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Destined for dissolution?
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • May 8, 2024
Destined for dissolution?

The Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation should pull out The Bay Park Conservancy playbook. The foundation, city and county are not in alignment.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • September 28, 2023
City of Sarasota budget unanimously approved

The City Commission OKs a spending plan increase of $33 million while holding millage rate steady.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Longboat Key Town Hall
  • By Carter Weinhofer |
  • July 23, 2024
Town receives approval for latest revision of comprehensive plan

Longboat Key's comprehensive plan serves as a road map for the town's community vision.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
The answer: Urban villages
  • By Edward J. Pinto |
  • February 15, 2024
The answer: Urban villages

Mid-priced, working-class housing would expand with light-touch density in the city’s urban mixed-use areas.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Changes in the Sarasota city noise ordinance will prohibit audible amplified sound from inside motor vehicles from traveling more than 25 feet.
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • May 23, 2024
Sarasota tightens restrictions on car music volume

Vehicles' speakers audible from more than 25 feet away would be subject to enforcement under revised ordinance.

  • Sarasota
  • News
The Mixons' food truck showcases the history of Mixon Fruit Farms.
  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • February 21, 2024
Former Mixon Farms owners begin new stage with food truck

Although Mixon Fruit Farms closed, life with the Mixons continues on a food truck.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Eat + Drink
  • By Bequest |
  • February 5, 2024
Bequest Platinum Event: How To Solve Your Income Challenge in 2024

Join us at Art Ovation Hotel on Feb 22nd 2024, 6-8pm EST, Live Event

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
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Students from Cypress Ridge Elementary School talk with Gilbert W. McNeal Elementary School students at the regional competition. Courtesy photo.
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • April 21, 2021
Robotics on rise in Lakewood Ranch

Five Lakewood Ranch elementary school teams compete at regional VEX robotics competition.

  • East County
  • News
The Broadway hit musical "Hamilton" is coming to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall from March 26 to April 7, 2024.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • November 10, 2023
Van Wezel announces date for single-ticket sales of 'Hamilton'

Sarasota seats for the hit Broadway musical will go on sale Nov. 16.

  • Arts + Culture
Nancy Ceci
  • By Observer Staff |
  • September 24, 2024
Charter Review Board District 5: Nancy Ceci

Meet the candidate.

  • Elections
Cardinal Mooney High senior Kali Barrett is averaging 16 points per game in 2024.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • February 28, 2024
East County athletes help send Cougars girls basketball to states

The Cardinal Mooney girls basketball team has reached the Class 3A state tournament four years in a row but have yet to win the title.

  • East County
  • Sports
Marcus Walfridson is the owner of the Sarasota Paradise and has big plans for the club in the future.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • July 13, 2023
Sarasota Paradise feeds local hunger for soccer

Owner Marcus Walfridson said the club has exceeded expectations off the pitch in year one.

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
The Mote Science Education Aquarium will be 110,000 square feet. Interior work will speed forward approximately in July.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • January 2, 2024
Construction speeds forward on Mote SEA with 2025 expected opening

Mote Science Education Aquarium construction should be complete around Thanksgiving with doors of the facility near University Town Center and Nathan Benderson Park opening in February 2025.

  • East County
  • News
Shark teeth are on display at Sherri's Shark Shop.
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • August 29, 2024
Shark tooth collecting finds its way to Sarasota

Local interest in shark tooth hunting prompted the recent Sarasota Sharks Tooth Festival.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Sarasota philanthropist Ernie Kretzmer, a generous supporter of the city's artistic institutions, died Aug. 24 at age 99.
  • By Monica Roman Gagnier |
  • August 30, 2024
Remembering a scientist who nurtured Sarasota's arts

Ernie Kretzmer died on Aug. 24, four months short of his 100th birthday.

  • Arts + Culture
Ute Vela competes in the Observer Challenge held Feb. 3-5, 2023. She and her husband, Enrique, have won the tournament four times.
  • By Petra Rivera |
  • January 9, 2024
Observer Challenge to bring weekend of island camaraderie

Longboat Key Tennis Center will host the annual tournament that's all about teamwork Jan. 19-21.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Ryan Kohn is leaving the East County Observer sports beat after eight years.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • September 24, 2024
Sports editor says goodbye to East County after eight years

Stories from the beat will stick with Ryan Kohn along his journey.

  • East County
  • Sports
Alessandro Di Ferdinando, Antonio Mancini and Giancarlo Di Cosmo
  • By Petra Rivera |
  • April 22, 2024
New Italian restaurant opens on St. Armands Circle

The highly anticipated Italian restaurant, 15 South By Napulè, will be the best of both worlds with an intimate restaurant downstairs and a lively bar and dance floor upstairs.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Eat + Drink
Debris remained a problem down many Longboat Key streets after Hurricane Milton.
  • By Carter Weinhofer |
  • October 14, 2024
Water and power restored on Longboat Key

The island's utilities have been restored as of Monday, Oct. 14.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Nelle Miller will start as CEO of All Faiths Food Bank in January 2024.
  • By Jim Stinson |
  • October 20, 2023
Sarasota-area food bank chooses prominent community leader as new CEO

All Faiths Food Bank CEO's appointment comes after a national search.

  • Sarasota
  • Business
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