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 Longboat Key Town Commission will hold its budget meeting at 1 p.m. Monday, May 21, at Longboat Key Town Hall, 501 Bay Isles Road.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • May 18, 2012
Town to hold first budget workshop

The Longboat Key Town Commission will discuss preliminary budget information for the 2012-3 fiscal year.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Devin McDermott
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • November 16, 2011
FULL STORY: Lakewood Ranch runner named Heisman finalist

Senior Devin McDermott was named one of 12 national finalists for the 2011 Wendy's High School Heisman Award Nov. 10. The winner will be announced Dec. 9.

  • East County
  • Sports
Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf star in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps."
  • By Pam Nadon |
  • September 29, 2010
Film Review: 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'

In Oliver Stone's new sequel, "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," the director makes it crystal clear that greed is legal.

  • Arts + Culture
"We teach the kids that we've been blessed, so we try to give back," says Margaret Callihan, pictured with her husband, Matt, son Phil, and their two dogs, Lou and Nala.
  • By Loren Mayo and Maria Amodio |
  • December 8, 2010
Season of Sharing helps community

Season of Sharing is a 10-year, community-wide fundraising partnership created by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County and the Herald-Tribune Media Group that provides emergency, last-resort funding to families in Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte and DeSoto counties.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Kristen Herhold |
  • February 24, 2016
Longboat Key Garden Club Home Tour: Hanna Home

The home is at 749 Hideaway Bay.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 27, 2016
Cops Corner 04.47.16

Enjoy this week’s edition of Cops Corner.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
Sarasota Bay Watch founder Rusty Chinnis, board member Caroline McKeon and Manatee County Natural Resources Director Charlie Hunsicker use a funnel to deliver scallops directly into seagrass beds.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • October 16, 2013
Sarasota Bay swallows 100,000 juvenile scallops

Sarasota Bay Watch released its first juvenile scallops after depositing 50 million larvae in the bay since 2011.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • January 29, 2013
Giving Matters Award applications available

Applications for the Giving Matters Youth Philanthropy Leadership Award can be submitted until Fed. 1.

  • East County
  • News
Fifth- and sixth-grade students will create commemorative stepping-stones this year.
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • April 26, 2012
Graduating students work on final project

With The Out-of-Door Academy middle-school campus expanding to include sixth-graders, two Lower School classes participate in a graduation tradition dating back to the 1930s.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 24, 2016
Longboat Key letters to the editor

Readers sound off on Floridays' referendum, Democratic party comments and school board elections

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Eva Green in "Penny Dreadful." Photo source: Showtime Anytime.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • October 5, 2018
Cringe Blog: Behold terrible wonders

"Penny Dreadful," starring Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Josh Hartnett and Harry Treadaway; and "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil," starring Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine, Katrina Bowden and Jesse Moss, are this week's recommendations.

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Carol Sirard's sample tray featuring her colorful, chocolate-covered treats
  • By Molly Schechter |
  • February 20, 2013
Foodie shops chocolate

What an assignment! As a bona fide chocoholic since before the term was invented, I fondly recall a button I kept for many years; it said, "If bearer is found unconscious, administer chocolate immediately." So this "foodie" could write an entire column on each and every one of these places.

  • Arts + Culture
Courtesy photo
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • May 7, 2014
Dominant Defender

Cardinal Mooney junior Alex Stoffel helped lead the boys lacrosse team to its first district title in three years this season.

  • East County
  • Sports
A pipe that will funnel sand onto the north end of the Key should be operational this weekend.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • May 16, 2014
Sand pumping delayed

New sand should be flowing from a pipe this weekend on the north end of the Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
"As Long As the Moon Shines" by Julien Freij. Photo by Cliff Roles.
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • April 30, 2015
Theater Review: Theatre Odyssey's Ten-Minute Play Festival

Theater Review: Theatre Odyssey's Ten-Minute Play Festival

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
Ashleigh Haydu, Element front of house manager, General Manager (both restaurants) John Platt, Executive Head Chef Nils Tarantik and Jordan Keen, Element sous chef
  • By Niki Kottmann |
  • October 29, 2017
PBnT and Element restaurants to open on Main Street

Two new restaurants are opening next to each other in downtown Sarasota. But each will offer a different dining experience.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Eat + Drink
"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission." John F. Kennedy.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • November 9, 2011
Our View: Thanks to them, we are free

Thomas Jefferson famously said, 'The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.'

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Sarah Felder |
  • May 3, 2013
Eating super local at the King Family Table to Farm dinner

Eating super local at the King Family Table to Farm dinner

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Eat + Drink
"Everybody brings different things to the table," Shawn O'Malley says of his co-op woodshop. "This camaraderie is what I envisioned." Photos by Mallory Gnaegy.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • August 14, 2013
Building a Legacy

Shawn O'Malley's grandfather taught him the art of woodworking from salvaged material. Now, O'Malley is the teacher.

  • Arts + Culture
New Pass and Longboat Pass are bustling with boaters and beachgoers anxious to anchor their vessel and enjoy the sun off the shores of Longboat Key. File photo.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • January 2, 2013
Looking ahead: Business and tourism

The patterns of season are tough to predict, but indicators so far point to a strong season for hotels and businesses.

  • Longboat Key
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