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The design for the roundabout on Broadway at GMD is over 75% complete.
  • By Lauren Tronstad |
  • November 30, 2022
Moving along: Big projects gather momentum

The town center pavilion and GMD roundabout are among projects underway heading into the new year.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Siblings Vergene Mayne and Mike Thayer take in the Siesta Fiesta art and craft festival.
  • By Amanda Morales |
  • April 9, 2015
Weekend Best Bets: Siesta Fiesta and Celebration of Pets Fest

Weekend events include activities for art lovers and pets with Siesta Fiesta and Celebration of Pets Fest.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • January 6, 2015
Cops Corner: Longboat Key

Enjoy this week's edition of Cops Corner.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Observer Staff |
  • December 30, 2017
Top Story - October: Residents worry a proposed home may limit Siesta Key public beach access

Catch up on the top news items of 2017 with the Observer's Digital Year in Review.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
A home at 2326 McClellan Parkway sold for $1.9 million. Built in 1935, it has five bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,443 square feet of living area.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 18, 2024
Top residential real estate sales for Jan. 1-5 in Sarasota, Siesta Key, Palmer Ranch, Osprey, Nokomis

A Siesta Key home on Ogden Street tops the week’s sales at $6.1 million.

  • Sarasota
  • Real Estate
Rosemary and Theodore Jadick, of Longboat Key, sold their Unit 704 condominium at 1241 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Diane McCombe Bussandri and Norman Coulombe, trustees, of Quebec, Canada, for $3.2 million.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • July 26, 2023
Top residential real estate sales for July 10-14 in Longboat Key, Lido Key, St. Armands Key, Bird Key

A condominium in The Water Club tops the week's sales at $3.2 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • April 2, 2021
You Observed: Rotary Club of Longboat Key hosts Walk for Water

The club put together a walk to raise money for a community in Peru.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Tara CDD Field Manager Jim Kaluk and Tara CDD Supervisor Beth Bond look at landscaping at the entrance to Tara Preserve, off Tara Preserve Lane and Tara Boulevard. Photo by Pam Eubanks
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • January 13, 2015
Tara CDD crossing in sunshine

As the Tara CDD considers improvements to community landscaping, it's forced to open and close meetings during a 12-point walking/vehicle tour of the community.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 14, 2012
News Briefs

Deputies get noise tech lesson; Lighting demo scheduled

  • Siesta Key
  • News
Projects such as Vue Sarasota Bay have already drawn concern about their size and impact, and more large-scale projects are waiting in the pipeline.
  • By David Conway |
  • December 23, 2015
Sarasota leaders grapple with impact of increased building

With major construction projects underway and a new zoning code nearing completion, residents and officials are ready to have a conversation about managing growth in Sarasota.

  • Sarasota
  • News
The Staatsoper Hamburg performance of Falstaff played at the Sarasota Opera House on July 10. (Courtesy photo: Monika Rittershaus)
  • By Spencer Fordin |
  • July 11, 2022
Enjoy world-class performances all summer with HD at the Opera

Live performances might be out of season at the Sarasota Opera House, but you can still catch world-class caliber artistry at the HD at the Opera series.

  • Arts + Culture
Billy Kennerly tees off on the No. 1 hole at Lakewood National Golf Club. Kennerly would par the hole.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • February 20, 2021
Two tied atop leaderboard heading into Suncoast Classic's final day

Other golfers are not far behind the pair.

  • East County
  • Sports
Four Braden River High School students win the 16th Congressional District App Challenge with their medical dosage calculator app. File photo.
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • December 7, 2020
Braden River High students win Congressional District App Challenge

Four Braden River High students create an app to save lives and win the Congressional District App Challenge.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • December 4, 2019
Longboat Key Cops Corner: Jackets are required

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
Geoff O'Quinn and Anita Isenberg. Courtesy photo.
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • September 7, 2021
Another project in the books for Lakewood Ranch resident

River Walk resident builds and donates little library.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Observer Staff |
  • March 10, 2022
Sarasota weather page photo: March 10

Patricia Donnelly captured this photo of a sandhill crane with two young colts.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
New College wants to grow while maintaining its intimate character.
  • By David Conway |
  • July 6, 2017
Power in Numbers: New College embarks on growth plan

New College of Florida wants to boost its enrollment and its standing among the nation's top liberal arts schools. Can the school's leaders pull it off?

  • Sarasota
  • News
Scientists believe one of the artifacts found at the former site of the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort is the recipe for civilization's first key lime pie.
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • March 31, 2022
APRIL FOOL: 'Colony Man' civilization unearthed at resort-construction site

Ancient inhabitants of island unlike others of the paleo-indian period.

  • April Fools
Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy staff members and school partners tour the new upper school.
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • July 3, 2023
Lakewood Ranch Preparatory Academy's upper school takes shape

The building is expected to be complete in time for the first day of school Aug. 10.

  • East County
  • Schools
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • August 19, 2022
A day of celebration at Special Olympics Stand-up Paddleboard Championships

Nathan Benderson Park hosts the event in Sarasota.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
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