LETTER: Ranch's 'true hero' assists lost teenager
Maria Juana, who was with us 30 years ago, is here for … Some wonderful man, known to us only as Joe, picked Paolo upabout an hour earlier and drove … water while he waited for us. Joe is a true hero. Not …
Opinion
12 years ago
Mustangs stun Seminoles in home-opener
Mustangs appeared to forget all about the ailments that had plagued … think we just totally forgot about (being sick) once we started,” … think just the momentum kept us all going and we didn’t …
Sports
12 years ago
Signs of the silly season
There’s a saying about airline/airport stories … Everybody’s got one. Most of us have more than one — airline … flight cancellations. Talk about terrorism! If you flew over …
Opinion
12 years ago
10 to Contend: Dr. Bob McCann
political arena. He joined the U.S. Navy just out of high school … him make informed decisions about how his vote would affect …
News
12 years ago
10 to Contend: Bob Morris
on the property totaling about $96 million. Real-estate … letting the vision come to us,” he said, meaning that … “Four local people who care about this community are in control …
News
12 years ago
Letters to the editor
got the car fixed and gave us money to get back home.” … War I, and he would tell us grandkids storiesabout the Salvation Army helping …
Opinion
12 years ago
Ranch alliance revved up for first Car-BQ
“There’s opportunity for us to grow it and create more … least 1,000 lunches and raise about $15,000, which will be reinvested … in the group, which is at about 400 members, Larson said …
News
12 years ago
Letters to the Editor
letters of local interest and about local issues. The Observer … Allowing baseball to tell us when and how we can utilize …
Opinion
12 years ago
The price of gold remains cheap
look at a series of facts about gold: 1. Declining purchasing … the 1940s, every bit of the U.S. money supply (M3) could … Each ounce of gold in the U.S. money supply represented …
Neighbors
12 years ago
Are oil rigs in Longboat's future?
Mexico. Environmentalists and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, a long-time … might actually be serious about allowing oil drilling within … island’s populace, are worried about taking formal action on the …
News
12 years ago
School tax primer for everyone
They are our future! Yea us! And that makes a fact-based …
Opinion
12 years ago
Our View
could speak in great detail about the events of that day. None … Japanese Zero,” Wolverton told us this week. “I could see … says. “The thing I remember about that day,” Wolverton says …
Opinion
12 years ago
VFW picks poppies to celebrate veterans
“It’s a great way for us to raise money through the … May 2007, it has collected about $13,000. Of that moneyabout $5,000 has gone to aid for … opportunity to educate the public about the history of the poppy …
News
12 years ago
Concede Nothing
challenges. The club currently has about 100 members, with plans to … “It’s something we think about and work hard on every day.” …
News
12 years ago
Parking future in question
until a decision is made about the parking unit’s future … our expenditures, helping us close the (budget) gap,” … garage was expected to be about $225,000 per year, but if …
News
12 years ago
A new generation of givers
hasn’t changed his mind about needles, but he has helped … life?” “It got stuck with us, so anything we do, we’ll … would communicate something about giving blood … that it’s …
News
12 years ago
MY VIEW: Global-warming e-mails matter
for real. Because those of us who are laymen and rely on … have seen precious little about it in your local daily newspa …
Opinion
12 years ago
Welcome Back: Summer Recap
roundabouts to a roundabout at U.S. 41 and 10th Street. Vice … “test” roundabout at U.S. 41 and 10th Street during … things for three years, how about designing and building one …
News
12 years ago
Our View
God has blessed us abundantly on Longboat Key … loved. Particularly remarkable about Patterson and Fuller: Neither …
Opinion
12 years ago
PLAYOFF PREPARATION
started to click, which helped us to make it to where we are … learned then have served us well.” From that point … be a formidable test for us, but hopefully, we’ll rise …
Sports
12 years ago