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  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • May 14, 2009
Artistic Emergence

Hoping to nurture Sarasota's creative class, disenfranchised artists rally for their rising peers.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • July 22, 2009
A general mystery

For 20 years, the Bradley GT sat in the garage of Helen Holt's historic home in the Village. Soon, the car will motor the streets once again.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • May 20, 2009
Park project has many hurdles

A new Bayfront Park that includes plans for a 15,000-square-foot building will require a lot of behind-the-scenes work from town staff before the project can begin.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
This home in Knightsbridge, which has four bedrooms, seven-and-two-half baths, a pool and 7,579 square feet of living area, sold for $2.75 million. Photo by Josh Siegel.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 19, 2013
Knightsbridge home sells for $2.75 million

A home in Knightsbridge tops all transactions in this week's real estate. Jay and Ramona Bulaw, of Genoa City, Wis., sold their home at 7320 Barclay Court to Jennifer and Stephen Edwards, of University Park, for $2.75 million.

  • East County
  • Real Estate
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • August 18, 2010
Usage policy changes for boat ramp

Lakewood Ranch's Country Club/Edgewater Village Association has added a requirement that all lake users must have $1 million in liability insurance.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • November 4, 2009
Defense presentation up next

Islandside Property Owners Coalition's attorney Robert Lincoln reveals some of the issues that he and his client, the Islandside Property Owners Coalition, have with the Islandside project.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Tenor Rafael Dávila, as B.F. Pinkerton, and soprano Asako Tamura, as Cio-Cio-San, in Sarasota Opera’s 2011 production of Puccini’s "Madama Butterfly." Photo by Rod Millington/Sarasota Opera.
  • By June LeBell |
  • November 2, 2011
Music Review: Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly' performed by the Sarasota Opera

I have wept through many a moving 'Madama Butterfly,' from the Met and New York City Opera to companies abroad and cinematic versions that broke my heart, but the fall production mounted by Sarasota Opera is the most convincing, honest, moving and beautiful I've seen yet.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • August 11, 2010
East schools perform well on FCAT

The Florida Department of Education released grades for the assessment test late last week. East County schools again scored among the top in the district.

  • East County
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  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 7, 2009
Bulletin Board

Bulletin Board

  • East County
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  • By Stuart and Lois Scheyer |
  • April 30, 2009
Riding the rails

Longboat Key's 'Energetic Travelers' continue to traverse North America's terrain in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Hollywood writer-turned-playwright Liz Brixius
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • March 9, 2011
Scene & Heard

Asolo Rep reveals its 2011-2012 lineup; Author paints town green, white and red; HOT TICKETS

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Kent Chetlain |
  • December 9, 2009
Longboat Key - Positano condo sells for $2 million

Despite the Thanksgiving holiday week shortened by two days, there were a respectable, eight, key real-estate sales recorded at the Sarasota and Manatee county courthouses between Nov. 23 and Nov. 25.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Joseph Schneider and Victoria Parisi |
  • March 31, 2010
Film festival moves into classrooms

Through Sarasota Film Festival's Outreach and Education Department, middle-school classes participated in the Classroom Critic program and screened official short films selected for the festival's youthFEST. This week, two seventh-graders review "The Mouse That Soared."

  • Arts + Culture
Greenville bought a piece of land and attracted a Hyatt Regency to the site. Sarasota is in the middle of an effort to do something similar with a sliver of land next to the Palm Avenue parking garage.
  • By Roger Drouin |
  • January 3, 2013
LOOKING AHEAD: Model for Downtown

Downtown advocates frequently reference Greenville when they talk about what they want downtown Sarasota to be like.

  • Sarasota
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  • By Observer Staff |
  • October 29, 2009
Cops Corner

Complainant called police to report a strange dog was trying to get into her house.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 25, 2010
Sarasota: Cherokee Park home sells for $1.8 million

A home in Cherokee Park tops all real-estate transactions for the week of Feb. 23 to March 2.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
Tatiana Staats photographed this black witch moth Sept. 21 at a friend's house near the north Siesta bridge. Photo by Tatiana Staats.
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • October 27, 2011
Island Beat: Rare 'witch' shows up on north end of the Key

Just in time for Halloween, my favorite wildlife watchers on the Key have reported another coup.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Charles Chappell, 5, and his sister, Claudia, 2 1/2, play in the sand Saturday on Longboat’s beach during their vacation at the Sea Gate Club.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 1, 2011
Key's beach plan on the right path

A beach consultant who performed a peer review praised Longboat's beach renourishment schedule and maintenance plan as well as the implementation of The Islander groins.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Keely Carney |
  • May 31, 2012
Survival of the fittest, Ashley Wilkerson style

Survival of the fittest, Ashley Wilkerson style

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • April 30, 2009
Barbara Harrison shows outside-the-box artistry

Barbara Harrison shows outside-the-box artistry

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
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