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Eileen Normile
  • By David Conway |
  • May 1, 2014
Group: 'No Boss Mayor'

Supporters of The Citizens Voice, a political group formed in opposition to a proposed new city charter, explain their stance on the latest push for a 'strong' mayor.

  • Sarasota
  • News
"Tom Jones" runs through June 1, at Florida Studio Theatre's Gompertz Theatre, 1247 First St., Sarasota.
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • April 13, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: 'Tom Jones'

Bored? Here's an idea, for those of you with abundant time and disposable income. Rent a cabin and download a copy of Henry Fielding's 'Tom Jones' on your Kindle. If you're pressed for time, no worries. Playwright Mark Brown read the book for you and distilled it into a 90-minute play.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Niki Kottmann & Cassidy Alexander |
  • September 26, 2017
Key Notes: 'Siesta Key' Episode 9 Recap

The drama intensifies this week as Brandon and Madisson get more serious, Garrett and Juliette make Kelsey jealous and Pauly puts on the worst show The Beach Club has ever seen.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
Over two weeks and 160 hours, Gregory Marra made a clay sculpture of Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in American military history. The two didn’t know each other.
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • March 6, 2013
Local artist memorializes fallen sniper

Gregory Marra, an East County sculptor, made a life-size clay image of Chris Kyle, a United States Navy SEAL who was killed Feb. 2, and delivered it to the sniper's home state of Texas.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Lakewood Ranch senior Taylor Johnson with her steer. Josh Siegel.
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • January 16, 2013
County fair is the biggest, most challenging yet

Higher feed prices have forced Youth Livestock Show exhibitors in the 97th Manatee County Fair to get creative to sell their steer.

  • East County
  • News
The Longboat Key Club offers a junior tennis camp for club members and resort guests every summer.
  • By Katie Johns |
  • May 17, 2017
Fun in the Sun: Longboat Key gears up for summer camps

Check out these summer camps on Longboat Key and surrounding areas.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 20, 2011
News Briefs

Police searchingfor crime spree suspect Man found dead in Cascades community pool Manatee school district approves 2011-12 budget Latin Chamber plans Quinceañera Technology students win firsts at nationals

  • East County
  • News
inherent
  • By Nick Reichert |
  • January 18, 2015
Movie Review: Inherent Vice

Movie Review: Inherent Vice

  • Arts + Culture
Andre Hersom, 5, at last year's Sarasota Youth Sailing Program summer camp.
  • By Kristen Herhold |
  • May 18, 2016
Gear up for summer camps

Learn about summer camps on Longboat Key and surrounding areas.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Niki Kottmann & Cassidy Alexander |
  • August 22, 2017
Key Notes: 'Siesta Key' Episode 4 Recap

Not even a luxe gala could make everyone happy this week, and it may be that every relationship is destined for failure.

  • Arts + Entertainment
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Chroma Quartet
  • By June LeBell |
  • May 13, 2014
MUSIC REVIEW: The Musical Abundance of Sarasota

I double dare anyone to say Sarasota isn't one of the most musically abundant cities in the country.

  • Arts + Culture
Actress Penelope Ann Miller. Courtesy photo.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 4, 2012
Scene & Heard

Actress Penelope Ann Miller joins SFF lineup; Artist Series announces 2012 scholarship winners; Sarasota bids adieu to two dynamic directors; Carreño Dance Fest exceeds enrollment goal

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • December 4, 2013
District aims to win STEM education grant

After nearly earning funding last year for a similar grant, the Manatee County School District is again a finalist for a 'Race to the Top' grant to fund STEM labs in elementary schools.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • June 30, 2010
New priest finds home at St. Barbara

The Rev. Fr. Peter Andronache will lead St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church after the Very Rev. Archimandrite Frank Kirlangitis retired.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Seventeen-year-old Brittany Wenger, winner of the Google Science Fair, now hopes to test her technology in hospitals. Photo by Andrew Federman.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • August 1, 2012
Brittany Wenger wins Google Science Fair

East County resident Brittany Wenger, 17, plans to change the world with her application that detects breast-cancer malignancies.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • January 3, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: 'Loot'

'Loot,' the current FSU/Asolo Conservatory production of one of Joe Orton's farces, shows us what the outrage is all about.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Kristen Pace |
  • April 18, 2012
Socially Awkward Starstruck Blonde Navigates the Sarasota Film Festival

Socially Awkward Starstruck Blonde Navigates the Sarasota Film Festival

  • Arts + Culture
Publix won’t have to park its plans for a new Longboat Key store.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • February 8, 2012
Publix plan gets go-ahead

The Longboat Key Town Commission approved plans for a new Avenue of the Flowers store. The store is slated to open in December.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
"I wanted to be a machinist so I could make my own stuff," says Eric McGrath, pictured here in G.WIZ's Fab Lab, which is currently under construction in the front wing of the museum.
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • February 23, 2011
The Fab factor

Eric McGrath landed the creative foreman's dream job. The machinist explains how G.WIZ's new Fab Lab gives local inventors a high-tech advantage.

  • Arts + Culture
Mackenzie Goda achieved Level 9 status on trampoline after a knee injury kept her out of the sport for a year.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • June 15, 2011
COMEBACK KID

In March 2010, 13-year-old Mackenzie Goda tore her ACL, MCL, meniscus and patella tendon and dislocated and fractured a piece of her tibia. Exactly one year later, she was back competing.

  • East County
  • Sports
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