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  • By Robin Hartill |
  • April 1, 2015
Call Waiting

The delay wasn’t quite as long as it felt — but it still highlights inefficiencies in the town’s current emergency dispatch system.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
"The score is my bible," Michael Sebastian says. "If I can't translate what's in the hard copy of the score, I don't have the right to be a music director."
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • September 14, 2011
BACKSTAGE PASS: Score lore

Music Director Michael Sebastian returns to his Golden Apple stomping grounds with a feisty new musical about disgruntled Disney princesses.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Robin Roy |
  • May 28, 2009
Farmers Market eyes fresh ideas

Downtown Farmers Market managers have created a list of improvements they hope will generate some buzz at the downtown 30-year-old Saturday morning tradition.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By June LeBell |
  • June 15, 2010
Music Review: Sarasota Music Festival, part two

Sometimes we have to die a little before we can really live. That seems to be what's happened to the Sarasota Music Festival. It almost went under last year, but now it's back.

  • Arts + Culture
Under Executive Director Bruce Rodgers, the Hermitage Artist Retreat continues to grow after 10 years as an artistic haven.
  • By Nick Reichert |
  • January 13, 2015
Hermitage Heritage

The creative retreat reflects on a decade of artistic escape.

  • Arts + Culture
Casa del Mar General Manager D.M. Williams celebrated his 30th anniversary with the resort last September.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • October 3, 2012
D.M. Williams preps for Casa del Mar exit

D.M. Williams' contract won't be renewed when it expires next year, but he isn't leaving quietly.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • May 27, 2009
Town to assist Key Club Moorings channel dredge

The town will become a co-applicant to a minor dredging project that will open up a channel that both marina and Longboat Key Bay Isles homeowners use.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • March 13, 2013
News Briefs

PIC to hold insurance forum next week; Bay Isles expresses Colony frustration

  • Longboat Key
  • News
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  • By Robin Hartill |
  • March 13, 2013
Lore: Many say Holiday Inn closing was the beginning of the end

The closure of the 146-room hotel had a lasting impact on Longboat life.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • June 23, 2010
Ranch wrestlers hit mats with OSU

Ohio State University wrestling coach Tom Ryan and wrestler Colt Sponseller visited the East County during Lakewood's wrestling camp June 16-18.

  • East County
  • Sports
Cal Davidson-Turner, Kim Hyslop, Morgyn Stauffer and Garrett Lyons meet every Saturday morning at the Unconditional Surrender statue for their long run.
  • By Maria Amodio |
  • March 3, 2011
Local teens pick up pace for Sarasota Half Marathon

More than 30 runners with ShamRockersUSA are gearing up for the Sarasota First Watch Half Marathon and Relay.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By David Conway |
  • April 2, 2015
U.S. 41 shift could be permanent

Searching for solutions to Sarasota's congestion problems during peak season, the Florida Department of Transportation says initial changes have produced positive results.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Red Bug Slough, a 72-acre expanse of wetland preserve, offers open greenspace areas to fish and picnic. It is also dog-friendly. Photos by Jessica Salmond
  • By Jessica Salmond |
  • November 6, 2014
Red Bug Slough to officially reopen

After more than a year of work, the preserve's wetland restoration is complete.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Darwin Santa Maria. Photo by Rachel S. O'Hara.
  • By June LeBell |
  • January 18, 2012
KITCHEN CLASSICS: A chef comes home: Darwin's on Fourth

One of our favorite restaurants in Sarasota has been Selva Grill.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • December 31, 2013
Lennar turns over HOA

Heritage Harbour's developer will give residents complete control of the homeowners association starting Jan. 2, more than a decade after the community opened.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • December 2, 2014
Historical Society plans for holiday boat parade

Last year, when Denise Kleiner huddled in her Christmas-decorated motorboat and quietly orchestrated the whereabouts of about a dozen other decorated watercrafts, she hoped the efforts would relaunch an old tradition slowly, but surely.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Kristen Herhold |
  • October 14, 2015
Longest-serving Mote volunteer says goodbye

After 35 years as a volunteer, Dave Bowman is leaving Mote Marine Aquarium.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By David Conway |
  • March 20, 2014
Parks board seeks funds for maintenance costs

The Parks, Recreation and Environmental Protection board is reaching out to citizens as it looks for a way to assist with the costs of maintaining the city's parks.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Paula Atwell |
  • October 24, 2012
Film Theater: 'Let's Twist Again: with the Wanderers'

They're a hopping'' and a boppin' and a doo-woppin' at Florida Studio Theatre's Cabaret again this fall, and I haven't lost that lovin' feeling for four swoony guys in turquoise ties - call them the Wanderers, yeah, the Wanderers, they get around, etc.

  • Arts + Culture
Marcella Hazan, pictured in 2008 at her Promenade condominium, shortly before the release of her memoir, “Amarcord: Marcella Remembers.” File photo
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • October 2, 2013
Hazan's key ingredient: simplicity

Famed Italian cookbook author Marcella Hazan died Sept. 29. She was 89.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
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