One Pump, One Hour, One More Flood: The County Blames the Rain and St. Armands Still Wants Answers
A stormwater pump tripped offline for 66 minutes on Oct. 6 and the Circle flooded again, with water pushing into businesses. The county now...
Carl Abbott Taught Houses How to See
Carl Abbott carried the Sarasota School further than anyone. Some of his finest houses on the keys are already gone. What happens to the...
Why the Battle Over Longboat Pass Is No Longer Just Town vs. State
Stand on the sand at the south end of Coquina Beach an hour before sunset and you are looking at one of the last...
How a Monster El Niño Half a World Away Gave Longboat and Sarasota Two Years of Peace
—The Storms That Never Came...
Two years after Helene and Milton, the barrier islands have been handed the quietest hurricane season of the satellite...
Sarasota Said Too Tall, Shore’s Team Said Change the Rule
The busy season is arriving on a Circle that survived two hurricanes and rebuilt itself under the old rules. Against that backdrop, one application...
Longboat Library Clears Town Commission With a February Groundbreaking in Sight
—After two decades of false starts, a collapsed college partnership, two hurricanes and a $3.5 million fundraising drive, the Longboat Key library may finally...
Sarasota Residents Fight Over Flock Cameras as City Hall Reaches for a PR Plan
One of the city's own officers sits charged with running a single license plate 358 times. The governor has ordered the cameras off state...
Hart’s Landing: How Sarasota’s 90-Year-Old Bait Shop Got Lost in FEMA’s Red Tape
The bait shop is gone, the fishing pier is closed and the park under the Ringling Bridge sits behind chain link. City Hall says...
With 66,984 Tickets and No Traffic Stop, Sarasota’s Cameras Mailed $7 Million in Fines Last Year
In the 12 months that ended June 30, cameras in the City of Sarasota generated 66,984 notices of violation. That is 183 a day,...
Breakfast House Wins First City Sign-Off as the Bungalow Village Question Hangs Over Fruitville Road
The apartment deal that threatened Fruitville Road's painted cottages collapsed on a Saturday. On Wednesday, the block's best-known tenant walked into City Hall with...