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Twelve-year-old A.J. Rizzo has been playing for the Rawlings Gators team since it formed about three years ago.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • June 29, 2011
Gators compete on national stage

The Gators 11U travel team qualified for the AAU Grand National Baseball Championships, after finishing third in the AAU State tourney.

  • East County
  • Sports
Siesta Key Village Association members plan to research options for improving the visibility of pedestrians using the Village’s crosswalks at night. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • January 5, 2012
Concerns voiced about pedestrian safety at night

Siesta Key Village Association members plan to ask county officials to work on a means of illuminating Village crosswalks at night, to improve pedestrian safety.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • November 4, 2009
Key residents adopt generous outlook

The new 10,000-square-foot Cat Depot building, which opened Oct. 30, allows 90% of its cats to roam free.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • October 28, 2009
Certified Organic

Season of Sculpture took a serious cue from the economy and cut the camp from this year's public art exhibit.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Robin Roy |
  • May 13, 2010
GOP to oppose sex education

The Republican Party of Sarasota County will vote this week to reject a move toward a standard sex-education curriculum in all Florida public schools.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 13, 2010
Cops Corner

May 4 Cosmetic fix 1:10 p.m. - 1700 block of South Tamiami Trail. Reckless Driving. The complainant called police to report a woman swerving in the road. When he caught up to her at a stoplight, he saw why she was having trouble staying in her lane. She was staring in the rearview mirror while applying her makeup.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 6, 2010
Harbor Acres home sells for $2.4 million

A home in Harbor Acres tops all real-estate transactions from April 5 to April 12.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
Vijay Iyer. Courtesy photo
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • March 21, 2012
Scene & Heard

Greenfield Prize draws art stars to Sarasota; Autographed slippers inspire Diversions cover girl; SFF partners with NYU; Langella to work the red carpet

  • Arts + Culture
Correction: The March 8 Edibles article on King Family Farms incorrectly stated its address. It is located at 4630 Caruso Road (60th Street East) off of State Road 70 just west of I-75 in Bradenton. ÂÂ
  • By Molly Schechter |
  • March 21, 2012
EDIBLES: A taste and recipe trip down memory lane

This story comes from a Senior Friendship Centers fundraiser March 13. The party was built around "You Bet Your Life," the well-loved and well-remembered 1950s TV show starring the one-and-only Groucho Marx.

  • Arts + Culture
Sarasota Bay Club residents do chi tao with instructor Michael Stults, left, Friday, Feb. 18, at Sarasota Bay Club. Stults has been a chi tao instructor for 28 years and has been teaching this class at Sarasota Bay Club for 10 years.
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • February 24, 2011
Aging Initiative

Sarasota County is transforming its demographic strength into an economic asset.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 22, 2009
Siesta Key home tops week's transactions

A home in Waterside Wood Siestas Bayside tops all real-estate sales for the week of Sept. 25-30.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • October 28, 2009
Police officer disputes firing

Longboat Key police officer Jessica Anderson's attorney called her firing 'excessive and disparate in treatment.'

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Maria Amodio |
  • May 6, 2010
STORE AROUND THE CORNER: Alicia's Grooming

Alicia's Grooming provides a variety of services for dogs big and small.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 22, 2011
Cops Corner

12:01 a.m. - 2200 block of 51st Boulevard E. Grand theft. Unknown person(s) stole the boat and trailer from the front yard of the residence. The person(s) then fled with the property in an unknown direction.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
Two great blue heron chicks beg to be fed.
  • By Dr. Lou Newman |
  • June 22, 2011
Birds'-eye View

Dr. Lou Newman has photographed wildlife on six continents.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Arthur and Eleanor Mullins |
  • May 5, 2010
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Tara homeowners object to development

As homeowners in Tara Golf and Country Club, my wife and I are strongly opposed to the proposed rezoning of the southwest corner of State Road 70 and Tara Boulevard from residential to commercial by Lake Lincoln LLC and also to permitting additional uses within the Twelve Oaks Plaza, including construction of a cellular communications tower. We have both signed a petition to this effect.

  • East County
  • Opinion
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • May 5, 2010
St. Denis told to find $800,000

The Town Commission wants the town manager to rethink how his departments are run and ask his department heads to find more money to offset an $800,000 shortfall.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Robin Roy |
  • October 26, 2009
Group alleges Ed Smith Stadium cover up

An anti spring-training stadium group accuses city officials of keeping an unfavorable report on Ed Smith Stadium secret. City Hall representatives said there was no secrecy.

  • Sarasota
  • News
This Country Club Village at Lakewood Ranch home, which has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 5,437 square feet of living, sold for $1,637,500. Photo by Jen Blanco.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 19, 2012
Country Club Village home sells for $1,637,500

A home in Country Club Village at Lakewood Ranch tops all transactions in this week's real estate. R. Scott and Tamara Connin, of Sarasota, sold their home at 12806 Deacons Place to Ales and Lenka Graf and Centrem LLC for $1,637,500.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 23, 2009
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