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Christine Jennings
  • By Maria Amodio |
  • December 30, 2010
Donor Spotlight: Christine Jennings

Each week, The Sarasota Observer will feature a different donor who is involved with Season of Sharing, a 10-year, community-wide fundraising partnership created by the Community Foundation. Donations to the Season of Sharing fund may be made by check or credit card, payable to the Community Foundation of Sarasota, or online at www.cfsarasota.org. For information, call 955-3000.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • December 23, 2009
Violist invigorates Perlman Music Program

Perlman Music Program graduate-turned-faculty-member Laura Seay returns to Sarasota this winter for the seventh time.

  • Arts + Culture
Downtown parking advocates suggest the city enact hours of enforcement for the new meters that take into account the busiest times of day for a particular area, when on-street parking is in high demand.
  • By Robin Roy |
  • March 31, 2011
Parking meters arrive this week

The city will begin to accept this week its first shipment of parking meters for its new paid-parking program and will begin installation during the second week of April.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Dora Walters |
  • November 24, 2009
Faithful following

Longboat Key residents and visitors of all faiths attended the 29th annual Longboat Key Community Interfaith Thanksgiving Service to give thanks for their blessings. Host church for the Nov. 24 service was St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
The Incorporation Study Group said it will table its work regarding the incorporation of Lakewood Ranch.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • August 29, 2011
Ranch Incorporation fails straw poll

More than 56% of respondents of the straw poll voted against moving forward with the incorporation of Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Brockford Lee
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • April 3, 2014
(the) Umbrella Cult says goodbye

(the) Umbrella Cult says goodbye

  • Arts + Culture
The entire cast of Ricardo Graziano's "Shostakovich Suite" poses during the finale. Courtesy photo.
  • By Anna Dearing |
  • March 30, 2015
Dance Review: Graziano & Taylor

Sarasota Ballet's Ricardo Graziano delights audiences with choreography.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
Megan Wallin
  • By Rachel S. OHara |
  • March 31, 2011
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Megan Wallin

Megan Wallin, a Sarasota native, is the founder of SpikeKey. Wallin has focused on playing beach volleyball and on running SpikeKey, which offers volleyball clinics on Siesta Key beach.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Pam Nadon |
  • June 30, 2010
Film Review: 'Please Give'

As the witty columnist Erma Bombeck once so aptly observed, 'Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving.' Director Nicole Holofcener taps into that ongoing process in her subtly hilarious new film, 'Please Give.'

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • December 27, 2013
Year in Review: June 2013, Bridge plan moves closer to approval

Manatee County will hold a meeting on the Fort Hamer Bridge project Aug. 7.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Loren Mayo |
  • November 5, 2009
SMJF salutes 50 years of service

The Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Federation will celebrate its 50th anniversary Sunday, Nov. 8.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Molly Schechter |
  • December 16, 2009
Black Tie & Tales

Read this week's social column, Black Tie & Tales.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Dora Walters |
  • December 2, 2009
Sanders combines her artistic and writing talents

Virginia Sanders has been drawing since the third grade, and she started writing limericks after meeting her late husband, Dr Jack Sanders. Her book, "Leaping Limericks," is now available.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • May 3, 2012
Developers want an end to interchange

Two years after the County Commission voted down an interchange concept, the plan is still on the table. The commission has urged faster staff response.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Jason Gould with Glenn and Alma Johnson, who bring honey and special-needs education to Sarasota.
  • By Nick Reichert |
  • February 3, 2015
What's the Buzz?

The Sarasota Honey Co. offers a career path for those with special needs.

  • Arts + Culture
Robin McCormick (right) and her husband, Mike, hope to enact change by challenging stereotypes about Alzheimer's disease. Photo by Amanda Sebastiano
  • By Amanda Sebastiano |
  • February 3, 2015
Couple battles stereotypes about Alzheimer's

Robin and Mike McCormick are lobbying legislators to fund research for a cure to Alzheimer's disease.

  • East County
  • News
Liebe Gamble, mom-to-be Nicole Kaney and Meghan Leiter. Photo courtesy of Kollene Carlson.
  • By Black Tie Staff |
  • October 2, 2013
Black Tie & Tales

A weekend of showering; Designing debut; Tidbits; and Black Tie Affair

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • November 24, 2009
Key resident gives thanks for gift of life

Gulfshore of Longboat Key resident Charlotte Jensen received a kidney transplant six months ago.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Commissioner Phillip Younger has proposed a new sidewalk along Gulf of Mexico Drive.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • March 3, 2011
Younger proposes north-end sidewalk

In an e-mail to Public Works Director Juan Florensa, Younger attached a drawing of a Gulf of Mexico Drive north end sidewalk extension north of Broadway on the east side of Gulf of Mexico Drive.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Mackenzie Goda achieved Level 9 status on trampoline after a knee injury kept her out of the sport for a year.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • June 15, 2011
COMEBACK KID

In March 2010, 13-year-old Mackenzie Goda tore her ACL, MCL, meniscus and patella tendon and dislocated and fractured a piece of her tibia. Exactly one year later, she was back competing.

  • East County
  • Sports
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