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  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • October 14, 2009
FST playwrights unscripted

How Florida Studio Theatre's Adam Ratner and Beth Duda put a new spin on an old fairytale.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 14, 2009
Cops Corner 10.15.09

The following information was gathered from incident and arrest reports obtained from the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • April 28, 2010
Colony contractors disagree

One inspector says the buildings are in 'sound shape'; the other says he saw mold and fungi.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 15, 2011
Cops Corner

The two juvenile defendants selected several grocery items and concealed them in plastic Walmart bags.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
Ulla Searing wore one of her favorite colors to her birthday party in October 2010.
  • By Molly Schechter |
  • November 7, 2012
The 'Grande' Life: Ulla Searing

Philanthropist Ulla Searing was well-known for her patronage of the arts, but her life was shaded with many colorful stories.

  • Arts + Culture
Sarasotans Cliff Roles, Jay Lusteck and Don Walker explore the American Character as delegates of the Continental Congress in the upcoming season opener “1776” at FSU Center for Performing Arts.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • November 7, 2012
EDUCATION PRODUCTION: Meet your delegates

Three Sarasotans portray delegates in Asolo Rep's season opener, '1776,' a musical play about the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

  • Arts + Culture
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is located at 1741 Main St. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 22, 2011
FULL STORY: Herald-Tribune, sister papers, to be sold

The newspaper, which won a Pulitzer Prize in April and has been owned by the New York Times for nearly 30 years, will get new owners. Changes could be forthcoming.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Read this week's Cops Corner.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 22, 2011
Cops Corner: Siesta Key

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • February 16, 2011
Walgreens sets sights on plaza

The drug-store chain has held quasi-judicial hearings with the town about the possibility of anchoring Whitney Beach Plaza.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • April 25, 2010
Contractors see Colony differently

One inspector says the buildings are in 'sound shape'; the other says he saw mold and fungi.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 5, 2010
OUR VIEW: A change of view on exemptions

Our friends in the Sarasota business community are not going to like what you're about to read: Our inclination is to vote "no" on the Economic Development Ad Valorem (Property) Tax Exemptions on the Aug. 24 primary ballot in Sarasota County and the city of Sarasota.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Thaxton
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • March 8, 2012
Court, Legislature address term limits for commissioners

While the filing of briefs continues in a Florida Supreme Court case on County Commission term limits, two bills on the same matter are pending in the Legislature.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • October 14, 2009
Napier's sanctuary searching for more land

Owners Alan and Sheree Napier currently care for more than 30 horses, but they are unable to take more because they are out of room.

  • East County
  • News
Craig Hall, co-founder and vice president of business development and investor relations for Sunovia, displays his firms bright wares in Siesta Key Village.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • July 19, 2012
Crosswalk issues and street safety plague Siesta

The Florida Department of Transportation rejected requests for Midnight Pass safety improvements, including more signage and a lower speed limit, and the search for Village lighting continues.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Marcia Freedman displays one of her more recent watercolor paintings. She prefers painting watercolors to oil paintings.
  • By Rachel S. OHara |
  • September 21, 2011
Neighbors: Marcia Freedman

Artist Ed Whitney once commented on a painting, done by Marcia Freedman, saying that the artist was "a person having a love affair with color."

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Robin Roy |
  • April 23, 2010
County official removed from spring-training project

County division director Larry Arnold is accused of influencing the awarding of contracts to companies with which he had personal ties.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Soprano Maria D’Amato, as Desdemona, and tenor Rafael Dávila, as Otello, in the Sarasota Opera’s “Otello.”  Photo courtesy of Rod Millington.
  • By June LeBell |
  • March 7, 2012
Music Review: Sarasota Opera: 'Otello'

Esultate! Sarasota Opera can exult in its new production of "Otello."

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • October 12, 2009
Town staff 'cannot recommend' OK of project

Planning, Zoning and Building Director Monica Simpson issued an Islandside staff report Friday, Oct. 9 that said town staff 'cannot recommend' approval of the $400 million Longboat Key Club and Resort's Islandside Outline Development Plan request.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Tom O'Brien owns the business with his brothers, David and Steve. His brother-in-law, John Cucci, and mother-in-law, Donna Bergquist, also work at the farm with them.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • September 29, 2010
From the Ground Up

The O'Brien Family Farm is readying to open to the public in about a month.

  • East County
  • News
  • By April Doner |
  • September 10, 2012
HoodRoving News: I am not alone!

HoodRoving News: I am not alone!

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
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