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NEWS

Scallopalooza garners waves of support. PAGE 12A

OUR TOWN

free • THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013

DIVERSIONS

FAMILY PLAN

What will the future hold for the Bay Isles swans? PAGE 3A

A mysterious past adds romance to the Home of the Month. INSIDE

development debate

by Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor

Developers and opponents make ‘pointes’ on Long Bar Approximately 1,000 people filled the Bradenton Area Convention Center Tuesday to weigh in on a Bradenton project that includes residences, a hotel, conference center and marina.

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+ Couple celebrates 50 golden years James and Barry Walsh, of Longboat Key, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary July 13, at St. Martha’s Catholic Church in Sarasota — the same place where they were married in 1963 by Msgr. Charles Elslander. St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church Msgr. Gerard Finegan officiated the vow renewals, while best man Fred Walden, of Bradenton, and matron of honor Sandra Brubaker, of Rockville, Md., and keeper of the bride’s book Ann Darling, of Sarasota, returned to the church to reprise their roles. This time, however, the couple was joined by the additions to the family they’ve had over 50 years, including their four children and seven grandchildren.

+ The chamber has left the building A helpful hint for those seeking and giving direction to the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce: The chamber is now located in Suite 120F of the Mediterranean Plaza (behind Publix) at 595 Bay Isles Road, after moving out of the Longboat Observer office at 5570 Gulf of Mexico Drive in March. For information, call the chamber at 383-2466.

Turtle tracks Week of July 28 through Aug. 3

Nests..................................36 False crawls........................30 2013 2012 Nests 616 625 False crawls 463 460

Longboat Key resident and Cannons Marina owner David Miller is a man of few words. But even Miller couldn’t resist making a comment Tuesday about a controversial mixed-use project in Northwest Bradenton called Long Bar Pointe, which Longboat officials are closely monitoring. “I’ve been fishing in that area and it’s my hope to fish there for the next 50 years without a development like this interfering,” Miller said. Miller, along with a few other Longboat Key residents and three Longboat Key commissioners, joined a crowd of approximately 1,000 people Tuesday that filled the Bradenton Area Convention Center in Palmetto to attend a special Manatee County Commission land-use meeting. At the meeting, which was still under way as of press time Tuesday, commissioners were charged with either approving or denying two Comprehensive Plan amendments that Long Bar Pointe developers Carlos Beruff and Larry Lieberman are seeking to apply for a grander resort community that’s currently not allowed under the county’s current Comp Plan. The project includes residences, a hotel, conference center,

SEE LONG BAR / PAGE 2A

Kurt Schultheis

Long Bar Pointe project supporters prepare for a special land-use meeting of the Manatee County Commission Tuesday.

OFF THE MARKET

by Robin Hartill | City Editor

North-end home sells for $6.8 million The sale of the home at 6001 Gulf of Mexico Drive is Longboat Key’s priciest residential transaction since April 2011. A new home at 6001 Gulf of Mexico Drive sold last Wednesday for $6.8 million, the highest amount paid for a Longboat Key residence since April 2011. The Addy-Wittig Team, of Michael Saunders & Co.’s Longboat Key South office, and Jonathan Abrams, of the company’s Siesta Key office, co-listed the property.

Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate agent Lynne Koy represented the property’s buyers, who searched for three years on Siesta Key, Casey Key, Lido Key and the mainland bayfront before finding the property. The buyers, whose names were not immediately available through property records, are from Tennessee

and owned three previous Longboat Key beachfront condominiums, according to Koy They were drawn to the newly built home, in part because it sits on more than an acre and they could envision their grandchildren playing Photo courtesy of Lynne Koy

SEE SALE / PAGE 2A

The newly built home sits on more than an acre of Gulf-front land.

INDEX Briefs....................4A Calendar............ 10A

Classifieds ........ 21A Crossword.......... 20A

Obituaries.......... 10A Opinion.................8A

Real Estate........ 18A Weather............. 20A

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