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Kevin and Missy Cooper
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • February 10, 2011
Love Story

In honor of Valentine's Day, we asked two Sarasota couples - newlyweds Kevin and Missy Cooper and longtime loves and high-school sweethearts Billy and Mary Franklin - to share their love stories.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Robin Roy |
  • October 29, 2009
Partnership offers possible dissolution

Downtown Partnership leaders said they will dissolve their 7-year-old organization if the DSA accepts the terms presented by the Partnership.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • October 28, 2009
Families welcome German exchange students

Eighteen students have spent the last three weeks experiencing the area's educational system and cultural offerings.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 23, 2009
Community Calendar

Community Calendar

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Pam McTeer |
  • April 23, 2009
Teacher integrates cancer battle into classes

Kinnan teacher Denice Maynard is using her diagnosis to teach her students about disease control and prevention.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • April 23, 2009
MTA students brighten smiles

Fourth-level students in MTI's Dental Assisting Program provided dental cleaning services to about 25 children.

  • East County
  • News
Unit 1505 in the Tower Residences, 35 Watergate Drive, sold for $2.52 million.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 21, 2011
Tower Residences condo sells for $2.5 million

Tower Residences condo sells for $2.5 million

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • July 21, 2010
Vision Plan touted as catalyst

The town's Vision Plan, which was never adopted by the Town Commission, could spur a review of the tow''s Comprehensive Plan.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • July 14, 2010
Funny girls

How comedy is keeping the hilarious women of FST's Vintage Whine improv troupe young at heart.

  • Arts + Culture
This University Park home has four bedrooms, five-and-one-half baths, a pool and 4,301 square feet of living area and sold for $1.15 million.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 13, 2011
University Park home tops East County real estate sales

A home in Grosvenor Gardens tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Paul and Carole Farnsworth sold their home at 8318 Grosvenor Court to James and Linda Cole, of Wayland, Mass., for $1.15 million. Built in 2006, it has four bedrooms, five-and-one-half baths, a pool and 4,301 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $1.86 million in 2006.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 8, 2009
Condominium on the Bay unit sells for $700,000

The following residential real-estate transactions took place between Sept. 10 and Sept. 16.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • March 8, 2010
Prep Scoreboard

Scores and highlights from the week of March 1-5.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Stephanie Hannum |
  • March 3, 2010
Mattison's conjures up classic cooking

On a recent afternoon at Mattison's Forty-One, Chef Paul Mattison hosted 'Affordable Gourmet,' a lunchtime cooking class with a focus on affordable, but also substantial, ingredients and meals.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • July 1, 2010
Grape Expectations

Pat and Bob Gussin visited New Zealand in 2002, and it turned out to be a fruitful trip for the Longboat Key couple.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • February 24, 2010
East squads in starting blocks for new season

ODA opened its season Feb. 20, while Braden River and Lakewood will open their seasons tomorrow at the Bobcat Relays in North Port.

  • East County
  • Sports
"Anything we're allocating money to, we need to look at," says Julie Aranibar
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • January 5, 2011
SEVEN in 11: Julie Aranibar

Lakewood Ranch resident Julie Aranibar has more than a decade of volunteer work with Manatee County Public Schools. Now, she'll use that experience to affect policy as a member of the Manatee County School Board.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • June 23, 2010
Spillover

Experts say oil is unlikely to wash up on Sarasota-Manatee shores, but, according to Realtors, some buyers are waiting out the situation.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Kent Chetlain |
  • September 16, 2009
St. Armands home sells for $3.25 million

A seven-year-old St. Armands mansion on Sarasota Bay at 236 N. Washington Drive was sold Sept. 1 by Jacqueline and Edward Bongart to Jacqueline Sullivan for $3.25 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • June 16, 2010
FAREWELL TO A HERO

Robert 'Bob' Intoccia served in both the Battle of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge with the 36th Tank Battalion of the Eighth Armored Division of the U.S. Army during World War II.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • June 9, 2010
Strange Depictions

Sabrina Small, the lone female artist of Sarasota's s/ART/q group, invites us into her bayou bungalow to talk about wanderlust, human oddities and shoveling coal.

  • Arts + Culture
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