Longboat Key Gave Up Its Insularity for Beach Money; The Parking Lot Is the Receipt
For most of its history, Longboat Key paid its own way to the water. Residents taxed themselves to truck in sand, groomed their own...
Beauty, Neglect, and a Battle for the Soul of St. Armands Circle
—While Developers Circle and the City Dithers, Merchants Association President Rachel Burns Walks Every Cracked Inch — and Has a Plan. Does Anyone...
Quick, Easy, Cheap, and Tasty
—Our readings of food recipes suggest that a formula helps make a recipe successful in print: promise two or more of Quick, Easy, Cheap,...
Longboat Key & Sarasota Letters to the Editor week of May 8, 2026
Canal Dredging and Cost/Tax Allocation
To: Longboat Key Town Commissioners
We were recently presented the Longboat Key canal dredging plans. We have a few comments below...
On Patrol Longboat Key Police reports week of May 8, 2026
May 1
—Incident
—11:43 p.m.
—Officer Miklos was dispatched to the 7000 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive in reference to a suspicious incident reported by Bradenton...