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The New York City improv troupe Shitzprobe creates musicals on the fly based on audience suggestions.
  • By Monica Roman Gagnier |
  • April 13, 2026
Florida Studio Theatre puts its summer improv festival on ice for a year

The wildly popular weekend event will return in 2027 with a spring date.

  • Arts + Culture
The home at 118 N. Warbler Lane sold for $6,345,000.
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 7, 2026
Top residential real estate sales for Dec. 15-19 in Longboat, Lido, St. Armands, Bird Key

A home on Bird Key on North Warbler Lane tops the week’s sales at $6.35 million.

  • Longboat Key
  • Real Estate
The Sarasota Ballet is just one of the region’s fine arts groups.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • June 29, 2023
Sarasota, Lakewood Ranch indeed lands of opportunity

While Sarasota built its arts reputation to separate from other beach communities, Lakewood Ranch carved paradise out of the wild.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
James Satcher hosts the March 31 town hall at the Rocky Bluff Branch Library.
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • April 5, 2022
After favoritism found in Manatee County government, focus turns to transparency

Leaders say more town hall meetings and timely agendas are the keys to improving transparency to the community.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 17, 2010
Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • June 2, 2010
Our View

Jaleski's successor

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • June 9, 2010
Town staff raises project issues

At the resumed Longboat Key Club Islandside renovation hearing, PZB Director Monica Simpson said the project was still too large; commissioners made project suggestions.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 23, 2012
Our View: County subsidies: immoral

Maybe a a good roundhouse to their proboscises might knock some sense into them and awaken them.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
The path forward into the next decade includes, for many, some kind of solution for the Town Center issue.
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • January 2, 2020
Visions for the path toward 2030 in Longboat Key

Longboat leaders tell us what they'd like to see in the next decade.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • April 9, 2019
Longboat Key Cops Corner: Watch for those flashing yellow lights

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 13, 2014
Our View

Primary recommendations

  • East County
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 14, 2014
Our View

Primary recommendations

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Allied troops on Omaha Beach
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • June 4, 2014
Our View: 'Never again'?

This is the 70th anniversary of D-Day ... June 6, 1944. We all have seen the photographs and footage from the beaches of Normandy. We have seen the rows upon rows of our nearly 9,400 military dead at the Normandy American Cemetery - most of them killed in Operation Overlord, the code name for the Allies' invasion of France. But so few of us in subsequent generations can even imagine what author Rick Atkinson vividly re-creates in his epic book, 'The Guns at Last Light.'

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Once a staple of The Colony, The Monkey Bar was reimagined as a beach bar in the new St. Regis Longboat Key resort.
  • By Carter Weinhofer |
  • August 21, 2024
From 2010 to present, here's how the St. Regis Longboat Key became reality

From legal battles to construction hiccups, the St. Regis navigated countless hurdles to reach opening day.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
The city's new One Stop Shop is at 1575 Second St. across from City Hall.
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • June 27, 2024
New One Stop Shop offers city staff, customers room to work

The city of Sarasota's planning and development services staff leaves the mosquitoes behind and settles into the new — and not "embarrassing" — building.

  • Sarasota
  • News
For Sarasota tax collector
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • June 26, 2024
For Sarasota tax collector

Two Republicans — County Commissioner Mike Moran and an expert in tax collector operations — are in a primary to challenge Barbara Ford-Coates.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Many St. Armands residents returned home after Hurricane Idalia to find two feet or more of water on their streets and inside their homes.
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • September 14, 2023
St. Armands drainage system can't keep up with 'perfect storm'

Designed for a 25-year rain event, St. Armands Key's pump and baffle network was overwhelmed by storm surge combined with king tide from Hurricane Idalia.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Part II of spend, spend …
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • July 19, 2023
Part II of spend, spend …

Thanks to inflation, rising real estate prices and population growth, city and county governments are gushing with cash. And they can’t wait to spend it.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Although some members favor maintaining the current form of government, a majority of the Charter Review Committee voted Tuesday to recommend creating an elected mayor position.
  • By David Conway |
  • November 11, 2021
Sarasota's Charter Review Committee endorses elected mayor

A volunteer advisory board is recommending the city change its form of government to elevate the position of mayor, a proposal voters have previously rejected.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 26, 2010
Our View

Sign-code silliness; U.S. Marines under assault again

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
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