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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...

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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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