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USF Sarasota-Manatee instructor Garry Colpitts demonstrates a cooking technique before assigning the students soups to prepare.
  • By Amanda Sebastiano |
  • February 5, 2014
New facility cooks up culinary lessons

A Culinary Innovation Lab serves as the new hub for the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee's hospitality students.

  • East County
  • News
Sue-Ellen Welfonder's newest novel, "To Love a Highlander," will be released April 29, by Time Warner's Grand Central Publishing. Photo by Robin Hartill
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • April 23, 2014
Romancing Royalties

Sue-Ellen Welfonder sticks to sensual Scottish romances even as e-books and '50 Shades of Grey' add kinks to the romance-novel publishing industry.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Montae Russell in Thurgood at Pittsburgh Public Theater. Photo by Michael Henninger.
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • December 15, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: 'Thurgood'

Read Marty Fugate's review of George Stevens Jr.'s 'Thurgood' at Florida Studio Theatre.

  • Arts + Culture
A Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. Courtesy photo
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 29, 2015
More parallels of history

Polish Jews called themselves ‘voices from the abyss.’ Today those voices are also Christian and Muslim.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Rod Thomson |
  • July 30, 2009
My View

Cleanup clause leaves us exposed

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
The Mable Ringling Memorial Fountain in Luke Wood Park, left, as it sat since the early 1950s, has been excavated for renovations, right. Courtesy photos.
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • September 13, 2012
Fountain renovation rises to the top

After being covered with dirt for more than 60 years, the late Mable Ringling's memorial fountain in Luke Wood Park has been uncovered and awaits restoration.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Courtesy photo. Jay Berman with Phil King
  • By David Conway |
  • December 19, 2013
Glasser/Schoenbaum Center selects executive director

The center announced Jay Berman will succeed Phil King as the organization's next executive director. Berman will start his new role the first of the year.

  • Sarasota
  • News
The new Philanthropy Center offers a relaxed atmosphere for GCCF employees to meet with potential donors.
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • July 18, 2013
Gulf Coast Community Foundation reaches out to area philanthropists

The Venice-based organization has expanded to Southside Village in Sarasota with a newly opened philanthropy center.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Read this week's Cops Corner.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 15, 2011
Cops Corner: Pelican Press

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 14, 2011
Our View: To end the Colony dispute

It's the thought that counts. It was right on.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 14, 2011
Our View: To end the Colony dispute

It's the thought that counts. It was right on.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • February 16, 2012
Siesta Key churches offer diverse musical selections

Both the Sarasota Jazz Project and the Jacobites Pipe and Drum Band will perform this month on Siesta Key.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • September 19, 2012
Agency approves more carp

SWFWMD changes regulation of carp in Lakewood-area ponds.

  • East County
  • News
File photo
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • July 17, 2013
BUSINESS OBSERVER

The Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce's new board of directors took office Thursday, July 11.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Paula Atwell |
  • April 17, 2013
Theater Review: 'Oleanna'

Backstage at the Players is a perfect space in which to experience David Mamet's brilliant 1992 drama about a college professor accused of sexism.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Nolan Peterson |
  • March 6, 2014
Campaign hatched to protect snowbirds on Siesta

The Sarasota Audubon Society is running a program to protect Siesta Key's snowy plovers. hatchlings.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 2, 2013
Cops Corner 10.3.13

Sept. 29 Burning rubber 1:27 p.m. - 44th Ave E. and Morgan Johnson Road. Suspicious Incidents. A woman reported that someone dumped and burned a tire. The driver's face was not visible by the woman who reported the incident.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
This home at 1 John Ringling Blvd., in Lido Beach, has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms and 1,511 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.3 million.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • July 27, 2011
Lido Beach home sells for $2.3 million

John and Suzette Lodge, of Osprey, sold the home at 1 John Ringling Blvd. in Lido Beach Division A to JRB LLC, a Florida limited-liability company with a Sarasota address, for $2.3 million. Built in 1973, the 1,511-square-foot home has three bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms and sits on more than a half-acre of land. According to the Sarasota County Property Appraiser's website, sarasotaproperty.net, the last recorded sale related to the parcel was for $10,000 in August 1971.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 8, 2009
Cops' Corner 07.09.09

The following information was gathered from incident and arrest reports obtained from the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
Swiss Day Preschool owner Janet Hember has decided to retire and close the school after 30 years in the Oyster Bay community.
  • By Amanda Morales |
  • July 30, 2015
Swiss Miss: Swiss Day Preschool closes after 30 years

Oyster Bay community bids farewell to Swiss Day Preschool.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
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