The Longboat Key Garden Club will hold its 35th Annual Home Tour March 5. Included in this year’s tour is the Longboat Key Center for the Arts, a division of Ringling College of Art and Design, which will offer visitors a tour of its galleries and the sculpture, painting, pottery and jewelry studios.
Nestled on a private acre directly overlooking Sarasota Bay, this 9,000-square-foot, Mediterranean-style estate offers five bedrooms, five full baths, three half baths and bay views from every room. The two-story foyer welcomes you into a grand living room of Italian Renaissance columns. Glass walls in the breakfast nook and family room open onto the terrace, featuring a fully equipped kitchen and wet bar.
The following homes were under contract on Longboat Key from Jan. 20-26
Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate agent Roger Pettingell, who is based out of the Longboat Key office, was the agency’s highest volume seller in Florida in 2010. Pettingell sold 36 properties for $40 million last year.
Just after 9 a.m., later than usual, my wife and I go out to Whitney Beach. Earlier there was frost and lower temperatures and uncomfortable in which to walk. As we get down to the water, I can see the “assembled multitude,” a collection of gulls, terns and skimmers that is here every morning at a spot where the sand juts out to the sea
Economically, it’s scary out there. Though unemployment figures have declined this month, most people know the data are heavily massaged. In the old days a part-time worker was included in the statistics if they worked an hour a month in a family business — without pay
It is a subject that has come up…
As time goes on weak two bids…
The question of beaches — their upkeep and governance — has kept Longboat Key’s functionaries wildly bewitched, bothered and bewildered over the past several months
Jay Leno once described politics as “show business for ugly people.” While no one would describe President Obama as ugly, the overall wisdom of that remark is no more clearly displayed than it is during the State of the Union address
