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The Longboat Key Education Center is preparing for its fall season.
  • By Katie Johns |
  • October 19, 2016
Longboat Key Education Center finalizes fall line-up

The fall season runs from Oct. 17 to Dec. 16.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Danny Brannon, principal of Palm Beach-based Brannon & Gillespie LLC who is acting as the town’s undergrounding consultant, has worked with approximately 10 Florida counties and municipalities to help work them through undergrounding projects.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • October 28, 2015
GMD power pole points explained

Longboat Key's consultant explains the bottom lines on the undergrounding referendum.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Katie Johns |
  • August 2, 2017
Aqua Kids meet Mote turtles

The campers learned about various types of turtles on Aug. 2.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The HuB Lofts will sit next to its namesake business incubator on Fruitville Road.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • March 24, 2016
Downtown Sarasota apartment complex moves forward

Developers Jesse Biter and Brian Jones will add 97 new apartments to the downtown area with the HuB Lofts — feeding demand mirrored in local growth trends.

  • Sarasota
  • News
**Julie Smith and her daughter, Amanda, are leaders of two Lakewood Ranch Women's Giving Circles, which donate money to local charities.
  • By Amanda Sebastiano |
  • July 1, 2015
Central Park resident comes full circle with Giving Circle

After a childhood of watching her mother and father donate their time and money to helping charities, 26-year-old attorney and Central Park resident Amanda Smith is following in her family's footsteps with her new Giving Circle — Cheers for Charity.

  • East County
  • News
The playground, installed in December, was created for children ages two to 12.
  • By Kristen Herhold |
  • December 18, 2014
Joan M. Durante Park installs new playground

The playground is made from post-consumer recycled materials.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
According to Swezey, his motivation and flexibility are what set him apart from other educators
  • By Samantha Chaney |
  • May 23, 2019
Teaching-award finalist helps pupils find a voice

Shane Swezey, a Sarasota educator and board-certified music therapist, uses music as more than just an instrument for fun.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Richard ‘Sam’ Barlow
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • October 3, 2012
Key Club's long-term staffers share highlights

These five Longboat Key Club and Resort employees were there from the beginning - 30 years ago. Some began their positions even earlier in jobs with Arvida Corp. Now, these long-time employees reflect on the Key Club's pearl anniversary.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Kaye Warr |
  • May 1, 2012
Cutting Loose

Cutting Loose

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Longboat Key Police Chief Pete Cumming was the speaker at the Longboat Key Kiwanis Club’s weekly meeting Thursday, June 13.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 19, 2013
Chief updates residents on crime

The Police Department has "another set of eyes" with the town's future license- plate-recognition cameras that will make department employees busier.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Photo by David Conway
  • By David Conway |
  • May 14, 2015
Merchants await opening of State Street garage

As the city delays the opening of the State Street parking garage until the end of May, businesses are continuing to weather the impact of construction.

  • Sarasota
  • News
New Stoneybrook homeowners association members Tom Bakalar and Dick Williams (and Williams’ wife, Barb) came together for coffee Dec. 17 in anticipation of the Jan. 2 turnover date and election.
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • January 3, 2014
Stoneybrook resident-controlled board named

After more than a decade of developer control, nine Stoneybrook residents have assumed control of their community.

  • East County
  • News
Save Our Seabirds CEO David Pilston, holding Gabby, an umbrella cockatoo, with Ringling student Meghan Kay-Yun Cole
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • October 16, 2013
Students soar in SOS projects

College students designed a new logo for Save Our Seabirds during a creative copywriting class project last semester.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 6, 2013
News Briefs

Commissioners considers re-lease of Burns Square lot; North Trail rezone public hearing is continued

  • Sarasota
  • News
The Sarasota County School Board offered Todd Bowden the superintendent position.
  • By Anna Brugmann |
  • October 18, 2016
School Board opts for homegrown superintendent candidate

The Sarasota County School Board voted 4-1 to offer the superintendent position to Todd Bowden.

  • Sarasota
  • News
hair
  • By Coral Pleas |
  • February 18, 2014
Short hair: The new long?

Short hair: The new long?

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Kelly Sims
  • By Loren Mayo and Rachel S. OHara |
  • August 25, 2011
Neighbors: Back to School 2011

First-day-of-school jitters aren't just for the little ones - they happen to moms, dads and the older kids, too.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
After posting several years of losses, Bobby Jones Golf Club has required hundreds of thousands of dollars in general fund subsidies in the past two years.
  • By David Conway |
  • December 7, 2018
City to discuss Bobby Jones improvements

Plans to renovate the municipal golf course could cost up to $16.7 million, with no guarantee of future profitability.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Lisa Bechtold has served as the executive director of Take Stock in Children for 16 years. Photo by Niki Kottmann
  • By Niki Kottmann |
  • November 25, 2016
People with Purpose: Lisa Bechtold

The single mother of three also looks out for hundreds of at-risk youth.

  • Black Tie
Zuleika Zunz
  • By Observer Staff |
  • March 19, 2014
Village kids hop aboard bus project

The historic Longbeach Village school bus stop has a new look courtesy of the neighborhood's children, who gathered March 1 for a painting project.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
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