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E A ST COUNTY

Observer Lakewood Ranch’s weekly newspaper since 1998

YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

FREE THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2016

VOLUME 18, NO. 23

Meet your new

neighbor Longboat Key’s peafowl move to East County. SEE PAGE 3A

YOUR TOWN

44th Avenue extension project comes to life

Courtesy photos

Float your boat Could you build a boat made of old dresser drawers, plastic water jugs and paper? William H. Bashaw Elementary students did. The school’s Technology Student Association and fourth-grade Engineering Bridge Builders built a boat they paddled to a fourthplace finish during the annual DeSoto Bottle Boat Regatta, held April 16 at the Palma Sola Causeway.

Route from Lorraine Road to U.S. 41 could be complete as early as 2023 with county speeding up the project. PAGE 6A

Amanda Sebastiano

Alana Quinones, 9, asks a question of Amber Walker, one of 174 teachers who were mistakenly overpaid by the Manatee County School District.

BECAUSE OF DISTRICT OVERSIGHT A+E Guitar musician passes on classic legacy. INSIDE

174 TEACHERS

FACE A PAY CUT SEE PAGE 3A

Better than cookies Girl Scout Daisy Troops 547 and 690 and Brownie Troop 441 celebrated Earth Day by helping clean up the Gene Witt Elementary School grounds. More than a dozen girls picked up litter, pulled weeds, re-mulched flower beds and planted new plants. Almost all the girls were students at Gene Witt.


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