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  • By Jen Blanco |
  • March 22, 2010
Prep Scoreboard

Scores and highlights from the week of March 15-20.

  • East County
  • Sports
The Sarasota Film Festival box office moves into the Regal Hollywood Stadium 20 for the festival. The festival’s new programming team, which includes Caley Fagerstrom, Michael Dunaway and Derek Horne, strives to bring buzz-worthy, new independent movies t
  • By Nick Reichert |
  • April 1, 2015
Sarasota Film Festival: Reel Big Fest

Sarasota Film Festival’s programmers spend countless hours screening movies year-round. The result? More than 200 films for your viewing pleasure.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • April 28, 2010
Observer Updates

Florensa reports groin project is 'mostly finished'; Broadway beach project receives 400 yards of sand

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By The Insider |
  • April 8, 2013
7 MUST SEE MOVIES: 4/8 Sarasota Film Festival

7 MUST SEE MOVIES: 4/8 Sarasota Film Festival

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • July 15, 2009
Real Estate Reports

Real Estate Reports

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Melissa Nell and Charlie Hunsicker, of Manatee County Parks and Natural Resources, worked as part of a team to create the interactive exhibits inside of the Nature Center.
  • By Amanda Sebastiano |
  • January 13, 2016
Manatee County centers on nature

A new Nature Center at Rye Preserve dives into the area's history and landscape.

  • East County
  • News
Beach Way sign
  • By Jessica Salmond |
  • December 3, 2014
Siesta Isles Association scopes out new signage

The homeowners association wants to brighten up the entrances to the deed-restricted community.

  • Sarasota
  • News
This peacock perched atop a home Tuesday, Feb. 26, near 40th Street and Sarasota Avenue, in the Indian Beach neighborhood.
  • By Roger Drouin |
  • December 23, 2013
Year in Review: February 2013, Peafowl family takes residence in Indian Beach

Residents say the fowl are interesting to watch and aren't causing too many problems - for now.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Hurricane Agnes, June, 1972
  • By Yaryna Klimchak |
  • June 6, 2013
Moments in time

A Mercedes might have been better-suited as a swamp buggy after high winds and rain caused flooding on much of Siesta Key after Hurricane Agnes, in June 1972.

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  • Neighbors
The board sent a proposed irrigation water agreement to Aquaterra in February 2010.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • January 12, 2011
Heritage Harbour puts pressure on Aquaterra

Supervisors on the Heritage Harbour South CDD are hoping to compel their irrigation provider to enter into a formal contract.

  • East County
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • March 11, 2010
Thaxton and McClash clash over Amendment 4

When two Republican county commissioners from adjacent counties faced off over proposed state constitutional Amendment 4 - aka 'Hometown Democracy' - in front of the Lakewood Ranch Democrat Club March 9, the audience knew to expect an unusual exchange.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Christina Meiser, 17. File photo.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • June 5, 2013
River Club youth heads up food drive

Teenager Christina Meiser will collect food for the Salvation Army from her neighbors.

  • East County
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  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 6, 2011
News Briefs

Post office prepares for tax deadline; Historical Society requests funds

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  • By Harold Ronson |
  • December 2, 2009
My view

Harold Ronson recalls a 2001 trip to New Orleans for the opening of the museum that commemorates the attack on Pearl Harbor - the National D-Day Museum.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Tom Coundit, SYC Chef Jack Wenz and Lou Bevilacqua
  • By Molly Schechter |
  • May 11, 2011
Black Tie & Tales

Roasters toast at SYC; Living happily ever after ...; The best laid plans; tidbits; and Black Tie Affair.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Gary Berns |
  • June 8, 2011
Delay incorporation vote

As chairman of the Friends of Lakewood Ranch, I write to respond to your editorial entitled, "Too soon for petitions."

  • East County
  • Opinion
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 10, 2009
It's all coming up roses - 180 of them

After Ross Toussaint, owner of Exotica Florist, heard that D.M. Williams, general manager at Casa del Mar, had to be taken to Sarasota Memorial Hospital for stitches May 12, he brought Williams 180 roses - one for every stitch.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
LEO by Circle of Eleven can be seen Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, at Historic Asolo Theater. Courtesy of Ringling Museum.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • January 23, 2013
Scene & Heard

Art of Our Time gets moving; Awarding brownie points; Journalist is on the receiving end of questions

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • March 31, 2010
SPORTS BRIEFS 03.25.10

Community sports news and notes

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  • By Michael Eng |
  • May 7, 2009
Search for Sandhills

Lakewood Ranch resident and nature photographer Larry Roberts watched as two sandhill cranes celebrated the birth of their two colts. But late last week, the four have gone missing, and he's asking for help locating them.

  • East County
  • News
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