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Charlotte Gurwin, 2 ½, searches for eggs in the hay at the Longboat Key Club’s Easter egg hunt.
  • By Katie Johns |
  • April 16, 2017
Longboat Key Club hosts Easter eggstravaganza

The Resort at Longboat Key Club hosted its annual Easter celebration on April 16.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • April 1, 2015
Call Waiting

The delay wasn’t quite as long as it felt — but it still highlights inefficiencies in the town’s current emergency dispatch system.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Kayleigh Omang |
  • March 4, 2019
Archie Griffin Pairing Party kicks off weekend of golf

The party March 4 at Thee Concession Golf Club benefitted Boys & Girls Club of Sarasota County.

  • Black Tie
The traffic monitoring device can be moved to any on town-owned pole on the island.
  • By Bret Hauff |
  • February 7, 2018
Longboat police purchase traffic monitoring device

The department hopes the technology, which measures the number of vehicles and the speed they travel, will help focus enforcement efforts

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Kathryn Parks |
  • July 17, 2013
Venice Theatre Cabaret Festival: That Thing Called Love

Venice Theatre Cabaret Festival: That Thing Called Love

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Donna Swan |
  • March 16, 2011
Deal us in

How to set up a winning defense

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Senior Morgan Dolenti shows off a T-shirt worn in the spirit section at games. The shirts will be sent to soldiers in care packages.
  • By Berkley Mason |
  • October 26, 2016
Braden River Homecoming Day inspires class act

Soldiers, who can't attend Braden River's annual event, receive care packages.

  • East County
  • News
The Lakewood Ranch High volleyball team celebrates a point in its Class 6A-District 12 championship game versus Seminole Osceola Oct. 25. The Lady Mustangs won their second-consecutive district title.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • October 31, 2012
Back-to-Back champs: Lakewood Ranch Volleyball

LWR volleyball team captured its second-consecutive district title, while ODA and Braden River recorded losses in district play.

  • East County
  • Sports
"We're the kind of retired people who want to keep living it up," says Kay Siebold, right, with Barbara Bostic, left. "What else would we be doing during all day? Going out to eat? How many times can you go out to eat?"
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • March 7, 2012
Kay Siebold and Barbara Bostic: Folly Girls

Whether they're tap dancing in sequins or getting down to Lady Gaga, Kay Siebold and Barbara Bostic are proving the Sarasota Silver Stars are much too young at heart to be a senior theater troupe.

  • Arts + Culture
"I just keep smiling because life is really short and, one day, we'll all be a part of the sun," Don Laurin Johnson says is his life motto.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • January 2, 2013
SPOTLIGHT: Joining the troupe

In 2008, actor Don Laurin Johnson was under his truck making repairs and adjustments when he got a text from his mother, Sybil Barnes-Johnson

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • November 21, 2013
Our View

How 2050 ties to homeless

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Both properties at 3820 Flamingo Ave. were built in 1925.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 31, 2022
Pair of Bay Island properties sell for $6.2 million

A pair of Bay Island properties tops this week's sales at $6.2 million.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 9, 2010
It's the economy, commissioners

This was another one of those "what-were-they-thinking?" moments at the Sarasota City Commission.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
The new store is a smaller store format than the traditional Walmart Supercenter. File photo.
  • By Roger Drouin |
  • September 17, 2012
Walmart to open on North Trail Wednesday

The new store is expected to create 90 jobs.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • June 5, 2013
Manatee County to allow backyard chickens

The Manatee County Board of County Commissioners voted 4-2 yesterday to approve a new ordinance and changes to the county Land Development Code, allowing residents to keep four female chickens.

  • East County
  • News
Lou Schneider stands in front Plymouth Harbor, the building he helped design in 1962.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • April 25, 2012
Neighbors: Lou Schneider

Lou Schneider has had a fulfilling career in architecture and education.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Maureen Wilt said that Lucas Giffard’s leadership skills set him apart from other scholarship applicants.
  • By Whitney Elfstrom |
  • May 17, 2019
Surprise! Pine View School senior receives $20,000 scholarship from FPL

Florida Power and Light Co. surprised Lucas Gifford with an annual scholarship.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Hannah Payan gets ready to bump an opposing shot.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • July 27, 2017
Volleyball players talk Siesta Key Beach's unique sand

Prose and Kohn: Ryan Kohn

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
This statue makes its home near the intersection of Osprey Avenue and Orange Avenue.
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • December 16, 2011
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Spirited statue

This statue seems to get a makeover every time a holiday approaches. Right now, he's dressed in Santa attire. Wonder what's inside that red sack?

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 18, 2013
News Briefs

City agrees to sell parcel on Palm Avenue for hotel

  • Sarasota
  • News
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