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Ryan Kohn puts his might to the test with the NBP Dragons. Photo courtesy Douglas Jessmer.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • October 2, 2019
Prose and Kohn: Dragon boat is harder than you think

The sport is challenging while remaining fun.

  • East County
  • Sports
Local designer Courtney Adams launched her loungewear line, Tocco Lusso, in August.
  • By Heather Merriman Saba |
  • January 22, 2014
Hot Flash: Local designer launches fashionably comfortable line

Our Black Tie assistant editor sits down with local designer Courtney Adams to discuss her newly launched loungewear fashion line.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • October 10, 2018
Cops Corner: When the car haulers return, it can only mean fall is here

Police reports from around the Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
The Lakewood Ranch girls basketball team is heading to its first Final Four Feb. 19 (courtesy Karter Clark)
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • February 18, 2016
Meet the Team: Lakewood Ranch Girls Basketball

A look at the 11 girls who will take the court for the Mustangs in the Final Four Feb. 19.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Gene Crites |
  • September 2, 2010
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: User experience shows roundabouts are a problem

I come from Greater Boston metropolitan area, and I want to tell you from firsthand experience that these roundabouts are going to be a major problem for Sarasota.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Iain Webb (left) in the 1986 revival of Sir Frederick Ashton’s “Valse nobles et sentimentales,” with Kevin O’Hare (right), current director of the Royal Ballet.
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • January 18, 2017
Reviving History at the Sarasota Ballet

With ‘Ashton, Graziano and Tuckett’ Sarasota Ballet displays its commitment to preserving ballet history.

  • Arts + Culture
Tim Hyden started as East Manatee Fire Rescue District'      s training officer, then a newly created position, in late 2004.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 22, 2017
Longtime training officer heads leaves fire service

The man who created East Manatee Fire Rescue's Training program is heading across the state.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Whitney Elfstrom |
  • July 3, 2019
Sarasota’s own ‘School of Rock’

Everyone Rocks offers an alternative method to traditional music lessons.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Photo by Loren Mayo.
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • November 10, 2011
Neighbors: Leonard Kessler

Leonard Kessler has just returned from a trip to the mechanic. When he opens the door to his Pelican Cove townhouse, it's not his crop of white hair that stands out, nor his crisp blue-and-white striped shirt beneath his sport coat or even the gray pencil sketch of his sister down the hallway.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • In Memoriam |
  • December 10, 2020
Robert Eric Endres (Bob)

In Sarasota / Longboat Key, Florida December 4, 2020 at the age of 78 following a long illness.

  • Longboat Key
  • Tributes & Obituaries
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • February 27, 2014
Commission to consider Siesta paddle-board proposal

Sarasota County commissioners next week will discuss a request from two business owners to allow the rental of stand-up paddle boards at Siesta Key public beach.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 24, 2021
East County weather page photo: June 24

Ted Spitzmiller captured this alligator roaming the neighborhood of the Muirfield subdivision in the Country Club in Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
After spending four years on Riverview’s varsity squad, senior running back Karan Higdon played his final high school game Nov. 7.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • November 13, 2014
Going out in style

Senior Karan Higdon scored four touchdowns versus rival Sarasota in his final game for the Rams.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Christine Robinson reads county materials and information in her spare time the way other people read novels, she said.
  • By Jessica Salmond |
  • March 12, 2015
Q+A with Christine Robinson

Christine Robinson was appointed to the Sarasota County Commission in 2010 to fill the District 3 vacancy and was elected to office in 2012.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Downtown Improvement District Operations Manager John Moran and Gotcha Group Vice President Griffin Blackwelder pose in front of an electric vehicle at City Hall Monday.
  • By David Conway |
  • February 8, 2017
City strikes deal with downtown transit operator

The Sarasota City Commission approved a $338,000 contract with a private operator to start a free, on-demand transportation service in the heart of the city.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Master sandsculptor Bert Adams works on his creation, "Ying Yang," during the inaugural Crystal Classic in 2010 on Siesta Public Beach. File photo
  • By Observer Staff |
  • November 3, 2011
Crystal Classic VIP fundraiser planned Nov. 8

During the Nov. 1 Siesta Key Village Association meeting, Cheryl Gaddie, president of the Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce, invited everyone to participate in a VIP meet-and-greet reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 8, for the international participants coming to the Key for the second Crystal Classic Master Sandsculpting Competition.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Pets have become colleagues many of those who are working from home.
  • By Whitney Elfstrom |
  • March 18, 2020
Staying busy: Tell us how you social distance

Staying home doesn't mean staying bored.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Nanday parakeets and 25 other non-native parrot species, have thriving breeding populations in Florida. (Miri Hardy)
  • By Miri Hardy |
  • January 12, 2021
Bird of the week: Nanday parakeet

Brightly colored birds are all either released by owners or their relatives.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The Rev. Kenneth Blyth, the Rev. Norman Pritchard, the Rev. Gerry Finegan, the Rev. David Danner of All Angels,Rabbi Stephen Sniderman  Mimi Horwitz and the Rev. Bill Friederich
  • By Katie Johns |
  • November 15, 2017
Longboat Key community invited to Thanksgiving service

The Longboat Key clergy members are preparing for the annual Thanksgiving Interfaith Service on Nov. 21.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Jessica Salmond |
  • January 6, 2016
People to Watch: Kyanne Merrill

The director of the Community Activities Corporation started her position in April.

  • East County
  • News
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