St. Regis Denies Nearly Every Word of Longboat’s Case, Raises Six Defenses, and a Judge Sets the Arch Trial for January 2028
For a year, Chuck Whittall fought the Town of Longboat Key with photographs.He fought it from a Town Hall podium, from the driver’s seat...
St. Armands is Swimming in Seafood
A crab shack for the old Tommy Bahama. Tommy Bahama for the old Shore. And Shore rebuilding itself from the slab up in flood-proof...
The Ballot and the Bay: Five Candidates, Two Seats, and a City With Issues
A five-way primary for two at-large seats, an island-defining county race a jurisdiction away, and a November tax question that could quietly reorder the...
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...
Inside Shore’s Latest Development to Remake St. Armands Circle
The developer who once tried to put a hotel behind these buildings now owns the buildings. The city that twice rejected him is buying...
Unanimous: Longboat Key Adopts the Canal Assessment — and a $620 Bill Lands on Every Waterfront Owner
After a quarter-century of deferral, the commission passes the canal navigation maintenance program 6–0 — pulling a Catholic church off the roll, fixing two...