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Easy to Build, Hard to Keep — Longboat Library has a Cost Philanthropy Cannot Cover

The county has advanced the design. Donors have met...

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....

Longboat Wants Homes to Go Up; Its Own Code Keeps Getting in the Way

—Longboat Key wants more of its homes lifted out...

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...

Longboat Key & Sarasota Letters to the Editor week of February 27, 2026

Garbage pickup To: Jim Haft The current contract with Waste Management expires on June 30, 2027. The cost savings in this particular contract to go to...

A Bridge Too Far, A Span Too High: FDOT’s Towering Disregard for Longboat Key

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com It was really the classical Greeks who started philosophical paradoxes. You could go all the way back to Heraclitus, but let’s...

State Pushes Mega-Bridges Forward as Longboat Loses Battle for ‘Modest’ Spans

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com The era of the quaint barrier island drawbridge is rapidly coming to an end, and local officials are finding out the...

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Longboat Wants Homes to Go Up; Its Own Code Keeps Getting in the Way

—Longboat Key wants more of its homes lifted out...

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...

The Drought That Won’t Quit: One-Day Watering Extended to Oct. 1

With the wet season off to one of its...
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