Longboat Key has long fought the coming roundabout fearing it could impede traffic from the barrier islands that rely on an
efficient exit in everyday activity, but especially in emergencies.

The sand placement portion of the Lido Beach renourishment project is about a third of the way complete.

“I think we should be aware of these issues when they arise. We are the people’s representatives.”

Turner received slightly more votes than Alpert, earning 30.14 percent of the votes cast. Alpert came in second with 29.13 percent,

Simmons in her complaint says Director Strickland made racist comments and racially insensitive remarks.

Candidates do not all agree on roundabouts, speedbumps, Mote, Players and Orchestra’s next home. That’s for starts…

Longboat Key News and Sarasota City News asked each candidate a series of questions and this week we present Round 1.

The City will be offering up to 50,000 free masks to residents and visitors throughout the city over the next week.

Sarasota City Manager Tom Barwin said he was struck by the fact that the activists were mostly young, and he said they were generally in their teens to early 20s.

Lido Beach remains closed driving thousands of potential beachgoers to overwhelm neighboring beach communities over the past two weeks. St. Armands Circle stores want help.