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  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 4, 2011
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LBK trolley schedules forced visitors into cars

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Jose Manuel Carreno
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • April 23, 2011
A Q&A with Jose Manuel Carreno

Jose Manuel Carreño opens up about next season's Carreño Dance Festival, his coming retirement and those unfulfilled baseball dreams.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Jessica Salmond |
  • November 13, 2014
Planning Commission OKs Osprey development

Although neighbors successfully petitioned for a lower density for the Palms at Casey Key project, worries remain.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Tom Zellars served as an assistant principal at Lakewood Ranch High since 2002.
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • November 6, 2013
Lakewood Ranch assistant principal begins new job

This week, Tom Zellars left the place he called home for 12 years for Southeast High School, where he was reassigned.

  • East County
  • News
Read this week's Cops Corner.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 2, 2012
Cops Corner: Pelican Press

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Nolan Middle School's Green Team will host the school's Naturalist Night Out Oct. 26.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • October 22, 2010
Green Team hosts workshop for community

Master Gardner and Master Naturalist Bob Egolf will speak on Florida native plants and invasive species during a presentation Oct. 26.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Rachel S. OHara |
  • April 26, 2012
Siesta Key Chamber to tee off with annual golf tourney

The tournament is played annually honor of Paul Ralson, who served as the chamber's executive director from 1998 to 2000.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Edmund Adams |
  • May 26, 2010
My View

College survival kit is not essential to success

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 20, 2011
OPINION: School Board on right path

The Manatee County School Board is on the right track. But it will take spinal fortitude to do the right thing.

  • East County
  • Opinion
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 24, 2010
SMR nixes Main Street memorial

President Rex Jensen has offered another Lakewood Ranch location for the memorial honoring veterans and first responders to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 17, 2009
Siesta Key condo sells for $1 million

A Hidden Lagoon Beach Club condominium tops all real-estate transactions for the week of Aug. 20 to Aug. 26.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
  • By Observer Staff |
  • January 14, 2015
Cops Corner: East County

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
  • By Observer Staff |
  • March 13, 2015
East County Cops Corner 3.12.2015

Please enjoy this week's issue of Cops Corner

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
  • By Observer Staff |
  • January 16, 2014
Our view

Antidote to flood insurance

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Robert Plunket |
  • February 26, 2014
Three Things: Beauties of Bird Key

It's hard to believe that 30 years ago Bird Key was considered a bastion of genteel Midwestern retirement. Now, it's transformed itself into a glamorous island of multimillion-dollar mansions and one of the best addresses in Florida.

  • Arts + Culture
Interim Superintendent David Gayler and the school board heard new academic plans from Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning Bob Gagnon in a December workshop.
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • January 2, 2013
Looking ahead: Schools

Last year's budget disaster weighs on the minds of school board members and administration as they prepare to hire a new superintendent in 2013.

  • East County
  • Schools
Kennedy Center teaching artist Karen Erickson leads the children in an arts integrated lesson while teachers observe from library stacks. Courtesy photos.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • August 27, 2014
Spotlight: Any Given Child paints a bright future for students

This year, the Sarasota County Schools system is fostering creativity even more.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • June 15, 2011
Scene & Heard

Launch party chalks the lines for street fest; Booker Middle principal wins state arts leadership award; Jazz juvies to liven up Glenridge

  • Arts + Culture
The Colony Association presented a $3.1 million offer for a Colony rec lease today that was accepted in U.S. Bankruptcy Judge K. Rodney May’s courtroom.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • September 4, 2015
Colony Association acquires triple debtor estate for $3.1 million

A $3.1 million offer for a Colony Beach & Tennis Resort triple debtor estate was awarded to the Colony Association Friday in court. But a rec lease and a rec lease judgment are still in dispute.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 1, 2010
Surely we jest!

Welcome to our first April Fools' issue!

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
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