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  • By Robin Roy |
  • August 6, 2009
Mystery Man

Few Sarasota business leaders, residents or city employees know much about City Manager Bob Bartolotta.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Anthony Paull |
  • May 24, 2012
Whose Park? Great Question.

Whose Park? Great Question.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • April 7, 2010
BRSC U13 sets sights on states

The Braden River Soccer Club girls will compete in the semifinals of the President's Cup April 10-11 in Auburndale.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • October 21, 2009
Dream theater

After drifting from venue to venue for 10 years, the West Coast Black Theatre Troupe has reorganized, re-energized and is ready to lay down its roots.

  • Arts + Culture
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
Downtown condo owner Phil Grande is tired of the people feeding the transients in Selby Five Points Park and the lack of action from the city.
  • By Robin Roy |
  • March 31, 2011
Petition seeks to end homeless feedings

Downtown condo owners are making another push to rid Selby Five Points Park of the criminal element that many say has taken over the park.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Sarai Miller and Sarah Burnett both play softball for Lakewood Ranch and are also student athletic trainers.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • March 30, 2011
FRICK & FRACK

Lakewood Ranch seniors Sarah Burnett and Sarai Miller have been playing softball together since they were in the third grade.

  • East County
  • Sports
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
Residents of Windward Passage say they have no desire for a pocket park to be created next-door to them. Photo by Norman Schimmel.
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • February 9, 2012
Residents oppose park proposal

Residents of an adjacent condo complex are fighting a proposal for an open Ocean Boulevard lot, with a view of the Gulf of Mexico, to be turned into a pocket park.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
This home at 348 W. Royal Flamingo Drive on Bird Key has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 3,211 square feet of living area. It sold for $2,125,000. Photo by Mallory Gnaegy.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 16, 2012
Three-bedroom Bird Key home sells for $2,125,000

A home on Bird Key tops all transactions in this week's real estate. 1401023 Ontario Limited sold the home at 348 W. Royal Flamingo Drive to Duane Harms and Judith Russell, Sarasota, for $2,125,000.

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  • By Keely Carney |
  • February 1, 2012
Elijah Wood Comes to Town

Elijah Wood Comes to Town

  • Arts + Culture
In an email sent to the five Sarasota city commissioners, Sarasota business owner Cathy Layton urged the commission to reconsider adding Jody Hudgins.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 1, 2012
Local push for Jody Hudgins as city manager still exists

Residents and business owners are upset that local banker Jody Hudgins didn't make a list of eight finalists for the city manager position.

  • Sarasota
  • News
"I like to think of myself as a fairy godmother who can take an idea and turn it into something you'd want to wear," Jen King Elliot says.
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • March 23, 2011
Material girl

Jen King Elliot shares her journey from Ringling College, to Broadway's 'Contact,' to this weekend's fifth annual Fuzión dance concert.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • May 27, 2009
Community Golf Scores 05.19.09 to 05.25.09

East County golfers post amazing numbers on area courses.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Keely Carney |
  • May 31, 2012
Survival of the fittest, Ashley Wilkerson style

Survival of the fittest, Ashley Wilkerson style

  • Arts + Entertainment
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Janet Mishner, Gail Rubinfeld, Bettina Sego and Susan von Gries meet in Mishner's Lakewood Ranch studio. "We respect each other’s opinions," Rubinfeld says. "There aren’t many people I'd say that about."
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • September 28, 2011
Members of artinsight-sarasota discuss fifth show, 'Y Not Women'

The members of artinsight-sarasota discuss their diverse work, inspiring friendships and fifth show, 'Y Not Women,' which opens next month on Anna Maria Island.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • March 18, 2010
It's electric

Local businesses are starting to jump on the green bandwagon in order to trade their car engines for electric motors.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Robin Roy |
  • October 8, 2009
Roundabout work to begin in May

A consensus of downtown residents and business owners told the city they prefer that the Five Points roundabout project begin before summer, so it's completed by tourist season.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 17, 2010
SMR considers sports complex

Schroeder-Manatee Ranch may build an amateur complex with as many as two dozen soccer fields near the Lakewood Ranch post office.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • March 17, 2010
Costume couture

It's not easy to transform modern-day opera singers into 15th-century French warriors. Sarasota Opera costume designer Howard Tsvi Kaplan explains.

  • Arts + Culture
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