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  • By Observer Staff |
  • January 21, 2010
Cops Corner

Jan. 12 Tumble dry 6:42 - Tuttle Avenue and Ringling Boulevard. Suspicious Incident. A caller reported that a driver lost her laundry basket and clothes were flying all over the road. Several cars had to swerve to miss the unmentionables.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
A pink shirt signifies Susan Levine’s life-changing breast-cancer survival.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • May 9, 2012
Neighbors: Susan Levine

Levine dedicates her time to promoting grassroots efforts and women's issues.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The famous Act IV quartet from Verdi's "Rigoletto." Photo by Rod Millington.
  • By Nick Reichert |
  • October 14, 2015
Veni, Verdi, Vici: The Sarasota Opera conquers the Verdi Cycle

This month, the Sarasota Opera kicks off the final season of its Verdi Cycle, a project nearly 30 years in the making — and something that’s never been done in the history of opera.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Brynn Mechem |
  • May 2, 2019
Honoring hunger fighters

The couple co-founded the Campaign Against Summer Hunger.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Former minister the Rev. Vincent Carroll with wife, Molly, and interim minister the Rev. Bill Friederich, right, with wife, Bah
  • By Kristen Herhold |
  • July 13, 2016
Longboat Island Chapel finds interim minister

The Rev. Bill Friederich will serve as the chapel’s interim minister.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 16, 2012
Letters to the Editor

A vision for wealth; Don't know Marxism; They hear what they want

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • May 26, 2010
Mixon, Matthews sever ties

Justin Matthews, of Matthews Wildlife Rescue, left the East County attraction after one of his animals, a deer named Buckey, was killed by a pack of dogs on the property.

  • East County
  • News
"When you create a dream, it takes on a life of its own," says Justin Boros, seen here in the studio with dancers from "Rhythm in the Night."
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • September 29, 2010
Light on his Feet

Justin Boros talks about his days with 'Lord of the Dance' and the birth of his own Irish dance troupe, 'Rhythm in the Night.'

  • Arts + Culture
Deputy Damon Ackerman, here with Tiyon Calloway and Geland Veillard, ninth-graders, says that most students take a while to warm up with the deputy on campus.
  • By Amelia Hanks |
  • May 30, 2018
Manatee school board moves closer to forming district security force nears reality

School board votes June 12 whether to implement 'Guardian' program.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • February 16, 2012
More hotel details emerge

A city committee still is weighing the merits of two, competing proposals for a Palm Avenue hotel site next to the garage.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Bonnie Silvestri |
  • June 14, 2013
Getting to know Ransom Riggs

Getting to know Ransom Riggs

  • Arts + Culture
Cast of Asolo Rep's production of "Both Your Houses." Photo by Cliff Roles.
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • January 23, 2015
THEATER REVIEW: 'Both Your Houses'

Maxwell Anderson's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1933 play, "Both Your Houses," is now in session at the Asolo Rep.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • February 27, 2020
Braden River girls basketball's season ends in final four

The Pirates fell 80-58 to defending state champion Wekiva High.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Katie Johns |
  • November 20, 2017
Longboat Key Fire Rescue Chief shares Thanksgiving safety tips

Chief Dezzi shares cooking tips from the U.S. Fire Administration.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Read this week's Cops Corner.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 5, 2012
Cops Corner: Sarasota

Enjoy this week's Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • November 22, 2011
Richard Crawfords meet their matches

The three men, all named Richard Crawford, did not know one another until they met Saturday at the Longboat Key Gourmet Lawn Party.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Laura Gilkey and Jessica Anderson
  • By Anna Brugmann |
  • September 29, 2017
Southside goes gold in honor of classmates

Southside elementary students came to school dressed in gold, the trademark color of childhood cancer awareness, in honor of Avery Rann and Benjamin Gilkey.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Whitney Beach Plaza owner Ryan Snyder will work with town staff to craft a future density referendum that will eventually allow him to convert the plaza’s residential zoning to tourism use.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • November 11, 2015
Commission allows Whitney Plaza referendum work

Whitney Beach Plaza owner Ryan Snyder received consensus from the Longboat Key Town Commission Monday to craft language for a referendum that would allow him to change the property’s zoning.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Gena Rogers hauls her son’s wrecked truck to events to show the value of wearing your seat belt. Photo by Pam Eubanks
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • November 24, 2014
Click It or Ticket effort targets seat belt safety

As Gena Rogers sits at a roadside memorial off State Road 64, near Rye Road, she looks toward two crosses and a display of signs, windmills and memorabilia.

  • East County
  • News
Sergei Dogadin
  • By June LeBell |
  • February 8, 2016
Music review: Sarasota Orchestra Masterworks 4

Mostly Mozart at the Sarasota Orchestra

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
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