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Vendors and artists filled Gulf Stream Avenue Saturday, Jan. 16.
  • By Amanda Morales |
  • January 16, 2016
Festival brings out fine art enthusiasts

The 4th annual Sarasota Winter Fine Art Festival takes over Gulf Stream Avenue for the weekend of Jan. 16.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • June 8, 2022
Sarasota Cops Corner: Mopping up a rent dispute

Police reports from around Sarasota.

  • Sarasota
  • Cops Corner
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • August 9, 2012
EDC position funding up in the air

Sarasota city commissioners left three years worth of funding in the budget for an economic development director position.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • March 8, 2022
SRQ adds second airline flying direct to Northeast

Breeze Airways announces plans for twice a week flights to Connecticut.

  • Sarasota
  • News
In Greenville, Norman Gollub led an effort to move a loading zone and widen the sidewalk enabled restaurants to expand.
  • By Roger Drouin |
  • December 11, 2012
Sarasota names downtown economic steward

At a previous post in Greenville, S.C., Norman Gollub spent six years working to reduce commercial vacancies and bring in private developments.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Julie McClure, president of Manatee County Orchid Society, discusses the selection of plants she has brought to the event.
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • March 19, 2023
Friendships bloom at garden club orchid presentation in Lakewood Ranch

The Gardeners Out East event offered a chance for members and nonmembers to learn about orchid care.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Sarasota Medieval Fair President Jeremy Croteau (center) leads East Manatee Fire Marshal Alex Onishenko (left) and Public Safety Director Jacob Saur (right) on a tour of the Medieval Fair site on Oct. 29.
  • By Scott Lockwood |
  • November 5, 2021
Manatee County grants temporary permits for the Medieval Fair

The Sarasota Medieval Fair will kick off as planned this weekend after Manatee County granted a temporary use permit for the 47-acre site in Myakka City.

  • East County
  • News
Rumble founder and CEO Chris Pavlovsk and prominent Wall Street executive Howard Lutnick on a screenshot from a Rumble video where they talked about the SPAC merger.
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 22, 2022
Longboat Key video-sharing firm reels in $400M from merger

"We have only scratched the surface of what this business could be," Rumble officials say.

  • Longboat Key
  • Business
  • By John Ewing |
  • November 23, 2012
No bigger place to "shop small" this Saturday

No bigger place to "shop small" this Saturday

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
LaunchPad4U is located in the Rosemary District at 1413 Boulevard of the Arts to be centrally located for students. Harry Sayer
  • By Brynn Mechem |
  • December 16, 2020
Education Foundation launches student resource center downtown

LaunchPad4U, located in the Rosemary District, helps students prepare for life after high school.

  • Sarasota
  • Schools
  • By Spencer Fordin |
  • April 26, 2022
This Week in A+E: April 28 to May 4

Ballet and dance take center stage in Sarasota this week, and there will also be heaping helpings of top notch musical theater on the menu.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
  • In Memoriam |
  • August 29, 2022
Vera H. Freeman

Vera H. Freeman 91, of Longboat Key passed peacefully on Aug. 11, 2022.

  • Longboat Key
  • Tributes & Obituaries
Parking meter hourly rates rise from 50 cents to $1 today. File photo.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • November 1, 2011
Downtown Sarasota parking meter rates rise today

For the next six months, parking meters in downtown will have an hourly rate of $1 per hour.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Former President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Sarasota on July 3.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • June 23, 2021
Trump to hold rally July 3 at Sarasota Fairgrounds

Former President Donald Trump rally in Sarasota on July 3 will include special guests, fireworks.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • October 25, 2021
Sarasota-Manatee real estate prices keep climbing, supplies keep falling

Less than a month's inventory drives up median prices.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
The Sarasota Farmers Market will work with city staff and downtown leaders to review options for security upgrades.
  • By David Conway |
  • November 9, 2017
Farmers market seeks security upgrades

The director of the Sarasota Farmers Market wants to install barricades to protect attendees from potential harm.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Lori Hanson, a teacher from Charlotte County, and Harriet Bare enjoy the setting of Thunder by the Bay.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • January 11, 2014
VIDEO: Thunder by the Bay rocks downtown Sarasota

The 16th annual Thunder By the Bay festival packs the city of Sarasota with thousands of motorcycles.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Health and Human Services Director Chuck Henry says the advisory council will be "a conduit for public information." (File photo)
  • By Blake Fussell |
  • April 6, 2022
County to use $2.5 million in ARPA funds toward mental health services

The new Behavioral Health Advisory Council will be Sarasota County's resource for information and funding on mental health, homelessness and welfare services.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Connecticut's Luke Anthony won the men's Junior Elite race in 27:59.5.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • March 13, 2022
Athletes show perseverance during cold Sarasota-Bradenton Triathlon

Sarasota-Bradenton Triathlon contested during cold conditions at Nathan Benderson Park.

  • East County
  • Sports
Ed Harris on the set for "A Flash of Green" in 1983.
  • By Amanda Morales |
  • July 30, 2015
This week in history 7.30.15

A glimpse of the way things were from the archives.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
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