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  • By Rod Thomson |
  • September 8, 2010
My View: The Dream Crushers

My View: The Dream Crushers

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Taylor Halligan and Alex Passmore cooked hot dogs over an open fire as part of the retreat's festivities.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 9, 2011
Box retreat teaches life's lessons

Woodland - The Community Church hosted a Kinetic Box Retreat for high school students March 4-5

  • East County
  • News
  • By Thomas Sowell |
  • August 13, 2009
My View: A price for Obama's amateurism

The president's injecting himself into a local police issue is just a small sign of a big danger.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Pam McTeer |
  • May 14, 2009
Larger than Life

Tom Hennessy, the fire chief for Southern Manatee Fire & Rescue District, will retire June 12. During his 30 years of service he's seen the district grow from four full-time employees to 96.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Kelly Kirschner |
  • September 9, 2010
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A proud mayor stands by the panel's work

I am proud to have cronies like Susan Chapman and the nine other citizen volunteers who gave the community hundreds of hours over a period of six months to review the policies and procedures of the Sarasota Police Department.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
This aerial of Lakewood Ranch from 1998 shows a young community on the verge of a boom.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • January 1, 2011
TOP STORY, OCT.: Ranch Anniversary

Lakewood Ranch celebrated the 15th anniversary of the first home sold. Visionaries Mary Fran Carroll and John Clarke were largely responsible shaping the Lakewood Ranch residents know today.

  • East County
  • News
Mary Mitchell recently published a book that archives 30 years of her work as a fashion illustrator.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • March 28, 2012
Neighbors: Mary Mitchell

This fashion illustrator went from rags to designer garments.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The Sarasota County Commission Tuesday approved a contract that could lead to the sequencing of Siesta Public Beach improvements from the summer of 2012 through the fall of 2014.
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • December 8, 2011
Faster work plans unveiled

The County Commission has set in motion a plan that could lead to the completion of all Siesta Beach improvements by late 2014.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Rod Thomson |
  • September 2, 2010
MY VIEW: The Dream Crushers

We've ceded far too much power to government and her bureaucrats. It is not overwrought to say it is a step toward the end of the American dream.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • May 20, 2009
Closet Bookworms

Longboat Library gets help from a few good men

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Keely Carney |
  • April 30, 2012
Want Your World Rocked? Read This...Then Go See Yanni

Want Your World Rocked? Read This...Then Go See Yanni

  • Arts + Culture
Pam Eubanks. Katherine Harris and Paul Blackketter, president of the Suncoast Aquatics Nature Center Associates, hope to raise $1 million from the private sector for the World Cup pentathlon finals in 2014.
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • December 4, 2013
A greater vision

Thanks to community involvement, winning four pentathlon events adds to a strategy to become a world-class amateur sports venue.

  • East County
  • News
Executive recruiter Colin Baenziger said the executive director position requires a wide set of skills.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 2, 2011
Baenziger continues search for director

Colin Baenziger, of Colin Baenziger & Associates, already has received about 40 applications for the IDA's vacant Lakewood Ranch Town Hall executive director position.

  • East County
  • News
Community Haven’s Barry Gradert, front, couldn’t stop smiling as he rowed with coach Alex Alexandru.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 2, 2011
Sarasota debuts adaptive rowing

As part of the Sarasota Invitational Regatta, organizers hosted an inaugural adaptive rowing program for clients of Community Haven for Adults & Children with Disabilities and for Easter Seals on Feb. 25.

  • East County
  • News
Since their wedding day Sept. 11, 2006, Jeanne and Spiros Kambitsis have lovingly called each other "chickadee," a nickname that stuck following their wedding-day visit to the Parthenon in Greece.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • February 13, 2013
Love is on the menu

East County restaurateurs Spiros and Jeanne Kambitsis were married in Greece. The event - the first of its kind in more than a century - drew national attention.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • May 5, 2009
Brenner denied another term

The Longboat Key Town Commission chose former zoning board members over its current Planning Board chairman, David Brenner, creating more friction between the two groups.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 28, 2012
Airport unveils marketing campaign

Sarasota-Bradenton International's goal is to reduce 'leakage' 3.8% annually over the next five years.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • May 29, 2014
Our View

Sign the mayor petition

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 27, 2009
Obituaries

Obituaries

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Edmund Adams |
  • September 19, 2012
My View: Yes, they built businesses; I've seen it firsthand

I was paying the owner of a Lake Cumberland, Ky., boat store for fixing the fuel gauge on our boat.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
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