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The world’s largest picnic table blocks the Autobahn for a day.
  • By Stuart and Lois Scheyer |
  • September 22, 2010
Three cities/One capital

The European Capital of Culture featured three city sites: Pecs, Hungary; Essen and the Ruhr Valley, Germany; and Istanbul, Turkey. Essen was elegant; Istanbul was a turkey.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The new guidelines will steer trucks toward major roads and away from neighborhoods.
  • By David Conway |
  • March 15, 2018
City settles on truck route compromise

Despite resident concerns about large trucks driving through neighborhoods, the city won't actually enforce new regulations.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Joe Sedik |
  • February 17, 2014
PHOTO GALLERY: Coach Dan Giguere remembrance day

PHOTO GALLERY: Coach Dan Giguere remembrance day

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Siesta Village property owners have been waiting for months on county maintenance staff to address problems, including the removal of dead palm trees in front of the Michael Saunders office on Ocean Boulevard.
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • July 21, 2011
Village property owners demand upkeep oversight

With county staff proposing to take over Siesta Village maintenance, property owners insist they need to keep control.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • February 7, 2013
Longboat Key hosts a medical health day

A Sarasota County medical mobile unit will be at Bayfront Park Friday, Feb. 15 to assist all Key residents with free medical tests.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Dani Butler, a member of Hope Assemblies, tells the girls at Braden River Middle School they have a voice and should be empowered to use it after sharing her story of how she got out of a bad relationship.
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • January 24, 2020
Love can't hurt in East County

Braden River Middle School students are challenged to carry the love on campus.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • February 27, 2020
Braden River girls basketball's season ends in final four

The Pirates fell 80-58 to defending state champion Wekiva High.

  • East County
  • Sports
"We harvest sound from silence and organize it on paper in such a way that these sounds can be recreated by a group of musicians," James Grant says.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • November 7, 2012
SPOTLIGHT: Harvesting Sound

James Grant discusses writing the music of Walt Whitman's prose.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • March 31, 2020
Longboat Key Cops Corner: Night swimming . . . or not

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • February 17, 2010
Beach access receives more sand

The town is placing another 600 cubic yards of sand at the North Shore Road beach access this week to protect the road and utilities in the area. Commissioner Gene Jaleski thinks more should be done.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
A Sarasota real estate broker has pleaded guilty to federal charges he collected nearly $300,000 in disability payments while not reporting he was continuing to work, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa announced Monday.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 17, 2015
May grants Colony trustee’s auction request

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge K. Rodney May will allow a $23 million judgment auction to proceed later this summer.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
A private fundraising drive is expected to help fund improvements to Nathan Benderson Park.
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • April 29, 2014
Rowing park denied state funding

The state's 2014-15 budget does not include funding for improvements to Nathan Benderson Park, but the park is still on track to host the 2017 World Rowing Championships.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • October 28, 2019
St. Armands Key Lutheran Church hosts silent scary movie

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was accompanied on the organ.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort has been closed since August 2010.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • July 30, 2012
Colony Association seeks to extend tourism deadline

The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association will ask to push the deadline for reopening the resort back by 18 months.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
A 9-year-old at Sea of Strengths Academy, Max Collado suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia and post-traumatic stress.
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • December 19, 2012
Local support group helps families with ADHD

Max Collado and his mother, Alexandra, fight ADHD together.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Kristen Herhold |
  • August 26, 2015
OBITUARY | John 'Jack' McCormick

John McCormick died Aug. 21.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Brynn Mechem |
  • June 25, 2019
Lakewood Ranch man arrested for pretending to be a therapist

Phillip Stutzman provided therapy sessions to individuals who had been sexually abused.

  • East County
  • News
Lakewood Ranch assistant coach Karter Clark
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • February 10, 2016
Shake up the routine

Young assistant brings his enthusiasm to Lakewood Ranch girls basketball program.

  • East County
  • Sports
A view of the .95 acre parcel at 20 N. Washington Blvd.
  • By Jack Short |
  • January 26, 2016
County’s latest attempt to sell downtown parcel unproductive

The county’s invitation to negotiate for the purchase of a parcel at the corner of 301 and Main Street did not produce a viable offer.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Sarasota Police shot and killed a man during an altercation on the 1000 block of 42nd Street Sunday.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • January 7, 2014
UPDATE: Officers kill man wielding firearm

Two Sarasota Police officers shot 30-year-old Deacon Clark after he allegedly pointed a weapon at them Sunday evening.

  • Sarasota
  • News
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