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Wanda Colon shows Aletta Chapman, a student at The Academy of Home Staging, how to hang a painting.
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • March 13, 2013
Television host helps stage Tara home

Celebrity and staging team turns a cluttered, outdated home into one ready to be sold.

  • East County
  • News
Trenton Doyle Hancock. Courtesy photo.
  • By Nick Reichert |
  • April 15, 2015
A&E Picks and Highlights 4.16.15

A&E Editor Nick Reichert picks the top events to attend this week in Sarasota, FL.

  • Arts + Culture
Donors Sally and Sam Shapiro, of Longboat Key, stand with Glasser-Schoenbaum Human Services Center Executive Director Phil King, center.
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • May 30, 2012
Glasser-Schoenbaum Center unveils plans for new health facility

With donations from Longboaters Sam and Sally Shapiro and co-founder Betty Schoenbaum, the center hopes to break ground on its new children's health facility this summer.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Cleo's collar cut through one-third of her neck, to her spinal chord. Courtesy image.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • February 24, 2016
‘Little train wrecks’ on the mend

Honor Animal Rescue seeks support for needy animals.

  • East County
  • News
Susan Chapman is the newest Sarasota city commissioner.
  • By Roger Drouin and Nick Friedman |
  • May 16, 2013
To the finish

Richard Dorfman's strategy was to make his case face to face with voters. Susan Chapman banked on her deep-rooted neighborhood loyalists.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • January 10, 2013
Institute for the Ages focuses on Sarasota's older demographic

Opened six months ago, the offshoot of SCOPE is ready to launch its inaugural study geared toward the aging population.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Law enforcement authorities estimate more than 300 animals to be inside the raided facility.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 22, 2014
Top Stories - East County: February

The Manatee County Sheriff's Office is leading a multi-agency raid of Napier's Log Cabin and Animal Sanctuary.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • August 25, 2010
Colony trustee abandons furniture

U.S. bankruptcy trustee William Maloney has no desire to sell off The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort's interior furnishings. Colony Lender will request possession of the belongings next week.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Robin Roy |
  • January 14, 2010
New driver's license requirements cause frustration

The Sarasota Tax Collector's Office asks that residents wanting to renew driver's licenses check what identification is required before visiting its office.

  • Sarasota
  • News
The New Gate-Field School’s campus on Ashton Road will house a total of 120 to 130 students.
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • February 24, 2011
New Gate-Field School will merge with Ashton campus

Starting in the fall, New Gate-Field School will return to the campus where it started 27 years ago.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam McTeer |
  • August 19, 2009
Wildlife rehabilitator regrets hoax

East County snake man Justin Matthews last week admitted to staging the capture of a Burmese python.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • January 12, 2011
Attorney disputes association's claim

A dispute has arisen over what a 5% undivided interest in 12 tennis courts obtained by one unit owner means for The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 29, 2010
Our view

Wish list for 2011

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 19, 2012
News Briefs

Sarasota Memorial entrance is permanent; Lido Beach Park restroom revitalized; The Salvation Army hearing is set

  • Sarasota
  • News
Students in Natasha Sinclair's fifth-grade class were proud of their accomplishment.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • June 15, 2011
Popsicles sweeten lesson at McNeal Elementary

Students in Natasha Sinclair's fifth-grade class developed a business plan and sold popsicles to raise funds for the PTO.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 20, 2013
Nolan Middle embarks on new BYOD program

As eighth-grade student Javaire Perry sits in Carrie Rainwater's science class, he pulls out his iPod and begins navigating the screen.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 8, 2014
Cops Corner: East County

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
Yara Shoemaker's sister-in-law and mother, Brittany Duve al Mehrz and Radia Daoud, Shoemaker and hostess Kim Githler.  Photo by Molly Schechter.
  • By Loren Mayo and Molly Schechter |
  • May 2, 2012
Black Tie & Tales

Roxie steals the show at bachelorette party; Year of the woman; 'He wore his power lightly'; Field notes from the party of the decade

  • Arts + Culture
"I'm young for a literary manager," Amanda Cayo says. "I haven't read everything in the canon. I think that gives me an advantage, in a way. It puts me in the same position as most of the audience."
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • May 2, 2012
BACKSTAGE PASS: Literary Device

And you thought you had a lot of paperwork to sort through. Try sitting at Amanda Cayo's desk. The Florida Studio Theatre literary manager reads hundreds of scripts a year.

  • Arts + Culture
The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort’s lack of settlement movement to restore the dilapidated resort led a U.S. bankruptcy trustee to ask for a sale of a $23 million judgment. File photo
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 10, 2015
The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort: The $23 million judgment day

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge K. Rodney May will decide whether Unicorp National Development can bid on the judgment against Colony unit owners.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
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