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Mike Mercurio has been coaching the Cougars for as an assistant for nine years. Now he'll be the varsity head coach. Photo courtesy Cardinal Mooney High.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • May 26, 2021
Cougars baseball makes logical move with new head coach

The Cougars' new coach is a 34-year veteran of the Sarasota County Sheriff's Department

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
  • By Robin Roy |
  • October 29, 2009
Servian focuses on city issues

A self-imposed silence followed Mary Anne Servian's exit from the City Commission, but because she says enough time has passed, the former mayor is once again injecting herself into civic affairs.

  • Sarasota
  • News
People eat at the Cha Cha Coconuts in St. Armands Circle.
  • By Mark Bergin |
  • March 2, 2021
One year later, Longboat businesses see a glimmer of better things

Season has looked slightly different compared to previous years, but businesses have found ways to cope.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
 A condominium in Halcyon Siesta Key tops all transactions in this week’s real estate.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 13, 2020
Siesta Key condo sells for $4.57 million

Residential real estate transactions between Dec. 16-27.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
Jenn Blinkhorn and Lauren McComb
  • By Black Tie Staff |
  • May 17, 2012
Designing Daughters Fashionable Gala: Sail Into Summer

Designing Daughters Fashionable Gala: Sail Into Summer

  • Black Tie
Although the city wanted to extend the CRA, the county voted last year to let the funding mechanism expire.
  • By David Conway |
  • April 22, 2016
County staff rebuffs city’s claim to CRA cash

Although the city of Sarasota believes it’s due an extra year of funding for the downtown Community Redevelopment Area, the county is prepared to share a differing opinion.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Harry Sayer |
  • April 3, 2021
Sarasota Ministerial Association takes supporters on Good Friday pilgrimage

Church leaders and followers walked the 14 stations of the cross April 2.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
A Delray Beach-based company is proposing to install virtual wayfinding signs to city buildings that would look like 42-inch, flat-screen televisions. Photo courtesy of Blueweb Mobile Media.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • September 1, 2011
City mulls interactive wayfinding system

A Delray Beach-based mobile media company is proposing to install a free downtown Wi-Fi system in exchange for its purchase of new interactive wayfinding signs or kiosks.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
David Verinder, Sarasota Memorial Hospital's president and CEO, discusses the hospital's COVID-19 response at a press conference Tuesday, March 3.
  • By David Conway |
  • March 12, 2020
Sarasota Memorial Hospital patient tests presumptively positive for COVID-19

A 70-year-old man is the first positive case at the hospital. Health officials are investigating the origins of the infection and other individuals who may have been exposed.

  • Sarasota
  • News
"The Fence" is coming back again this fall. Courtesy photo
  • By Niki Kottmann |
  • June 17, 2019
United Photo Industries announces winners of 'The Fence' photo exhibit

The Brooklyn-based organization revealed that five Sarasota photographers made the list of regional winners.

  • Arts + Culture
Night With the Stars Prom is a yearly event held for people with special needs in Manatee and Sarasota County who are 16 years of age or older. (photo courtesy of Mary Anne McDevitt)
  • By Brendan Lavell |
  • November 5, 2020
Outdoor craft festival Saturday in Bradenton to raise money for special-needs prom

Outdoor craft festival will be held at Christ Presbyterian Church in east Bradenton and is a fundraiser for the Night With the Stars Prom.

  • East County
  • News
Robert and Jeff Toale say the Celebration of Life Center in Lakewood Ranch will be on the cutting edge of modern funeral home service.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • May 28, 2022
New Lakewood Ranch funeral home on the cutting edge

Celebration of Life Center is set to open in Lakewood Ranch with a rousing open house.

  • East County
  • Business
  • By Harry Sayer |
  • February 28, 2020
Humane Society of Sarasota introduces art show twist for 14th Paws on the Catwalk

The annual function benefitting Humane Society of Sarasota County had a hands-on element on Feb. 28.

  • Black Tie
La Estampida/Hillcroft's James Miller (4) tries to connect during the season opener with Scott Doyle right behind him if needed.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • December 20, 2019
Polo season gallops into action in Lakewood Ranch

Polo back in business in Lakewood Ranch as Sarasota Polo Club season opens.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
Kaitlyn Hornung says she still loves the half-century old Wurlitzer piano that has been passed down through her family.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • June 2, 2021
Sarasota girl says 'Hello, music world!' with release of 'Why'

Polo Club's Kaitlyn Hornung of Sarasota is ready to tell the world "Why" she loves music.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • September 22, 2010
Weather: City Sunrise

Charles Preston Rawls submitted this sunrise photo, taken at Marina Jack in downtown Sarasota. Please send your sunset (or sunrise) photos to The Longboat Observer, 5570 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, Fla., 34228, or e-mail them to [email protected].

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • In Memoriam |
  • June 23, 2020
Barbara French “Bobi” Sanderson

Barbara French “Bobi” Sanderson was born in Ottawa, Illinois on July 24, 1923, and died peacefully at home in Sarasota, Florida on June 17, 2020.

  • Longboat Key
  • Tributes & Obituaries
  • By Robin Roy |
  • September 10, 2009
Vendors to control farmers market

The Downtown Partnership will no longer run the Downtown Farmers Market. The partnership's chairman said the change was an insult to those who've worked to make the market a success.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Bret Hauff |
  • April 26, 2018
Longboat gets Sarasota County funding for Arts Center work

The county commission approved a $400,000 request from Longboat Key to fund demolition and site design in preparation for the Arts, Cultural and Education Center.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • April 1, 2021
Sarasota weather page photo: April 1

Bruce Silverman captured this butterfly out in the garden in Spanish Point.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
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