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Best friends Reese Jones, Ryan Hanson and Jack MacKinnon made Lakewood Ranch Little League's 10-and 11-year-old All-Star team in their first season playing Little League baseball.
  • By Jen Blanco |
  • July 27, 2016
Hit or Miss: Jen Blanco

Best friends enjoy success as Little League All-Stars

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • April 18, 2018
Cops Corner: The sandlot, LBK style

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
Over the weekend, medical personnel administered COVID-19 vaccines at the Sarasota Memorial Hospital clinic. (Sarasota Memorial Hospital photo)
  • By Mark Bergin |
  • January 11, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine frustration rises in Longboat Key

Difficulties with the sign-up process for COVID-19 vaccinations prompted Manatee County to change to a lottery system.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
Sarasota County School Board member Caroline Zucker celebrates keeping her seat with daughter Liza Leonard, left, and Margie Cohn.
  • By Anna Brugmann |
  • August 30, 2016
Zucker defeats Mast in District 2 School Board race

Zucker will keep her school board seat after a contentious campaigned characterized by political influences and record-breaking campaign contributions.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Paloma has become Hanna Hornung's best polo horse, along with being a best friend.
  • By Jay Heater |
  • January 19, 2022
Fast company for Lakewood Ranch teen at the Sarasota Polo Club

Lakewood Ranch 13-year-old gallops into the spotlight against the best at the Sarasota Polo Club.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • October 14, 2022
ODA football beats Cocoa Beach 54-10 to remain undefeated

Senior running back Griffin DeRusso led the Thunder with four total touchdowns.

  • East County
  • Sports
  • By Observer Staff |
  • September 24, 2009
Ranch reports real estate recovery

Recent sales statistics include, 257 homes sold in the Lakewood Ranch zip code 34202 from Jan. 1 through Aug. 31. Of those 257 homes, 15% sold at or above asking price.

  • East County
  • News
Photo courtesy John Revisky
  • By Marty Fugate |
  • September 19, 2018
Asolo Rep and conservatory adapt Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' for today

Asolo Repertory Theatre and FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training's New Stages series' latest touring production reimagines Shakespeare’s 'The Tempest' for student audiences across Florida.

  • Arts + Culture
Hayley Roberts is a five-star tennis player according to the Tennis Recruiting Network.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • February 2, 2023
GreyHawk Landing tennis player has ace potential

Hayley Roberts is a five-star player according to the Tennis Recruiting Network.

  • East County
  • Sports
Bradenton Lynx shortstop Devyn Flaherty, who attends Florida State, is an alumna of Sarasota's Riverview High.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • July 15, 2020
Local college softball summer league is a hit

College softball-level program rises in East County despite the pandemic.

  • East County
  • Sports
The roundabout construction area, highlighted in this image the project team provided, will extend along portions of Fruitville Road and U.S. 41.
  • By David Conway |
  • September 25, 2019
Fruitville roundabout project set to begin

Next month, crews will commence construction on another U.S. 41 roundabout.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • August 2, 2022
Volunteers excavate turtle nest on Longboat as dozens watch

About 200 people, hoping to see hatchlings head to sea, instead learn that more than 100 of them successfully waddled into the surf.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
The club will be coached by current New College physics student Toni Ginsberg-Klemmt, who attended Pine View School and rowed with Sarasota Crew in her younger days.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • March 11, 2021
Prose and Kohn: Hit the water

New College student launches rowing club for area athletes.

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • November 10, 2021
OPINION: Do not vax your children

That was the most emphatic warning leading doctors gave at the Florida Summit on COVID-19.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Commissioner Nancy Detert swayed fellow commissioners to open a solicitation period for proposals on the parcel.
  • By Brynn Mechem |
  • December 3, 2020
County seeks other proposals for parcel

Following a Miami company's interest in county-owned land, commissioners agree to seek additional ideas.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • December 2, 2020
Temple Beth Israel collects items for JFCS

The little gifts will be repackaged and given as holiday presents to seniors served by JFCS.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • June 24, 2020
Resist permitted parking

There are more creative and private-sector options to solving the Village’s parking problems than creating a new government department.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • March 8, 2022
SRQ adds second airline flying direct to Northeast

Breeze Airways announces plans for twice a week flights to Connecticut.

  • Sarasota
  • News
Theresa and Gary Syvertsen with Neuro Challenge Foundation for Parkinson’s CEO Robyn Faucy-Washington at the Syvertsen’s Lakewood Ranch home.
  • By Eric Snider |
  • August 15, 2019
Charity Snapshot: Rising to the Challenge

An 11-year-old organization, founded in Sarasota, provides free services to people with Parkinson’s disease in six counties, including Manatee.

  • LWR Life
  • By Jay Heater |
  • November 9, 2022
Community Fund taps its past by honoring Humanitarians of the Year

The event at Station 400 in Lakewood Ranch was planned to reintroduce key philanthropists to the local Community Fund.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
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