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  • By Jen Blanco |
  • September 4, 2014
Sidelines

Lady Thunder volleyball opens the season with a win; ODA swings past Southeast; Sarasota youth sailors post top finishes

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Martina Kandrachoff sees off her older sister, Guillermina, for her first day of school at Alta Vista Elementary School on Aug. 11.
  • By Dana Kampa |
  • August 11, 2025
Recess is over as school begins in Sarasota

Southside Elementary and Alta Vista Elementary kids make their return for the 2025-26 school year.

  • Sarasota
  • Schools
  • By Blake Fussell |
  • February 25, 2022
Bay Street Dog Park opens after county unleashing event

Sarasota County has a new dog park inside Bay Street Park. The off-leash park now has dog exercise equipment, shaded seating and water fountains made for both dogs and people.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Erica Drezek, Sami Blouin and Joseph Smith in "Morning's At Seven."
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • September 28, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: 'Morning's At Seven'

Paul Osborn's 'Morning's at Seven' has dawned at Manatee Players.

  • Arts + Culture
Plymouth Harbor residents treated firefighters at Sarasota County Station 3 to lunch on May 15, 16 and 17.
  • By Carter Weinhofer |
  • May 17, 2024
Plymouth Harbor shows appreciation to firefighters with annual lunch

Residents visited Sarasota County Fire Department Station 3, toured the facility and dined with the firefighters.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Savannah Moore, 8, from Lauren Booth's third-grade class, leans over to get a closer look at the mosquitoes with her magnifying glass.
  • By Berkley Mason |
  • October 5, 2016
Mosquito expert scratches surface at Gullett Elementary School

Manatee County Mosquito Control employee is bugged by lack of information.

  • East County
  • News
Park East at Azario's Lily Wojtkowski loves creating comics. (Courtesy of Lily Wojtkowski)
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • October 21, 2022
Lakewood Ranch 12-year-old delivers comic strip plot twists with pet rat 'Pretzel'

Lily Wojtkowski turns her love of doodling into a comic book featuring her pet rat, Pretzel.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Since their wedding day Sept. 11, 2006, Jeanne and Spiros Kambitsis have lovingly called each other "chickadee," a nickname that stuck following their wedding-day visit to the Parthenon in Greece.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • February 13, 2013
Love is on the menu

East County restaurateurs Spiros and Jeanne Kambitsis were married in Greece. The event - the first of its kind in more than a century - drew national attention.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • June 4, 2020
Siesta Key home sale highest in Sarasota thus far

Sanderling Club home sells for $10.5 million.

  • Siesta Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Zara Barrie |
  • June 27, 2014
Factory Girl: attempting the culinary arts

Factory Girl: attempting the culinary arts

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Sarasota County commissioners will continue the dialogue about a potential come-as-you-are homeless shelter during a meeting Tuesday.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • May 5, 2014
County to draft contract for homeless shelter site

Sarasota County staff will update commissioners on the local homeless initiative Tuesday, including plans to purchase a $282,000 site for a future shelter.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Melissa Douberly, Tyson Babb, Lisa Jayne Warren-Wallace and Gina and David Warren dig the vibe of the "Get Your Groove On" theme and the cocktail hour.
  • By Janet Combs |
  • February 20, 2026
Cooking for Wishes serves up funk, flavor and dreams that do come true

The event raised over $1.1 million for Make-A-Wish Southern Florida's Suncoast Chapter, and granted a wish for fifth grader Keegan Hipsher to go to Switzerland.

  • Black Tie
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • March 15, 2016
Petraeus discusses Putin, ISIS in Sarasota roundtable

Gen. David Petraeus visited Sarasota as part of the Ringling College Library Association Town Hall Lecture Series Tuesday.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Dr. Mona Jain Middle School sixth grader Emery Houston does an online quiz in class. The School District of Manatee County is developing a model for school that will be a mixture of students being in class and doing e-learning,
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • June 3, 2020
School District of Manatee County might try e-learning blend

Superintendent envisions blended model of being in the classroom and e-learning for students next year.

  • East County
  • News
University Park's Peggy Miller holds Dot. She fostered Dot until she was ready for adoption. Photo by Pam Eubanks
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • November 12, 2014
The dot-com boom

Nate's Honor Animal Rescue seeks home for blind and deaf bulldog mix puppies.

  • East County
  • News
The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association parts ways with another developer.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • October 18, 2013
Daily Headlines: Oct. 18, 2013

Today's stories: Colony Association parts ways with developer; Woman's Exchange begins expansion; Woman's Resource Center adds new executive director; and MORE!

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Sam DiGiammarino plays a teaching game with Booker fifth graders.
  • By Katie Johns |
  • February 6, 2019
Booker students flip for turtles

During the third, fourth and fifth-grade science classes at Booker Elementary School, students learned all about turtles courtesy of the Longboat Key Turtle Watch.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Rod Thomson |
  • May 7, 2009
My View: 'Buy local' is a bad buy

In weak economic times - shoot, sometimes even in strong ones - the impulse to push 'buy local' programs overwhelms all common sense.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
The latest proposal in the ongoing saga calls for a major reduction in the original plan: a five-star 166-room hotel, operated by St. Regis, and 102 residential condominiums.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 27, 2017
Top Story - July: Colony developer unveils new plan for the shuttered Longboat resort property

Catch up on the top news items of 2017 with the Observer's Digital Year in Review.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Charlotte Christensen
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • February 27, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Ringling in Bloom Floral Arrangement Workshop

Students put the petals to the metal Sunday, Feb. 26 at Ringling College as part of the Ringling in Bloom celebration. Students of all experience levels learned the basics of floral arrangement from distinguished designer Remco van Vliet.

  • Sarasota
  • News
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