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  • By Robin Roy |
  • June 24, 2010
City cuts jobs, reduces services

Most of the 35 job cuts come from vacant positions, but 13 employees are being laid off. The city is warning of drastic changes in services.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Acting Transportation Director Don Ross said he runs the department like a business and examines his budget daily. File photo.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • April 25, 2012
BUS BUDGET BREAKDOWN

With 944 bus routes covering about 14,000 miles daily, Manatee County Public Schools''transportation department is one of the district's most complex.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 23, 2010
Brown: 'This is our island'

The Longboat Key Town Commission agreed to allow Town Manager Bruce St. Denis to do whatever it takes to keep oil off Longboat Key's shoreline and its nearby waterways.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Pam McTeer |
  • August 19, 2009
HOA foreclosures rise in East County

Attorney Scott Petersen said his office has seen an increase in homeowner's associations beginning foreclosure proceedings.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • May 5, 2010
Reading partnership promotes hands-on learning

Lakewood students worked with students at Freedom during the annual Winnie the Pooh and Shakespeare Too program.

  • East County
  • Schools
Discussions stretched for 15 hours Saturday and another eight hours Sunday.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • September 28, 2011
FULL STORY: Board selects Club Holdings

Club Holdings LLC, a Broomfield, Co.,-based company, was unanimously chosen to redevelop the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Robin Roy |
  • December 30, 2009
10 to Contend: Bob Morris

His group's plans to develop one of the most sought after pieces of property in Sarasota are expected to take shape this year.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • May 4, 2010
Longboat Key Club resubmitting plan Wednesday

The Longboat Key Club and Resort is ready to resume its Islandside renovation-and-expansion hearings next month.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Jim Warnecke made sure to get a hug from his daughter, Brie Middlebrook, who sat in on the presentation with her first-grade class.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • January 18, 2012
Jim Warnecke makes landfall at Willis Elementary

Lakewood Ranch resident and hurricane hunter Jim Warnecke spoke with Willis Elementary first-graders Jan. 12 about chasing storms with the NOAA.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 25, 2011
OUR VIEW: Keep the Promise for Israel

To understand why the Observer Group newspapers have always been strong supporters of Israel - and find deep fault with President Obama's Middle East speech last week - we have to go as far back into the written record of history as possible.

  • East County
  • Opinion
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • August 5, 2009
Trainer focuses on kids' health

Heather Hackett spent most of her childhood overweight. Now she is hoping to help kids avoid a similar fate through her business, I Train Your Kids.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 29, 2010
Letters to the editor

Stadium: House of cards; Wrong kind of change

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 27, 2009
Cops' Corner 05.28.09

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

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
  • By Joe Hendricks |
  • December 20, 2012
Citizens express concerns about homeless gathering in Gillespie Park

Citizens express concerns about homeless gathering in Gillespie Park

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Pamela Sumner grew up spending her summers in Provincetown, Mass., surrounded by the studios of the most revered abstract expressionists, including Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline.
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • December 15, 2010
Peace signs

Pamela Sumner grinds her own ink, lives in a funky Rosemary District studio and paints with rat whiskers. The Asian-inspired artist meditates on her Zen habits.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • December 16, 2009
School board OKs MTI move, master plan

The Manatee County School Board Dec. 14 unanimously approved the concept of constructing a new Manatee Technical Institute campus along State Road 70 frontage as well as an master plan for the overall 195-acre parcel on which the school would sit.

  • East County
  • News
Bruce St. Denis
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • September 14, 2011
St. Denis under fire

Longboat Key commissioners are meeting with the town manager to discuss his performance. Preliminary reviews by commissioners don't give him top marks.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
"I always felt I had one chance with an audience or one chance with a class," Elizabeth Weil Bergmann says. "If people don't walk away having had an 'a-ha' experience, then they're not going to come back."
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • May 11, 2011
Mover and shaker

Retired Harvard dance Director Elizabeth Weil Bergmann brings her Ivy League moves to Sarasota's Carreño Dance Festival.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 14, 2009
Our View

Take our governor, please!

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By John Ewing |
  • March 15, 2013
Let it Float: A studio visit with Matt Coombs

Let it Float: A studio visit with Matt Coombs

  • Arts + Culture
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