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  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 2, 2015
Cops Corner: Sarasota 4.2.2015

Cops Corner: Sarasota 4.2.2015

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • January 27, 2010
Hidden treasure

Jewfish Key is home to 13 lots, and, if you believe the legend, buried treasure.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • January 6, 2012
Artificial crochet coral reef exhibit opens

The Manatee County Natural Resources Department will open the exhibit during its 'Meet the Reef Festival' Saturday.

  • East County
  • News
Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 12, 2018
Cops Corner: Sarasota 4.12.18

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • June 10, 2016
Tropical Storm Colin prompts big turnout at hurricane seminar

More than 130 residents, business leaders and town leaders attended the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce’s 14th annual Disaster Preparedness Seminar Thursday.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Courtesy photo.
  • By Rachel S. OHara |
  • July 4, 2012
Athlete of the Week: Cole Maden

Cole Maden, 13, recently returned from playing in Cooperstown, N.Y., with the Sarasota Sharks 12U baseball team.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Catcher Maddie Biggs and pitcher Kailey Christian helped Lakewood Ranch capture the Academic Team Championship for softball.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • May 20, 2016
Hit or Miss: Jen Blanco

Lakewood Ranch wins sixth-consecutive FHSAA Academic Team Championship.

  • East County
  • Sports
Longboat Key Town Manager Dave Bullock discusses town issues with the Longboat Observer.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 24, 2015
Bullock bytes: Town manager sounds off

Longboat Key Town Manager Dave Bullock sits down with the Longboat Observer to discuss town issues.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • September 14, 2011
Wobbly Feet plans Wifflemania

The East County-based Wobbly Feet Foundation will host Wifflemania for a Cure of A-T, a wiffleball tournament, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 24, at Longwood Park. 6050 Longwood Run Blvd.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Cat Pennenga Photography
  • A time to celebrate |
  • December 26, 2018
Just Married: Kym and Gerett

A fairy tale love story took this couple from the Country Club to the aisle.

  • Sarasota
  • Celebrations
An imposing modernist structure, the home was rented by Stephen King and his wife for three successive winter seasons in the late 1990s. The famously reclusive author then bought a home on Casey Key, where he still lives.
  • By Robert Plunket |
  • February 16, 2017
The perfect setting

The perfect setting

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • April 11, 2018
Why we should worry about China

US can’t put a warplane in the air without Chinese chips.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Jacob Martinez
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 21, 2017
Update: Serial flasher caught again

A man arrested for exposing himself to women in Manatee County has now been charged in Sarasota, as well.

  • East County
  • News
Voter registration forms are available at Longboat Key Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • January 28, 2013
Feb. 11 is registration deadline for Longboat election

Eligible voters must register by Feb. 11 to vote in the town of Longboat Key's March 12 general municipal election.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • January 29, 2014
Linde analyzes pension data

The town's pension debt of more than $27 million is more than twice its annual revenue. Future budget line items will pay the debt down.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Eden Farms and Market Owner Sam Caruso shows his hardest hit area during the wet summer — the seedling house.
  • By Amanda Sebastiano |
  • November 20, 2013
Farmers look forward to 2013 strawberry season

After a wet summer, East County crop growers regroup and prepare for their most profitable crop of the season.

  • East County
  • News
The lawsuit is tied to the failed development of city-owned land that is now the Palm Avenue parking garage and Art Ovation Hotel.
  • By David Conway |
  • August 16, 2018
Judge reduces city payment in Palm Avenue suit

After a jury ordered the city to pay a developer $49.8 million for breach of contract, a judge has lowered the damages in the case to $1.4 million plus interest.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Vanessa Baugh retains her District 5 seat with a win over Kathleen Grant.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • August 30, 2016
Baugh retains commissioner's seat in District 5 after Primary win

Priscilla Whisenant Trace earns District 1 seat in her first run at public office.

  • East County
  • News
Officials monitor the area of June 27 gas line break. Photo courtesy of Tina Adams.
  • By Sten Spinella |
  • July 17, 2019
Gas line breaks plague Longboat Key

Longboat Key leaders say islandwide utilities project will be closely monitored to avoid striking gas, water lines.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Joe Hendricks |
  • December 27, 2012
Citizens support reduced parking enforcement

Citizens support reduced parking enforcement

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  • Things To Do
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