Longboater Bob Elmes has built a life and business he loves on LBK.

CAROL ERKER Guest Columnist erkerg@lbknews.com Veronica Brandon Miller, Vice President at Goodwill Manasota’s Foundation, addressed the Rotary Club of Longboat Key at its May 31 meeting. Miller outlined the ways that Goodwill Manasota works throughout Manatee, Sarasota, Hardee and DeSoto Counties to provide meaningful, long-term employment opportunities to people who have faced barriers that have […]

Professional dancers partnered with amateurs to raise money for the Community Aids Network at the 2016 CANDance competition fundraiser last week at Michael’s On East. Organizer Scott George oversaw the evening’s events which included an auction, dinner, dance competition and after-party dancing. George says the event raised a record amount of more than $200,000.   […]

Mote Marine Laboratory’s Mommy & Me Exploring the Bay program was awarded  $10,000 from the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA). Mommy & Me is an early childhood educational class available for children and their favorite adults to learn together through marine-themed crafts, games, songs, stories, role-plays, science tools, and special guided visits Mote Aquarium. […]

For Longboat Key Realtor Bruce Myer the experience of loyalty mixed with déjà vu came to fruition when he was called by the owner of 1930 Harbourside Drive #117 in Fairway Bay. The owner said that after enjoying his residence for 34 straight years, he was ready to sell. The owner used Myer 34 years […]

Saturday night came to life on Longboat Key when actor John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston arrived by boat at Portifino at the Longboat Key Club for dinner. Travolta and Preston were joined above for a photo with (from left) Longboater Jeff Lenobel, Steve Reid, Melissa Reid, Marianne Thorn and Donna Lenobel.

The Memoirs Class at Longboat Island Chapel is celebrating the publication of Patsy McLaughlin’s second book of poetry, “Keeper of the Night.” The collection of poems follows the author’s journey through life, beginning with her growing-up years in a large farm family in the Ohio Valley, touching on the years of being a military wife […]

Due to health concerns, Rev. Dr. Vincent Carroll, Senior Pastor of Longboat Island Chapel, will preach his last sermon Sunday, May 29th at 10 a.m.  This will complete his three and a half years of ministirial services at the Chapel.  Rev. Carroll announced an earlier retiremet last October which was to take effect by the […]

Longboat Key Planning, Building and Zoning Department official Tony Sapuppo joined his wife Jeni at the Asolo Reparatory Theatre to watch their daughter, Maddie perform in a play called ‘Kaleidoscope.’ Maddie is a 15-year-old freshman at Bayshore High School in Bradenton and is in a special program for ESE students and has Autism. She has […]

Mote Marine Laboratory recently welcomed Dr. Noam Josef, a next-generation Ph.D. scientist known for studying the camouflage capabilities of cephalopods: octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and related species. Josef, who recently moved from Eilat, Israel to Sarasota, Florida, will study the camouflage of octopuses and their prey-predator interaction with the local stone crab population. Cephalopods are marine […]