| News |
Changes discussed for LBK exits
Proposals to hem in Longboat Key’s escape routes with roundabouts and a 20 mph speed limit have some island residents concerned.
One of the (more...) |
Chapel minister Gill injured in traffic accident
Longboat Island Chapel senior minister, the Rev. Kenneth Gill, remains in stable but critical condition at Bayfront Medical Center in St.Petersburg, (more...) |
Water the options for pressure problems?
The water pressure problems that occurred on Longboat Key during the week of Easter cannot be solved by buying bigger pipes or stronger pumps, (more...) |
Shooting felony dropped to misdemeanor
The Manatee County State Attorney’s office decided the facts in the shooting case on Marbury Lane did not support the felony charges filed by (more...) |
New windows shatter at Aquarius
After two new windows shattered at Aquarius Club, the condo’s residents learned that the contractor hired to install windows in 16 units there did (more...) |
Town briefs
$160,000 turned in to police
Longboat Key resident Donna Soper found two checks while she was working at Publix on April 4. She gave the checks, (more...) |
Town manager asked to create ‘Binnacle Woods’
The president of the Spanish Main Yacht Club Inc., William J. Sherry, is asking the town to do what he says it should have done a long time ago — (more...) |
Flight fight continues
The civic organization Save Our Shore! Inc. filed a reply to the Federal Aviation Administration’s legal briefs, accusing the agency of making (more...) |
Longbeach Village Association elects new president
Dutch Arends was unanimously elected president of the Longbeach Village Association’s annual meeting held April 3 at the Longboat Key Center for the (more...) |
Spanish Main celebrates en Français
“April in Paris” was the theme at the Spanish Main Yacht Club April 2 when about 200 members and guests gathered for a covered dish supper. Tables (more...) |
| Our Town |
Our Town
Pedaling preparations
Longboat Key Police Officer Pati Beardsley is spending her off-duty time on her bike getting ready for the 300-plus mile (more...) |
| Features |
Firemen douse policemen’s fire
The Longboat Key Fire Rescue softball team trounced the Longboat Key police by a score of 21 to 7, winning for the second time the coveted Hal (more...) |
Lynch lassies have a lively Irish establishment
St. Patrick’s Day at Lynches Landing Bar & Grill may be just a hazy memory, but the spirit of fun and friendship is still to be found there.
Founded (more...) |
Spring brings new life in the sea, too
Spring at sea is much the same as spring on land, and it comes in the same season. This is when the ever-lengthening days pour on more sunshine that (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 |
Conrad Beach home sells for $850,000
Jack D. Keller of Fort Myers sold his Key West-style, three-bedroom and three-bath home at 343 Firehouse Lane to Suzanne and Wayne E. Kimmel of (more...) |
| Business |
Koengeter Planning Services
25 Avenue of the Flowers, Longboat Key
Year Established: 1985
Type of store: Certified financial planner services.
Most expensive item: (more...) |
| Sports |
Player of the week
How many years have you played golf?
“Longer than I want to remember!” says Young. “I started playing golf in 1945.”
What is your best (more...) |
A ball boy rises to national champion
Joe Bachmann was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. His family lived next door to some folks who had their own tennis court. Bachmann was not (more...) |
| Black Tie |
Renezvous at the Gardens
There was no need to dress in rain slickers or galoshes at the 21st annual Orchid Ball held Saturday, April 6. Instead, guests arrived in gorgeous (more...) |
Gala Black-tie Dinner & Dance
Place: The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota
Date: Friday, April 5
Chairs: Myrna Band and Elle McComb
Benefiting: Florida Winefest & Auction Children’s (more...) |
19th Annual Pique-nique sur la Baie, Parisian Style
Place: Gardens of the College Hall, New College
Date: Wednesday, April 3
Chair: Barbara Dumbaugh
Benefiting: New College Library Association (more...) |
White Gloves & Diamonds at the Ritz
Place: The Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota
Date: Friday, April 5
Chairs: Alyce Kalin, Heidi Godman and Jane N. Robinson
Benefiting: Sarasota-Manatee Arch (more...) |
The Wellness Community Victors Circle Members Reception
Hosted by: Northern Trust Bank at Northern Trust
Date: Tuesday, April (more...) |
“There’s No Place Like Home,” Winemaker/Design Luncheon
Place: Michael’s On East
Date: Friday, April 5
Chairs: Mary Ann Robinson and Margaret Wise, and co-chaired by Sara Bagley
Benefiting: Florida (more...) |
| Arts & Entertainment |
Let's pretend ...
Imagine a crowd at the pearly gates. St. Peter is only too happy to let them through. But everybody’s giving him an argument.
Jack Frost says he’s (more...) |
Artefacts
Take me out to the baseball plays
In a week of edgy new art, last Friday marked an understated premier at Art Center Sarasota. Theater-lovers sat (more...) |
On the horizon
Opera students make a spectacle of themselves
The Sarasota Youth Opera is the Sarasota Opera’s year-round educational outreach designed to introduce (more...) |
Fear, thy name is ‘Frailty’
What’s the scariest film you’ve ever seen ... “Psycho,” “The Omen,” “The Exorcist”? Next to “Frailty,” they’re all fairytales. It’s the most (more...) |
| Columns |
Our View
Eyewitness account:
Around 5 p.m. Thursday, April 4, traffic on the John Ringling Causeway came to an aggravating halt. The bridge went up for a (more...) |
True reclaimed water cost may be too high
Prior to the March 19 election, the Longboat Key voters received specious reassurances that recycled waste water is OK for use on golf courses and (more...) |
Roots of war
I’ve been quiet since Israel erupted in fighting spurred by disputes over the Temple Mount.
Until now, I haven’t even bothered to say, “See, I told (more...) |
Should employees decide how to use dues?
Labor relations law, the contest between management and unions, is extremely political. More narrowly defined, it is Republicans (management) against (more...) |
Loving our bodies — ecto, endo or meso
It wasn’t too many years ago that I was working in Detroit with a young woman who was, well, square. Wonderful to work with, as bright as she could (more...) |
You can have it all if you play by the rules
This week’s column was inspired by the following “Dear Sylvia” letter from Phyllis:
I have been on more diets than I care to recall, including (more...) |
Homicide is not suicide
This is not the rainy season in Israel. But it is raining. It is raining body parts as the killer bombers attempt to destroy Jews and Jewish life in (more...) |
LETTER: Critic gets no Oscar
Though it is not my nature to castigate, critique, nor criticize another’s endeavors, I do feel compelled to point out that Pam Nadon`s “Night at the (more...) |
LETTER: Chairs litter beach
As turtle season draws near I feel it necessary to draw attention to the impediments to their progress near the public access on Gulfside Road at the (more...) |
LETTER: Monitor ‘flight plan’
One of the things they teach fledgling pilots in flight school is “Don’t be too proud to execute a 180-degree turn and return to the airport if (more...) |
LETTER: Warbling water words
The quotes from the town manager in the March 28 issue of The Longboat Observer, concerning a new $2.8 million loan by the town to pay for design (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 |
Dr. Paul S. Cline
Dr. Paul S. Cline, of Longboat Key and Sarasota, died April 3. He moved to Longboat Key in 1980 at the age of 69.
Cline was a doctor at the Kantor (more...) |
Peter C. Hird
Peter C. Hird, 60, of Longboat Key, died April 5. He was born March 16, 1942, in Blackstone, Nova Scotia, and came to Longboat Key from Newburyport, (more...) |
Sidney M. Kramer
Sidney M. Kramer, 76, of Longboat Key, died March 30. He was born April 19, 1925, in Greenfield, Mass.
Kramer joined his father and brother at I (more...) |
John Sweeney
John Sweeney, 79, of Longboat Key, died March 31. He was born Nov. 29, 1922, in Highland Park, Mich., and came here 16 years ago from Farmington (more...) |
Nan Turin
Nan Turin of Sarasota died Feb. 28. She was born in New York and came to Sarasota in 1973.
She was a court stenographer and an executive assistant. (more...) |
Harry A. Weaver Jr.
Harry A. Weaver Jr., 90, of Longboat Key and Indianapolis, died March 21. He was born Dec. 8, 1911.
Weaver was president and owner of Vogel (more...) |
