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  • By Eric Garwood |
  • April 17, 2019
Longboat Key Cops Corner: First come, first served

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
SANCA CEO Stephen Rodriguez hopes the finish tower pays off by booking events such as the "VIP Tower Experience" at the Sarasota Celtic Music Festival.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • October 25, 2018
This Sarasota experience towers over others as Celtic festival begins

VIP Tower Experience helps Sarasota Celtic Music Festival and Nathan Benderson Park

  • East County
  • News
New Haven, Connecticut diners received fortune cookies that prompted them to find out more about the Bradenton area.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • March 3, 2022
Fortune cookie strategy could be tourist windfall for Bradenton area

Bradenton Area Convention and Tourist Bureau cooks up fortune cookie campaign.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • November 14, 2018
Cops Corner: A report of uplifting noise

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • May 5, 2022
Fountain at Paul Thorpe Park to close for repairs

The original artist will oversee refurbishment. The fountain is expected to reopen by the end of May.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Police respond to suspected burglary, find out it's family
  • By Lauren Tronstad |
  • April 18, 2023
Police respond to suspected burglary, find out it's family

Town police received a call of a potential burglary for an out-of-town resident, but it was family that had arrived early. This and other Longboat Key Police reports in this week's Cops Corner.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
The Hospital Gala made a royal return with its 2023 outing.
  • By Harry Sayer |
  • January 8, 2023
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation's Hospital Gala makes in-person return

The Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation's Hospital Gala made its return to the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota on Jan. 7.

  • Black Tie
Leymis Bolaños Wilmott instructs her daughter Valda and dancers Michael Foley and Monessa Salley.
  • By Spencer Fordin |
  • April 13, 2022
Sarasota Contemporary Dance turns trauma into triumph

For her next dance performance, Leymis Bolaños Wilmott chose a weighty personal topic: The exodus of thousands of children from Cuba during the Fidel Castro regime.

  • Arts + Culture
City Manager Marlon Brown spoke to Observer Media Group's Newsies on Thursday on the Observer's newsroom.
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • February 17, 2022
Sarasota city manager drops in on the Newsies

Marlon Brown shares an insider's view of how local government operates.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Pete and Carla Rowan pose for a photo by the town of Longboat Key's electronic sign that specifies Longbeach Village's resident permit parking.
  • By Mark Bergin |
  • January 18, 2021
Longboat neighborhood's parking shifts into resident only

The new permit system took effect on New Year's Day for the Longbeach Village neighborhood in Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Samantha Chaney |
  • February 7, 2019
Off-duty Sarasota police officer assaulted at Payne Park

The incident occurred just after 12 p.m. at 2050 Adams Lane.

  • Sarasota
  • News
"Sign Here" was the winner of the 2022 Sarasota Ten-Minute Play Festival.
  • By Monica Roman Gagnier |
  • May 8, 2023
Theatre Odyssey is back in search of the perfect 10

Synchronize your watches for the 2023 Sarasota Ten-Minute Play Festival.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • April 16, 2019
Town shifts Village's drive for resident passes into park

Commissioners agree to look at possible changes in no-parking zones, valet rules and speed limits.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Spencer Fordin |
  • June 7, 2022
This Week in A+E: June 9-15

The Sarasota Music Festival and Summer Circus Spectacular highlight a busy week of music, theater and comedy in Sarasota.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
Joshua Fitzgerald and Luke Downes
  • By Harriet Sokmensuer |
  • May 1, 2014
School Board

Check out the latest happenings at Sarasota schools.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Plantation man arrested in hit-and-run that injured an SPD officer
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • March 21, 2023
Plantation man arrested in hit-and-run that injured an SPD officer

An officer was struck by a suspect driving a stolen vehicle Monday night on Bird Key. He is expected to make a full recovery.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • July 27, 2011
Cops Corner

Identity issue 4:17 p.m. - 5400 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive. The former city editor of the Longboat Observer reported that a man who identified himself as the city editor called a Longboat Key supermarket to ask about the status of a development project. The supermarket manager who talked to the man said the man on the other end of the phone was rude and that he had to hang up on the man. N.B. It will be much harder for the rude male caller to impersonate our new female city editor, Robin Hartill.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Adrian Moore and Vittorio Nastasi |
  • January 20, 2021
Nursing home reform is needed in response to COVID-19

The evidence indicates that CON laws are counterproductive to the goals of reducing costs and improving quality.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
The Longboat Key Club in March converted tennis courts near the marina next to Portofino Ristorante & Bar into four pickleball courts.
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • October 29, 2019
Town moves ahead on adding pickleball references to building standards

Town Commissioners back off pursuit of specific noise rules.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Photo courtesy of Mary Lou Johnson
  • By Amanda Sebastiano |
  • August 3, 2011
Tennis club ladies ditch their makeup for the day

Lady tennis players at the Longboat Key Club joined Makeup Free Mondays, a movement standing for much more than leaving off the eye shadow.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
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