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  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • March 12, 2014
Town works to secure sand for this summer

The town wants sand dredged from the boat channel near Longboat Pass placed on the Key while it awaits groin construction in 2015.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 10, 2011
Cops Corner

The following information was gathered from incident and arrest reports obtained from the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
Lucky 6 pix
  • By Pam Mones |
  • April 11, 2014
Review: 'The Lucky 6'

Review: 'The Lucky 6'

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • July 1, 2009
Profiles of Summer | The humble maestro

Pine View School's longtime orchestra director comes out of retirement to conduct the Venice Symphony.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By John Ewing |
  • April 23, 2012
Observe This: Today’s Top Stories

Observe This: Today’s Top Stories

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
1715 Prospect St.
  • By Robert Plunket |
  • April 3, 2013
3 Things: Boom Times

The year 1926 was the peak of Sarasota's first real-estate boom, and homes from that era still dot the town's older neighborhoods.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • January 26, 2011
Ranch CDD seeks new security provider

Lakewood Community Development District 1 supervisors will set more specific instructions for their security contractor.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • April 1, 2013
Tower to top off Publix sculpture

The 150-foot 'Flower Fiesta' cell tower promises to improve cellular service for the southern half of the Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Heather Junqueira is working on a new method of early cancer detection — using a dog’s sense of smell to sniff out cancer.
  • By Amanda Sebastiano |
  • March 18, 2015
Group sniffs out new method for early cancer detection

Heather Junqueira is putting her money where her dogs’ noses are in hopes of creating a new technique to detect cancer.

  • East County
  • News
Derek Barnes, owner of Derek's Culinary Casual, and Steve Phelps, owner of Indigenous, met through a mutual friend in 2004, when Barnes was a chef at 5 One 6 Burns and Phelps was a chef at Mattison's Steakhouse at the Plaza.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • March 27, 2013
Taste of the Town

Read a page from area chefs' and restaurant owners' menus, and get a kitchen confidential about the talk and taste of the town.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • March 17, 2010
Business Observer

Barbara Brichford named homeowner liaison manager; Seeger earns professional yacht broker designation.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • September 18, 2014
News Briefs

Stickney Point motels sell for $1.5 million; Sarasota School Board adopts final budget; Wallenda to walk tightrope across Chicago skyscrapers

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • July 7, 2010
Old-school artist

In an increasingly abstract world, Sarasota artist Charles Miano loyally upholds the methods and disciplines of the old masters.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • August 4, 2010
Man of vision

The former chief of the company that developed much of Longboat Key says he has hope for the island to fulfill Arvida's vision.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • August 4, 2011
City mulls impact fee suspensions

City Commissioner Shannon Snyder suggested the city needs to examine closely the county's impact fees.

  • Sarasota
  • News
The furniture inside each of the resort’s 237 units remains.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • September 15, 2010
Colony Lender claims furniture

Colony Lender LLC and U.S. bankruptcy trustee William Maloney have reached an agreement to sell the Colony's furniture; unit owners continue to lay claim to the property.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
The furniture inside each of the resort’s 237 units remains.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • September 15, 2010
Colony Lender claims furniture

Colony Lender LLC and U.S. bankruptcy trustee William Maloney have reached an agreement to sell the Colony's furniture; unit owners continue to lay claim to the property.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Lennar will offer homes similar to its existing Sawgrass model. Courtesy photo.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • October 24, 2012
Lennar plans Ranch community

Homebuilder Lennar Homes is planning a 281-home community in Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • News
Unit S-202 at La Firenza, 4125 Gulf of Mexico Drive, sold for $2,635,000 in February.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • March 16, 2011
February sales summary

The following is a summary of key residential real-estate sales recorded for the month of February at the Sarasota and Manatee county courthouses.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • May 8, 2010
Lakewood's Mustangs fall in regional semifinals

The team ended its season with a 7-1 loss to Tampa Jesuit May 8.

  • East County
  • Sports
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