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  • By Stuart and Lois Scheyer |
  • May 5, 2010
Energetic Traveler: Memories in the Making

Longboat Key residents Stuart and Lois Scheyer learn travel problems fade quickly.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By David Conway |
  • February 4, 2015
Where should your flowers go?

A downtown group wants resident feedback as it works on installing flower baskets on light poles.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • September 14, 2019
Braden River Bluegrass Festival draws big crowd to Linger Lodge in Bradenton

Linger Lodge in Manatee County hosts Braden River Bluegrass Festival

  • East County
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • January 16, 2013
Athlete of the Week: TY McLeod

Lakewood Ranch High wrestler Ty McLeod went 5-0 to win the 160-pound weight class Jan. 5, at the Third annual Kiwanis Classic At The Ranch Wrestling Tournament.

  • East County
  • Sports
Read this week's Cops Corner.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 18, 2012
Cops Corner: East County

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
  • By Kayleigh Omang |
  • March 3, 2019
Asolo Repertory Theatre emulates city of love

Vive les Folies Bergère was hosted March 2 at The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota.

  • Black Tie
  • By Observer Staff |
  • March 18, 2010
Our View

Why the stimulus is a stimu-not

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • October 10, 2018
Students walk in wonder

Braden River Elementary families participate in Walk and Bike to School Day.

  • East County
  • Schools
Mary Anne Servian has been with the Sarasota Ballet since 2010.
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • February 16, 2016
Sarasota Ballet releases Managing Director Mary Anne Servian

Servian, who had been with the company since 2010, was released today.

  • Arts + Culture
Danny and Debra Palmer want to purchase Harbor Square, but they need the island’s voters to allow them to live on the third floor of the building that used to be grandfathered as a residential penthouse. Photo by Kurt Schultheis
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • May 13, 2015
High hopes for Harbor Square

Danny and Debbie Palmer believe they can inject some new life into the underutilized Harbor Square office building with a new restaurant offering and other businesses.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • May 5, 2010
Camps key to helping kids beat the heat

Longboat Key offers a variety of summer camps this season, from sports to marine-based camps, for kids of all ages.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Authors Karen Neilinger and Francine Blum
  • By Kristen Herhold |
  • January 25, 2015
PHOTO GALLERY: "Think Rich! Get Rich! Stay Rich!" book and beauty party

Women from across Longboat Key and Sarasota gathered on Jan. 27 to make over their finances and faces at an event sponsored by Trish McEvoy Beauty and Francine Blum and Karen Neilinger, authors of 'Think Rich! Get Rich! Stay Rich!'

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • March 2, 2011
Beach project in voters' hands

Town of Longboat Key registered voters will vote on a $16 million beach project and a charter amendment that clarifies commissioners' partial terms.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
The DID has created this mockup of two of the options for light pole flower basket placement, and wants residents to weigh in on their favorite option.
  • By David Conway |
  • February 2, 2015
DID seeks public input on flower baskets

Beginning Thursday, the Downtown Improvement District will ask residents to weigh in on their favorite configuration of a proposal to install flower baskets on light poles.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Katie Johns |
  • March 24, 2018
Danny's Dream inspires cancer research

The first-time event raised money for The Danny Fund at the UF Health Cancer Center.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Wendy Surkis is looking forward to Sarasota Museum of Art's opening day, when the Sarasota community will be able to witness art in the making at the city's first modern- and contemporary-art museum.
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • January 6, 2011
7 in 11: Wendy Surkis

Wendy Surkis is at the helm to combine modern and contemporary art in one Sarasota space.

  • Sarasota
  • News
"Murder for Two" runs through July 29. Courtesy photo
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • July 18, 2018
Bruce Jordan talks the machinery of mirth and 'Murder for Two' at FST

Director Bruce Jordan enjoys life in the funny fast lane in “Murder for Two” at Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • October 25, 2019
Halloween inspires reading at Freedom Elementary

Halloween inspires reading at Freedom Elementary

  • East County
  • News
Courtesy photo
  • By Niki Kottmann |
  • September 11, 2018
Music Compound to open second location near downtown Sarasota

The Park East neighborhood location of Music Compound is the second in Sarasota and is set to open in late September next to The Bazaar on Apricot & Lime.

  • Arts + Culture
Lakewood Ranch Country Club resident and Manatee County Commissioner Vanessa Baugh and Esplanade resident Carolyn Lowry-Nation are eager to see the districts purchase the building.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • June 27, 2016
Committee supports community center concept

Now money will be the talking point regarding the Summerfield Information Center in Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • News
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