A Tower Seen by Forty Thousand Chooses to Show Its Art to a Few Hundred
A 23-foot sculpture is coming to one of Sarasota’s most-seen towers. But it faces the entrance off the Ritz-Carlton connector road, where residents and...
The Great Sarasota Meltdown: One Out of Three of My Tennis Partners Has Disappeared
When the snowbirds came down this season, I conducted what scientists call “an informal census” and what my wife calls “staring at people.” The...
The Emerald Labyrinth: Kayaking the Hidden Mangrove Tunnels of Longboat and Lido Key
The air shifts the moment you cross the threshold. The bright, blinding glare of the Florida sun is suddenly swallowed by a dense canopy...
Longboat Key & Sarasota Letters to the Editor week of June 19, 2026
Longboat Bridge
To: Bradenton Beach Mayor John Chappie
Did the Bradenton Beach Commission take a position on the proposed Longboat Key Bridge?
James G. Haft
Longboat Key
Longboat Bridge
To:...
On Patrol Longboat Key Police reports week of June 19, 2026
—June 12
—Felony
—7:13 a.m.
—Officer Nazareno while on patrol in the 4000 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive, observed a white Fiat that was...