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Nigel, Michelle and Ava Clinton, of Lakewood Ranch, reel in a walleye for their relative.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 20, 2014
Sidewalk art offers encouragement

Summerfield resident Michelle Clinton, a local art teacher, came up with a special idea to encourage her nephew, Luke Schmillen, who has been battling leukemia at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He will be there at least 100 days and is away from his wife and two daughters, who live in Iowa.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • June 1, 2010
Buchanan proposes freeze on drilling permits

U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan is asking other legislators to place a moratorium on all deepwater drilling permits for new and existing oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Zara Barrie |
  • April 30, 2014
Factory Girl / Factory Boy: Love Lotus

Factory Girl / Factory Boy: Love Lotus

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Cheyenne Fauvel and Katie Patrice |
  • March 31, 2011
Students find touching story in 'The Lost Thing'

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, a seventh-grader at St. Stephen's Episcopal School and a sixth-grader at Out-of-Door Academy review 'The Lost Thing.'

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • March 31, 2011
Students find touching story in 'The Lost Thing'

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, a seventh-grader at St. Stephen's Episcopal School and a sixth-grader at Out-of-Door Academy review 'The Lost Thing.'

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • March 31, 2011
Students find touching story in 'The Lost Thing'

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, a seventh-grader at St. Stephen's Episcopal School and a sixth-grader at Out-of-Door Academy review 'The Lost Thing.'

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • January 8, 2014
Send us your announcements

The Observer is seeking submissions for its announcements section, Occasions.

  • Longboat Key
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Donna Heffner, left, helps excavate a nest Sunday evening on Longboat Key’s public beach. One live turtle was found stuck under the sand, and the Longboat Key Turtle Watch team helped it and five turtles rescued from other nests into the Gulf.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • September 5, 2012
Turtles leave nesting mode after record season

Sea turtles will continue to hatch in the next two months, but turtles are unlikely to lay new nests this season.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Sarasota County plans to replace the retention pond on Beach Road as part of a drainage project slated for completion Dec. 31.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • March 14, 2013
Sarasota County Commission to consider drainage project

Commissioners will discuss a cost-saving option for the Beach Road drainage improvement project March 19.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Eli Groner was appointed as Israel’s minister of economic affairs to the United States in August.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • January 5, 2012
Israeli economic affairs minister to speak at Beth Israel

Eli Groner will make one of his first public appearances since his appointment at Temple Beth Israel.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Read this week's Cops Corner.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 1, 2012
Cops Corner: East County

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
FISA Executive Director Matt Smith, right, and SunCoast Aquatic Nature Center Association CEO Paul Blackketter, left, chatted at Nathan Benderson Park earlier this year.
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • September 1, 2013
Sarasota picked to host 2017 World Rowing Championships

Rowing's governing body picked Sarasota's Nathan Benderson Park as the venue for the 2017 World Rowing Championships.

  • East County
  • News
Unit PH-4-N at the Islander Club, 2301 Gulf of Mexico Drive, has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and 1,235 square feet of living area. It sold for $400,000.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • January 26, 2011
Home in the Village sells for $1 million

The sale was the largest of the 10 transactions that occurred on Longboat, Lido, St. Armands and Bird keys during the week of Jan. 10 through Jan. 14 and the sole sale to exceed $1 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Lakewood Ranch Community Fund President-elect Diane Brune gives a $3,500 check to Joyce Scott of Catholic Charities/Our Mother’s House.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • October 26, 2011
Community Fund gives out grants

Lakewood Ranch residents Bob and Billie Delaney also earned the fund's Humanitarian of the Year award.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • January 11, 2010
East County kids perform with All-State Chorus

Three East County elementary school children performed at the Florida Music Educators Conference Jan. 8 in Tampa.

  • East County
  • Schools
  • By Terry O’Connor |
  • August 31, 2016
FWC offers help for boaters just in time for Tropical Depression 9

Florida Wildlife Commission has money available for derelict vessel cleanup

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • July 14, 2010
Service with a Purpose

Seven members of Woodland, The Community Church, will be heading to Uganda July 18 to visit with orphans.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Jahrel Thompson, Leymis Bolanos Wilmott and Alyson Dolan perform.
  • By Dora Walters |
  • April 19, 2011
PHOTO GALLERY: Longboat Key Center for the Arts

"Shall We Dance?" was the final program in the And All That Jazz concert series held this season at the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a Division of Ringling College of Art and Design. And dance is just what the audience did April 19.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Join Alex Mahadevan and Emily Walsh for the daily headlines
  • By Eddie Kirsch |
  • December 4, 2012
Dec. 3: Daily Headlines Video

Today's Stories: 'Unconditional Surrender' returns to Sarasota; Longboat Key commissioners address Longbeach Village concerns; Hurricane season spares Longboat; and Sarasota embraces holiday spirit

  • Longboat Key
  • News
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  • By Nick Friedman |
  • January 7, 2015
Mr. Beery's named one of America's top 100 beer bars

Mr. Beery's named one of America's top 100 beer bars

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