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Read this week's Cops Corner
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 6, 2011
Cops Corner: Sarasota

Read this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Michael Eng |
  • January 19, 2011
Ranch kicks off first flag football tourney

Lakewood Ranch is accepting teams to compete in its family friendly Flag Football Experience Jan. 29.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Freya Robbins, CDFA™ |
  • December 5, 2019
HOPE for the Holidays

When we give "Hope" to others, we receive exponential "Hope" ourselves.

  • Health
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Former Lakewood Ranch High basketball player Jack Kelley is out of of intensive care after his hit-and-run accident.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • March 22, 2019
Former Lakewood Ranch basketball player out of intensive care

Former Lakewood Ranch High basketball player Jack Kelley is out of intensive care at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.

  • East County
  • Sports
Lakewood Ranch High School graduate Ian Griffin takes his seat before the start of the graduation ceremony.
  • By Berkley Mason |
  • May 21, 2017
Lakewood Ranch celebrates graduation

More than 600 graduates pack Bradenton Area Convention Center.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • October 7, 2011
East County business takes stand against cancer

Two local businesses this weekend will be holding fundraisers for cancer-related causes.

  • East County
  • News
Aria is one of the only two new condominium buildings built on  Longboat Key in nearly a decade.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • January 18, 2017
Aria penthouse breaks Longboat sales record

The Longboat Key condominium sold for $5.25 million, becoming the largest condo sale on the island in four years.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
A new law would protect parking-meter users from panhandlers.
  • By Robin Roy |
  • June 17, 2011
Panhandlers target parking-meter users

The city may enact a law making it illegal to panhandle within 20 feet of a parking meter.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Melissa and Brian Precourt and their daughter Gwendolyn, 5, get ready to sample a Blue Rooster pulled pork slider.
  • By Yaryna Klimchak |
  • October 25, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY : Taste of SOMA

Community members sampled food from 20 area restaurants Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Taste of SOMA, A South of Main Street Tasting and Awareness Event for The Child Protection Center. Lisa Ridings and Vertigo performed live soul music. Community members donated to the organization and enrolled in a raffle after taking a tour of the facilities.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
The Rams forced four turnovers in their 35-28 win.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • November 17, 2017
Riverview football stays alive, beats Vero Beach 35-28

The Rams forced four turnovers in the win.

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 4, 2012
Our View: Job 1: Fix, reduce pensions

It's time. The Longboat Key Town Commission election and commissioners' installations are completed. It's time to get back to work, and as the late Jim Durante used to say, do it "with all due haste."

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
The event includes a flashlight night walk, where attendees can admire the 12 Days of Christmas displays at Lake Manatee State Park. Courtesy photo by Rosalie Coddington.
  • By Jessica Salmond |
  • December 11, 2015
Weekend Best Bet: Holiday Reflections at the Lake

Lake Manatee State Park hosts first annual holiday family event.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Some town residents have asked about the possibility of piggybacking canal dredging with a recently completed Lido Key project. The complexities of permitting make that impractical, town officials said.
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • May 15, 2019
New wrinkles in canal plan have Longboat leaders looking at options

Cost estimates, extent of seagrass mitigation adds new variables to a long-proposed project.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Coach Don Purvis said he is proud of his team's efforts this season.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • November 20, 2010
Pirates fall in regional quarterfinal

The Braden River High football team saw its season come to an end with a 41-16 loss to Winter Haven in a Class 3A-Region 3 quarterfinal Nov. 19. ODA also lost in the first round of the playoffs.

  • East County
  • Sports
Students at America's Best Cheese tasting and class
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • March 21, 2014
PHOTO GALLERY: Artisan Cheese Company

The 15 students enrolled in Artisan Cheese Co.'s 'America's Best' Thursday, March 20 got hands (noses and mouths) on. They tasted and paired 10 American cheeses made of cow, goat and sheep's milk. The next class, Cheese 101, is April 2 as well as April 17.

  • Arts + Culture
Violetta Chandler does a live portrait painting Dec. 7 at Parker Robinson Interiors for the December First Fridays event. Photo by Niki Kottmann
  • By Niki Kottmann |
  • June 19, 2019
Artist Violetta Chandler paints her home away from home

The Sarasota-based painter uses inspiration from her native country and current home in her work.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • March 20, 2010
WEEKEND BEST BEST: Sarasota County Fair, Cracker Land

The Sarasota County Fair will take place March 19-28.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Yesterday's storm damaged mobile homes in Twin Shores Thursday. The flying metal also cut a palm tree in half.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • April 1, 2011
Storm damages Longboat Key community

A 30-second gust of wind and rain damaged 15 Longboat Key mobile homes, tearing off roofs and downing power lines.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By David Conway |
  • February 27, 2014
Noise changes stir up feedback

Commissioners will soon hear a proposal to revise the city's noise ordinance. The changes are already drawing residents' ire.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Key Chorale performed at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. in 2017.
  • By Niki Kottmann |
  • October 4, 2017
Chorale starts on right note

Key Chorale will begin its 33rd season with the Sarasota Choral Festival and end with the Tomorrow’s Voices Today concert.

  • Arts + Culture
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