Sarasota’s Bay Park is Getting Its First Waterfront Restaurant
For years, visitors strolling through The Bay — downtown Sarasota’s sweeping 53-acre waterfront park along Sarasota Bay — have had no shortage of breathtaking...
Save our Seabirds: She Came for the Beauty, and Stayed to Protect It
Longboater Linda Mitchell Didn’t Plan to Chair a Bird Rescue Organization. Then She Saw the Seabirds.
Linda Mitchell has a phrase she has lived by...
What a $3.6 Billion Beach Means for Longboat Key and Sarasota’s Barrier Islands
Siesta Key just topped America’s best-beach list again. For Longboat Key and the Sarasota barrier islands, the real story is what that crown is...
Progress Has a Price in Sarasota with Fruitville Road Development Plan
Sarasota needs housing. A Tennessee developer has a plan. And standing in the way are seventeen small businesses, two massive oak trees, and a...
As Schools Cut, Longboat Funds
As the district cuts 136 teaching jobs, a timeless tension between wealth, civic obligation, and public education plays out on the shores of Sarasota...
Sarasota’s Mote Marine Deploys Its Secret Weapon Against Dying Coral Reefs
—For Longboat Key residents who love the ocean — and there are a few — a piece of news arrived quietly in late March...
Dismasted: Sailboat Collision Halts Traffic on Aging Longboat Pass Bridge
—A Sudden Halt to the Morning Commute
The morning of Friday, April 17, 2026, brought an unexpected halt to the coastal commute in Longboat Key,...
Whittall Fires Back: St. Regis Arch is ‘Not the Jersey Shore’ as Showdown Looms on Longboat Key
—Moments before strapping into his Ferrari 296 GTB at the Sebring International Raceway on Friday morning, Unicorp President and CEO Chuck Whittall had a...
Post-Storm Rebuilding or a Trojan Horse? St. Armands Faces a Zoning Crossroads
The barrier islands of Sarasota are approaching what many locals view as a defining crossroads. On Monday, April 13, the City of Sarasota will...
Blue-Chip Waterways: Longboat Key’s $9M Dredging Plan Secures Elite Real Estate Values
—On Florida’s West Coast, where multimillion-dollar real estate commands international attention, navigable water is the ultimate currency.
Now, for the first time since 2003, Longboat...