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Homegrown ‘Sips’ Expands as Corporate Giant Retreats

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com In the delicate ecosystem of Longboat Key’s post-hurricane recovery, a telling economic indicator might just be a cup of coffee. For nearly...

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 the end is where we start. And that is apt for St. Armands Circle, a...

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

LBKNews Special Report news@lbknews.com Longboater Randy Clair was known as the man who did the homework. When he sat on the dais at Longboat Key Town Hall,...

Longboat Key & Sarasota Letters to the Editor week of January 23, 2026

Your article on Alma de España To: Editor Hello, Hermansen father and son. I enjoyed your review of this restaurant and look forward to eating there...

On Patrol Longboat Key Police reports week of January 23, 2026

Jan. 16 Highway 2:46 a.m. Officer Pescuma was dispatched to the 5300 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive in reference to a highway obstruction. Dispatch advised that...

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To Protect, Serve, or Pull over? Longboat’s “High Visibility” Policing Sparks Taxpayer Revolt

—It is something of a policing paradox. For decades,...

Scaled-Back Sarasota Art Center Praised; Tax Threats Cloud Future

—The vision for the new Sarasota Performing Arts Center...

Hurricanes, Tax Wars, and a $33 Million Sewer Crisis Define Longboat’s 2025 Victory Lap

—If you read the Town of Longboat Key’s newly...

From Comedy Stage to Concert Club: Inside Sarasota’s Live Music Renaissance

—Sarasota has long punched above its weight class as...
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