| News |
Cheap water: expensive proposition?
Editor’s note: This is the third of a series on reclaimed water for the town of Longboat Key. Next week’s segment deals with desalinization.
If (more...) |
Condo, owner clash over sex allegations
Charges of alleged sexual battery 27 years ago in Brevard County on the east coast of Florida have spilled over into the elegant Islands West (more...) |
LBK police sergeants eliminated
When Longboat Key officers first pursued union membership in March, the town argued against a request to include sergeants in a bargaining unit with (more...) |
S.T.A.R.T., Mote watch for red tide
Mote Marine Laboratory and Longboat Key’s own Solutions To Avoid Red Tide (S.T.A.R.T.) are keeping watch over the water to see if the red tide (more...) |
Frenzied media attacks school of sharks
Bathers on Beer Can Island got a taste of fear reminiscent of a scene from a “Jaws” film.
A helicopter bearing TV news crews landed Aug. 15 and its (more...) |
Young at Heart
Longbeach Village resident Ralph Thayer celebrated his 103rd birthday on Wednesday, Aug. 15. Thayer has vacationed on the Key since the 1960s, after (more...) |
Town briefs
Police seeking Publix thief
Police are hunting for a trio of thieves that stole a wallet from a purse at Publix Aug. 14 and used a credit card from (more...) |
Bids in for beach erosion tubes
The bids are in for Longboat Key’s project to replace two erosion control tubes and the cost ranges from a low bid of $113,000 to $284,718.
The (more...) |
Town gets into a swim suit
Harvey Taylor filed a lawsuit against the town of Longboat Key for requiring that he install two safety devices for his new pool, whereas he believes (more...) |
Beating the heat with a bash
More than 100 people turned out Sunday, Aug. 19, for the annual Beach Ball Bash & BBQ, hosted by the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce and sponsored (more...) |
| Our Town |
Our Town
Retired, but busy
Former Longboat Key Town Clerk Pat Arends may say she’s retired, but she’s been keeping plenty busy.
Arends presided at the (more...) |
| Features |
Ecuador
Editor’s Note: Dawn di Lorenzo recently returned to Longboat Key from her dream trip to the Galápagos Islands and Ecuador. (Di Lorenzo writes The (more...) |
Grille’s new name reflects focused but varied offerings
Michael’s Mediterranean Grille, formerly Michael’s Seafood Grille, is located on the second floor towards the back of the Sarasota Quay. The name was (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 |
$1,125,000 sale sets Lands End record
When Carol J. and H. David Friedberg sold their three-bedroom and three-bath, Unit 9 residence at 701 Lands End Drive for $1.125 million, it was a (more...) |
| Business |
Tommy Bahama Tropical Café & Emporium
300 John Ringling Boulevard
St. Armands Circle
Owners: Tommy Bahama’s is privately owned by an investment firm and several owners. John Brinkley is (more...) |
Marketplace
DreamWeaver named Top 100 retailer
DreamWeaver of St. Armands Circle, was named one of the Top 100 Retailers of American Craft, at an awards dinner (more...) |
| Sports |
More golf questions answered
The following questions were submitted to me in the last few weeks, and I will try to answer them as best as I can:
If a ball is buried in a sand (more...) |
| Arts & Entertainment |
Actors’ union provides benefits for theater, actor
Before the curtain rises in the theater, audience members flip through the playbill to see if they recognize any names or to read the biographies of (more...) |
Union a personal decision
For Asolo company member David S. Howard, who has been with Actors’ Equity since 1961, joining the union did not concern him too much, because he was (more...) |
Artefacts
LBK talent exposed at festival
The Players Theatre adds a festival of new plays to its list of new repertoire. “The Play’s the Thing” will feature (more...) |
‘Chaplin’ reclaims lost innocence as The Tramp
The life of Charlie Chaplin before he hit it big isn’t that familiar to his adoring public. Bits strewn together by Chaplin’s friends or through his (more...) |
Cool concerts for the dog days
In the dog days of August and September when the big concert halls are dark, isn’t it nice to know that there are still places you can go to kick (more...) |
| Columns |
EDITORIAL: Redistricting: Boundaries to shift south
While much of the off-election-year political coverage in this part of Florida has been focusing on the big drama — will Longboat Key/Sarasota (more...) |
U.N. do-gooders are hypocrites of tallest order
The United Nations will open its “World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance” (let’s call it WCAR) on (more...) |
Why did the chicken cross the road?
During the summer doldrums, when the best place to pass the hot, muggy days is a cool, well-stocked library, I found myself re-reading favorite old (more...) |
What is a dog worth when wrongfully killed?
“The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have — the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous — is his (more...) |
Our faith makes life’s journey easier
The picture belonged in a contest. It was striking, a real gem. In addition to being beautiful, it was provocative and downright captivating, as (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 the A&E; calendar, please send it to A&E; Calendar via fax: 383-7193; or by mail: 5570 Gulf of Mexico (more...) |
