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  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • March 11, 2022
Market on Longboat Key hosts last rendition

The market is likely to return next season, but for now, it's over.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Courtesy. Main Plaza originally dates back to 1985.
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 21, 2022
First peek of new Main Plaza revealed

Developers release renderings of the highly anticipated One Main Plaza in marketing materials.

  • Sarasota
  • News
‘Session of the century’
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • May 31, 2023
‘Session of the century’

Credit Florida lawmakers for going big with legislation that will change Florida for the better.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Deep water remains at the entrance to Swim City off U.S. 41 just as the roundabout opens and the driveway is accessible to traffic.
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • January 2, 2023
Opening of the Gulfstream roundabout greets Swim City with a new challenge

Swim City anxiously awaited the opening of the Gulfstream Avenue roundabout. Late-stage construction on U.S. 41 brought a new challenge: a flooded parking lot with nowhere for the water to go.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Kayleigh Omang |
  • January 25, 2018
Women create a path to freedom at New Beginning Fashion Show

Selah Freedom hosted A New Beginning fashion show on Jan. 25 at Five Points Park.

  • Black Tie
This County Club East home at 16116 Kendleshire Terrace sold for $2.3 million. It has three bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,182 square feet of living area.
  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • August 2, 2023
Manatee County home sales increase as prices drop

Single-family home prices decreased by 4.5% to $525,000, according to the Realtor Association of Sarasota and Manatee

  • East County
  • News
A car is suspended in the air for maintenance at Christian Brothers Automotive. (Photo by Ian Swaby)
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • July 12, 2022
Faith-based automotive repair franchise comes to Lakewood Ranch area

The franchise owner says he wants to bring more transparency to auto repair.

  • East County
  • Business
Jim Floyd plays Scrooge and 19 other characters is The Players' rendition of "A Christmas Carol."
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • December 6, 2021
With Christmas upon us, we hear from Scrooge himself

Jim Floyd brings Ebenezer Scrooge to life at The Players Centre for Performing Arts. He did the same for us in a spirited conversation.

  • Arts + Culture
Marcelo Gomes.  Photo by Frank Atura.
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • February 22, 2017
In Step: Marcelo Gomes to perform with Sarasota Ballet

American Ballet Theatre Principal Marcelo Gomes has performed all over the world. Now he’s immersing himself in the Sarasota ballet as a guest performer.

  • Arts + Culture
What happens if Sarasota's bayfront park becomes a center of constant activity, similar to what has occurred, say, at Cincinnati’s Fountain Park? (Courtesy image)
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • April 12, 2019
Sarasota's overall strategy: Whack-a-mole!

Monday’s City Commission meeting agenda — with votes on the Bay Park and Fruitville Road — illustrates a helter-skelter strategy, which is no strategy. Table the Fruitville Road vote.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Amy Drake, president of Property Perspectives, is handling marketing for the 18-story Echelon on Palm and the coming Seven One One Palm, both luxury condominium buildings downtown.
  • By Alex Mahadevan |
  • December 8, 2016
Downtown Sarasota condo building boom continues

Seaward Development is under contract to buy out the owners of the Versailles on the Bayfront for a new project.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Stephen Spencer and Dekyi Rongé star in "Birds of North America."
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • January 6, 2023
Urbanite director talks birds, barriers and the ticking clock of new play

“Birds of North America” looks at love, life and change at Urbanite Theatre. Summer Dawn Wallace shares why she made time to direct it.

  • Arts + Culture
  • In Memoriam |
  • November 10, 2021
Pamela Mary Ketchum

Pamela Mary Ketchum, of Longboat Key FL, passed away on Sunday, November 7, 2021 following a long and courageous battle with brain cancer.

  • Longboat Key
  • Tributes & Obituaries
Punta Gorda's Luke Graham says that his ancestors migrated from Ireland to the United States hundreds of years ago, before  it was acceptable to be Irish in America.
  • By Amelia Hanks |
  • October 31, 2018
Kilts to the hilt at Nathan Benderson Park

Nathan Benderson Park hosts Celtic festival.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
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  • By Nick Friedman |
  • January 11, 2014
TWIS Tour Guide: Open mic nights

TWIS Tour Guide: Open mic nights

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
MoZaic's Dylan Elhajoui. Courtesy photo.
  • By June LeBell |
  • January 22, 2014
Tidbites

Savor your time at MoZaic; Romancing the scone; and Libby's does brunch.

  • Arts + Culture
More than 2 million lights line the trees at Selby Gardens for Lights in Bloom, and it takes nearly 2,000 hours to hang them all.
  • By Spencer Fordin |
  • December 6, 2022
Local couple illuminates Selby Gardens for 'Lights in Bloom'

Carolyn and Phil Babas are the couple who design the annual holiday spectacle at Selby Gardens. And they're not sure they ever want to retire.

  • Arts + Culture
Retired Sarasota attorney William Getzen died Tuesday.
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • July 19, 2023
Longtime Sarasota attorney and resident William Getzen dies at 91

A career-long fixture at Williams Parker, Getzen was "a pioneer in the practice of condominium law."

  • Sarasota
  • News
Grace Howl's "No Fear No Rules" sign.
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • March 22, 2023
Grace Howl: The accidental artist

A car crash forced Howl off the corporate treadmill into a dazzling world of abstract images

  • Arts + Culture
SCF student LaShawn'te Lee, MTC students Emma Ramirez and Krystal Camacho, Scholarship Committee Chair Peg Buck and SCF Foundation Chair Chris Romine pose for a photo during the Palm Aire Women's Club Scholarship Luncheon.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • April 16, 2023
Palm Aire Women's Club provides $13,000 in scholarships

Four SCF and two MTC students will receive scholarships to help them obtain their educational goals.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
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