Save Our Seabirds’ Old Fashioned Fish Fry fundraiser welcomed more than 200 supporters to the Old Salty Dog Restaurant last weekend. Lee Fox, Save Our Seabirds rehabber and executive director, explained the expenses of Save Our Seabirds must come from community donations. Other sponsors include Bobby Smith Music, SweetBay, TradeWinds Resort, St. Petersburg, Coke, LexJet and Dunkin’ Donuts.
The Sarasota Jewish Chorale begins its 12th season of outreach to the Sarasota/Manatee area with rehearsals this fall at 7 p.m. Thursdays at the Hecht School, Federation Campus, 580 Macintosh Road. The Chorale entertains at schools, synagogues, churches, retirement homes and other venues in the community from October through April. Singers of all faiths are welcome.
This gated-entry, bayfront estate home is situated on the tip of a private peninsula with 540 feet of waterfront. The Mediterranean-style residence is rich in architectural detail and built by Sarasota builder ML Collingwood in 2001.
The Longboat Key Property Owners’ Coalition filed a complaint Friday, July 30, asking the Circuit Court to find the Town of Longboat Key’s approval of the Key Club redevelopment plan in violation with land use regulations and specifically the town’s Comprehensive Plan.
In reaction to two recent cell tower proposals, Village resident and former Commissioner Gene Jaleski says that tall cell towers are not a good solution for all of Longboat Key, but rather a limited solution for a handful of residents that will generate profit for vested individuals.
Former Longboat Key Commissioner and Mayor Joan Webster has taken out papers to qualify as a candidate in either District 4, currently held by Vice Mayor Jim Brown, or as an At Large candidate, seeking the seat held by Phill Younger.
Mote Marine Laboratory, in collaboration with The National Aquarium and Johns Hopkins University, is conducting a comprehensive study designed to ensure that the pre- and post-Deepwater Horizon oil spill impact status of Sarasota Bay is documented as rigorously as possible.
I enjoy the opportunity to profile key ‘Key’ people. Maybe it’s because I have known many of them for an extended time. This is certainly true of Longboat Key Planning, Zoning & Building Director Monica Simpson. We talked in her spacious office in Town Hall an early afternoon recently.
A man drowned this week after being pulled underwater by a rip current off Anna Maria Island, according to the Manatee County Public Safety Capt. Larry Leinhauser.
Abraham Lincoln had an uncommon amount of common sense. A story has it that he displayed this virtue one night in January 1863 during a reception at the White House for Gen. Joseph Hooker who had just taken command of the Army of the Potomac. Fighting Joe, as he was known, regaled the assembled throng with predictions of the misery he would visit on Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia.
