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Longboat Key Honors 9-11

As part of the observance of the 23rd Anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, the Town of Longboat Key installed 2,977 American flags in the...

Father Dave Marshall: The meaning in playing many roles

TRYLA LARSON Guest Writer tryla@lbknews.com The Longboat Key community members are just as wonderful as the island itself. So many residents of our piece of paradise volunteer...

$28.35 million Italian villa sets new bar for Sarasota

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com The soul of Sarasota architecture has long followed two traditions: ornate replicas representing the greatest hits of Italian villas and its...

Sarasota Bay water unsafe for swimming recreating following impact from Debby

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com Mote Marine and most recently the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program have found dangerously high levels of bacteria and low levels of...

Family joins love, prayer and community to beat odds for Mighty Robot Tiger Lucas

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com What is a lifetime and how long is far too short? And what length will a mother and father go to...

Longboat Manager faces floods, erosion, boat noise and funding

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com Forget the cliché: in today’s accelerated world, the new idiom is “What a difference a week makes.” That certainly held true for...

St. Regis opening ushers in new era on Longboat Key

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com The opening of the St. Regis Longboat Key last Friday marks the beginning of a new era on the...

Siesta tops U.S. News list of best U.S. beaches this year

Siesta Key beat out three Hawaiian beaches, two other Florida beaches, two California beaches, one in Alabama and an area of coastal North Carolina,...

Mote Marine Laboratory releases rehabilitated sea turtle “Lil’ Dougie” off Siesta Beach

On Monday morning, August 12, Mote Marine Laboratory released a 154-pound, about 3-foot-long, subadult, female loggerhead sea turtle nicknamed “Lil’ Dougie” off Siesta Key...

Boat blaze destroys 65-foot yacht as investigation focuses on batteries

Longboat Key Fire Chief Paul Dezzi says that Lithium batteries likely exacerbated a boat fire last week that destroyed a 65-foot yacht at the...

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