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UMR Sports Founder Ryan Moore points out the additional room on the new volleyball courts that will allow players to utilize running serves.
  • By Scott Lockwood |
  • January 13, 2022
UMR Sports campus in east Bradenton begins to take shape

UMR Sports has nearly completed its six pickleball courts and four sand volleyball courts with baseball/softball fields on the way.

  • East County
  • News
Lee Fox, executive director
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • June 29, 2011
Winner: Non-Profit Organization: Save Our Seabirds Inc.

Even when she isn't at Save Our Seabirds Inc., Executive Director Lee Fox is still saving seabirds (and other birds). She gets a constant stream of injured birds at her home in Wimauma.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Commissioner Vanessa Baugh confirms the state will give 1,000 vaccinations a day on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at Premier Sports Campus.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • February 15, 2021
Premier Sports Campus to host COVID-19 vaccinations in Lakewood Ranch

Commissioner Vanessa Baugh says Lakewood Ranch residents will get 1,000 COVID-19 vaccinations a day in Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • News
The school cuts are part of a plan to save $20.6 million to help the school district replenish depleted reserves.
  • By Eddie Kirsch |
  • May 21, 2013
May 21: Daily Headlines Video

Top Stories: 182 Manatee teachers lose jobs; Sarasota woman arrested for defrauding employer; Commission approves second phase of bayfront mooring project; Whitney Beach receives award

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • September 19, 2019
The city’s fiscal fiasco

With the city having to tap its savings for $19.7 million next fiscal year, if it were a business, shareholders would dump the board and CEO.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Manatee County planner Jake Bibler reviews plans for a Taco Bell site in Bradenton.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • October 2, 2019
Manatee county responds to development timelines mandated by Legislature

Manatee county responds to new development timelines

  • East County
  • News
John Cannon's Oulina model will offer more modern architecture along Kingfisher Lake in Waterside.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • March 23, 2023
Lakewood Ranch adds two small, exclusive neighborhoods

John Cannon fires off his new designs for neighborhoods Monarch Acres and Kingfisher Estates, which will offer a combined 21 homes, starting at $3 million.

  • East County
  • News
Deputy Mike Jones explains the set up of the simulator, which very closely mimics a Sheriff's Office patrol car. (Photo by Lauren Tronstad)
  • By Observer Staff |
  • September 4, 2022
County law enforcement gifted cost-efficient driver training simulators

The Barancik Foundation's donation allows police officers to train safely for dangerous scenarios.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Spencer Fordin |
  • March 22, 2022
This Week in A+E: March 24-30

Sarasota Ballet does Shakespeare this week, headlining a collection of events that run the gamut of art, music and theater in Sarasota.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Bricks Smoked Meats at 1528 State St. has been among the restaurants leading the charge to preserve parklet dining as a permanent fixture in downtown Sarasota.
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • December 15, 2022
Sarasota considers permanent plan for parklet dining downtown

The city's pandemic-era policy that allowed restaurants to expand into downtown street parking has been extended through March.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Gulf of Mexico Drive will receive future crosswalks in places where there are high numbers of pedestrians crossing the Key’s busiest road.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • February 7, 2014
FDOT will perform pedestrian count

The town of Longboat Key has requested a new pedestrian count be performed next month to verify where crosswalks are needed on Gulf of Mexico Drive.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
After project opponents and supporters packed City Hall for a series of public hearings on the initial master plan, Selby Gardens hopes a revised proposal will be significantly less contentious.
  • By David Conway |
  • December 20, 2019
Selby Gardens to scale down master plan

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens is attempting to address concerns raised by critics of an initial proposal, but resident opponents remain skeptical.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Risen Savior Lutheran Church Pastor Caleb Free and Jodi Batsch, an elementary administrator for Risen Savior Academy, are excited to welcome kindergartners to the academy's new elementary school.
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • January 17, 2023
Risen Savior Lutheran Church to add kindergarten in 2023-24

The addition of kindergarten is the first step in the expansion of Lakewood Ranch's Risen Savior Academy to include an elementary school.

  • East County
  • Schools
  • By David Conway |
  • December 12, 2013
Zoning code bubbles to surface for breweries

Recent efforts to open two new craft breweries in the city of Sarasota have come with challenges due to the city's zoning and building regulations.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Sarasota Bay, under which the town of Longboat Key's sewage flows in a 20-inch pipeline, is designated a Class II waterway by the state, only behind waterway that supply drinking water.
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • May 27, 2022
Longboat Key builds funds first, then aims to construct sewer pipeline

Longboat Key's sewer line project aims to add redundancy to a system that previously had not had that luxury.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • December 16, 2014
Mar Vista project gets noisy approval

A second-story deck receives approval from the planning board after Village residents make their concerns loud and clear.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Members of the Sarasota County School Board meet Tuesday, June 21 in Longboat Key Town Hall.
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • June 23, 2022
Longboat leaders tout demand for continued education during school board visit

Funding for a library and community center has gained initial nods from the County Commission, but school district participation was sought as well.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
D'Kai Shaw attends State College of Florida and has been a mentee for five years. Shaw shares his reasons why this program is important.
  • By Dariela Delgado |
  • January 16, 2023
Sarasota police, youth organizations say Y.E.S. to teaming up on empowerment

The police chief says that the organization aims to provide mentorship and services to at-risk kids in the city.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Mikhail Roberts, Jordan Rich, Jackson Purdy, and Brian Zane in the FSU_Asolo Conservatory production of "An Inspector Calls."
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • March 3, 2023
'An Inspector Calls' hosts dinner, with a side order of blame

The FSU/Asolo Conservatory play "An Inspector Calls" crashes an elitist Edwardian dinner party with a harsh message of personal responsibility.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
Residents fill sandbags at the town's site at the Broadway Street beach parking area. (File photo)
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • September 26, 2022
County could cut Longboat water supply before storm, chief says

The town urges residents to prepare before the likely order to evacuate.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
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