Longboat Key News

Published: Monday, December 1, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 11:47 p.m. If you were hoping to get tickets to see Barack Obama get sworn in as the 44th president, you are likely ...

Published: Monday, November 24, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 2:17 p.m. Mark Brivik, a real estate investor who made a living buying, fixing up and selling houses on Longboat Key ...

Published: Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 7:50 p.m. 'Miss Everything" Katie Self, current national president of Teen Court, introduced retired Judge John ...

According to the United States Census Bureau, Longboat on Longboat Key has a total area of 17.1 square miles , of which, 4.9 square miles of it is land and 12.1 square miles of it is water.

Published: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 12:53 a.m. If you want to make yourself unpopular with everybody involved in a controversial issue -- like, ...

Published: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 10:56 p.m. TideWell names chief medical officer TideWell Hospice and Palliative Care recently named Dr.

Published: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 12:43 a.m. The Sarasota Film Festival will attempt to stage its traditional 10-day festival of movies, stars ...

It takes GUTS to transplant 32,670 square feet of seagrass from Wulfert Channel to Dinkins Bayou.

Sure, it has the trappings of your typical outdoor festival: grilled meat, cover songs and portable toilets.

Longboat Key photographer, Billi Stuckert of www.MemoriesbyBilli.com, featured in wedding merchant business directory.

For the past 18 years, The Colony Beach Tennis Resort on Longboat Key has produced and hosted what the editors at Coastal Living magazine have determined to be "The Best Seafood Wine Festival in the Country". ...

A famous face from Longboat Key is back home after almost two weeks of extensive rehabilitation in the hospital.

Early on in discussion of the Longboat Key Club and Resort's plan to build a 222-room hotel and 249 condo units where its Islandside Tennis Center and golf driving range are located, I suggested concessions ...

It has been a rough year for Edward K. Buchanan. The 53-year-old younger brother of Rep.

November is National Hispanic Heritage Month and the Latino Community Network gave it a cross-cultural kickoff on Saturday.

No charges will be filed against a Venice boat owner in connection with the death of a Longboat Key man who fell from the moving vessel and was cut in the head by the propeller in November 2007, prosecutors ...

The two major parties stationed candidate information tables at both sides of the slight hill leading to the polling place at Longboat Key City Hall: Obama on the left, McCain on the right.

Our top treats for after the show. Su Byron Euphemia Haye is famed for its formal gourmet fare.

Manatee Community College A rocking chair had little appeal for two successful retirees who, after chalking up more than 62 years collectively in stimulating careers, signed up to volunteer at Manatee Community ...

Sarasota is going beyond being identified as a sightseeing destination for the arts and architecture thanks to new programs at the Ringling College of Art and Design that help it to be seen as a center for ...