Ocean Properties, Key Club and Town putt together for new Cultural Arts Center
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Ocean Properties and the Longboat Key Club held
10:38 am | STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com The opposition to the Lido Beach Pool & Pavilion plan continues to mount with more than 5,000 signing a petition opposed to the City allowing the public beach site be...
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10:30 am | Judge Hunter Carroll denied the request by Andy Adams, who owns about 25 percent of the original Colony units, to dismiss Unicorp’s plan. Case is on “expedited” schedule....
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10:25 am | “I do want to sit on the commission and plan to run but I do not see the wisdom in opposing someone who, in my view, seems to be bringing merit to the...
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10:10 am | Clerk offered 90 days pay if she agrees not to litigate. ...
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10:00 am | Unicorp owner Chuck Whittall hopes to terminate once and for all the Association of Unit Owners and compel the sale of the remaining units....
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09:29 am | It’s a vote that will shape both the atmosphere and experience of the Lido Beach Pool, Pavilion and surrounding neighborhood for the next three decades....
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09:24 pm | The Lido Beach Public Pool and Pavilion was the focus of community consternation throughout 2018. The City of Sarasota, which operates the publicly-owned facility that sits on an expanse of beach in the...
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09:17 pm | For years, it appeared as if the legal battles between the ownership interests of the former Colony Beach & Tennis Resort were eclipsing any real progress toward redevelopment. This situation changed dramatically in...
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09:13 pm | The Sarasota County Commission unanimously approved this year a term sheet for a lease and eventual transfer of public property to Mote Marine Laboratory. The approval is to assist Mote in establishing a...
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09:10 pm | Red tide was persistent starting in the summer of 2018 in Southwest Florida, from Collier County up through Pinellas County. Longboat Key and Sarasota were no exception. The town not only monitored the...
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09:08 pm | While finding precious parking on St. Armands Circle is nearly always a difficult task, parking a few minutes away will soon get a major boost as a new, four-story parking garage became a...
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09:04 pm | Longboat’s and Sarasota’s newest residents, coyotes, continue wandering neighborhoods....
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08:59 pm | Town of Longboat Key Commissioners in 2018 directed town staff and Olsen Associates, the town’s beach engineering firm, to progress forward with the permitting of five groins at the north end of the...
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08:56 pm | City favors plan to redevelop 53 acres along waterfront in Downtown....
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08:49 pm | Incumbent Ed Zunz narrowly held on to his District 5 seat in 2018 against challenger Randy Langley with a vote of 1,409 to 1,297 in the March Commission election. Zunz did not win...
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09:24 am | Longboat Key’s undergrounding of the island’s utilities began staging this month, and will begin no later than the first quarter of 2019. Also in December 2018, the commission voted to approve $49 million...
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02:54 pm | Longboat Key residents Randy Langley and Mike Haycock will soon be appealing to voters to replace incumbent Commissioner Jim Brown....
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02:38 pm | The meters are an integral part of the City Commission’s funding plan to pay for the parking garage, which is costing $12 million. Downtown meters are next....
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02:34 pm | The numbers are the empirical indication of the direct fiscal toll red tide has had on the tourism industry and area economy in general. ...
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09:40 am | “If you deny this, I will not be able to start until Spring of next year. If you delay this, and your code is unlike hundreds of other cities in the state of...
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09:34 am | Spoll referred to the raised devices as traffic calming speed tables and encourages residents to cut through the residential neighborhoods around the Circle to show an element of protest against the plan if...
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Major Headlines
Opposition mounts as Lido Pool/Pavilion plan vote looms Monday in Sarasota City Hall »
10:38 am | STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com The opposition to the Lido Beach Pool & Pavilion plan continues to mount with more than 5,000 signing a petition opposed to the City allowing...
Judge sides with Unicorp in Colony case Round One »
10:30 am | Judge Hunter Carroll denied the request by Andy Adams, who owns about 25 percent of the original Colony units, to dismiss Unicorp’s plan. Case is on “expedited” schedule....
Langley withdraws from Town Commission election run »
10:25 am | “I do want to sit on the commission and plan to run but I do not see the wisdom in opposing someone who, in my view, seems to...
Sarasota City Clerk Nadalini asked to resign »
10:10 am | Clerk offered 90 days pay if she agrees not to litigate. ...
Colony ownership showdown heads to court »
10:00 am | Unicorp owner Chuck Whittall hopes to terminate once and for all the Association of Unit Owners and compel the sale of the remaining units....
Divisive Lido Pool plan vote Jan. 14 in City Hall »
09:29 am | It’s a vote that will shape both the atmosphere and experience of the Lido Beach Pool, Pavilion and surrounding neighborhood for the next three decades....
Lido Pool & Pavilion Plan stirs Sarasota community throughout 2018; final vote next »
09:24 pm | The Lido Beach Public Pool and Pavilion was the focus of community consternation throughout 2018. The City of Sarasota, which operates the publicly-owned facility that sits on an...
Colony demolished, St. Regis approved as ownership battle continues into 2019 »
09:17 pm | For years, it appeared as if the legal battles between the ownership interests of the former Colony Beach & Tennis Resort were eclipsing any real progress toward redevelopment....
Mote to move aquarium to I-75 »
09:13 pm | The Sarasota County Commission unanimously approved this year a term sheet for a lease and eventual transfer of public property to Mote Marine Laboratory. The approval is to...
Red tide plagues beaches »
09:10 pm | Red tide was persistent starting in the summer of 2018 in Southwest Florida, from Collier County up through Pinellas County. Longboat Key and Sarasota were no exception. The...
St. Armands parking garage built, meters to start charging in 2019 »
09:08 pm | While finding precious parking on St. Armands Circle is nearly always a difficult task, parking a few minutes away will soon get a major boost as a new,...
Coyotes prowl Longboat, Sarasota »
09:04 pm | Longboat’s and Sarasota’s newest residents, coyotes, continue wandering neighborhoods....
Longboat plans to bolster north-end beach »
08:59 pm | Town of Longboat Key Commissioners in 2018 directed town staff and Olsen Associates, the town’s beach engineering firm, to progress forward with the permitting of five groins at...
Sarasota Bayfront redevelopment plan underway »
08:56 pm | City favors plan to redevelop 53 acres along waterfront in Downtown....
Three contested seats made for heated 2018 election on LBK »
08:49 pm | Incumbent Ed Zunz narrowly held on to his District 5 seat in 2018 against challenger Randy Langley with a vote of 1,409 to 1,297 in the March Commission...
LBK power lines heading underground »
09:24 am | Longboat Key’s undergrounding of the island’s utilities began staging this month, and will begin no later than the first quarter of 2019. Also in December 2018, the commission...
Langley, Haycock vie for Longboat Commission seat »
02:54 pm | Longboat Key residents Randy Langley and Mike Haycock will soon be appealing to voters to replace incumbent Commissioner Jim Brown....
Get ready to pay for privilege to park on St. Armands Circle »
02:38 pm | The meters are an integral part of the City Commission’s funding plan to pay for the parking garage, which is costing $12 million. Downtown meters are next....
Tourism taxes decline for third straight month in Sarasota »
02:34 pm | The numbers are the empirical indication of the direct fiscal toll red tide has had on the tourism industry and area economy in general.
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Town says ‘No’ to sales office at Colony site with 4-3 vote »
09:40 am | “If you deny this, I will not be able to start until Spring of next year. If you delay this, and your code is unlike hundreds of other...
Sarasota plans more roundabouts and St. Armands traffic calming »
09:34 am | Spoll referred to the raised devices as traffic calming speed tables and encourages residents to cut through the residential neighborhoods around the Circle to show an element of...
Murf Klauber: Building a legacy through family, passion and fun »
09:11 pm | The energy, passion and imagination of Murf Klauber made an impression on generations of Longboaters. All along, he worked with the family he loved....
304-room resort approved to replace Lido’s historic Helmsley Sandcastle »
12:06 pm | The new hotel will have 304 rooms, a restaurant, pool and 22,000 square-feet of ballroom space....
Host occupied vacation rentals voted down »
12:00 pm | ‘I think we should enforce the rules that we have, there are abuses happening. If we cannot enforce what we have now, then we should not add to...
Barwin blames Downtown coyotes on Longboat Resort »
11:55 am | As coyotes spread to Downtown Sarasota, City Manager Tom Barwin said, “sightings may have been coyotes displaced from the long-vacant Colony complex when it was recently razed.”...
Longboat beaches busy as red tide scatters »
11:55 am | Following the red tide bloom that besieged island beaches from August through recent weeks, a return to ‘normal’ is more than welcome....
Final check-out at Colony Resort »
02:29 pm | Demolition contractors are set to demolish the final building — the mid-rise — as it was known at the site of the former Colony Beach & Tennis Resort....
Brody seeks to alter tourism rental rules in Sarasota »
02:24 pm | Commissioner seeks to allow short-term ‘host’ rentals in City....
Longboat utility lines burial about to begin »
02:18 pm | The Town commission will vote on $49 million in bonds issuance as approved by voters....
Town pursues code tweak for St. Regis condo sales »
02:30 pm | Town Commission voted unanimously Monday to have town staff work on possible changes to the code to allow the
temporary sales structure for the St. Regis. Condominiums....
Lido Pavilion plan vote set for Jan. 14 »
02:27 pm | The vote will decide whether the plan, which includes remodeling the pavilion into a 200-seat restaurant along with a tiki bar and rented cabanas, is compatible with the...
Opinion
Baseball teams up with Castro »
09:52 am | Cuba says the deal blocks players from signing with major-league teams if they defect. They remain the...
January 14, 2019 / No comment / Read More »Reflections on impeachment, 20 years later »
09:30 pm | PETER O’CONNOR Staff Columnist oconnor@lbknews.com Declarations, By Peggy Noonan The Wall Street Journal (Saturday/Sunday, December 1-2, 2018) “A tragedy...
January 13, 2019 / No comment / Read More »The cat who terrorized Christmas »
02:46 pm | I should have seen the foreshadowing when Mickey, our troublesome cat, started drinking the funky water from...
January 1, 2019 / No comment / Read More »Congress gets tough on the Saudis »
02:30 pm | It is wrong to suggest that maintaining U.S. alliances consists of mutually exclusive choices between choices between...
January 1, 2019 / No comment / Read More »The Flynn entrapment »
01:50 pm | Mr. McCabe and FBI officials ‘decided the agents would not warn Flynn that it was a...
January 1, 2019 / No comment / Read More »Klauber was our driving force in so many ways »
09:47 pm | Dr. Murray Klauber and his early decisions and astute leadership made our area the great restaurant and...
December 2, 2018 / No comment / Read More »The toxic turkey that threatened our family »
03:32 pm | The home filled with an acrid and nauseating odor. I asked my father why it was so...
December 2, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Notable and quotable Dems »
03:31 pm | But a closer examination of the data tells a different different story. Ocasio-Cortez’s best precincts were highly educated, whiter...
December 2, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Exploring the joys of parking meters, Donald Trump, Xanax and the media »
02:36 pm | The fact is, big personalities win in an environment of mass media. Think Clinton, JFK, Trump, Eminem,...
November 11, 2018 / 1 comment / Read More »The risks of failing to see the sea »
02:32 pm | ‘Precisely because we depend on the oceans, we should pay closer attention to their security.’...
November 11, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Can addiction start in the ER? »
02:06 pm | Physicians treat the chart rather than the patient (some estimates put 44% of ER physician time as...
November 11, 2018 / No comment / Read More »What Is Elizabeth Warren? »
11:39 am | The conventional wisdom is that the DNA report backfired and may damage Ms. Warren’s standing as a...
November 11, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Trump’s California water relief »
01:54 am | A major water storage and delivery project hasn’t been completed in California’s north for decades. The President’s...
November 10, 2018 / No comment / Read More »Elections matter and justice issues should count »
09:57 am | It is a sad fact that our justice system is accessible primarily by those with enough money...
October 26, 2018 / 1 comment / Read More »Why Central American stays poor »
08:47 am | A sad tale to show us how our Latin American friends can often be victims of their...
October 26, 2018 / No comment / Read More »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 / 6 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...
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New York Times Headlines
- Sheila Jackson Lee Leaves 2 Posts After Aide Says She Was Fired for Reporting Sexual Assault
- The State of the Union Is … : The Yearly Address, Explained
- Michael Cohen Indefinitely Postpones Testimony to Congress
- Nurse Charged With Sexual Assault of Woman in Vegetative State Who Gave Birth
- Trump Looks for New Venue for Speech, as Democrats Draft Border Security Plan
- Manafort’s Lawyers Say Prosecutors Twisted Memory Lapses as Lies
- Gunman Kills 5 in a Florida Bank, Police Say
- Trump’s Latest Border Sell: A (Factually Dubious) Rhyme
- Police Arrest Suspect in Florida Bank Shooting
- After Falling Under Obama, America’s Uninsured Rate Looks to Be Rising
- Mary Boyd Higgins, Wilhelm Reich’s Devoted Trustee, Is Dead at 93
- Donald Trump, Venezuela, Eclipse: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing
- White Supremacist Pleads Guilty to Killing Black Man in New York to Start a ‘Race War’
- Corporate Chiefs Look Past Economic Risks and Pin Hopes on Trump for Trade Deal
- Trump to Explore Venue Alternatives for State of the Union
- Trump: Pelosi Is ‘Afraid of the Truth’
- Overlooked No More: Mabel Stark, Fearless Tiger Trainer
