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Ann Cohn, Keely Pastor and Sylvia Pastor. Photo by Molly Schechter.
  • By Stephanie Hannum |
  • March 13, 2013
Black Tie & Tales

She's about to pop; Farewell the house; Front row frenzy; Tidbits; and Black Tie Affair

  • Arts + Culture
Science fiction author Marty Fugate thinks this cosmic statue in Selby Five Points Park looks like a portal to another dimension — ideally, he would have positioned himself in the center of it.
  • By Mallory Gnaegy |
  • September 11, 2013
Out of this World

Writer Marty Fugate has an infinite, sometimes terrifying, and hilarious knowledge of an imagined future, which he occasionally turns into science fiction anthologies.

  • Arts + Culture
This home at 6803 Dominion Lane has four bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,268 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.04 million.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 31, 2013
Four-bedroom Riverdale home sells for $1.4 million

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

  • East County
  • Real Estate
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • March 7, 2012
Emerald Harbour residents talk on the wild side

It isn't quite lions and tigers and bears.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
This home in Country Club Village at Lakewood Ranch, which has three bedrooms, four baths, one half-bath, a pool and 4,048 square feet of living area, sold for $1.4 million. Photo by Josh Siegel.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 1, 2013
Home in Country Club Village sells for $1.4 million

A home in Country Club Village at Lakewood Ranch tops all transactions in this week's real estate. ACPA Land Investments LLC and LVI Land Investments LLC sold the home at 7304 Greystone St. to James and Winifred Castoro, of Lakewood Ranch, for $1.4 million.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • May 12, 2009
Burglars hit five Key businesses

About 1 a.m. Monday morning, burglars stole money and merchandise from five businesses in the Centre Shops of Longboat Key, 5370 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

  • Longboat Key
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  • By Jen Blanco |
  • February 5, 2010
Ellenton skaters headed for the Olympics

Pairs figure skaters Caydee Denney, Jeremy Barrett, Amanda Evora and Mark Ladwig will represent the United States at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

  • East County
  • News
Unconditional Surrender’s arrival in Sarasota — 1,100 miles south of the Mercerville, N.J., studio where it is being repaired — is likely to be delayed for several weeks, said Tom Savage, founder of the Sarasota Public Art Fund (SPAF
  • By Roger Drouin |
  • November 8, 2012
Hurricane Sandy delays return of Unconditional Surrender

The sculpture's arrival - 1,100 miles south of the New Jersey studio where it is being repaired - will likely be delayed until early December.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • January 27, 2010
New wave sculpture

Scottish sculptor Malcolm Robertson makes a splash at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • December 30, 2009
10 to Contend: Brett Timmons

Four years ago, The Out-of-Door Academy football coach Brett Timmons was handed a group of players who knew almost nothing about football. In 2009, Timmons saw the first of his goals come to fruition when the Thunder captured their first district title and advanced to the Class 1B state semifinals.

  • East County
  • News
Bristol Palin, Sarah Palin's daughter, snapped this photo of her dad, Todd Palin, left, Christie Leonard, Pastor Benite Jeune, Sarah Palin, Eddie Oliva and Kathy Benham.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • December 29, 2010
Mission Accomplished

After being stuck in Haiti for two extra days, Kathy Benham and Christie Leonard returned to Florida Dec. 12 after meeting Republican Sarah Palin, her husband, Todd, and daughter, Bristol.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Michael Eng |
  • May 7, 2009
Search for Sandhills

Lakewood Ranch resident and nature photographer Larry Roberts watched as two sandhill cranes celebrated the birth of their two colts. But late last week, the four have gone missing, and he's asking for help locating them.

  • East County
  • News
State Rep. Greg Steube urged Peridia residents to get organized and work with Manatee County commissioners to get the 44th Avenue East extension project stopped at U.S. 301. Peridia residents Peter Schneider and Loretto Sadkin sat next to him.
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • March 6, 2013
Peridia residents oppose 44th Avenue expansion

Part of Manatee County's Comprehensive Plan since 1987, the road-widening project will connect Cortez Road on the west to Lakewood Ranch on the east.

  • East County
  • News
This Waterlefe Golf and River Club home, which has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,299 square feet of living area sold for $680,000. Photo by Pam Eubanks.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 30, 2012
Grosvenor Gardens home sells for $1,358,900

A home in Grosvenor Gardens tops all transactions in this week's real estate. John and Donna Woelfel, University Park, sold their home at 8322 Grosvenor Court to Thomas Reilly, Boston, for $1,358,900.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • July 13, 2011
Raccoon bites woman near Key beach access

During the Fourth of July weekend, a woman visiting Beachplace was bitten twice while rinsing off sand from the beach.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
"If there isn't music, you can't get enough feeling out of it," Natalie Almeter, center, says of theater. "I love music." Courtesy photo.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • February 29, 2012
East County resident makes opera debut

East County resident Natalie Almeter loves to sing and recently began testing her vocals with the Sarasota Opera.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Unit 15E at 50 Central Ave. has two bedrooms, two baths, one half-bath and 2,035 square feet of living area. It sold for $875,000. Photo by Yaryna Klimchak.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 25, 2013
Home in Harbor Acres sells for $3,776,200

A home in Harbor Acres tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Rainer and Debora Blomster, trustees, of Sarasota, sold the home at 1540 Hillview Drive to Jeffery Kints, of Ontario, Canada, for $3,776,200.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
This home at Greenbrook Village has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,817 square feet of living area. It sold for $675,000.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 24, 2014
The Concession home sells for $4.3 million

The following residential real estate transactions took place between Sept. 8 and Sept. 12.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • August 25, 2010
Two bicyclists seriously injured in Key crash

Both women were taken to Bayfront Medical Center via Bayflite helicopter Saturday after they were hit by a car.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Read this week's Cops Corner.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 9, 2012
Cops Corner: Pelican Press

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Sarasota
  • News
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