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  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 31, 2011
Classic Cops of the Day: Sarasota

Enjoy a classic Cops Corner entry from the Sarasota Observer archives.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 23, 2012
Letters to the Editor

Invest in a cleaner Siesta beach; Think for yourselves; Stand your ground; 'That' or 'those'?

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Michael Eng |
  • April 1, 2010
Surely we jest!

APRIL FOOLS -- Welcome, one and all, to The East County Observer's first April Fools' spoof edition.

  • East County
  • Opinion
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 24, 2009
Charter amendments receive official approval proved

At a special meeting June 18, the Town Commission approved the voluntary rebuild and 250 tourism-unit ordinances.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By TWIS Street |
  • November 20, 2012
VIDEO: Sarasota Chalk Festival 2012

VIDEO: Sarasota Chalk Festival 2012

  • Arts + Culture
Don Laurin Johnson and Andrew Drake in WBTT's "Jitney." Courtesy
  • By Paula Atwell |
  • January 23, 2013
Theater Review: 'Jitney'

The Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe does sincere justice to the great August Wilson's "Jitney," which was written in 1979 and became part of what's now known as his "Ten Play Cycle," chronicling the lives of Black Americans through each decade of the 20th century.

  • Arts + Culture
Courtesy photo
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • March 6, 2017
Music review: Chargaux

Brooklyn-based Chargaux ventures into The Ringling's ‘Pathless Woods’

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • September 6, 2012
Bus capacity doubles for Crystal Classic

Organizers of the November master sandsculpting competition hope to solve some of the transportation problems that arose last year.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
This home at 435 McKinley Drive  recently sold for $1,475,000.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 14, 2017
McKinley Drive home sells for $1,475,000

Residential real estate for Aug. 28 to Sept. 1.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Richard Gonzmart, president of the Columbia Restaurant Group, started in the family business when he was six. He represents the fourth generation in the family business.  Â
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • June 29, 2016
Pattigeorge’s new owner: ‘It’s my destiny’

Richard Gonzmart says the successor to Pattigeorge’s ‘won’t be anything we do now.’ He envisions patrons dining on a glass floor and watching fish.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • June 8, 2012
Progressive Community Management CEO cleared of wrongdoing

The Department of Business and Professional Regulation has cleared a complaint against Progressive Community Management CEO Bill Sutton.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • July 19, 2013
Registration ongoing for Cal Ripken season

Registration for the Manatee Cal Ripken Baseball at Heritage Harbour fall season is now underway.

  • East County
  • Sports
Gray
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • October 30, 2013
High 5

The top five sports moments of the week.

  • East County
  • Sports
The properties Floridays Develop Co. seeks to turn into a hotel encompasses approximately 1.5 acres of land between Whitney Beach Plaza and the vacant bank building on Gulf of Mexico Drive at 6960 Gulf of Mexico Drive.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • November 23, 2015
Floridays eyes Longboat Key hotel

Sarasota-based Floridays Development Co. seeks to build a hotel on the north end of the island if it can get referendum approval to change the zoning of six parcels.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
John Ringling Blvd. leading into St. Armands Circle was just barely a one-lane road Sunday afternoon.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • June 27, 2012
PHOTO GALLERY: Deb-istation on Longboat Key

Tropical Storm Debby took a toll on Longboat Key. The Longbeach Village was waist-high in water Sunday and fish were swimming up to villager's back doors. High winds brought limbs down all along Gulf of Mexico Drive where Public Works Department employees worked non-stop. And waves crashed through turtle-nests carrying beach chairs down stretches of Longboat Key beach.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 22, 2010
Decorate a bra and help support fight against cancer

Calling all designers! Design a bra to be auctioned off at the 2010 Key to the Cure event Oct. 21, at Saks Fifth Avenue, and help fight women's cancers.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Jack Short |
  • January 27, 2016
Sarasota County commissioners pass 'puppy mill' ordinance

More than 10 hours of testimony from the public and industry apparently swayed commissioners to pass a controversial pet sales ordinance.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Bonnie Silvestri |
  • July 2, 2013
Head to the Selby Gardens to celebrate the Fourth

Head to the Selby Gardens to celebrate the Fourth

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Melanie Johnson hits a layup for the University of South Carolina. Photo courtesy South Carolina Athletics.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • September 13, 2017
New hand on the Ranch

Girls basketball coach hopes to sustain the Mustangs' success.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • September 23, 2010
Sheriff's Office installs Operation Medicine Cabinet

Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight announced Sept. 22 the installation of permanent pharmaceutical drop boxes in the lobby of the Criminal Justice Center, located at 2071 Ringling Blvd.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
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