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The Giant Timber Bamboo is originally from China. Photos by Rachel S. O’Hara
  • By Rick Wielgorecki |
  • March 7, 2012
Home & Garden: Don't get bamboozled

For a long time in my horticultural career, I avoided bamboo like the plague. All I knew about it was that it grew impossibly high and that it spread like wildfire.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By David Conway |
  • August 14, 2014
Vertical Horizon

Five hotels stand poised to spring up throughout downtown Sarasota, as early as next fall.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Kevin Ingle, major reconstruction design engineer for FDOT District 1, answers questions from attendees as they view maps of the project July 23.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • July 29, 2015
'Ultimate' configuration begins

FDOT starts work Aug. 3 on the diverging diamond concept for University Parkway and I-75.

  • East County
  • News
The Rev. Norm Pritchard in his new office at Christ Church.Photo by Kristen Herhold
  • By Kristen Herhold |
  • December 2, 2014
Christ Church welcomes new pastor

The Rev. Norm Pritchard looks forward to a warm climate and congregation at the Key church after 19 years in Michigan.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Emilio Delgado joined the ‘Sesame Street’ cast in 1971.
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • April 25, 2012
'Sesame Street' actor gives us the dirt on Big Bird

Emilio Delgado has spent four decades playing Luis on 'Sesame Street.' The 71-year-old actor is in town this month to perform in 'Hamlet, Prince of Cuba' at the Asolo Rep.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 20, 2009
We'll remove no palm frond before its time

During an update at its Aug. 17 meeting on the coming roundabout at Five Points, the City Commission debated the placement of royal palm trees there, because their large fronds could block the road when they fall.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
GRANDMA
  • By Nick Reichert |
  • September 25, 2015
Movie Review: 'Grandma'

Movie Review: 'Grandma'

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • April 30, 2009
Lew Simon works to save lives

The president of the island's volunteer fire department has helped create a program formed on Longboat Key called Neighbors Saving Neighbors.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 17, 2010
BRE teacher composes songwriting workshop

The Nashville Songbirds, a trio of female songwriters, will bring their music business expertise to the East County thanks to Braden River Elementary teacher Rob Gorley.

  • East County
  • Schools
A search is still underway for a six-year-old boy who went missing after playing in the water near the Longboat Pass Bridge Saturday.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • April 22, 2013
UPDATE: Search for boy becomes recovery mission

Longboat Key and Bradenton Beach Police Departments are still searching for a boy who got swept into a current in Longboat Pass Saturday night.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Courtesy photo Tacoma Jenkins, her son, Jaylen Peterson, and Jaylen's reading buddy, Keith Tschannen. Jaylen and Tschannen have worked together for four years.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • April 9, 2014
Reading Buddies instill love of books in children

A Christ Church of Longboat Key-sponsored program pairs at-risk students with volunteers during the critical first four years of elementary school.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Steve Tatone. File photo.
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • December 7, 2011
Scene & Heard

'Beautiful Noise' filmmaker shoots next project; Sarasota Film Fest names new director; Booker High tuxedo thief still on the lam

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • November 13, 2013
Johnson's book shows 'Lure of Longboat Key'

Mary Lou Johnson's new coffee table book features 150 photos she took on the Key during the past 10 years.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • March 6, 2013
Our View: Economics of blackmail

For all those Tea Partyers chafing over Gov. Rick Scott's switcheroo to accept Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid spending in the state, sometimes you just have to take ipecac.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Turtle Beach, located at the southern end of Siesta Key, is hit with heavy surf following a cold front in January 2014.
  • By Nolan Peterson |
  • January 23, 2014
Momentum builds for Turtle Beach renourishment

A county commissioner is pushing to apply for state funding before permits are in hand to avoid delaying the project by a year.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Jay Yablon |
  • April 10, 2013
My View: Time to rebuild The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort

At the three-day meeting that our Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association held in February, I opened with a statement to Colony owners that our Association had become a house divided on the specific issue of whether to try to rehabilitate the existing units at The Colony, or whether to rebuild new units.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • March 4, 2014
All mashed up: Artists prepare for Mashterpiece exhibition opening

All mashed up: Artists prepare for Mashterpiece exhibition opening

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 23, 2009
IN BRIEF

Community New and Notes

  • Sarasota
  • News
File photos Ashley Bongart passed up a chance to compete for her first Class 3A individual singles state championship to play in the Sarasota Open.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • April 2, 2014
Main draw

Ashley Bongart will take a swing at competing on a higher level at the Sarasota Open. Good thing hard-fought matches serve as motivation for the high school junior.

  • East County
  • Sports
"The greatest lessons I've learned since coming here are that story is key and to know your craft," Jeffrey Boos says.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • April 2, 2014
Backstage Pass: Salute two Ringling College students' shorts

The one thing Jeffrey Boos and Andrew Halley have in common is that they produced each other's short films, and both will appear in the Sarasota Film Festival.

  • Arts + Culture
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