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  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2012
Our View: The property amendments

Frederic Bastiat, the great French economic journalist of the 1840s, would be launching into tirades on talk radio today if he were asked to analyze the proposed constitutional amendments on Florida's Nov. 6 ballot.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Courtesy photo
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • October 17, 2018
State College of Florida's 'The Laramie Project' moves without overdoing it

Reality-based play looks back at a brutal attack — and an unlikely team of investigators who struggled to find the truth behind it.

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  • By Observer Staff |
  • September 23, 2020
State Representative District 72: Fiona McFarland

Meet the candidate.

  • Sarasota
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Read this week's Cops Corner.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 16, 2012
Cops Corner: Sarasota

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
Mustangs fans will have to wait another week to watch their team.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • August 21, 2019
Lakewood Ranch's football season opener postponed

Mustangs fans will have to wait another week to watch their team.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Anna Brugmann |
  • May 4, 2017
Students dig up donations for All Faiths Food Bank

Hershorin Schiff Community Day School students spent the morning harvesting vegetables from their community garden to donate to All Faiths Food Bank.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Rachel S. OHara |
  • April 12, 2012
Athlete of the Week: Ashlee Linn

Riverview senior Ashlee Linn, 19, is an all-star swimmer for the Rams' swim team and the Sarasota Sharks.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • September 24, 2013
Lakewood Ranch set to tee off for Fall Golf Classic

The Lakewood Ranch High athletic department will hold its 2013 Fall Golf Classic Oct. 5, at the Legacy Golf Club in Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • July 20, 2021
Braden River Soccer Club U18 girls fall in opening game of U.S. Youth Championships

The event is being held at Premier Sports Campus in Lakewood Ranch this week

  • East County
  • Sports
The city and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to renourish Lido Key with sand from Big Pass, which has never been dredged before.
  • By David Conway |
  • November 5, 2019
City, county discuss staging for Big Pass dredge

The County Commission endorsed a plan to use Ted Sperling Park during the Lido Key renourishment project — but pushed for protections in case the project goes awry.

  • Sarasota
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  • By Amanda Heisey |
  • September 3, 2014
Curtain Call: The power of live performance

Curtain Call: The power of live performance

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 5, 2019
Sarasota weather page photo: December 5

Sarasota weather page photo: December 5

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Joe Hendricks |
  • September 27, 2012
A day in the life of the homeless -- Part One

A day in the life of the homeless -- Part One

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Pops, a dachshund mix, is eager to greet passersby from his cottage. Nate's Honor Animal Rescue plans to add eight more cottages, allowing it to increase capacity for dogs by 50%.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • December 11, 2019
Animal rescue's $10 million renovation underway in Lakewood Ranch area

Nate's Honor Animal Rescue breaks ground on expansion in Lakewood Ranch area

  • East County
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • January 16, 2014
Our view

Antidote to flood insurance

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
SMA assistant coach Kevin Jakub demonstrates a technique on Robert Herrera. Photos by Jason Clary
  • By Jason Clary |
  • February 18, 2015
Pinning down their future

SMA will send three juniors to national competition in Iowa.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • February 10, 2015
$42.1 million: The cost of undergrounding

A town-wide utility undergrounding project will cost taxpayers $42.1 million according to a draft report. Now commissioners can pick a project and let the voters decide in November if they want to pay for it.

  • Longboat Key
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  • By Loren Mayo |
  • October 17, 2012
Social Studies: Scott George

IT'S ANOTHER LILLY PULITZER TIE DAY for Scott George, who is in between morning business meetings and fundraising lunches at the Community AIDS Network ...

  • Arts + Culture
Bonnie Sidiski.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • February 1, 2019
Picture of Health: Bonnie Sidiski

The Greenbrook resident has built a life on walking the country.

  • Health
  • By Amanda Heisey |
  • July 22, 2014
Curtain Call: A first look at The Players Theatre New Play Festival

Curtain Call: A first look at The Players Theatre New Play Festival

  • Arts + Culture
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