The Islandside Property Owner’s Coalition (IPOC) has been busy this year trying to undo the town’s passing of the Key Club’s redevelopment application. According to IPOC President Bob White, the coalition filed a motion in December to amend the de-novo complaint, dropping counts that the development order was inconsistent with the town’s Comprehensive Plan. IPOC maintains [...]
The pending 150-foot cell tower application for the Longboat Island Chapel kept debate alive within the town. Some residents are in favor of a cell tower to improve reception at the North End, while others including many Realtors, are concerned the large tower will decrease property values. In an effort to resolve the dilemma, Mayor [...]
The Longboat Key Education Center, a not-for-profit continuing education center in the Centre Shops of Longboat Key, is busy preparing for a stellar season chock full of adult enrichment to keep the mind active and the spirit young.
The richness of birding is in the details of what is seen and in the observer’s subjective reaction to it. The passages below, derived from my notes, discuss those experiences on Whitney Beach and part of Anna Maria Island during five days last March.
Hit the town for New Year’s Eve: “Drag” in the New Year at 9 p.m. at The Players Theatre. This fiendishly sassy event is the brainchild of Berry Ayers (a.k.a. Beneva Fruitville) and The Players Artistic Director Jeffery Kin. Featuring a combination of entertainment from old-style variety show to modern theatre and even Drag Queen [...]
Food changes gene expression — directly. Eat a bowl of rice and you can turn off genes controlling cholesterol synthesis. Right out of the pot. You’ve been eating genetic information — probably all your life. The data comes from China, from Lin Zhang and his group at the University of Nanjing.
A longtime friend of Longboat Key, a loyal and loving wife of more than 60 years, and a mother to two loving children, Hazel Lenobel, passed away Thursday evening.
It is usually a simple ritual — our Year in Review edition. We scan the stories, make some judgments based on impact of the events and weave together pictures and narratives. But 2011 was an intense and beguiling year. It is as if all the sands have shifted metaphorically speaking, and yet we have not had a hurricane. Take the encouraged resignation of Longboat Key Town Manager Bruce St. Denis after it came to light that five of seven commissioners wanted him replaced.
In the early 1980s, Arnold Palmer was invited…
A news report from Reuters tells us that the old year is going to end much like it began and the new year will begin much like the old year ended. A senior Treasury Department official, according to Reuters, said that the White House plans to ask Congress for another increase in the debt limit by the end of the year. Seems the debt limit is projected to fall within $100 billion of the current cap by Dec. 30, so our president will ask for an additional $1.2 trillion in borrowing authority. For those keeping score, this would raise the debt ceiling from the current level of $15,194 trillion to $16,394 trillion.
