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Arch-enemies head to court as St. Regis and Longboat reach impasse over beachside structure

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Longboat Key Gave Up Its Insularity for Beach Money; The Parking Lot Is the Receipt

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Beauty, Neglect, and a Battle for the Soul of St. Armands Circle

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A Draped Sign, a Litigation Threat, a Divided Town, and a Monday Vote That Could Change Longboat Key

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This is not a routine zoning dispute. This is...
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Mira Mar’s Revival Anchors Sarasota’s Downtown Renaissance

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There are buildings, and then there are landmarks. Sarasota’s...
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Gulfside Road Under Siege: Longboat Key and a pair of storm victims

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Drive down Gulfside Road today and you will see...
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‘Sunny Day’ Flooding Swamps Longboat — and Its Budget

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Sarasota’s Bay Park is Getting Its First Waterfront Restaurant

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For years, visitors strolling through The Bay — downtown...
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Save our Seabirds: She Came for the Beauty, and Stayed to Protect It

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Longboater Linda Mitchell Didn’t Plan to Chair a Bird...
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What a $3.6 Billion Beach Means for Longboat Key and Sarasota’s Barrier Islands

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Siesta Key just topped America’s best-beach list again. For...
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Progress Has a Price in Sarasota with Fruitville Road Development Plan

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As Schools Cut, Longboat Funds

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As the district cuts 136 teaching jobs, a timeless...
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Sarasota’s Mote Marine Deploys Its Secret Weapon Against Dying Coral Reefs

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Dismasted: Sailboat Collision Halts Traffic on Aging Longboat Pass Bridge

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—A Sudden Halt to the Morning Commute The morning of...
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Whittall Fires Back: St. Regis Arch is ‘Not the Jersey Shore’ as Showdown Looms on Longboat Key

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—Moments before strapping into his Ferrari 296 GTB at...
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Post-Storm Rebuilding or a Trojan Horse? St. Armands Faces a Zoning Crossroads

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The barrier islands of Sarasota are approaching what many...
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Blue-Chip Waterways: Longboat Key’s $9M Dredging Plan Secures Elite Real Estate Values

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—On Florida’s West Coast, where multimillion-dollar real estate commands...
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Beyond the Snowbird: Global Cash, Western Wealth and the New Migration Matrix Rewiring Sarasota’s Coast

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—Real estate has always been a game of demographics,...
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Is there a chance the FDOT gives Longboat the bridge it wants?

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—For the residents of Longboat Key, Florida, the aging...
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What Mote’s Latest Red Tide Research Means for Sarasota, Lido, and Longboat

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Key Fire Dept. Reports 18% Drop in Calls Following 2024 Storms; 67% Cardiac Survival rate

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—The Longboat Key Fire Rescue Department responded to fewer...
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Lofty Plans, Deep Divide: Longboat Key Fights State’s Vision for a Towering Bridge

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—For the residents of Longboat Key, the nearly 70-year-old...

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Art in the Roundabouts? No, Sarasota Prefers Keeping Our Sculptures Safe in a Warehouse Next to the Christmas Decorations

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St. Armands Visioning Session Chaos: A Consultant With More Plans, Approximately Zero Answers About Flooding and The Map Will Set You Free

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Etch-a-Sketch Empire: The True Cost of an Aimless War, from Hormuz to Longboat Key

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You Don’t Praise a Rat for Fleeing a Sinking Ship: Sarasota Commission ‘Listens’ After Being Verbally Cajoled into Reality

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Welcome to the neon-lit bureaucratic casino of Sarasota, where...
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Longboat Chief Russ Mager’s Response to Policing Story

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Bombs, Billionaires, and Reality TV: The High Cost of Trump’s Iranian Intervention

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—It has become painfully obvious that our recent Iranian...
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A Bridge Too Far, A Span Too High: FDOT’s Towering Disregard for Longboat Key

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Pam Bondi: The implosion of Florida’s rising Star

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Outdoor Life

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Nik’s On the Wire at Key Club

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Sarasota’s own Nik Wallenda — the 11-time Guinness World...
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Parisian Power Vacuum: With Carlos Alcaraz Officially Out, Who Stops Sinner on Red Dirt?

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—By the time the European spring yields to the...
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What is a Golf Handicap and how it is explained!

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The Empire in Retreat: Surviving the Psychology of a Tennis Losing Streak

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The Second Set Letdown: Why Winning Early Can Cost You the Match (and How to Fix It)

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New Equipment vs Old Equipment: When is it time to upgrade?

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Mimosas, Tiebreaks, and Type-A Triumphs: The 2026 Longboat Key Club Doubles Championship

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Wine & Dine

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The Great Topo Chico Crisis

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Iberian Wines for Quixotic Times

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Arch-enemies head to court as St. Regis and Longboat reach impasse over beachside structure

Friday at 5:00 PM was supposed to be the deadline. Instead, it became a phone call. Chuck Whittall picked up the phone and told the...
Opinion

Art in the Roundabouts? No, Sarasota Prefers Keeping Our Sculptures Safe in a Warehouse Next to the Christmas Decorations

In India, they are fascinated by circles—the circle of...
Major Headlines

Longboat Key Gave Up Its Insularity for Beach Money; The Parking Lot Is the Receipt

For most of its history, Longboat Key paid its...
Major Headlines

Beauty, Neglect, and a Battle for the Soul of St. Armands Circle

—While Developers Circle and the City Dithers, Merchants...
Wine & Dine

Quick, Easy, Cheap, and Tasty

—Our readings of food recipes suggest that a formula...