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  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • April 8, 2010
MAN ON THE STREET: Entertainment options

People were asked what entertainment venue they'd like to see in Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Robin Roy |
  • December 30, 2010
Cops Corner

Cops Corner

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
Jen Blanco
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • August 10, 2011
COMMENT: We are ready for some football!

The regular season will be here before we know it, and that brings me to my final topic of conversation - the East County Observer Football Guide.

  • East County
  • News
The 2010 Sarasota Bay Watch Sister Keys cleanup drew 80 volunteers.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • December 15, 2010
Sarasota Bay Watch receives grants totaling $24,000

Group founder Rusty Chinnis says that the group could hire a full-time director with additional support.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Courtesy photo. Following her diagnosis with breast cancer, Allison Nelson got married and started a business that would leave a legacy after she died.
  • By Josh Siegel |
  • December 18, 2013
Leaving a mark organically

Before Allison Nelson died of breast cancer, she started an organic produce business that donates vegetables to people with cancer through the Center for Building Hope, in Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • News
My sister, Liz McTeer, 18 in this photo, and I loved going to the Clawson parade each year with our family. Detroit Free Press.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • June 27, 2012
Observed: Happy birthday, America!

My mom still has the newspaper clipping.

  • East County
  • Opinion
Photo courtesy Michael Saunders & Co. This home at 551 Harbor Point Road in Bay Isles has four bedrooms, six baths, a pool and 4,993 square feet of living area. It sold for $3.4 million.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 15, 2014
Four-bedroom Bay Isles home sells for $3.4 million

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

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
Read this week's Cops Corner.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 27, 2012
Cops Corner: East County

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • East County
  • Cops Corner
Snowy plover nests were roped off last week near Siesta Key’s Beach Access No. 7.
  • By Robin Roy |
  • April 21, 2011
County will take steps to protect plover nests

Someone on Siesta Key may have intentionally walked up to a snowy plover nest and stepped on two eggs, crushing them.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 16, 2012
Letters to the Editor

A vision for wealth; Don't know Marxism; They hear what they want

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • March 25, 2010
CLASSROOM SPOTLIGHT: Sprouts

Students in the Dinosaurs pre-kindergarten class at the Sprouts Child Development Center preschool program share their favorite Easter memories.

  • East County
  • Schools
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • July 1, 2010
Key Real Estate: A home in Bay Isles sells for $1.2 million

Of this week's sales, five took place on Longboat Key, including two in Manatee County, and three occurred on Lido Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 2, 2012
News Briefs

Hotel projects need further examination

  • Sarasota
  • News
Kate Honea, Victoria Hulland and Danielle Brown in Sir Frederick Ashton's "Birthday Offering." Photo by Frank Atura.
  • By Anna Dearing |
  • February 6, 2013
Dance Review: 'Birthday Offering,' 'Between Longing & Yearning' and 'Changing Light'

World premieres are always exciting, but no one could have expected the sheer exhilaration experienced at the premiere of Will Tuckett's "Changing Light," set to the specifically commissioned music of composer Jeremy Holland-Smith.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By David Conway |
  • September 19, 2013
Commissioners split on legislative priorities

City Commissioner Paul Caragiulo presented the city's major legislative priorities to the county's legislators, but he doesn't stand behind all for which he's advocating.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 1, 2012
News Briefs

Women's Club celebrates 15 years; Deer collides with Sheriff's Office patrol car

  • East County
  • News
Unit 602 at The Phoenix, 136 Golden Gate Point, has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms and 3,785 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.35 million. Photo by Nick Friedman.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 26, 2012
Phoenix condo sells for $1.36 million

Donald and Carol Stephens, Lakeland, sold their Unit 602 condominium at 136 Golden Gate Point to Hal Hartle and Lane Hartle, trustees, Boca Grande, for $1.35 million.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
Any Sarasota County neighborhood is eligible for a matching grant under the Sarasota County Neighborhood Grant Program.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • January 31, 2012
Grant workshops scheduled through March

Sarasota County residents can take advantage of new grant opportunities for their communities in the coming weeks.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Robin Roy |
  • March 18, 2010
Bar fight leads to attempted murder charge

A sheriff's deputy is caught from behind and placed in a choke hold while he escorted one of the fighters out of a Gulf Gate bar.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Robin Roy |
  • March 18, 2010
Voters strongly support referendum

Precinct-by-precinct results showed voters within the city limits overwhelmingly voted yes to extend a 1-mill school tax. Only two precincts countywide voted against the referendum.

  • Sarasota
  • News
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