Sarasota Files Plans to Bring Back Hart’s Landing with Shrimp Window, Shade Pavilion and Floating Dock
Plans filed with City Hall show a hurricane-hardened bait and restroom building pulled back from the bay, an open-air pavilion with bait tanks on...
How Tennis Players From Wimbledon to Longboat Key Lose the Match Before It Starts
On Longboat Key, the alibi is filed before the first serve. A field guide to the kayak, the shoulder thing, the shot strings and...
Save Our Seabirds Opens Five New Aviaries
After three hard years, two hurricanes and a supply chain that wouldn't cooperate, the City Island bird hospital unveils $300,000 in campus improvements and...
Thrilla on the Key: Mayor Williams and Mark Walsh go to sudden death as OPL Charities raises $525,000
The Walsh family's annual OPL Charities Golf Tournament brought golfers, business partners and friends to The Resort at Longboat Key Club for a week...
Coast Guard crew frees entangled loggerhead in waters off Sarasota
Somewhere in the Gulf between Venice and Big Sarasota Pass, a loggerhead sea turtle old enough to have been cruising these waters since the...
City Says No to South Lido’s Problem Park, Citing Jet Skis, Trucks and a Battered Budget
Four months after commissioners talked up a takeover of South Lido’s most troubled public space, city staff priced it out and said no. The...
One Turtle’s Night on Longboat, and the Battle That Never Ends
Nesting is nearly done and hatching is in full swing. The count is down from last year’s record and up from the year before,...
New York vs. Boston: The Empire Strikes Out
In which a man raised on Phil Rizzuto and righteous hatred of Boston confronts the unthinkable: his best material is 48 years old.
—I grew...
The Reef Is Being Evacuated and Sarasota Should Be Paying Attention
The divers went back in the water this month, and once again they were not planting coral. They were taking it out.
—Along Florida's Coral...
PBS Spotlight Turns to Mote’s Shark Breakthrough
For years, the story of the disappearing catch has played out just off our own beaches: a grouper or snapper hooked in 140 feet...