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"It’s so creative," Grace Greene says about stained-glass artistry. "You end up with something that you never dreamed about."
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • August 17, 2011
Grace Greene: The stained glass artist (VIDEO)

It was while touring cathedrals 50 years ago in Europe, that Grace Greene discovered her appreciation for stained glass.

  • Arts + Culture
Sgt. Scott Osborne’s favorite event in the Florida Police & Fire Games is the sporting clays event. Photo by Rachel Brown Hackney.
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • September 15, 2011
Neighbors: Siesta Olympian

Sgt. Scott Osborne, leader of the community policing station on the Key, has been winning medals since 2002 in the Florida Police & Fire Games.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
The Lakewood Ranch High golf team is in the midst of its best season in school history, having won every tournament so far this year. Courtesy photo.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • October 5, 2011
Mustangs golf team still undefeated

The boys golf team has posted an impressive 65-0 record so far this season with two tournaments remaining before the Class 2A-District 13 tournament Oct. 17.

  • East County
  • Sports
Gregg Kaplan runs Longboat-Key-based LBK Contractors & Design, a homebuilding and remodeling firm. Kaplan was previously CEO of Cinnabon, the chain of cinnamon roll bakeries. Photo by Mark Wemple.
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 5, 2011
Gregg Kaplan shares life lessons

Gregg Kaplan's executive lessons revolve around a key theme: Don't be afraid to take chances.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Vince Fraser
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • March 30, 2011
Scene & Heard

Film fest artist gives good face; Local writer chronicles triumph over cancer; 'Beautiful Noise' earns more Hollywood cred; Men's Journal gives Sarasota some brotherly love; and Hot Tickets.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 12, 2011
Cops Corner

1:45 p.m. - 1800 block of Sandalwood Drive. Criminal Mischief and Assault. A homeowner was unsatisfied with some woodwork being done in his home. He was disputing a bill the worker gave him, because of the poor quality.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 27, 2011
Our View: Ranch location makes it 'iDEAL'

The State College of Florida trustees are to keep watch over the best interests of the college. And so it is reasonable for them to be questioning all portions of the Design & Economic Acceleration Lab at Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • Opinion
Pam Eubanks
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • April 27, 2011
Lakewood Ranch attracts institutional investor

Grubb & Ellis acquired Lakewood Ranch Medical Office Building I for $12.5 million. The firm also bought facilities in Arizona and Texas this month.

  • East County
  • News
Unit 2607 at Inn on the Beach, 210 Sands Point Road, has 1,644 square feet. It sold for $1.01 million.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • April 27, 2011
Queens Harbour home sells for $2 million

Franklin and Lorraine St. John, of Wallingford, Conn., sold their home at 3628 Fair Oaks Place in Queens Harbour to Barry and Jane Weinman for $2 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • April 13, 2011
County approves Pat Neal project

Neal Communities' Woodbrook is a 213-home project near The Cascades. The county commission also approved an addition to Rosedale.

  • East County
  • News
The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association will ask the Longboat Key Town Commission at its 7 p.m. Monday, May 2 regular meeting to grant a continuance of the resort's tourism abandonment order until Dec. 31, 2012.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • April 27, 2011
Rebuilding roadblock?

A town ordinance could prevent the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort from renovating what currently exists on the property.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Corky Cavanaugh loves using his community's internal lake system to take his boat from his home out on to the Manatee River.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • September 29, 2010
Preserving Tidewater

Months ago, developer WCI Communities put part of the Tidewater Preserve property up for sale. It recently took it off the market, and President and CEO David Fry said WCI is committed to completing the East County community.

  • East County
  • News
"I know how each and every one of our sets goes together piece-by-piece," Jeff Ellis says. "It's a big Tetris game. Fit the shapes in the holes."
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • September 29, 2010
Set Commander

Jeff Ellis gives us a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the first main stage opera set to be built completely at the Sarasota Opera House.

  • Arts + Culture
The home at 625 Norsota Way has six bedrooms, seven baths, two half-baths, a pool and 6,077 square feet of living area. It sold for $5.9 million.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • February 17, 2011
A home in Bay Island sells for $5.9 million

A home in Bay Island tops all real-estate transactions from Jan. 18 to Jan. 24.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
Unit PH-4-N at the Islander Club, 2301 Gulf of Mexico Drive, has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and 1,235 square feet of living area. It sold for $400,000.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • January 26, 2011
Home in the Village sells for $1 million

The sale was the largest of the 10 transactions that occurred on Longboat, Lido, St. Armands and Bird keys during the week of Jan. 10 through Jan. 14 and the sole sale to exceed $1 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Key Chorale Artistic Director Joseph Caulkins, Executive Director Richard Storm, and Dolly Jacobs and Pedro Reis, co-founders of Circus Sarasota
  • By Molly Schechter |
  • March 2, 2011
Black Tie & Tales

Cirque superbe; Major birthday for a major community supporter; Missing Mamaw; The other side of Van Wezel; Black Tie Affair

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • March 2, 2011
Cops Corner

Classic Cops Feb. 19, 1980 8:03 p.m. Woman reports she was watching a TV program when two raccoons fell through her ceiling. One escaped, one was captured. Officer states program was not a Walt Disney production, but the later events could have been.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
City commissioners hope City Manager Bob Bartolotta and City Auditor and Clerk Pamela Nadalini can resolve issues between them related to a computer investigation.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • January 5, 2012
Delve into 12: Tension at City Hall

City Manager Bob Bartolotta is still awaiting the results of a computer investigation of his computer more than three months after City Clerk and Auditor Pamela Nadalini ordered it.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Randall Reid
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • February 16, 2012
Randall Reid meets with residents

During a neighborhood association meeting Monday, Sarasota County Administrator Randall Reid heard complaints that the county needs to engage the public better in major undertakings.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 14, 2012
District considers budget consultant

MGT of America found more than $23 million in savings during its recent evaluation of the Sarasota County School District's budget.

  • East County
  • News
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