| News |
Reclaimed sign-ups start soon
When asked to update the commission on the reclaimed water project at the Oct. 7 meeting, Town Manager Bruce St. Denis said he plans to start signing (more...) |
Inn to convert to condos
Tom Hires, owner of the shuttered Buccaneer Inn restaurant and marina on Dream Island Road, has entered a partnership with a group from Chicago to (more...) |
Board accused of violating law
The latest arguments in a lawsuit against the Zoning Board of Adjustment allege board members violated the Florida Sunshine Law and failed “to adhere (more...) |
Bridge concrete cracks
Plans are in place to deal with hairline cracks that formed in the concrete of the new Ringling Causeway Bridge recently.
Project Manager Patrick (more...) |
Crime doesn’t pay, but painting does
Police reported that a man who is in jail for trying to rob a bank in Sarasota received $2,000 for a paint job on Longboat Key he never (more...) |
Bridge Tender
Coming Attractions (Oct. 13 to Oct. 19)
• The columns will be completed with the installation of the eighth pier cap.
• There will be 356 segments (more...) |
Village Association plans year’s events
Although it was the first meeting of the season, Longbeach Village Association President Dutch Arends said board members had been busy over the (more...) |
Board plans commercial future
The future look of Longboat Key is at stake as the Planning and Zoning Board prepares to finalize a proposal for new commercial property options Oct. (more...) |
| Our Town |
Our Town
Stone Crab season opens
For stone crab claw lovers, the season can’t come too soon.
Stone crab season begins Tuesday, Oct. 15 and runs through May (more...) |
| Features |
Morel features Oktoberfest menu
The temperature and humidity may still be hovering in the high 80s, but regardless, it is October and time for Octoberfests.
There’s no better way (more...) |
Beach morning glory shines on Key
Early mornings on the beach reward early birds on many levels. The most surprising can be the long-reaching tendrils of the beach morning glory (more...) |
| Cops Corner |
Cops' Corner
The following reports are actual reports compiled by the Longboat Key Police Department. They are all answered and dealt with by members of the (more...) |
| Real Estate |
September slump hits Key
While summer real estate sales on Longboat Key and neighboring offshore Keys started off fairly strong for the normally slow, late summer off-season, (more...) |
Real estate reports
Michael Saunders & Company —
Jim Warburton has joined the Longboat Key South office. He specializes in the marketing and selling of unique (more...) |
| Business |
Panaché Beauty Salon & Spa
22 Avenue of the Flowers, Longboat Key
Owners: It is owned by Laktayaphorn Phromkaeo and Steven David Anderson.
Year Established: The salon has (more...) |
| Sports |
Playing with three can be fun and good for your game
INSIGHTS: In case you left for the summer, welcome back! While not everyone has returned, players are beginning to trickle back for the season. (more...) |
Arthur Newfield
How many years have you played tennis?
“I started playing tennis when I was 35 and now I’m 79 — so 44 years,” says Newfield.
What is your best (more...) |
| Black Tie |
Hallelujah!
To celebrate the completion of construction and the opening of the new Bishop Nevins Academy, the Dedication Ball was held Saturday, Oct. 5 in St. (more...) |
Black Tie & Tales
ChipenDale ... Chris Voelker, co-chair of the O2 - The Oxygen Ball, was talking about how she had found two baby squirrels that had fallen out of (more...) |
Black Tie Affair
When: 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 26
Where: Mote Aquarium Courtyard
The event
The rhythms of the African drums echo from the Blue Bayou as (more...) |
| Arts & Entertainment |
The way of the watercolor
Watercolor is a beautiful, if sometimes treacherous, medium. Nothing better captures the liquid quality of light on the shifting surfaces of the (more...) |
Artefacts
A home of its own
Ever since September of last year, the Sarasota County Arts Council has been operating rent free in a space in Bob Roskamp’s (more...) |
Spinella infuses slapstick into guild show
As we said last week, Sarasota is a multi-talented community with an amazing array of performers — past, present and future. The greatest shows on (more...) |
On the horizon
‘Sarasota Pops at Sunset’
A picnic under the trees, a glorious sunset and Leif Bjaland leading the Florida West Coast Symphony in concert. What more (more...) |
Eubie or not Eubie …
Eubie Blake had a knack for the piano. In his teens, he made a good living playing in dives and houses of ill fame. He grew up to be one of the (more...) |
‘Red Dragon’ serves up a feast of fear
Lock your windows and bolt the doors. Hannibal Lecter’s back in town. And this time, he plays mentor to an even scarier guy than in “Silence of the (more...) |
| Columns |
EDITORIAL: This is flexibility?
Two weeks ago, when this page characterized the summer-long work of the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board Commercial Zoning Committee as (more...) |
EXCERPTS FROM THE NEW CODE
Windows
a. A minimum 65% of first-floor commercial walls adjacent to pedestrian walkways shall be dedicated to windows and doors. Mirrored or (more...) |
Last one out, blow out the candle!
Today’s college freshmen do not remember the Cold War. They were children (preteens) when the Soviet Union broke up. They do not remember the Cuban (more...) |
Is it illegal to choke a deer?
David Gutowski killed a six-point buck with his bare hands and a brown leather belt. Therein he’s a tale and here it is.
Playing hooky from his (more...) |
You, not the media, should set standards
During the past 30 years of being a therapist, the number-one complaint that women have (when they are not complaining about their boyfriends or (more...) |
Foods provide natural defense against disease
More and more we learn from the media that certain foods, in addition to being nutritious, may be potent disease fighters, help boost immunity and (more...) |
Labyrinth encourages lessons in traveler
What appeared at first to be rather mundane, quickly evolved into a fascinating and even memorable experience.
The moments to which I refer happened (more...) |
LETTER: Germans aren’t ingrates
I take exception to the following statement printed in The Longboat Observer Sept. 26, page 6A:
“Our German ‘friends’
Here’s how the United States (more...) |
LETTER: Bizarre fines for paradise
That $13,000 grass-cutting fine reminded me of good old Vermont where the state environmental board made it a practice to bankrupt going concerns (more...) |
LETTER: Vittles vs. victuals
Your dining critic writes the nonstandard or dialectic word “vittles” instead of the proper word “victuals” in her column on page 6B of the Sept. 19 (more...) |
LETTER: Draft would cure woes
If the United States of America had a mandatory draft like Germany has, even in peace time, what little support the American right wing “Republican (more...) |
LETTER: Don’t be pigheaded
You have missed the mark on your evaluation of Amendment No. 10.
This amendment should get a “yes” vote so that we will not have factory pig farms (more...) |
| Calendar |
Community Calendar
If your organization would like to have meetings or events publicized, mail or fax the information at least one week in advance to The Longboat (more...) |
The Arts Calendar
To include your arts and entertainment events in our A&E; calendar, please send it to A&E; Calendar via fax: 383-7193; or by mail: 5570 Gulf of Mexico (more...) |
| Obituaries |
Uwe Johannes Jurgensen
Uwe Johannes Jurgensen, 73, of Longboat Key, died Sept. 24. He was born Feb. 20, 1929, in Husum, Germany, and came here seven years ago from New (more...) |
Alan M. Finder Sr.
Alan M. Finder Sr., 78, of Longboat Key, died Oct. 3. He was born May 22, 1924, in Chicago, and moved here in 1974 from there.
He was a paper (more...) |
John G. Esposito
John G. Esposito, 70, of Longboat Key, died Oct. 5. He was born Oct. 22, 1931, in Naples, Italy, and came here in 1995 from New York.
He retired as (more...) |
Martin William Gillman
Martin William Gillman, 74, of Sarasota, died Sept. 26. He was born April 9, 1928, in Baltimore and came to Sarasota in 1997 from there.
He was an (more...) |
Frank B. Myer Jr.
Frank B. Myer Jr., 82, of Sarasota, died Sept. 18. He was born Oct. 18, 1919, in Terre Haute, Ind., and came to Sarasota in 1951 from Danville, Ill. (more...) |
