• Alternate Text
  • Loading

  • Sand Bucket List
  • Health Observed
  • Crossword
  • Contests
  • Newsletters
  • e-Newspaper App
  • Longboat
    • News
    • Cops Corner
    • Real Estate
    • Business
    • Neighbors
    • Opinion
  • East County
    • News
    • Real Estate
    • Business
    • Neighbors
    • Schools
    • Sports
    • Opinion
  • Sarasota
    • News
    • Cops Corner
    • Real Estate
    • Business
    • Neighbors
    • Schools
    • Sports
    • Opinion
    • Siesta Key
  • Arts + Entertainment
    • Eat + Drink
    • Arts + Culture
    • Reviews
    • Things To Do
    • Black Tie
    • Spotlight Partners
  • Things to Do
  • Galleries
  • More
    • Hurricane Season
    • Elections
    • Health Observed
    • Sand Bucket List
    • Calendar
    • Celebrations
    • Contests
    • Tributes
    • Submit a Celebration
    • Submit a Tribute
    • Public Notices
    • Classifieds
  • Longboat
    • Longboat
    • News
    • Cops Corner
    • Real Estate
    • Business
    • Neighbors
    • Opinion
  • East County
    • East County
    • News
    • Real Estate
    • Business
    • Neighbors
    • Schools
    • Sports
    • Opinion
  • Sarasota
    • Sarasota
    • News
    • Cops Corner
    • Real Estate
    • Business
    • Neighbors
    • Schools
    • Sports
    • Opinion
    • Siesta Key
  • Arts + Entertainment
    • Arts + Entertainment
    • Eat + Drink
    • Arts + Culture
    • Reviews
    • Things To Do
    • Black Tie
    • Spotlight Partners
  • Things to Do
  • Galleries
  • More
    • More
    • Hurricane Season
    • Elections
    • Health Observed
    • Sand Bucket List
    • Calendar
    • Celebrations
    • Contests
    • Tributes
    • Submit a Celebration
    • Submit a Tribute
    • Public Notices
    • Classifieds
  • Sand Bucket List
  • Health Observed
  • Crossword
  • Contests
  • Newsletters
  • e-Newspaper App

Results for:

  • By Anna Brugmann |
  • October 13, 2016
New voices join Siesta Promenade debate

More stakeholders near Stickney Point Road and U.S. 41 are sharing their concerns about Benderson Development's proposed Siesta Promenade project.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Alex Wolff dropped a reef down for David Wolff Jr. to place in the canal.
  • By Harry Sayer |
  • February 25, 2021
Siesta Key Association continues canal regeneration project

Siesta Key Association members dropped 35 additional reefs to clean up the Grand Canal on Feb. 25.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • June 29, 2016
Phantom Bodies: New Ringling exhibition contemplates the human aura

The Ringling's new contemporary exhibition explores art's ability to evoke human presence.

  • Arts + Culture
Worker Jerry Lawson assists excavator driver John Hesse determine where to dig to uncover a blowoff, a valve that allows workers to manually flush out the irrigation line. Inter-District Authority's John Stewart watches.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • August 23, 2017
Deteriorating irrigation lines cause concern in Lakewood Ranch

Hollow asks CDD1 to flush out solutions.

  • East County
  • News
MTI will now be known as MTC — Manatee Technical College.
  • By Amanda Sebastiano |
  • December 9, 2014
Manatee Technical Institute gets name change

Manatee Technical Institute (MTI) is now named Manatee Technical College.

  • East County
  • News
Ultimately, developer Chuck Whittall must compromise.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 16, 2017
Strategy for Whittall

If you put yourself in Chuck Whittall’s shoes, you can understand his Colony proposal: He’s trying to please a lot of constituents. To succeed, we propose a new approach.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Arthur Keyser, Connie Schindewolf and Jeffery Kin, all playwrights, are ready to make their plays better at the 2015 Players New Play Festival.
  • By Nick Reichert |
  • July 22, 2015
Local Drama: The new play’s the thing

Local playwrights vie for their time in the spotlight at The Players’ New Play Festival. The winner will see his or her play take center stage in August.

  • Arts + Culture
This home at 1373 Harbor Drive was built in 2006 and offers four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and more than 5,800 square feet of living area. (Photo by Eric Garwood)
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 23, 2022
Harbor Acres home sold for $5.3 million

A Harbor Acres home tops the week's sales at 5.3 million.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
  • By Sandy Gilbert |
  • March 1, 2019
My View: START is working to help slow red tide

Longboat-based organization explores several avenues to improve water quality.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Robert Dinan and his wife, Kerrie Lehnert, are co-owners of Kitchens by Kerrie, located in the Centre Shops. File photo.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • September 7, 2011
9/11 Looking Back: Robert Dinan

Robert Dinan, co-owner of Kitchens by Kerrie on Longboat Key, served on the New York Police Department from 1996 to 2010. He was at his Long Island, N.Y., home Sept. 11, 2001, when he learned that a plane had hit the first tower.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Anu Tali directs “Songs of Wars I Have Seen.” File photo
  • By Niki Kottmann |
  • October 25, 2017
Anu Tali announces she will leave Sarasota Orchestra in 2019

Tali says she will step down as music director of the Sarasota Orchestra to focus on her international career.

  • Arts + Culture
Joe Casey performs in "Blue Suede Shoes." Photo by Matthew Holler
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • December 11, 2017
'Blue Suede Shoes' steps back into rock history at FST

The latest Florida Studio Theatre cabaret production tells the first chapter of rock 'n' roll.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
Siesta residents have been keeping track of a boat (top right of photo) they first observed anchored about 200 yards off Beach Access 7. It since has moved farther from shore and up the Key’s coastline. Photo by Lourdes Ramirez.
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • October 13, 2011
Island Beat: Boat offshore raises lots of questions

About the same time that property owners on North Beach Road began engaging in a dispute over their rights early this month, other Key residents started spreading the word about a sailboat anchored approximately 200 yards off the beach near Access 7.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Posted signs at Whitney's encourage social distancing.
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • May 8, 2020
Longboat Key restaurant updates: Who's open for dine-in?

As of May 4, restaurants could reopen dining areas as long as they stick to 25% capacity.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Niki Kottmann |
  • August 14, 2019
This Week in Sarasota: Thursday, Aug. 15

A look at our favorite arts and entertainment calendar events taking place this week in Bradenton and Sarasota, Florida.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Photos by Jen Blanco
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • May 9, 2013
Forge ahead: Jammeria Higdon

Sarasota High senior Jammeria Higdon closed out her prep track-and-field career at the Class 3A State Finals May 3, at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
1. Lakewood Ranch freshman Grace Shaw-Rockey hugs junior Grace Hogie after the Mustangs state championship win.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • June 9, 2021
Top 10 moments from the 2020-2021 East County high school sports season

It was a historic year for Lakewood Ranch, Braden River and ODA athletes.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By John Ewing |
  • April 18, 2012
Observe This: Today’s Top Stories

Observe This: Today’s Top Stories

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Coburn Goss and Laura Rook act in "The Crucible." Photo by Cliff Roles
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • January 15, 2019
Society has a meltdown in Asolo Repertory Theatre's 'The Crucible'

Asolo Rep's production stays relevant because the witch hunt of “The Crucible” isn’t a wildfire; it’s the work of human beings.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
Jordan Matthew Brown, Alyah Chanelle Scott and Liam Tobin star in "Book of Mormon."
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • January 10, 2020
No sacred cows spared in 'Book of Mormon'

Satire pulls no punches in its social commentary, but leaves room for sentiment

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
« 1341 1342 1343 1344 1345 1346 1347 1348 1349 1350 »
The best of Your Observer, delivered directly to your inbox

Get the latest in news, sports, schools, arts and things to do in Sarasota, Siesta Key, Longboat Key and East County.

Sign Up

Contact

  • 1970 Main St.
  • Third Floor
  • Sarasota, FL 34236
  • Phone: 941-366-3468
  • FPN Verified

Extra, Extra!

  • Newsletters
  • App
  • Crossword
  • Contests

more

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Classifieds
  • Advertise
  • Rack Locations
  • Jobs
  • Privacy Policy
  • Accessibility Options

sister sites

  • Business Observer
  • Jax Daily Record
  • Orange Observer
  • Accessibility Options
  • Copyright © 2026 Observer Media Group Inc., All Rights Reserved
Sign Up for Daily Headlines

A daily dose of news from Longboat Key, East County, Sarasota and Siesta Key.

Sign Up for In Case You Missed It

A Saturday dose of the week's top stories from Sarasota, Longboat Key and East County.


Anytime. Anywhere. Observer.

From in-depth local reporting to real-time breaking news, stay connected to the stories shaping our community with the Your Observer app.

Download Now for Free