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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 6, 2014
Home on Casey Key sells for $2.94 million

A home on Casey Key tops all transactions in this week's real estate

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
Leonardo Leal-Geurrero will visit Harvard this weekend. "Even when I didn’t have a house to live (in) or have a home, education was where I got my strength from," Leonardo says. "It was my motivator."
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • December 25, 2011
TOP STORY, APRIL: Tale of Triumph

When Leonardo Leal-Guerrero immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico in 2005, he knew no English. He then bounced from home to home - sometimes staying with neighbors when he had nowhere else to go. By the end of his high school career, the Braden River senior had two choices for college - Harvard or Stanford.

  • East County
  • News
Sandrine Bonnaire stars in "Queen to Play."
  • By Pam Nadon |
  • May 11, 2011
Film Review: 'Queen to Play'

Is playing chess sexy? In the new film, "Queen to Play," it is. Passion for the game and what it elicits from its participants is at the heart of this compellingly clever dramedy.

  • Arts + Culture
Sarasota Orchestra's Leif Bjaland
  • By June LeBell |
  • May 11, 2011
Music Review - Sarasota Orchestra: Inventing the American Sound

According to Leif Bjaland and the Sarasota Orchestra in their ingenious "Journeys to Genius" program, this country is a "musical melting pot," using the resources of its many immigrants and pooling its musical genes with native cultures.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Robin Roy |
  • September 30, 2010
County absorbs uncollected debt

The annual process of writing off uncollected debt shows an increase of more than $2 million in unpaid bills and a decrease in collection rates in three years.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • June 23, 2010
Theatrical Release

Just when the rest of Sarasota is winding down, Carole Kleinberg is winding up. The artistic director of Banyan Theater Company talks about the joys of summer.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • December 22, 2009
O'Connor questions candidate support

Longboat Key Commissioner Peter O'Connor wants to know if citizens or groups that have taken public positions on the Islandside project can support members of the '¨Town Commission who are facing a re-election challenge.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Eddie Kirsch |
  • November 7, 2011
Roadwork updates for week of Nov. 6

Projects continue on Interstate 75, U.S. 301, U.S. 41, state Route 789, state Routes 758, 72, 78 and 681.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 5, 2012
Letters to the Editor

Alcohol on beach should be banned; Banning alcohol will not prevent drinking; Banning alcohol on beach is a no-brainer

  • Sarasota
  • News
Tommy Klauber, Amy Whittington and George Kruse of Atlas Endurance, the new Lakewood Ranch multisport club that will hold its membership drive March 6
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • February 27, 2013
New Lakewood Ranch triathlon club a community builder

Amy Whittington and Tommy Klauber hope Atlas Endurance gives people who want to put three sports together a pressure-free, social place to do it.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • April 4, 2012
Athlete of the Week: Julius 'Jules' Rauch

In the late '90s, Julius Rauch and his buddy, Warren Girle, began fishing competitively. It started with a few local tournaments then morphed into larger tournaments in Louisiana and Texas.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Gavin Klein, teacher Andrea Gonzalez and Rebekah Spiegelman enjoyed their trip to Guatemala.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • April 4, 2012
Students spend spring break in Guatemala

Wakeland students Gavin Klein and Rebekah Spiegelman visited students attending Wakeland's sister school, Chiquic Elementary.

  • East County
  • News
Courtesy photo.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 4, 2012
'A Shadow of Blue' is an imaginative adventure

"A Shadow of Blue," by Carlos Lascano, is playing as part of Sarasota Film Festival's Shorts 14: youthFEST Animated Shorts I at 11:45 a.m. Saturday, April 21, at Regal Hollywood 20.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 8, 2010
Cops Corner 12.09.10

After receiving a call about juveniles in a red car traveling north on Lakewood Ranch Boulevard, deputies responded to the area and located the suspect vehicle, which was pulled over after a traffic infraction was observed.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
Thirteen-year-old Bailey Jackson holds the record for the most interceptions in the i9 Sports league. Courtesy photo.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • August 8, 2012
For the love of the game

Thirteen-year-old Bailey Jackson has been playing football for i9 Sports since he was 6 years old and is the longest tenured player in the league.

  • East County
  • Sports
This home at 2145 Alameda Ave. has five bedrooms, four baths, two half-baths, a pool and 6,439 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.95 million. Photo by Harriet Sokmensuer
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 22, 2014
Home in Whitakers sells for $2.95 million

A home in Whitakers tops all transactions in this week's real estate.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
  • By Robin Roy |
  • September 18, 2009
Community leader John Sandefur dies

A member of many Sarasota organizations, Sandefur believed that it was a person's obligation to serve his community.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • June 17, 2009
FINAL FINISH

Lakewood Ranch High alum Megan Reuss and senior Kelsey Grimaldi will compete in the 2009 USATF/Florida Regional Junior Olympic Qualifier June 18-20 in Altamonte Springs.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • September 15, 2010
Town tax rate to rise 25.8%

The Longboat Key Town Commission voted 6-1 to pass a fiscal year 2010-11 budget on first reading that includes a tax rate of 1.8872 mills; the current rate is 1.5 mills.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
This home at 604 42nd St. has five bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,607 square feet of living area. It sold for $630,000. Photo by Nick Friedman.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • August 2, 2012
Four-bedroom Indian Beach home sells for $2.5 million

A home in Indian Beach tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Richard and Caren Lobo, of Washington, D.C., sold their home at 3139 Bay Shore Road to Charles and Nancy Parrish, of Sarasota, for $2.5 million.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
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