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Erni
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • December 1, 2010
Real estate reports

Joan Erni appointed to national RDC board; Wagner Realty announces its top agents for October; Island Real Estate honors its top agents; SAR and Immobel partner for new Facebook platform

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • In Memoriam |
  • November 3, 2023
Eileen Gildea

Eileen Gildea of Longboat Key, Florida and Hampton Bays, New York passed away peacefully at home on October 24, 2023, surrounded by her family.

  • Longboat Key
  • Tributes & Obituaries
Library is not the priority that residents want most
  • By Letter to the Editor |
  • March 27, 2024
Library is not the priority that residents want most

Longboat residents write that a "modern" county library is not Longboat Key's highest need.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Tennis Coach Dickie Herbst and Cornell Professor Emeritus Joe Novak formed a friendship after Herbst read a story about Novak in the East County Observer. Novak died in September.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • November 2, 2023
It's always story time at the East County Observer

The Lakewood Ranch-area newspaper celebrates 25 years at the Nov. 3 Music on Main.

  • East County
  • Opinion
Mercedes Matthews makes coffee and ice cream and may one day deliver it with the company's delivery bike.
  • By Harry Sayer |
  • December 24, 2020
Coffee and ice cream shop offers work worth doing

The Rise Coffee Co. and Nye’s Cream Sandwiches business employs people with special needs.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Bradenton-based Diaz Landscaping did the landscaping work around the Longboat Key Historical Society's cottage.
  • By Mark Bergin |
  • September 2, 2021
Historical Society targets October opening for museum

Longboat Key Historical Society's cottage will serve as a museum at the Town Center site.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • In Memoriam |
  • April 15, 2024
Jean Arvilla Weeks Hanna

Jean Arvilla Weeks Hanna, a longtime resident of Longboat Key passed away on February 21st, 2024.

  • Longboat Key
  • Tributes & Obituaries
Stanley Martin (Rexy), Kraig Swartz (Miss Tracy Mills), and Britt Michael Gordon (Georgia McBride) model Mari Taylor Floyd's finished creations. (Courtesy photo: John Jones.)
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • April 29, 2022
FST costume designer brings characters to life

Clothes make the man (and/or woman). Costumes make the actor. At Florida Studio Theatre, Mari Taylor Floyd makes (and designs) many of the costumes. Her work is vital to every production.

  • Arts + Culture
A student works on the training program Courtesy photo.
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • June 9, 2021
Longboat Key in need of home health aides, companions

A growing traffic problem has made it more difficult to find part-time aides to come to Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Don Janezic, president of the Manatee Library Foundation; Tammy Parrott, the Manatee County library services services manager; and Sue Ann Miller, president of the Friends of the Lakewood Ranch Library, hold a $200,000 check that was presented to library services.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • March 1, 2023
Nonprofits fill the shelves of the Lakewood Ranch Library

Friends of the Lakewood Ranch Library and the Manatee Library Foundation presented $200,000 toward books.

  • East County
  • News
Olivia Sharkoski (Photo by Ryan Kohn)
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • August 16, 2022
East County Athlete of the Week: Olivia Sharkoski

The Lakewood Ranch-based hockey player won the Fastest Skater award at a Liberty University development camp in July.

  • East County
  • Sports
Eric Pugh has joined Asolo Repertory Theatre as its director of marketing and communications and Sarah Johnson is its new director of development.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • September 5, 2023
Asolo Repertory Theatre expands management team

Sarah Johnson and Eric Pugh fill development and marketing posts.

  • Arts + Culture
AltMed MUV Director of Corporate Affairs Todd Beckwith discusses the new store in East County.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • June 30, 2020
New joint in Bradenton signifies how our society adapts to change

AltMed MUV comes to Bradenton to fill a market need for medical cannabis.

  • East County
  • Opinion
Regular schedules of prescribed burns help restore and maintain healthy habitats for imperiled fire-dependent species such as gopher tortoises.
  • By Miri Hardy |
  • May 30, 2024
Fire plays critical role in Myakka park

Some imperiled species, such as the gopher tortoise, crested caracara and pine lily, wouldn't survive without occasional fires.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
This home in Southpointe Shores tops all transactions in this week’s real estate at $5.1 million. Built in 2001, it has four bedrooms, three-and-two-half baths, a pool and 4,797 square feet of living area.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 16, 2024
Top residential real estate sales for April 29 to May 3 in Sarasota, Siesta Key, Palmer Ranch, Osprey, Nokomis

A Southpointe Shores home on Cove Terrace tops sales at $5.1 million.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
Kolter Hospitality intends to demolish the Hyatt Regency in Sarasota and rebuild it into a Thompson-branded hotel.
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 20, 2023
Lack of convention space — again — concerns Sarasota business leaders

With the pending demolition of one major property, a go-to ballroom spot for Sarasota events is being taken off the board.

  • Sarasota
  • Business
Nancy Schneider, the publicity chair for Gardeners Out East, meets former HGTV host John Gidding in person. Schneider used to watch Gidding on Curb Appeal for the show's dramatic before and afters.
  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • July 17, 2023
Former HGTV star John Gidding offers gardening advice in Lakewood Ranch

About 125 people showed up to meet the former host of "Curb Appeal" at the Robert Toale and Sons Celebration of Life Center.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
9th grade student Alex Lieberman and Evan Heck program the robot.
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • July 26, 2023
Local partnership gives students hands-on robotics experience

The collaboration began with RND Automation lending a robotic arm to the Faulhaber Fab Lab.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Toll revenue would help county leaders finance other projects.
  • By Cassidy Alexander |
  • March 28, 2018
APRIL FOOLS: Toll plan rolls along for popular bike trail

Legacy riders will pay up in proposal to free up more county money for other projects.

  • April Fools
Sunny and Richard McGrath
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • November 10, 2021
Republican Club of Longboat Key gets update from town leadership

At the club's November meeting, town officials provided an update on life on Longboat.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
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