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Some Sarasotans who raise chickens say their eggs are more nutritious than eggs bought in stores.
  • By Robin Roy |
  • January 18, 2011
City to rule on chicken keeping

Commissioners are expected to vote this evening on a measure that would allow chickens to be kept in city residents' yards.

  • Sarasota
  • News
The 11 members of the union are wrestling with choosing one of three retirement options that Town Manager Dave Bullock has offered.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • July 22, 2013
Town declares impasse

The 11 members of the Longboat Key Police Department Union have until Thursday to select one of three retirement contract offers.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • January 18, 2012
Town hopes to cash in on video advertisements

The commission will discuss an advertising model that could help to offset the town's cost of offering live-streaming meetings.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Bitsy Robertson, Marilynn Koach and Scottie Addy confer at an early Junior Welfare League organizational meeting prior to incorporation on March 26, 1957.
  • By Niki Kottmann |
  • May 8, 2017
Six decades of service

On its 60th anniversary, Junior League of Sarasota members prove to be concerned with more than pearls and cocktail dresses.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Robert Plunket |
  • August 13, 2015
Home of the Month: All About the Art

This home cleverly tosses the mid-century modern rulebook aside.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 10, 2013
United Way initiative targets reading proficiency

The United Way of Manatee County has launched its second year of ReadingPals, a program Barney and Carol Barnett, of the Barnett Early Literacy Initiative, fund.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • April 28, 2010
Memo could derail Ranch's Villages

SMR's Villages of Lakewood Ranch South project is set to go before Sarasota County commissioners April 29. But a last-minute legal issue may wreck the project completely.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 23, 2011
Classic Cops of the Day

Enjoy a classic Cops Corner entry from the East County Observer archives.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
This home at 178 N. Washington Drive recently sold for $2,855,000.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 8, 2017
John Ringling Estates home sells for $2,855,000

Residential real estate transactions for April 24-28.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Manatee Technical College Program Supervisor Greg McGrew says the possibilities for enrichment courses are "limitless."
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • August 19, 2015
MTC aims to expand enrichment offerings

East County resident Greg McGrew wants the community's input as he develops programming.

  • East County
  • News
  • By April Doner |
  • July 23, 2012
Local songbirds take flight: Passerine kicks off summer tour

Local songbirds take flight: Passerine kicks off summer tour

  • Arts + Culture
Tyler Beck, 7
  • By Rachel S. OHara |
  • December 22, 2011
VIDEO: ODA Students tell all about Santa

ODA students tell what they've learned about St. Nick.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
Sam Rodgers Homes founder Sam Rodgers shows off an affinity pool at a model home in GreyHawk West. It accentuates the preserve and lakefront lots within the community.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • January 11, 2017
Developers prep final phase of GreyHawk

Builders in GreyHawk Landing West expect the project to be finished in less than two years.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • November 30, 2011
Acts of kindness help neighbors

Each week through December, the Observer Group will feature a local donor who is involved with Season of Sharing, a community-wide fundraising partnership created by The Community Foundation.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Jack Littman-Quinn |
  • December 19, 2012
Full service at the Half Shell Oyster House

Full service at the Half Shell Oyster House

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Eat + Drink
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • February 18, 2016
Gulf View properties sells for $4.7 million

The following residential real estate transactions took place between February 1 and February 5.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
Kate Honea and Ricardo Graziano as "Sugar" and "Prince” in the Sarasota Ballet's "John Ringling's Circus Nutcracker" Photo by Frank Atura.
  • By Anna Dearing |
  • December 19, 2012
Dance Review: 'John Ringling's Circus Nutcracker - The World's Greatest Ballet'

Not only did the Sarasota Ballet revive a holiday tradition with its world premiere of Matthew Hart's "John Ringling's Circus Nutcraker," but it has created a new Sarasota celebration surely to be enjoyed by ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and children of all ages for many years to come.

  • Arts + Culture
The home at 7462 Cove Terrace recently sold for $2,995,000.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • December 7, 2017
Cove Terrace home sells for $2,995,000

Residential real estate transactions for Nov. 20-24.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
Actor Mike Kradlak called SMR Aggregates' shell-mining operation "a perfect setting for a desperate man in a desperate setting."
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • September 14, 2011
Lakewood Ranch is out of this world

A Lakewood Ranch shell-mining operation proved to be the perfect location for a space scene for Austin McKinley's newest short film.

  • East County
  • News
Al Black, one of the original Highwaymen, will paint live at Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe. Courtesy photo.
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • February 2, 2016
Voices of the Highwaymen

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe honors the art of Florida's segregation-era painters

  • Arts + Culture
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