6.23.11

Detectives investigate incident in River Club; Deputies thwart vehicle burglaries; Clarification; Out-of-Door Academy names new trustee; Manatee's Class of 2011 nets $9 million in scholarships; Buchanan named to health subcommittee; Bennett will not run for U.S. Congress

  • East County
  • News
Sundae Knight and Carol Whitmore
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • October 27, 2010
ELECTION 2010: Manatee County Commission

Incumbent Carol Whitmore will face challenger Sundae Knight for the at-large seat on the Manatee County Board of County Commissioners.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • December 9, 2009
Whimsical art museum colors North Trail

Marietta Museum of Art & Whimsy, pink with colorful accents, will open in January in the old Serendipity gallery.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 2, 2012
Our View: Signs of life

Let's feel good for a change, or at least better. Economic growth - vis-a-vis the contractions of 2009 and 2010 - is definitely under way.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • May 2, 2012
Travel Log: Finding Florida

East County residents Ray and Pat Ciemniecki recently completed their journey to all of Florida's 162 state parks.

  • East County
  • News
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