Easy to Build, Hard to Keep — Longboat Library has a Cost Philanthropy Cannot Cover
The county has advanced the design. Donors have met their pledge. But the recurring expense of keeping the doors open runs on the very...
How a Sarasota Barrier-Island Library and a $288 Million Bayfront Stage Came to Share the Same Fate
The two projects could hardly differ more in scale. One is a $14.5 million library for several thousand island residents; the other is a...
Longboat Wants Homes to Go Up; Its Own Code Keeps Getting in the Way
—Longboat Key wants more of its homes lifted out of harm’s way. On June 22, the Town Commission confronted an awkward truth: the Town’s...
It’s Not the Planes — It’s the Traffic, $26,000 Air Study Tells Longboat Commission
When residents began noticing a fine grit settling on their cars, lanai furniture and outdoor surfaces, the prevailing suspicion on Longboat Key pointed skyward...
The Drought That Won’t Quit: One-Day Watering Extended to Oct. 1
With the wet season off to one of its driest starts in memory, regional water managers have extended one-day-a-week sprinkler limits clear through October...