Longboat Key resident James Armstrong, who resides on the 2900 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive, was arrested at 5:40 a.m., Saturday, July 24, on felony charges of battery against a Manatee County Sheriff’s officer and resisting arrest against an officer with violence.
Sarasota County commissioners will receive and consider the final inlet management plan for Big Pass/New Pass, which began in 2005 with an assessment of existing and needed data.
Damage in the 15-story Dolphin Tower is more serious than previously thought, according to a building engineer.
When was the last time you took a vacation and came back fully rested, renewed and refreshed? Half of Americans come back from vacation bushed or exhausted. Yet rest should produce renewal. We see our hair and nails grow, but we don’t see our brain grow.
Recent interest in an old subject around here prompts my discussion one hot afternoon at my place in The Bayou. Gene Jaleski tells me our subject is far more that just cell towers. He has brought some basic literature to help bring me up to speed. But first I ask some questions to gain background on this former Longboat commissioner. I had mentally labeled Jaleski as a 21st Century guy, operating in our 20th Century island home. He certainly is that, as we are.
If you are a local here in paradise, then you know that when the summer comes the urge to “go, go, go” is gone. I can hardly work up the energy to travel. I just want to do some limin’ right here in my own neck of the woods—no reservations, no baggage, no airplanes, busy airports or long road trips.
Longboat Key Turtle Watch invites you to watch turtle nest openings Saturday, July 31:
Ten days before my wife and I are going to leave LBK for the season, I start storing moments from the winter in my mind’s eye like a squirrel stores nuts.
Marine Lt. Gen. John R. Allen, acting commander of the U.S. Central Command and former deputy commander to Gen. David Petraeus, spoke to the Sarasota-Manatee World Affairs Council at the Longboat Key Club July 24.
The rushing waters of the Gulf, the setting sun and glistening driftwood captured by photographer Sean Looney on a trip to Beer Can Island.
