Mote urges boaters to report whale shark sightings
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Mote Marine Laboratory received a report of five
10:22 am | The 1974 Versailles building was toppled to make room for EPOCH, a boutique condominium community of 22 residences to be located between South Palm and Gulfstream Avenues in Downtown....
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10:11 am | Thomas T. Walsh, after a lifetime building a family-owned hotel and resort empire that includes numerous Longboat and Lido resorts, passed at age 88....
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10:05 am | The Gulf of Mexico has been churning, creating some of the biggest waves seen at Lido Beach in the past six years, ranging from 4 to 6 feet high. That wave action pounded...
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10:02 am | In a clinical world discovering a new mania for guidelines, it’s important to ask about the “standard of care.” ...
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09:50 am | “This will accentuate the sense of arrival to the resort and golf course, but also for the owners of the numerous residences behind the gates.”...
October 16, 2018 / 1 comment / Read More »
09:47 am | Beatrice Friedman, one of Longboat Key’s and Sarasota’s most generous philanthropists and patron of the arts, died Thursday in Sarasota at the age of 98....
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09:38 am | Auther tracks both the historical sightings of ghosts in Manatee County and the region at large as well as seeking out the souls as she says that have not crossed over to the...
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09:33 am | During last week’s Sarasota City Commission meeting, more than a dozen residents asked the city to support a ban on fertilizers to help reduce future K. Brevis blooms, also known as red tide....
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09:31 am | City of Sarasota Manager Tom Barwin said he was “excited” that a draft of the new form-based code is complete and available online for review by the community. Barwin says Form-Based Code is...
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09:29 am | The plan to develop the Lido Beach Pavilion and Pool into a waterfront restaurant and tiki bar packed the City of Sarasota Commission chambers last month when the Planning and Zoning Board voted...
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01:57 pm | “To not mention in recent talks and press releases that global warming and climate change are part of the puzzle is simply despicable.”...
October 15, 2018 / 1 comment / Read More »
01:41 pm | There is interest in adding practice courts and training courts for students as well as a center court....
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01:25 pm | A fire on the top floor of the mid-rise building at the former Colony Beach & Tennis Resort on Saturday, Sept. 22, will not be further investigated and has been ruled “suspicious” by...
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07:24 am | Longboat can either learn to live with the coyotes and educate residents, or trap, tranquilize and then euthanize the animals....
September 27, 2018 / 3 comments / Read More »
07:09 am | Economics and efficiency are in many ways driving the quest by the Town of Longboat Key to effectively adjust its boundaries to eliminate Manatee County....
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06:48 am | After more than five years in the making, the master plan to develop 53 acres of City-owned land along the Bayfront has been approved by the Sarasota City Commission....
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06:38 am | Last week, the Sarasota City Commission unanimously voted to allow Sarasota City Manager Tom Barwin to execute a contract for almost $4 million in sand slated for the highly eroded Lido Beach. Two...
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08:38 am | Red tide conditions continue to persist in Southwest Florida. The Town recognizes Longboat Key is experiencing red tide conditions and is monitoring conditions daily. Users are advised to use due care to minimize...
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09:47 am | “This is a perfect storm of incompatibility. Lido Pavilion is being robbed.”...
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09:39 am | City offers Tennis Supervisor post to Tumeka Harris. Plans to upgrade facility in works....
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09:34 am | ‘We ought to evaluate with a full season of traffic, before proceeding.’ ...
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08:49 am | A giant experiment is now getting tried on the public, driven by political passion and fabulous profits – three Exchange traded funds already exist for stocks of marijuana companies....
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Major Headlines
The fall of Sarasota’s Versailles makes way for modern EPOCH »
10:22 am | The 1974 Versailles building was toppled to make room for EPOCH, a boutique condominium community of 22 residences to be located between South Palm and Gulfstream Avenues in...
Family man, founder of Ocean Properties, Tom Walsh passes at 88 »
10:11 am | Thomas T. Walsh, after a lifetime building a family-owned hotel and resort empire that includes numerous Longboat and Lido resorts, passed at age 88....
Waves take a toll on Lido Beach »
10:05 am | The Gulf of Mexico has been churning, creating some of the biggest waves seen at Lido Beach in the past six years, ranging from 4 to 6 feet...
Key Club adding “Grand Entrance” to South Longboat Islandside Resort »
09:50 am | “This will accentuate the sense of arrival to the resort and golf course, but also for the owners of the numerous residences behind the gates.”...
Longboat, Sarasota say “goodbye” to Bea Friedman »
09:47 am | Beatrice Friedman, one of Longboat Key’s and Sarasota’s most generous philanthropists and patron of the arts, died Thursday in Sarasota at the age of 98....
Author chronicles haunted Manatee sites in new book »
09:38 am | Auther tracks both the historical sightings of ghosts in Manatee County and the region at large as well as seeking out the souls as she says that have...
Residents seek fertilizer ban in face of red tide »
09:33 am | During last week’s Sarasota City Commission meeting, more than a dozen residents asked the city to support a ban on fertilizers to help reduce future K. Brevis blooms,...
City introduces Form-Based Code to combat urban sprawl »
09:31 am | City of Sarasota Manager Tom Barwin said he was “excited” that a draft of the new form-based code is complete and available online for review by the community....
City to hold Lido Pavilion plan vote on a future Saturday to be determined »
09:29 am | The plan to develop the Lido Beach Pavilion and Pool into a waterfront restaurant and tiki bar packed the City of Sarasota Commission chambers last month when the...
Resident dumps fish in roadway to protest red tide policy, politics »
01:57 pm | “To not mention in recent talks and press releases that global warming and climate change are part of the puzzle is simply despicable.”...
Future could include expansion of Payne Park Tennis in City »
01:41 pm | There is interest in adding practice courts and training courts for students as well as a center court....
Colony fire ruled “Suspicious,” investigation closed »
01:25 pm | A fire on the top floor of the mid-rise building at the former Colony Beach & Tennis Resort on Saturday, Sept. 22, will not be further investigated and...
Residents roiled over island coyotes »
07:24 am | Longboat can either learn to live with the coyotes and educate residents, or trap, tranquilize and then euthanize the animals....
Longboat to debate divorcing Manatee County »
07:09 am | Economics and efficiency are in many ways driving the quest by the Town of Longboat Key to effectively adjust its boundaries to eliminate Manatee County....
Bayfront redevelopment wins support »
06:48 am | After more than five years in the making, the master plan to develop 53 acres of City-owned land along the Bayfront has been approved by the Sarasota City...
Emergency sand due to hit Lido mid-November »
06:38 am | Last week, the Sarasota City Commission unanimously voted to allow Sarasota City Manager Tom Barwin to execute a contract for almost $4 million in sand slated for the...
Longboat Red Tide update »
08:38 am | Red tide conditions continue to persist in Southwest Florida. The Town recognizes Longboat Key is experiencing red tide conditions and is monitoring conditions daily. Users are advised to...
City Planning Board votes against Lido Pavilion Plan »
09:47 am | “This is a perfect storm of incompatibility. Lido Pavilion is being robbed.”...
City takes control of Payne Park Tennis, hires Harris as new Supervisor »
09:39 am | City offers Tennis Supervisor post to Tumeka Harris. Plans to upgrade facility in works....
Longboat to fight FDOT data for Downtown roundabout »
09:34 am | ‘We ought to evaluate with a full season of traffic, before proceeding.’ ...
Marketing medical marijuana »
08:49 am | A giant experiment is now getting tried on the public, driven by political passion and fabulous profits – three Exchange traded funds already exist for stocks of marijuana...
Longboat Chief stresses storm safety »
08:42 am | All residents of Longboat Key reside in a Level A Evacuation Zone. This means that Longboat Key is in a low-lying area....
Longboat may hire consultant over feared Sarasota roundabout »
09:50 am | The prospect of any road design that could impede exiting the island is troubling....
Scent of red tide diminishes on island »
09:47 am | Town staff has cleared the entire Gulf side as well as the Bay side canals on an as-needed basis....
Three stranded Pygmy whales die »
09:43 am | “She repeatedly struggled to swim on her own, showed no interest in food, and was being treated for pneumonia,
parasites known as nasotrema, and gastric issues.”...
Life in the wake of red tide »
08:36 am | The noxious odor of red tide that infused the Sarasota region with its vomitous cloak of death has temporarily lifted....
Controversial Lido Pool & Pavilion plan heads back to City »
08:29 am | City Staff is recommending approval while more than 3,200 residents are petitioning for denial of the plan....
North Longboat beach about to get bigger »
08:23 am | Sand trucks will start arriving on Wednesday and the sand will be spread on the beach from North Shore Road north....
Residents, Mote react as red tide ravages tourism and marine life »
07:55 am | “The excess land-based nurtients flowing into Florida estuaries and coastal waters in stormwater runoff, rivers and creeks exacerbate the growth of harmful algae blooms.”...
City lends final approval to Lido sand project; emergency beach building to start in Fall »
07:50 am | The long-term project to stabilize the Lido Key shoreline is predicated on dredging a portion of the accumulated sand in Big Sarasota Pass and depositing it on about...
Coyotes continue to prowl Longboat »
09:11 am | The behavior of the coyote is critical to how the town responds. Police Chief Pete Cumming says that the town has no intent to either capture or euthanize...
Opinion
Now — you must use drugs »
10:02 am | In a clinical world discovering a new mania for guidelines, it’s important to ask about the “standard...
October 16, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Destroying Brett Kavanaugh »
09:59 am | ‘This is the kind of thing Democrats do when they think Roe v. Wade is at stake.’...
October 16, 2018 / No comment / Read More »To Dig or Not to Dig – That is my question »
09:55 am | Does a small affluent seasonal community, of mostly retirees, require two super high capacity fiber optic networks?...
October 16, 2018 / 2 comments / Read More »Will Florida take a left turn? »
09:27 am | A Gillum victory would reshape the debate undermining the claim that a progressive candidate can’t develop broad...
October 16, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Five years on (now eight) »
09:26 am | Something about learning from the past, eh?...
September 16, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Lido Pavilion Plan and the Sarasota Commission reek worse than red tide »
09:22 am | We love Sarasota a lot more than we love politicians. The three will be known as the...
September 11, 2018 / 5 comments / Read More »The ‘Era of Trump’ Remakes the GOP »
09:11 am | His involvement in primaries represents a departure from the 2016 campaign, when Mr. Trump often acted more...
September 11, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Notable & quotable: McCain »
08:18 am | “I was in solitary confinement when my captives offered to release me I knew why. If...
September 11, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Why Republicans Can’t Get Enough Trump »
12:23 pm | Mr. Trump has managed to increase the intensity of support he enjoys....
September 9, 2018 / 5 comments / Read More »America’s NATO allies are stepping up »
07:23 am | But for all NATO has achieved, we cannot be complacent. Facing the most complex and dangerous security...
September 2, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Think Positively »
07:14 am | I must admit that my own long-held opinion that things generally are not done so well around...
August 27, 2018 / No comment / Read More »A message to friends… »
06:08 am | There is, however, a new wave crashing on our island shore, one with which I, at least,...
August 27, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Don’t binge on bridge-building »
12:51 pm | Predictable spending on infrastructure would vastly improve its quality....
July 5, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Andrew Coumo’s wind farm won’t fly without fracking »
01:23 pm | “The irony here is colossal. Mr. Cuomo, who banned hydraulic fracturing despite the economic boon it...
July 4, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Trump’s Mexico problem »
01:20 pm | ‘Donald Trump has cultivated a contentious relationship with the government of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nie.’...
July 4, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Standing up to ‘The Donald’ »
01:18 pm | Europe is rich and capable. Perhaps it is time to acknowledge that America can be an...
July 4, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Turks and Caicos Islands »
01:14 pm | PETER O’CONNOR Staff Columnist oconnor@lbknews.com Recent front page news brings these islands to the attention of...
July 4, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Why is Russian gas in Boston Harbor? »
02:01 pm | Blocking natural-gas pipelines needlessly inflates consumers’ energy bills and destabilizes the electrical grid....
June 18, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Will Longboat step-up turtle light enforcement? »
11:08 pm | In 2016 the town of Longboat Key finally adopted a series of measures to protect endangered sea...
April 19, 2018 / 2 comments / Read More »VFW is committed to ending hunger and sequestration »
11:04 pm | I’ve written on the subject of sequestration in these pages. The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the...
April 19, 2018 / No comment / Read More »The Democrats abandon Catholics »
10:42 pm | “If you value religious education or life’s sanctity, you’re not welcome in the party.”...
April 19, 2018 / 1 comment / Read More »Can Andy Adams be shamed into selling his Colony units or will the courts decide? »
01:29 pm | From the mid-rise Klauber ran the operation like a benevolent dictator with his Sperry Topsiders, snug white...
April 1, 2018 / 3 comments / Read More »Government spending discourages work »
01:23 pm | European countries trail the U.S. in working hard and controlling taxes, and their economies....
April 1, 2018 / 1 comment / Read More »
New York Times Headlines
- Playing Up Support Among Hispanic Voters, Trump Takes Aim at Immigration Laws
- Remains of Dozens of Infants and Fetuses Found at Second Detroit Funeral Home
- Charge of Treason Escalates Tensions in Close Arizona Senate Race
- Trump, Breaking With U.S. Intelligence, Appears to Accept Saudi Explanation of Journalist’s Death
- Mega Millions and Powerball Are Up to $1.5 Billion. Here’s What to Do if You Win Both.
- Harvard’s Admissions Process, Once Secret, Is Unveiled in Affirmative Action Trial
- In 2020, Democrats Expect a Female Front-Runner. Or Three.
- Justice Dept. Accuses Russians of Interfering in Midterm Elections
- Khashoggi, Female Candidates, Mega Millions: Your Friday Evening Briefing
- Bill Walker, Governor of Alaska, Suspends Campaign Amid Sinking Polls
- Man Charged With Threatening to Murder 2 Senators Who Supported Kavanaugh
- U.S. to Tell Russia It Is Leaving Landmark I.N.F. Treaty
- The Issues That Russian Operatives Used to Divide Americans, in Their Own Words
- White House Memo: Trump and Women: Another Writer Looks for Answers
- How Is Chubbs the Alligator These Days? Glad You Asked
- Justice Dept. Rank-and-File Tell of Discontent Over Sessions’s Approach
- Evelyn Anthony, Writer of Spy Thrillers, Dies at 92
