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  • By Cassidy Alexander |
  • January 29, 2018
Growing pup: Guide dogs and handlers graduate from training

Class no. 262 celebrated the end of their training at the Southeastern Guide Dogs campus.

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  • Neighbors
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • April 27, 2011
STILL FIGHTING

Anthony and Ivette Littlejohn's son, Adrian, was diagnosed with cancer in November. The family is one of many being helped by the Payton Wright Foundation, which has a golf outing fundraiser on May 13.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • April 11, 2012
Pedestrian's husband seeks damages

A notice sent to the town claims that agencies failed to provide a safe place to cross Gulf of Mexico Drive, resulting in the death of Jo Schatterman.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 1, 2010
Building Permits

These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of June 18 through June 24, in order of dollar amounts.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • February 22, 2012
License cameras moving slowly toward Key

Two years after Police Chief Al Hogle first began researching the camera systems, the town continues to move forward with the plan.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • February 21, 2013
Rick Mills selected superintendent of Manatee County Schools

The Manatee County School Board chose Rick Mills, a former military man and chief executive officer of Minneapolis Public Schools, as its superintendent Wednesday night.

  • East County
  • Schools
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • January 14, 2011
Lady Mustangs close out regular season with wins

The Lakewood Ranch High girls soccer team closed out its regular season with a pair of wins over Venice and St. Stephen's Jan. 11 and 13.

  • East County
  • Sports
Jessica Hays, formerly the director of community awareness at Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center, starts her new role as president and CEO Monday. Photo by Amanda Morales
  • By Amanda Morales |
  • January 14, 2015
Hays will continue SPARCC's mission

SPARCC promotes from within in choosing Jessica Hays to replace outgoing president Olivia Thomas.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Lakewood Ranch selected former Booker assistant Melanie Johnson as its new girls basketball head coach.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • September 1, 2017
Lakewood Ranch names new girls basketball coach

The former Booker High assistant played in college at the University of South Carolina.

  • East County
  • Sports
FHP wolfpack details use mobile troopers to remove impaired drivers from the roadways.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 27, 2016
FHP to target drunken drivers in Manatee County this weekend

FHP wolfpack details use mobile troopers to remove impaired drivers from the roadways.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
duck
  • By Jack Littman-Quinn |
  • December 1, 2014
Miguel's Restaurant: Family owned, famously French and classically continental

Miguel's Restaurant: Family owned, famously French and classically continental

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Eat + Drink
The city's only science center has been closed since September with no current date for reopening. File photo.
  • By Roger Drouin |
  • March 28, 2013
GWIZ remains closed, seeks more funding for upgrades and expansion

The science center began a fundraising campaign in September to raise money for repairs due to damage from Tropical Storm Debby and to begin a renovation.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Members of the Manatee, Sarasota and Charlotte counties' school boards discussed their priorities for 2016.
  • By Amanda Sebastiano |
  • January 21, 2016
Manatee County School Board attends joint board meeting to discuss 2016 goals

Among the district's list of priorities for this year is expanding VPK implementation.

  • East County
  • News
Join Emily Walsh for the Observer Daily Headlines.
  • By Eddie Kirsch |
  • February 7, 2012
FEB. 7: Daily Headlines Video

Join us as we observe and report today's stories from Longboat Key, East County, Sarasota, and Siesta Key.

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Lakewood Ranch resident Chris Kennedy advanced to the state tournament as an individual in 2004 while playing golf for Cardinal Mooney. Kennedy returns to his alma mater this fall as the Cougars' new boys golf coach.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • August 22, 2012
Student becomes the teacher

Lakewood Ranch resident Chris Kennedy, a 2006 graduate of Cardinal Mooney Catholic High School, is returning to his alma mater this fall as the Cougars' new boys golf coach.

  • East County
  • Sports
The overpass, as Schroeder-Manatee Ranch officials suggest, would dead end into Cattlemen Road, somewhere north of the southern boundary of the lake at Nathan Benderson Park.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • March 18, 2015
Traffic solution

Schroeder-Manatee Ranch unveils its preferred route for an I-75 overpass between University and Fruitville.

  • East County
  • News
The original Shake Shack restaurant at Madison Square Park Garden. Photo courtesy of Beyond My Ken (own work) via Wikimedia Commons.
  • By Ryan Butler |
  • January 16, 2018
Shake Shack signs lease near UTC Mall

The location near the mall will be the first in the region.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • February 9, 2011
IDA to hire firm this week

Members of the Lakewood Ranch Inter-District Authority board expect this week to make their first step toward hiring a new executive director for Town Hall.

  • East County
  • News
Gloria Musicae musicians Esther Dickmann and Alicia Howington
  • By Black Tie Staff |
  • April 7, 2013
Gloria Musicae Presents "Music in Reel Time" with Dick Hyman and the Gloria Musicae Singers

Gloria Musicae Presents "Music in Reel Time" with Dick Hyman and the Gloria Musicae Singers

  • Black Tie
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 14, 2014
Obituary: Elberta Greene

Elberta Greene, 84, of Sarasota, died May 7.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
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