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Lakewood Ranch High senior Gabriella Diaz-Granados scored a team-high 16 points in her final game in a Lady Mustangs uniform.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • February 8, 2012
Mustangs fall in semis

PALMETTO -- Lakewood Ranch High girls basketball coach Tina Hadley felt pretty confident heading into the locker room at halftime.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Robin Roy |
  • August 12, 2009
Merchants make seat bid

Two business owners asked for a private meeting with Michael Connolly, deputy city attorney, to receive a re-interpretation of the state law governing the BID board.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Bonnie Silvestri |
  • July 23, 2013
A Night with Stevie Wonder Hits All the Right Notes

A Night with Stevie Wonder Hits All the Right Notes

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • February 10, 2010
Key Club changes plan

More modifications to the Islandside renovation-and-expansion project will delay a presentation that was planned Friday, Feb. 12 by Planning, Zoning and Building Director Monica Simpson.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Joe Hendricks |
  • October 18, 2012
Bring on the noise, it’s Lumpytunes! Live

Bring on the noise, it’s Lumpytunes! Live

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 26, 2013
Our View: Two who do it right

One of the rote lessons of journalism school is the definition of 'news.' In simplest terms, it is the unusual or extraordinary. 'Dog bites man' is not news. 'Man bites dog' is.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara
  • By Rachel S. OHara |
  • March 1, 2012
Neighbors: Nell Rude

For the past three years, Sarasota resident Nell Rude has been creating an exhibit to thank American veterans.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
East County resident Robyn LeBuffe, right, pictured with her business partner, Justin Ortiz, opened Ultimate Tiger Martial Arts two years ago when she was 16 years old.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • December 12, 2012
School of champions: Ultimate Tiger Martial Arts

East County resident Robyn LeBuffe opened a martial-arts school when she was 16 years old.

  • East County
  • Sports
Courtesy photo
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • July 23, 2014
Team of Triumph

The MBC Elite ninth-grade boys basketball team went 7-0 to win the AAU National Championship.

  • East County
  • Sports
SYV sings on the staircase at the Opera Garnier. Courtesy photos.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • July 23, 2014
Where Are They? Sarasota Young Voices take Paris

For nine days, beginning June 22, Sarasota Young Voices Chamber choir, a 14-woman ensemble, went to Paris -- the first time the group, founded in 2007, has traveled overseas.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Thomas Mann received 144.47 acres in the present-day Longbeach Village through the Homestead Act of 1862.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • June 12, 2013
Lore: Mann became first Longboat Key homesteader in 1891

Thomas Mann received 144.47 acres in the present-day Longbeach Village through the Homestead Act of 1862.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Pine View School for the Gifted eighth-grader Hallie Schiffman began sailing competitively when she was 10 years old.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • June 5, 2014
Setting sail

Thirteen-year-old Hallie Schiffman was recently named the recipient of the 2014 Young Woman Sailor of the Year Award.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Roger Pettingell has sold 95 properties priced at $1 million or more over the past five years. File photo
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • January 13, 2015
Pettingell ranks No. 1 for third year in a row

Coldwell Banker's Roger Pettingell sold $67 million worth of real estate in 2014, more than any local agent.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By David Conway |
  • January 22, 2014
Commission approves first phase of Lift Station work

City commissioners were upset to hear the cost of the Lift Station 87 project could grow to more than $20 million, but accepted the first phase of work from its new engineering firm.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam McTeer |
  • September 3, 2009
Big Olaf opens on Ranch Main

The new ice cream spot welcomed its first customers today at the Lakewood Ranch shopping plaza.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Anthony Paull |
  • October 15, 2012
Sarasota sound regulations meeting: Be the change.

Sarasota sound regulations meeting: Be the change.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 12, 2009
Detectives searching for Ellenton robbers

A 14-year-old girl hid on the bathroom and called 911 after she heard the suspect(s) entering her Ellenton home last night.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 21, 2014
Business Observer

New martial arts facility opens on Ashton Road; Seven Icard Merrill attorneys honored; Grapevine receives industry accolades; National chain opens spa in Sarasota

  • Sarasota
  • News
Despite complaints from businesses and plans to redesign the landscape along a stretch of North Palm Avenue, the City Commission reversed its previous approval of the proposed streetscape project. Photo by David Conway
  • By David Conway |
  • August 21, 2014
Palms on Palm Avenue to remain, for now

After residents spoke in support of saving a palm grove slated for removal, city staff will revisit its options for improving the street.

  • Sarasota
  • News
The Sarasota County Commission Tuesday unanimously approved a staff recommendation that the new Gulf Gate Library be built on the site of the current facility, 7112 Curtiss Avenue.
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • September 15, 2011
New Gulf Gate Library to be built on current site

The Sarasota County Commission Tuesday unanimously approved a staff recommendation that the new Gulf Gate Library be built on the site of the current facility, 7112 Curtiss Avenue.

  • Sarasota
  • News
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