There is a difference, rarely discussed in the celebratory language of groundbreakings and ribbon cuttings, between a ...

The two projects could hardly differ more in scale. One is a $14.5 million library for several thousand island residents; the ...

Longboat Key wants more of its homes lifted out of harm’s way. On June 22, the Town Commission confronted an awkward truth: ...

All the items were placed in a property and evidence temporary locker at the Police Department to be released upon request.

There is a particular kind of Sarasota story that arrives wearing the costume of good news. A beloved restaurant is coming ...

After a quarter-century of deferral, the commission passes the canal navigation maintenance program 6–0 — pulling a Catholic church off the roll, fixing two misassigned parcels, and brushing past ...

There was no national search. There was no headhunting firm with a six-figure retainer, no parade of finalists shuttled in ...

Here, just inches above the waterline, the ambient hum of Gulf Coast traffic and outboard motors fades into an ancient, ...

The appeal of Longboat Key has always come down to a single, simple promise. For the snowbird trading a Buffalo winter for a dock on the bay, or the retired executive who spent thirty years dreaming ...

You can’t order it off any menu in Florida. That law is exactly why the 22,000 lab-raised snook slipping into local waters this summer carry the weight of a multibillion-dollar fishery. There is a ...

Brian Walton, Danielle Gladding and Ken and Marjie Goldberg sit and sip the lager, as Bob Weil, Ethan Harper and Stuart Drymon enjoy the beer standing. The Banyan Bar has served Laughing Gull Lager on ...

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