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This year, Main Street Market will extend beyond the area pictured, to the area of Ed's Tavern and The Fish Hole. Courtesy photo
  • By Ian Swaby |
  • October 19, 2022
Main Street Market returns to Lakewood Ranch with expanded offerings

Bigger version of the Main Street Market begins Oct. 22 at Main Street at Lakewood Ranch.

  • East County
  • News
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • April 27, 2022
Longboat deserves better

Longboat’s mayor says the Key faces ‘an uphill struggle’ obtaining funds from Sarasota County for a community center. How is that for gratitude?

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Don Olinger and Tracy Rhodes moved into their two-bedroom apartment in May with dogs Ralphie and Gary.
  • By Jessica Salmond |
  • July 22, 2015
Dogs help roommates see eye to eye

Don Olinger and Tracy Rhodes' service dogs guide them to independent living and a lasting friendship.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Brynn Mechem |
  • April 2, 2021
Booker student documentary to air on Tampa area PBS channel

"Into the Storm" highlights the desegregation of Sarasota County schools as it follows the 1966-67 Booker Tornadoes basketball team.

  • Sarasota
  • Schools
A Delray Beach-based company is proposing to install virtual wayfinding signs to city buildings that would look like 42-inch, flat-screen televisions. Photo courtesy of Blueweb Mobile Media.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • September 1, 2011
City mulls interactive wayfinding system

A Delray Beach-based mobile media company is proposing to install a free downtown Wi-Fi system in exchange for its purchase of new interactive wayfinding signs or kiosks.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • February 16, 2020
Scallopalooza, It's Clamtastic! sees largest-ever crowd

The Sarasota Bay Watch's premier fundraiser saw a huge boost from a bigger venue.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Zara Barrie |
  • March 6, 2014
Factory Girl: Ratchet Ball

Factory Girl: Ratchet Ball

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Things To Do
  • By Jess McIntyre |
  • August 20, 2020
Back at the Ranch: The new back-to-school blues

How to turn back-to-school anxiety into something more productive.

  • LWR Life
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • October 29, 2021
St. Mary, Star of the Sea Catholic Church plans for Christmas Bazaar

The bazaar was scaled down last year but is starting to return to normal heights.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Nat Kaemmerer |
  • February 8, 2022
Temple Beth Israel celebrates supporters at dinner

The temple hosted a Shabbat dinner to recognize their donors from over the years.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Steve Wernet secures a plastic covering over an alter reredos at the Church of the Redeemer on Sept. 7.
  • By Anna Brugmann |
  • September 7, 2017
Downtown churches prepare for Hurricane Irma

Many downtown churches have already announced closures while others wait and see.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
Jeff Hradek opens the cabinet that holds the more than 50 Sarasota High School shirts he's leaving behind for the next principal.
  • By Amanda Morales |
  • July 21, 2016
Hradek leaves big shoes and shirts to fill

Jeff Hradek will retire after 13 years as Sarasota High School's principal.

  • Sarasota
  • Schools
Mooney Coach Rico Antonio and sophomore guard Olivia Davis hug after the win.
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • February 18, 2021
Cardinal Mooney girls basketball survives and advances

The Cougars are one win from the Final Four despite missing a star player.

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
For forty years, Mayers worked as an environmental consultant doing mangrove trimming.
  • By Katie Johns |
  • October 3, 2018
Longboater spins off thesis into book

Tom Mayers transforms his 1991 college thesis into a book now sold on Amazon and Kindle.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Davis Development representative Katie Labarr said the new apartments will look similar to the neighboring Venue apartments, which also were developed by Davis Development.
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • January 8, 2020
Developer plans apartment complex near Main Street at Lakewood Ranch

Developer plans apartment complex near Main Street at Lakewood Ranch

  • East County
  • News
Big Pass, which has never before been dredged, is the desired source of sand for a long-term Lido shoreline restoration project backed by the Army Corps of Engineers.
  • By David Conway |
  • June 30, 2014
County endorses short-term Lido renourishment

At a workshop today, the Sarasota County Commission encouraged city staff to maximize the potential of a Lido Beach renourishment project scheduled for later this year.

  • Siesta Key
  • News
  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • October 27, 2022
Longboat Key church welcomes back members

The guest speakers were a mother and daughter from the Beauty Bridge Foundation of Sarasota.

  • Longboat Key
  • Neighbors
Spotlight Theatre Productions’ Atlanta-bound troupe. Courtesy photo.
  • By Heidi Kurpiela |
  • December 21, 2011
Scene & Heard

Sarasota students head to Atlanta theater fest; Two local artists land prestigious residency; Toby Perlman shares her secret to unwinding

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • April 11, 2019
Sarasota Athlete of the Week: Olivia Martin

The Sailors junior talks Miss Sarasota All-Stars and her love of "The Cheetah Girls 2."

  • Sarasota
  • Sports
The music is coming specifically from boats that anchor around the popular Jewfish Key sidebar in Sarasota Bay near Longboat Pass on the weekends and even on weekdays.
  • By Kurt Schultheis |
  • December 26, 2015
Top Story — June: Town seeks to silence boaters

The commission will pursue noise meters after residents sound off about weekend noise from boaters.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
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