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LBK Garden Club hosts annual home tour

LBK Garden Club hosts annual home tour

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.

January 30, 2011 | Posted in Key Life, Top Box | Read More »

Featured property: 5080 Gulf of Mexico Drive

Featured property: 5080 Gulf of Mexico Drive

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.

January 30, 2011 | Posted in Real Estate, Top Box | Read More »

Longboat Key latest sales, contracts — Jan. 20-26

Longboat Key latest sales, contracts — Jan. 20-26

The following homes were under contract on Longboat Key from Jan. 20-26

January 30, 2011 | Posted in Real Estate | Read More »

Pettingell named top Coldwell seller in Florida

Pettingell named top Coldwell seller in Florida

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.

January 30, 2011 | Posted in Real Estate | Read More »

What a morning on Whitney Beach

What a morning on Whitney Beach

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

January 30, 2011 | Posted in Key Life, Top Box | Read More »

Why can’t I rest? The economy and jobs

Why can’t I rest? The economy and jobs

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

January 30, 2011 | Posted in Key Health, Top Box | Read More »

Golf cart injuries nothing short of astonishing

Golf cart injuries nothing short of astonishing

It is a subject that has come up…

January 30, 2011 | Posted in Tee Time | Read More »

‘Bridging’ the Gap: Weak two bids

‘Bridging’ the Gap: Weak two bids

As time goes on weak two bids…

January 30, 2011 | Posted in Key Recreation | Read More »

Sons of a beach

Sons of a beach

The question of beaches — their upkeep and governance — has kept Longboat Key’s functionaries wildly bewitched, bothered and bewildered over the past several months

January 30, 2011 | Posted in Opinion, Richard Hershatter | Read More »

Show business for ugly people

Show business for ugly people

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

January 30, 2011 | Posted in Opinion, Tom Burgum | Read More »