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A conceptual drawing of Sarasota’s bayfront with The Bay Master Plan and a new performing arts center in place.
  • By Observer Staff |
  • May 6, 2024
Foundation to pay for design phase of new performing arts center

All expenditures for the project are to be divided equally among the public and private sectors.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Urbanite's 'The Birds of North America' studies the lessons given by time
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • January 28, 2023
Urbanite's 'The Birds of North America' studies the lessons given by time

Time’s arrow goes straight to the heart in “The Birds of North America” at Urbanite Theatre.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
  • By Sarah Felder |
  • March 5, 2013
The Engine 2 Diet challenge with Whole Foods Market Sarasota: week two

The Engine 2 Diet challenge with Whole Foods Market Sarasota: week two

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Eat + Drink
Longboat Key Fire Chief Paul Dezzi said Fire Rescue responds to about 2,200 calls per year with 700 resulting in ambulance trips to the hospital.
  • By S.T. Cardinal |
  • October 29, 2025
Longboat Link aims to reduce nonemergency 911 calls from older adults

Joint Fire Rescue and Youthful Aging initiative will provide follow-up services for Longboat residents who call 911 for nonemergencies.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • November 9, 2017
Ten Longboat things you missed while you were away

A lot happened while you snowbirds were up north.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Observer Staff |
  • November 25, 2014
News Briefs

School employee charged in cyber attack; City, county plan closures for Thanksgiving; Sarasota County Area Transit hires new director

  • Sarasota
  • News
Some Hudson Bayou residents say a home on Prospect Street, right, is too big for the property on which it sits and are concerned new homes are changing the dynamic of the historic neighborhood filled with older homes, left. Photos by Roger Drouin.
  • By Roger Drouin |
  • May 23, 2013
Residents grapple with larger homes

Hudson Bayou residents say protecting trees is one possible way to preserve the character of their historic neighborhood.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Anthony and Katherine Van Wezel Stone, grandchildren of the late Lewis Van Wezel.
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • January 14, 2026
Van Wezel heirs join with SPAF to support new Performing Arts Center

Grandchildren of the late Lewis Van Wezel have joined the Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation in support of a new venue and a "unified cultural campus."

  • Sarasota
  • News
Chief Medical Officer Jennifer Bocker, Skipper and Chief Operations Officer Kelly Malloy
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • July 18, 2023
Guide dog-in-training brings joy to Sarasota Doctors Hospital

Skipper, a black Labrador retriever from Southeastern Guide Dogs, is being raised by the hospital’s Chief Medical Officer Jennifer Bocker and Chief Operations Officer Kelly Malloy.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
A goat serves as the best friend of Winnie the Moo at the Farmhouse Animal and Nature Sanctuary. A larger pasture will be available to them after a $50,000 grant from the Bishop-Parker Foundation.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • July 23, 2025
Myakka animal sanctuary lands important grant

The Bishop-Parker Foundation has gifted Farmhouse Animal and Nature Sanctuary $50,000 to complete hurricane damage repairs.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
School Board member James Golden, Superintendent Cynthia Saunders, Lakewood Ranch High School's mascot and Lakewood Ranch High Principal Dustin Dahlquist move dirt for the groundbreaking. (Photo by Liz Ramos)
  • By Liz Ramos |
  • September 22, 2022
Lakewood Ranch High, Freedom Elementary break ground on new additions

The new additions to the Manatee County schools will help address growth in east Bradenton.

  • East County
  • Schools
James Turrel's Skyspace exhibit entitled Joseph's Coat at the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art. (Courtesy photo by Giovanni Lunardi)
  • By Spencer Fordin |
  • November 16, 2022
A 'Decade of Collecting' brings Ringling acquisitions to the public eye

For many years, the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art was out of the acquisition business. But the past 10 years have brought a change in direction.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Nick Friedman |
  • January 12, 2012
Chen remembered as selfless

Friends of the Siesta runner killed Saturday say she was always thinking of other people.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
The new CVS is located at the intersection of Gulf of Mexico Drive and Bay Isles Parkway.
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • August 8, 2012
CVS opens one month ahead of schedule

The drug chain opened its new Longboat Key store Aug. 5 - a month in advance of its original goal of a September debut.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Robin Roy |
  • February 17, 2011
News Briefs

Developers approach city about hotel project; New College welcomes two new board members; Sarasota Memorial, USF create partnership; city, county offices closed for Presidents Day

  • Sarasota
  • News
Linda Cobb and Christal Cobb
  • By Kayleigh Omang |
  • January 16, 2019
Sarasota YMCA starts up new donor recognition program

Jennifer Mitchell celebrates her baby boy, Diana Buchanan announces her fourth child on the way and JLS revamps local day care.

  • Black Tie
Mark Walsh, vice president of Ocean Properties, right, and Andy Berger, vice president of operations for Ocean Properties, have been making weekly trips to Longboat Key from Delray Beach to present a rough sketch of a future Key Club project.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • April 10, 2015
$100 million Key Club project takes shape

A new Longboat Key Club project consists of a 259-unit hotel and 93 condominiums and villa units, all located to the south of a reshaped Longboat Club Road.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
City commissioners Liz Alpert, Willie Shaw and Shelli Freeland Eddie — who represent Sarasota's three districts — were sworn in Friday afternoon.
  • By David Conway |
  • May 15, 2015
New city commissioners sworn in at City Hall

New Sarasota city commissioners Liz Alpert and Shelli Freeland Eddie — along with Mayor Willie Shaw — officially began their four-year terms following a ceremony today.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • July 9, 2014
Manatee property values on the rise

East County property values have increased 12.14%, excluding new construction, compared with 2013.

  • East County
  • News
Temporary street signs will soon be replaced with new backlit street signs along Gulf of Mexico Drive.
  • By Carter Weinhofer |
  • April 30, 2025
Street sign replacement begins on Longboat Key

The new signs will be installed throughout the next month and match the new street light aesthetics of the undergrounding project.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
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