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Seventeen-year-old Sirena Huang played with pianist Lee Dougherty Ross during a recent Artist Series concert. Courtesy photo.
  • By June LeBell |
  • October 12, 2011
Music Review: Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota: Sirena Huang, violinist

What makes a career - I mean a major career - in music? We've all heard performers who seem to have less talent than others but, somehow, have made it into the stratospheric realm of superstardom.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Caleb Motsinger |
  • October 3, 2014
ULI discusses recommendations for GMD

The committee discussed its recommendations for GMD after conducting an islandwide study last October.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Merrill
  • By David Merrill |
  • July 28, 2011
My View: Schools: a vision renewed?

Something went wrong with the promise to use the extra school tax Sarasota County voters approved to make the school district "world class." The money poured in, but the scores declined.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort has been shuttered since August 2010. File photo
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • October 15, 2014
Hours of arguments, no rulings in Colony case

Attorneys didn't have time to finish arguments during a three-and-a-half hour hearing.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Graphic shows tropical force wind speed probabilities. Sarasota and Manatee County currently have a 60% chance of encountering tropical speed winds of 39 mph or more. Courtesy of NOAA.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • August 26, 2012
Manatee prepares for Isaac

Manatee County fully activated its Emergency Operations Center this morning and opened to shelters.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Donna Swan |
  • May 27, 2009
Deal Us In: Making good defensive play

Deal Us In: Making good defensive play

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 15, 2011
News Briefs 06.16.11

A 2-year-old Myakka City girl drowned in a pond after fishing with family members June 8.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • May 14, 2010
Coast Guard prepares plans for oil protection

The U.S. Coast Guard has a strategy in place for the oil spill in the Gulf that includes plans for Longboat Pass and New Pass.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Longboat Key condominium and single family home values rose an average of 5.3% island-wide.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • July 2, 2015
Longboat Key property values rise again

The property appraiser offices in Manatee and Sarasota counties are reporting a 5.3% increase in island property values.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 7, 2012
News Briefs

Sarasota High School meetings set

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • July 1, 2015
Developer plans North Trail apartments

After buying the Monterey Village Inn for $1 million last year, Elia Rofail has brought in local architect Brent Parker and engineer Matt Morris to redevelop the property.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Shannon Stout, from Sarasota, has achieved a milestone for women in Marine combat units. Photo courtesy USMC.
  • By Nolan Peterson |
  • September 16, 2013
Sarasota Marine breaks barriers

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Shannon Stout, from Sarasota, recently became the first female to hold a field officer billet for a Marine tank battalion.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Longboat Key residents on the north end of Longboat Key saw beach equipment arrive last week in preparation for a north-end beach-restoration project scheduled for February.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • January 26, 2011
Town begins sand speech

Town officials and beach engineers told Key residents Saturday why a $16 million beach project next year is necessary.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Ajay  Patel operated three pharmacies in Manatee County, including the former Medicine Shoppe in the Centre Shops.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • April 11, 2013
Authorities search for former Centre Shops pharmacy operator

Ajay Patel, 39, is accused of filling prescriptions as part of a drug-trafficking operation.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • September 8, 2010
Briefs 09.09.10

Community news and notes

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • April 23, 2012
Scores: Pirate senior finishes as state runner-up

Braden River High senior Nathan Kirkman finished second in the 199-pound weight class of the Class 2A state weightlifting meet April 21, achieving his goal of earning a medal.

  • East County
  • Sports
Siesta Shuttle Transportation Jan. 7 launched an eBay auction for advertising space on a shuttle bus starting service this month.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • January 11, 2013
Firm to launch shuttle for Siesta

Siesta Shuttle Transportation has a 40-foot bus ready to run a route to Siesta Key beach by the end of this month.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. The center is located at 4000 S. Tamiami Trail, Venice.
  • By Rachel Brown Hackney |
  • September 26, 2011
County Commission to take final budget vote

The Sarasota County Commission will take its final vote on the 2012 fiscal year budget and millage rates after public hearings Sept. 26 at the Administration Center in Venice.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
A conceptual rendering shows how the Ringling Boulevard corridor would look with a Sarasota County Area Transit bus transfer station.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • May 15, 2014
County Commission to discuss major spending topics

Sarasota County commissioners during a budget workshop tomorrow will consider an update on plans to relocate the downtown SCAT transfer station, and the possibility of a referendum to fund capital spending.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Jack Littman-Quinn |
  • May 17, 2012
Fleming’s "5 for $6 ‘Til 7" Happy Hour is a Perfect 10!

Fleming’s "5 for $6 ‘Til 7" Happy Hour is a Perfect 10!

  • Arts + Entertainment
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