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Guest Food Editor Amanda Morris and her mother, Emily Buskirk, with their beautiful Thanksgiving desserts.
  • By Molly Schechter |
  • November 17, 2010
Thankful for tradition

Guest chef, Amanda Morris, and her mother, Emily Buskirk, share some of their favorite memories and recipes.

  • Arts + Culture
Police Chief Peter Abbott submitted his resignation Tuesday, May 18.
  • By Robin Roy |
  • December 27, 2010
TOP STORY, MAY: Why He's Out

Departed Police Chief Peter Abbott and City Manager Bob Bartolotta say little about their relationship. Evidence paints a divergent picture.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Rachael Jaworski, 10, loved pet therapy the best while she was in Tampa General Hospital.
  • By Michael Eng |
  • December 26, 2010
TOP STORY, APRIL: Our Little Miracle

The day after Christmas 2009, Lakewood Ranch 10-year-old Rachael Jaworski collapsed in her bathroom with two brain aneurysms and a ruptured arterio-venous malformation.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Sandy Gilbert |
  • December 9, 2009
Gilbert gives his farewell recommendations for LBK

Longboat Key activist Sandy Gilbert is heading out east. He leaves us with suggestions for Longboat's future.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 15, 2009
Observer Group wins 17 awards

The Florida Press Association bestows five first-place awards on The Observer Group publications in its annual 'Better Weekly Newspaper Awards,' held July 11, in Palm Beach.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • November 11, 2009
Cops Corner 11.12.09

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

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • November 25, 2009
Ranch CDD supervisors whack Wackenhut

Allegiance Security Group and US Security Associates likely will begin service Jan. 4.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • February 10, 2010
Lenobel runs on his record

At-large Commissioner Hal Lenobel, who is not actively campaigning for his sixth Commission term, hopes the voters will elect him on his record.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
"The best thing you can do when pursuing a dream is surround yourself with people who share your joy," DJ Magnus says. "You have to have patience that things will happen organically through perseverance."
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • October 27, 2010
Good vibrations

DJ Magnus doesn't just hear music - he feels it. As a deaf DJ who listened to his heart, he found his true calling.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • November 11, 2009
Mixon sweetens season with first fall fest

The event runs through Nov. 15 with different festivities each day.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 17, 2009
Tower proposals considered

Bradenton Beach officials will consider Distributed Antenna Systems as a more aesthetically pleasing option.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
This home at 3049 Bay Shore Road in Indian Beach has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 5,215 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.9 million.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 2, 2011
Siesta Key home sells for $4.5 million

Legacy Holdings Group LLC sold the home at 8588 Midnight Pass Road to Daniel Williams, of Newfoundland, Canada, for $4.45 million.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
  • 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
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2012
Our View: The property amendments

Frederic Bastiat, the great French economic journalist of the 1840s, would be launching into tirades on talk radio today if he were asked to analyze the proposed constitutional amendments on Florida's Nov. 6 ballot.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam McTeer |
  • November 4, 2009
Braden River still reeling from coach's death

Former football coach Josh Hunter surrendered to authorities Oct. 29 on DUI manslaughter charges for the March accident that killed Doug Garrity.

  • East County
  • News
Only a handful of tenant spaces remain on Lakewood Ranch Main Street. Lakewood Ranch Commercial Realty President Brian Kennelly attributes the 92% leased rate to a positive trend in gross sales.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • June 8, 2011
MIX ON MAIN

Has Lakewood Ranch Commercial Realty found the 'perfect' mix for Lakewood Ranch Main Street?

  • East County
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • June 8, 2011
Thunder remember former pitcher

The Out-of-Door Academy renamed its baseball field the Taylor Emmons Memorial Field in honor of the 2009 graduate who was killed in an accident in December 2010.

  • East County
  • Schools
  • By Pam McTeer |
  • June 4, 2009
Ranch author retraces ancestor's steps

Lakewood Ranch author Russ Wilkins pays tribute his uncle and other World War II veterans in his new book, "Missing in Belgium."

  • East County
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • April 21, 2010
Italian, Mexican cuisines to add spice to Ranch Main

LWR Commercial Realty officials recently secured an Italian restaurant for Main Street. Two more restaurant leases are out, including one for a Mexican eatery.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • September 23, 2009
Resident celebrates 101st birthday

Mae O'Neil was the first resident to move into The Windsor of Lakewood Ranch Assisted Living. She was born Sept. 19, 1908.

  • East County
  • News
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