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dessertcocktails
  • By Matthew Serrano |
  • August 19, 2015
Creekside Drinks: Dessert cocktails

Creekside Drinks: Dessert cocktails

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Eat + Drink
The Lakewood Ranch football team will have its hands full during its Homecoming game against North Port on Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • October 26, 2016
That's the ticket ...

The top match-ups this week in East County sports.

  • East County
  • Sports
Jeff Daughtry has been teaching at Sarasota Military Academy since 2011. (Photo by Harriet Sokmensuer)
  • By Harriet Sokmensuer |
  • April 10, 2014
Teacher Spotlight: Jeff Daughtry

As a veteran, Sarasota Military Academy algebra and geometry teacher Jeff Daughtry knows the meaning of sacrifice.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Investigators allege Vennie Del Singleton touched the young girl inappropriately several times between 2000 and 2002
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • June 27, 2013
Police arrest man suspected of molestation

The Sarasota Police Department arrested 62-year-old Vennie Singleton June 25, after listening to a phone call between him and the victim.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Riverview running back Areon Green and the Rams will travel to North Fort Myers for their spring game May 26.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • May 26, 2016
That's the ticket ...

Check out this week's top Sarasota area sporting events.

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
Metric Engineering's Mike Martin answers questions about the project.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • July 24, 2015
Public drives enthusiasm for interchange project

FDOT showed off plans for the University Parkway/I-75 interchange at an open-house style meeting Thursday night.

  • East County
  • News
Third and fourth-graders beat the drum to the music.
  • By Jessica Salmond |
  • May 11, 2016
Braden River Elementary students drum up music

Third- and fourth-grade students performed three pieces for their “Orffestra.”

  • East County
  • Schools
Ted Kohn, 84, was never a religious person, but this photo has him questioning his belief.
  • By Katie Johns |
  • January 24, 2018
Seeing is believing: Longboater believes he sees Holy Trinity in photograph

Ted Kohn thought he was just taking a photo of a sunset. Then, he turned the photo vertical and spotted what he believes are religious symbols.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Tommy Lee Jones and Ben Affleck in "The Company Men."
  • By Pam Nadon |
  • February 16, 2011
Film Review: 'The Company Men'

In the new film, "The Company Men," Ben Affleck proves that he can be as brilliant in front of the camera as he is behind it.

  • Arts + Culture
Allan Bazzy waves from the floating cottage docked in front of the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.
  • By Amanda Morales |
  • February 23, 2016
Blue cottage floats on Sarasota Bay

Visitors and residents wonder about the origins of the houseboat in the shape of a cottage docked near Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Elijah Liles
  • By Observer Staff |
  • March 28, 2013
SCHOOL BOARD BULLETIN

Celebrate Learning; Student run city; Dragonfly Cafe; Thesis work on display

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Nick Reichert |
  • December 11, 2015
Selby Gallery celebrates one last time

Sarasota artists, and Ringling College students and faculty reminisced inside the Selby Gallery Wednesday night just before its slated demolition in January.

  • Arts + Culture
Cheryl Brandi is a candidate for the Sarasota County Hospital Board.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 21, 2016
Hospital Board: At Large, Seat 3 — Cheryl Brandi

Cheryl Brandi, a Democrat, will face Republican Susan Tucker in the general election.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • October 28, 2009
The organ doctor

Bob Campbell has fixed Sarasota church organs for 40 years and still can't play a tune.

  • Arts + Culture
Kayleigh Omang. Judge Brian Iten was appointed to the bench in 2015.
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 9, 2018
Judge, attorney face off in rare race

Election, scheduled for Aug. 28, is first contested race for a judge in the region in 12 years.

  • Sarasota
  • News
The project’s neighbors have questioned whether the proposed residential aspect, depicted in this conceptual rendering, is appropriately sized.
  • By David Conway |
  • August 9, 2018
Siesta Promenade plans under review

The County Commission is set to consider a proposed 24-acre mixed-use development on Stickney Point Road later this year.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 8, 2014
Obituary: Kenneth Hugh Barr

Kenneth Hugh Barr, 73, of Sarasota, died May 8.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Hannah Bergan Kates graduated May 5 from Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's of science in environmental engineering.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • May 30, 2012
Class of 2012

These Longboat Key, Lido and Bird Key high school seniors have aced countless exams, read stacks of literary classics, won football games and tennis matches, danced at prom, learned to drive, learned foreign languages, mastered the FCAT and took their high schools by storm.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Chef Judi Gallagher |
  • February 7, 2013
TWIS = This Week Is Sushi

TWIS = This Week Is Sushi

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Eat + Drink
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • September 14, 2015
Theater review: 'I Never Saw Another Butterfly'

Venice Theatre's 'I Never Saw Another Butterfly' celebrates the power of art and memory

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
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