Sarasota County Sinks Its $18.1 Million...

A federal easement on the books since 1960, a...

Florida’s Great Budget Scramble Has Begun

Amendment 3 cleared its 60 percent bar with about...

Inside the Survey That Answers City...

The city paid a facilitator to ask what St....

On Patrol Longboat Key Police reports...

—Oct. 30 —Hook, Line and Citation —12:49 a.m. —Sgt. Butler while...

On Patrol Longboat Key Police reports...

—Oct. 24 —Elevated Tensions —9:15 a.m. —Officer Van Dyke responded to...

Major Headlines

Florida’s Great Budget Scramble Has Begun

Amendment 3 cleared its 60 percent bar with about...

Inside the Survey That Answers City Hall’s St. Armands Question

The city paid a facilitator to ask what St....

The Murals Nobody Owned: Sarasota Moves to Claim Lido’s Wade-In and Casino Paintings

For $4,000, the city would adopt Tim Jaeger's 2020...

Water Main Haulers Leave GMD Sidewalk Cracked

Bay Harbour board member says loaders hauling soil and...

Real Estate

The Sporting Life

How Tennis Players From Wimbledon to Longboat Key Lose the Match Before It Starts

On Longboat Key, the alibi is filed before the...

Save Our Seabirds Opens Five New Aviaries

After three hard years, two hurricanes and a supply...

Thrilla on the Key: Mayor Williams and Mark Walsh go to sudden death as OPL Charities raises $525,000

The Walsh family's annual OPL Charities Golf Tournament brought...

Health & Science

Why One Misstep Late in Life Can Change Everything

A medical feature for Longboat Key, Lido Key, St....

Inside Sarasota Memorial’s High-Stakes Bet on the Oldest, Richest Coast in America

The taxpayer-owned hospital is opening cancer pavilions, floating bonds...

The Great Sarasota Meltdown: One Out of Three of My Tennis Partners Has Disappeared

When the snowbirds came down this season, I conducted...

How cell recycling benefits you

MATTHEW EDLUND Guest Writer news@lbknews.com There’s great power in biological cell recycling. ...

The Great Sarasota Meltdown: One Out of Three of My Tennis Partners Has Disappeared

When the snowbirds came down this season, I conducted...

New York vs. Boston: The Empire Strikes Out

In which a man raised on Phil Rizzuto and...

Peripheral neuropathy: Challenges and remedies

Dr. Kitt Chojnicki-Hill Guest Columnist news@lbknews.com We will soon be heading into...

Peripheral neuropathy: Challenges and remedies

Dr. Kitt Chojnicki-Hill Guest Columnist news@lbknews.com We will soon be heading into...

The Great Sarasota Meltdown: One Out of Three of My Tennis Partners Has Disappeared

When the snowbirds came down this season, I conducted...

How Tennis Players From Wimbledon to Longboat Key Lose the Match Before It Starts

On Longboat Key, the alibi is filed before the...

A Savage Journey into the Heart of Longboat Tennis

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com We were somewhere around the service...

Sarasota Wordle 5

Sarasota Wordle 5: Sarasota's daily five-letter challenge. A new word every day.

Opinion

Ozzy Osbourne, Your Fitbit and the Great Longboat Key Flock Camera Shuffle

Our police love the Flock cameras, and they should....

How America Medicated, Outsourced and Video-Gamed the Struggle Out of Being Human

Priya Parker says healthy relationships need a good fight....

New York vs. Boston: The Empire Strikes Out

In which a man raised on Phil Rizzuto and...

Letters

Longboat Letters to the Editor week of November 6, 2026

Passing the Leash To: Longboat Key Commissioner Sarah Karon Yep...

Sarasota Letters to the Editor week of October 30, 2026

The Planning Board's Return to In-Person Reporting To: Sarasota City...

Longboat Letters to the Editor week of October 30, 2026

Trading the Estuary for the Mouse: SBEP Staff Update To:...

On Patrol

On Patrol Longboat Key Police reports week of October 30, 2026

—Oct. 24 —Elevated Tensions —9:15 a.m. —Officer Van Dyke responded to...

Longboat Commission Embraces Flock as Chief Vows to Get Cameras “Back in the Ground”

Longboat Key's eight license plate readers are off, in...

On Patrol Longboat Key Police reports week of October 23, 2026

Friday, Oct. 16 Flat-out stuck 3:44 p.m. Officer Simon Maple was on...

Wine & Dine

Jordan-Branded Club Opens Its Doors, and Its Reservation Book, While City Approval Sits on the Bench

Six weeks after pulling its private club application, 1000...

Scarier Than a Millage Rate: Longboat Town Hall Dresses Up for Halloween

Most weeks, the Longboat Key Town Commission chambers serve...

What the Columbia’s Ulele Teaches Barrier Islands About Weathering a Storm

Two years after Helene pushed a wall of water...

Pouring on Bud Light Comic Relief

—An article in the Food and Wine section of...

Exploring the History, Wine, and Unexpected Warmth of the Biltmore

It does not have rides or waterslides or cartoon...

New York vs. Boston: The Empire Strikes Out

In which a man raised on Phil Rizzuto and...

Ozzy Osbourne, Your Fitbit and the Great Longboat Key Flock Camera Shuffle

Our police love the Flock cameras, and they should....

Sarasota County Sinks Its $18.1 Million Boatyard Deal in a 3-2 Reversal

A federal easement on the books since 1960, a...

Commission Overturns Planning Board, Approves Midtown Plaza Hotel 3-2

Six weeks after the Planning Board killed it, a...

Exploring the History, Wine, and Unexpected Warmth of the Biltmore

It does not have rides or waterslides or cartoon...

All Aboard the Great Smoky Mountains

The evening before our steam train excursion we had...

Thrilla on the Key: Mayor Williams and Mark Walsh go to sudden death as OPL Charities raises $525,000

The Walsh family's annual OPL Charities Golf Tournament brought...

Longboat Wordle 5

Longboat Wordle 5: Five letters, six guesses, a new island word every day. Play now

Changes, little bit by little bit

MATTHEW EDLUND Guest Writer news@lbknews.com “I can’t change,” people tell me.  “I...

Longboat Wordle 7

Longboat Wordle 7: The big board — seven letters, eight guesses, fresh at midnight.

A Sparkling Valentine’s Day

S.W AND RICH HERMANSEN Staff Writers wine@lbknews.com Sparkling wine has a special...

All Aboard the Great Smoky Mountains

The evening before our steam train excursion we had...

New York vs. Boston: The Empire Strikes Out

In which a man raised on Phil Rizzuto and...

Dead Winn-Dixie Hotel Gets a Second Life as City Commission Takes Up Midtown Plaza Appeal

Five weeks after Arlington Park sank the Winn-Dixie redevelopment,...

Wimbledon 2026? Everyone Good Is Hurt, Sulking, or Nineteen

My own nervous breakdown is still the more predictable...

A Bridge Too Far, A Span Too High: FDOT’s Towering Disregard for Longboat Key

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com It was really the classical Greeks...

On Patrol

In the News

Wine and Dine

Jordan-Branded Club Opens Its Doors, and Its Reservation Book, While City Approval Sits on the Bench

Six weeks after pulling its private club application, 1000...

Scarier Than a Millage Rate: Longboat Town Hall Dresses Up for Halloween

Most weeks, the Longboat Key Town Commission chambers serve...

What the Columbia’s Ulele Teaches Barrier Islands About Weathering a Storm

Two years after Helene pushed a wall of water...

Pouring on Bud Light Comic Relief

—An article in the Food and Wine section of...

Health

Why One Misstep Late in Life Can Change Everything

A medical feature for Longboat Key, Lido Key, St....

Inside Sarasota Memorial’s High-Stakes Bet on the Oldest, Richest Coast in America

The taxpayer-owned hospital is opening cancer pavilions, floating bonds...

The Great Sarasota Meltdown: One Out of Three of My Tennis Partners Has Disappeared

When the snowbirds came down this season, I conducted...

How cell recycling benefits you

MATTHEW EDLUND Guest Writer news@lbknews.com There’s great power in biological cell recycling. ...

Sarasota County Sinks Its $18.1 Million Boatyard Deal in a 3-2 Reversal

A federal easement on the books since 1960, a $700,000 offer nobody could price and two commissioners who changed their minds. In 17 minutes Wednesday...