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Longboat Kiwanis Welcome Return of Lawn Party

S.W AND RICH HERMANSEN Staff Writers wine@lbknews.com The somber fall of 2024 on Longboat Key and its devastating Hurricanes seemed a distant memory as residents of the...

On Patrol Longboat Key Police reports week of December 19, 2025

Dec. 12 Disturbance 7:06 p.m. Officer Miklos, Officer Tillman and Officer Martinson were dispatched to the 3600 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive in reference to a...

Longboat Key & Sarasota Letters to the Editor week of December 19, 2025

Sarasota street maintenance To: Sarasota City Commission When was the last time you walked around downtown? I don’t mean just Main Street or the popular shopping...

Paradise, Marked Down… Why Longboat Key’s Private Boom is the Town’s Public Bust

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com On the third floor of a gleaming condominium complex overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, there is a unit that exists in...

Shore’s Gambit in a Graveyard of Big Ideas

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com If history is any guide, the Shore Restaurant’s new proposal for a three-story, mixed-use complex on St. Armands Circle is sailing...

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The Sun-Bleached Mecca: How Nick Bollettieri and IMG created the Center of the Tennis Universe

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com If you drive down 53rd Avenue...

Homegrown ‘Sips’ Expands as Corporate Giant Retreats

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com In the delicate ecosystem of Longboat...

Greatest Show on Earth is Sadly a Clown Show in Plan to ‘Vision’ St. Armands Development

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com It was T.S. Eliot who said...

A Life of Service and Stewardship: Remembering Randy Clair (1939–2026)

LBKNews Special Report news@lbknews.com Longboater Randy Clair was known as the...
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