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  • By Nick Friedman |
  • May 14, 2014
TWIS Asks: Ghost Beach

TWIS Asks: Ghost Beach

  • Arts + Culture
GRITS founder Elizabeth Lanier helps Dyana Goss with her shooting form.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 18, 2015
GRITS targets Ancient Oak for new chapter

The women’s-only shooting group aims to make rounds in Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • July 9, 2009
East County Little League All-Stars in full swing

Braden River and Manatee East Little League's Majors and Juniors squads victorious in opening games.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • April 24, 2013
Workshop to focus on Colony issues

A 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, workshop allows commissioners to vet all of the issues facing the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • May 2, 2012
Travel Log: Finding Florida

East County residents Ray and Pat Ciemniecki recently completed their journey to all of Florida's 162 state parks.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 29, 2016
LBO letters to the editor 06.30.16

Longboat Observer letters to the editor

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
The county hopes to select a firm for the third-party review by late October or early November. File photo
  • By Jessica Salmond |
  • September 18, 2014
Wreford collects community concerns for Big Pass dredge

In preparation for hiring a third party to review the project, the county is gathering what worries residents most.

  • Sarasota
  • News
File photo. Before 2009, special events staff avoided scheduling special events from February through April. That policy will be reinstated for the 2014 season.
  • By David Conway |
  • December 5, 2013
Sarasota City Commission admonishes BID directors

The commission emphasized the importance of advisory board members using their city-issued email accounts after a request for St. Armands BID directors' emails.

  • Sarasota
  • News
'I like to tell stories,' Sherry Derrenberger says of why she wants to be sit-down comedian. 'I like people to laugh.' Photo by Pam Eubanks
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • September 3, 2014
Derrenberger doesn't let MS get her down

Sherry Derrenberger wanted to be a standup comic but had to alter her dream slightly.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Photo by Cliff Roles
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • October 26, 2015
Theater review: "Freak"

Raw honesty and gutsy insight dominate this Urbanite Theatre production

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
Photo of a Havana street corner by Cliff Roles
  • By Nick Reichert |
  • July 14, 2015
Art Center Sarasota to celebrate Cuban culture with "Noche Cubana"

The July 22 evening event will include a Sarasota Cuban Ballet School performance, photography, salsa dancing, and plenty of mojitos

  • Arts + Culture
Leslie Hogle's favorite picture of her late husband, Al, and her, features them enjoying a vacation together.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • January 30, 2013
Citizen of the Year: Albert 'Al' Hogle

The late Longboat Key Police Chief Albert F. 'Al' Hogle will receive the 2012 Citizen of the Year award posthumously at the Kiwanis Foundation's Valentine's Ball.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Running backs Dipo Kolawole, Mike Glover, Jaredd Pate and Javar Baity have rushed for more than 1,400 yards and 12 TDs this season.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • November 10, 2010
Braden River Brotherhood

The Braden River High football team will show its support for running back Jaredd Pate, who was diagnosed with diabetes, by wearing blue during every game they play in throughout November.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Jessica Salmond |
  • March 2, 2016
Cops Corner 3.3.2016

Crime reports from around the area.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
Once renovations are complete next summer, the operations cost for the Robert L. Taylor Community Complex are expected to increase from $400,000 to $1.2 million per year.
  • By Robin Roy |
  • October 28, 2010
City, county spar over parks

With both governments keeping a watchful eye on their bottom lines, neither wants to fully fund the improved Robert L. Taylor Community Complex, which is expected to cost three times as much to operate the facility each year.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Jen Blanco
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • February 8, 2012
Comment: Hoops madness hits early out east

The tournament seeds have been announced, and the brackets are set.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Pam McTeer |
  • September 30, 2009
Mentoring program deals in poker ride

Saturday's poker ride begins at Lakewood Ranch Medical Center. Money raised will benefit Big Brother Big Sisters.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • February 24, 2010
No mystery: Grand Bay resident's first novel is a hit

Last year, Grand Bay resident James Hensal published "Heir of Suspicion."

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
James Pinski  Courtesy photo
  • By Observer Staff |
  • January 10, 2018
Longboat Key Obituaries: Jan. 11, 2018

Dr. John Reynolds III, James Bernard Pinski, Elizabeth Adams and Paulette Keagle Eframson died.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 6, 2011
Letter to the Editor Special: Recycling the right choice

A few weeks ago, the Pelican Press published an opinion column titled "Recycling as religion" in which the author expressed his view that recycling is a waste of valuable resources and that the county justifies its recycling program with arguments that don't "stand up to research."

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
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