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Voters go their own way Sarasota residents favor bloc of School Board candidates who ultimately lost. PAGE 3A

Lesley Dwyer

Back to sea with you Waves had seen better days.

In May, the green sea turtle was found tangled in fishing line near the Seafood Shack Marina in Cortez and was rescued for treatment at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital.

But on Tuesday, Waves headed back to the sea.

Three months ago, Waves was found missing its left rear flipper and couldn’t move its front flipper on the left side, either. The fishing wire had cut its mouth and further examination found a fishing lure in the turtle’s digestive tract.

After regaining use of its flipper, passing the hook and undergoing surgery to remove tumors, Waves was released from Lido Beach.

All’s wool that ends wool Former alpaca farmer still finds serenity while weaving. PAGE 1B

Lesley Dwywer

An eye on the beach Planning a beach day this time of year can be tricky. Summer storms and algae blooms come and go. So before packing the cooler, check a website that has all the details for you.

Mote’s Beach Conditions Reporting System offers daily updates on crowds, beach amenities, surf conditions, currents, drift algae, water temperatures and the presence of respiratory irritations.

Data can be accessed online at VisitBeaches.org/map or through a phone application. More than 50 beaches between Folly Beach, South Carolina and Islamorada in the Florida Keys are monitored, however, most of the reports are coming from beaches on the west coast between Tarpon Springs and Marco Island.

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Dedrea Greer enjoys weaving in her Whitney Beach condominium.

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Turtle tracks LONGBOAT Aug. 21-27 Nests False crawls

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Totals since April 24 2022 2021 Nests 1,300 1,032 False crawls 1,521 1,440 Source: Mote Marine Laboratory

Lesley Dwyer

More evidence of love on the boardwalk at City Island, Stop 11 on the watershed audio tour.

City Island walk guides you Audio tour is part of a statewide trail network. PAGE 6A

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League’s certification adds expertise to Town Commissioners’ resumes Elected officials with a limited background in local government can earn certificates for continuing their education.

LAUREN TRONSTAD STAFF WRITER

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ongboat Key Commissioner Penny Gold is among those planning to take part in a new Florida League of Cities certification program that provides opportunities for elected officials to become more familiar with state and federal issues that might affect local government, trends and best practices.

FLC Associate Director of Communication James Miller said the league is made up of 411 cities in Florida and provides them with advocacy tools and training programs designed for municipal officials.

“Someone who is newly elected and may not have a background or experience in local government, which is typically not one of the requirements, has this opportunity to go through some formal education and learn more about the role,” Town Manager Tom Harmer said. “I think it is really helpful.”

Harmer expects a few commissioners will sign up for the program, but it is unlikely all of them will participate.

Gold already has signed up for the program.

“I thought it was a good way, an incentive to keep me up to date on state and federal laws and regulations and things that are going on in local government administration,” said Gold, who was elected to the commission in 2021 after serving on the town’s Planning and Zoning Board.

The program, which she signed up for at the annual conference, is likely to increase her participation in classes and events that she might not have

Town commissioners are able to earn one of their certificates from the Florida League of Cities.

attended otherwise, she said.

“I think it will be a good incentive for me and other commissioners as well,” she said.

Levels of certification include bronze, silver and gold. Each requires a certain number of points to be accrued to obtain the certificate.

To achieve the bronze certificate of merit, commissioners must earn 10 points through continuing education classes. Silver certificates of leadership require 20 points; gold certificates of excellence require 30 points.

A list of events and training programs for each certificate are provided and point values vary.

The courses are voluntary, and participants can choose their own paths toward certification levels.

The program costs the town nothing.

“We thought this was the best way to go ahead and promote their success and the stuff that they had learned over the past year,” Miller said.

Officials who have completed the Institute for Elected Municipal Officials and who earn their gold certificate only need to accrue 15 points in subsequent years to retain their gold

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Commissioner Penny Gold, who was elected in 2021, will join the program.

certification.

For example, the institute levels one and two and the annual conference are all worth 10 points.

FLC webinars are worth one point for each completed and legislative conference participation earns six points.

Officials who attend webinars virtually also are eligible for the same number of points earned through in-person attendance.

“This is a great way for them to be able to show what they have learned and the efforts they put in,” Miller said. “We got a great response from (the announcement), and we already have a ton of people signed up for it.”

“It recognizes a broader effort to be as knowledgeable as possible when they are serving the community.”

— Tom Harmer

Prior to the program, newly elected Longboat officials typically go through the Institute for Elected Officials’ two tiered program.

With the new program, officials will now be recognized for their attendance.

“If they want to go beyond and add some other components, they can take additional classes or attend other things,” Harmer said. “It recognizes a broader effort to be as knowledgeable as possible when they are serving the community.”

Point accumulation is tracked by league staff through event registrations through the membership database.

Points are accumulated from August through July in line with the annual conference.

Commissioners will be able to track their progress of certification through quarterly reports sent out by the organization.

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COUNTY VOTERS ZIG, LONGBOAT VOTERS ZAG In contentious Sarasota School Board race, town leaned toward opponents of all three countywide winners.

LAUREN TRONSTAD STAFF WRITER

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ongboat Key’s Sarasota County voters leaned against the winning grain in a nonpartisan School Board of Sarasota County election this past week in three races that drew broad attention in a heated political climate.

Conservative residents of the Key said they were surprised by results that differed from the overall popular vote. Longboat Key Democratic Club representatives were not shocked by the data.

Party ties quickly emerged in the school board race that focused on issues as state mandates, parental access to curriculum, requirements on how educators teach civics and history and more.

County voters re-elected Bridget Ziegler into the District 1 seat. Robyn Marinelli was voted into the District 4 seat, and Timothy Enos was selected for the District 5 seat.

However, Longboat residents voted in favor of each winning candidate’s opponent. Countywide, the losing trio carried about a third of Sarasota’s 99 voting precincts.

Just over 50% of Longboat voters preferred Dawnyelle Singleton in the seat over Ziegler. Singleton received 887 votes over Ziegler’s 879 in the closest island vote.

About 58% of voters cast their ballot for Lauren Kurnov instead of winner Marinelli. Kurnov received 1,007 votes over 731 cast for Marinelli.

About 45% of voters were in favor of Enos. The majority voted for Nora Cietek. Enos received 772 votes, whereas Cietek received 953.

“The community has spoken and it is crystal clear: They are demanding a reset of the school board, and that’s exactly what they are going to get,” Ziegler wrote in a statement.

“Taxpayers will be appreciated. Parents will be respected and involved.

Teachers will be respected and supported. Kids will be protected and served. And our school district will get the focus back to our mission: educating our children.”

Ziegler, Marinelli and Enos were guests of the Republican Club of Longboat Key in April, an event at which Manatee County Commission candidate Jason Bearden also appeared.

Bearden pulled off an upset, defeating Carol Whitmore for her seat. In that race, north-end residents of Longboat Key supported the U.S. Marine Corps veteran over the incumbent, but with a smaller margin that the countywide vote.

In his new Congressional district that no longer includes the Sarasota County portion of Longboat, U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan (R) defeated Sarasota businessman Martin Hyde in Manatee County voting by more than 4-1, a ratio nearly matched among Longboat Key’s Manatee County residents.

Democrats on Longboat Key favored Sarasota City Commissioner Hagen Brody in a County Commission primary over winner Fredd Atkins.

Town Commissioner BJ Bishop said that while she was expecting different results in the school board race, she was not entirely shocked by the outcome, either.

She attributed the outcome to concern of citizens on the Key regarding teacher retention and support. Bishop cited a number of former educators living on the Key who may have identified left-leaning candidates aligning with what they hoped to see in the district.

“One of the really good things about Longboat voters is they are well educated,” she said. “They are usually pretty prepared when they go to the polls.”

In Longboat Key’s Sarasota County voting precinct, 1,848 of 4,686 registered voters cast ballots, a turnout of 39.44% against a countywide

HOW LONGBOAT VOTED (SARASOTA)

At an April meeting of the Republican Club of Longboat Key, school board member Bridget Ziegler, center, was joined by candidates Robyn Marinelli and Timothy Enos.

“I think there needed to be change and the way some of the parents were being silenced when they showed up at meetings.”

— Lynn Larson

It is likely that those who voted for the winning candidates have students in the school system and a desire to see change in the board and district, he said.

“I think the other candidates were really putting forward that they wanted major changes,” he said.

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Former Town Commissioner Lynn Larson was surprised by how Longboat residents voted for school board candidates.

turnout figure of 36.76%. In Manatee County’s Longboat Key voting precinct, 538 of 2,255 registered voters cast ballots, a turnout of 35.7% against a countywide overall turnout of 31.28%.

Residents of Longboat Key are typically retired with only about 75 students on the island attending Manatee County or Sarasota County schools.

OPPOSING VIEWS

President of the Longboat Key Democratic Club Ed Sabol said he was not surprised by Key residents’ selections as most of the individuals he spoke with were pleased with the way the school board was being run in the past while being governed by mostly Democratic-leaning members.

“It’s not shocking to me because most people I speak with feel that the Sarasota County school system is doing a very good job, and it has a very good reputation,” he said.

The club endorsed Kurnov, Singleton and Cietek in the race as statements emailed to Sabol, who decided which candidates to endorse, aligned most closely with the views of club members.

However, Sabol believes the viewpoints of the liberal candidates in the nonpartisan race aligned with what residents viewed as important to them and the students of the county.

Unlike the Democratic club, conservative residents of the Key said they were shocked by the revelation that residents opted to vote in favor of left-leaning candidates as opposed to the candidates who won the overall race.

Former Commissioner Lynn Larson, who serves on the island’s Miracle on the Key group — a gathering of Republicans and Democrats — was surprised by Longboat voting outcomes as individuals she had spoken with prior to the election were hoping for change on the board.

“I think there needed to be change and the way some of the parents were being silenced when they showed up at meetings,” she said. “... Even if you don’t agree with people, they have the right to speak.”

Larson is under the impression that if less negative campaigning was done by a third party group, Longboat voters may have been more inclined to vote for conservative candidates.

Both Larson and Sabol were in agreement that the contentious nature of the school board election led to the end result of who Longboat residents selected to represent the interests of county residents.

In the majority of races in Sarasota County, Longboat Key residents cast their vote for another individual other than who ultimately won the popular vote.

In Manatee County, the same difference did not exist. The individuals who won the popular vote was the same as the individuals the majority of residents on the Key selected.

Not all of the election results are final. Some individuals will reappear on the Nov. 8 ballot.

SCHOOL BOARD: DISTRICT 1 CANDIDATE OVERALL Bridget Ziegler 56.34% Dawnyelle Singleton 43.66%

LONGBOAT 49.77% (879) 50.23% (887)

SCHOOL BOARD: DISTRICT 4 CANDIDATE OVERALL Lauren Kurnov 47.16% Robyn Marinelli 52.84%

LONGBOAT 57.94% (1,007) 42.06% (731)

SCHOOL BOARD: DISTRICT 5 CANDIDATE OVERALL Nora Cietek 47.26% Timothy Enos 52.74%

LONGBOAT 55.25% (953) 44.75% (772)

COUNTY COMMISSION District 2 Republican CANDIDATE OVERALL Lourdes Ramirez 42.23% Mark Smith 57.77%

LONGBOAT 31.22% (222) 68.78% (489)

District 2 Democratic CANDIDATE Fredd Atkins Hagen Brody Mike Cosentino

OVERALL 35.30% 34.24% 30.47%

LONGBOAT 31.96% (218) 41.20% (281) 26.83% (158)

HOSPITAL BOARD SEATS Central Seat 2 CANDIDATE OVERALL Thomas Dart 34.33% 25.85% Joseph DeVirgilio Jr. Bridgette Fiorucci 39.82%

LONGBOAT 45.27% (613) 33.53% (454) 21.20% (287)

Northern Seat 1 CANDIDATE Brad Baker Jim Meister

OVERALL 57.48% 42.52%

LONGBOAT 56.3% (744) 43.7% (583)

Northern Seat 2 CANDIDATE Nick Altier Andre Hoefer Richard Rehmeyer Victor Rohe

OVERALL 27.7% 8.6% 29.23% 34.44%

LONGBOAT 49% (309) 7.1% (45) 31% (195) 12.9% (81)

Southern Seat 1 CANDIDATE Darryl Henry Patricia Maraia

OVERALL 45.57% 54.43%

LONGBOAT 55.83% (747) 44.17% (591)

Southern Seat 2 CANDIDATE Gregory Carter Joseph Chirillo

OVERALL 51.85% 48.15%

LONGBOAT 59.55% (786) 40.45% (534)

HOW LONGBOAT VOTED (MANATEE) COUNTY COMMISSION DISTRICT 2 REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE OVERALL LONGBOAT Jason Bearden 61.54% 51.66% (202) Carol Whitmore 25.33% 36.32% (142) Carol Ann Felts 13.13% 12% (160) U.S. CONGRESS, DISTRICT 16 CANDIDATE OVERALL Vern Buchanan 86% Martin Hyde 14%

LONGBOAT 86.4% (1,330) 13.6% (210)

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New restaurants on Longboat Key focus on fresh ingredients

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Hugo II has been serving guests since April. LaVilla Mexican Restaurant will opened its doors Saturday.

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wo restaurants have popped up on Longboat Key in recent months. Hugo II, which is located in Cedars East Tennis Court, has been open since April.

LaVilla Mexican Restaurant will open Saturday. Both restaurants tout the use of fresh ingredients prepared in-house.

LAVILLA MEXICAN RESTAURANT

LaVilla Mexican restaurant is the first Mexican restaurant on the Key. Located at 5610 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Suite 5, it features authentic regional Mexican cuisine. All dining seating is indoors.

“Everyone has been pretty excited,” owner Estella Villegas said of the resident reaction to the new restaurant. “I have had people calling me to tell me they want us to open already.”

She predicts their smothered burritos will be among their most popular menu items due to their creamy jalapeño sauce.

“It really is so delicious,” she said.

Menu items are prepared fresh and the location rarely uses anything canned or processed, Villegas said.

The family owned business has another location in Valrico that has been open for about eight years. Villegas said it is likely that that location will close after the restaurant on the Keys gets up and running.

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HUGO II

Hugo II is a new European restaurant on the Key, which opened April 8 in the clubhouse at Cedars East Tennis Court; 645 Cedars Court.

Menu offerings, which change

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every 10 days, include a mixture of American and European favorites for lunch and dinner and breakfast on Sundays, owner Denisa Guttman said.

Guttman runs the restaurant with the help of her mother and father Kika and Thilo Pietsch. The trio maintain a focus on the family like atmosphere of the restaurant.

“The people feel very welcomed and very warm because here we are like a family,” Guttman said. “We have always been very family oriented.”

After a break in September, Guttman said they plan to operate noon to 7 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays.

The restaurant is closed Monday and Tuesday.

All of the food is locally sourced and made fresh on site by Guttman’s mother. Fine wines, spirits and signature cocktails also are available.

Restaurant staff encourage a drink from the Tiki bar overlooking the junior Olympic-sized pool of the resort before dinner.

Hugo II’s most popular dishes include schnitzel, soups and burgers, Guttman said.

Guests at Hugo II can choose between indoor and outdoor seating.

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Tree lighting date prompts Circle of debate Citing city commission wishes, the BID board insists St. Armands’ new 60-foot tree be lighted before Thanksgiving.

who together advocated for the tree before the commissioners — engaged in a sometimes contentious exchange over the timing of the tree lighting.

Leonard pressed Burns on the commission’s urging for an earlierthan-usual lighting date while Burns pushed back that a number of factors outside the organization’s control could interfere with that timeline.

Chief among them is the delivery date of the new tree, which commissioners approved to replace the 20-year-old artificial tree that had fallen into such disrepair that it was no longer viable.

In prior years, Burns told the board, the lighting occurred on the first Friday in December.

“The tree goes up typically the third week of November. It’s a matter of the company being able to install it early,” Burns said. “Once the tree is installed, the tree lighting event is what I am working on now because it is a permitted event and there are permit ordinances in the area, so there’s a little more to it.”

In addition to the city, permitting must be secured from the Florida Department of Transportation

ANDREW WARFIELD STAFF WRITER

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hen Sarasota city commissioners on Aug. 1 approved a grant of $286,000 to the St. Armands Merchants Association for a new 60-foot tree for the holiday season, they were clear about two things: The tree is a “holiday” tree — not specifically a Christmas tree — to be enjoyed by all citizens and visitors alike, and it would ideally be installed and the ceremonial lighting take place before Thanksgiving.

During last week’s meeting of the St. Armands Circle Business Improvement District board of directors, Chair Tom Leonard and St. Armands Merchants Association Executive Director Rachel Burns —

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Because the holiday tree lighting at St. Armands Circle impacts traffic on State Road 789, event organizers must seek a permit from the Florida Department of Transportation.

because the event requires some interference with traffic on a statemaintained road. Additionally, there are other events scheduled in the center of the circle on weekends in November that pose logistical challenges.

“Let’s be very clear here,” Leonard said. “The commission was very clear that they want to see that tree lit in November, before the Thanksgiving weekend. … We want that tree up earlier than later. We want to market that tree earlier than later. It’s a lot of money. It’s going to get a lot of great public input, and why not use that to our city’s advantage?”

A exact date, Burns insisted, cannot yet be set.

“There are more factors to it than just lighting the tree. It’s not just simply cut-and-dried. It’s some-

thing that we’re working on,” Burns said. “I have to first get approval of the city to then submit my right-ofway permit from the city to the state, and then work with them. It’s more than just saying, ‘Tomorrow we’re going to do this.’”

The BID board suggested Burns survey the shopping district’s merchants to ask when they would like the tree to be lighted. She responded that she will do so, but not until she knows when the tree will be delivered by the vendor. Leonard said he is pushing for that to happen by early November, but no date has been promised.

Burns said she’s not saying no to lighting the new tree earlier than in years past — only that at this time, she can’t say yes, either. The grant agreement was working its way

through the city’s legal department last week, and Business District Manager Julie Ryan said she expects that to be complete soon.

“Just to be clear,” said Ryan, “the grant is contingent upon everything that the commission had stated.”

What the commission did not state in its motion, however, was that the tree must be installed and lit before Thanksgiving, but as a city tree — not only a St. Armands tree — it sure would be nice.

No scheduling progress can be made until the grant agreement is executed and the tree’s delivery date known. Then, Burns said, she can begin seeking permits, which are date specific, from the city and state.

“I’m not telling you no,” she said.

“I’m just saying let me get through steps A, B and C first.”

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Go to the end of Ken Thompson Parkway; the entrance is next to the playground. It’s marked with a few signs and one tall pole, which provides a phone number for the Science and Environmental Council’s watershed audio tour.

Started in 2009 with 15 stops, Stop 11 on Ken Thompson Parkway is now one of 40 stops that run from Lemon Bay in Venice up to Emerson Point Preserve in Palmetto. There are two other stops on City Island and one on Longboat Key. Stop 11 focuses on the preservation of estuaries, which act as nurseries for young animals. Healthy seagrass meadows and mangrove roots provide places for them to hide from predators. Watersheds affect water quality.

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Voters spoke: They’re PO’d Politicians take note: The results in Sarasota’s school and hospital board elections and Manatee’s commission elections sent a clear message.

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he simplest assessment of the Aug. 23 primary election results in Sarasota and Manatee counties is Republican voters are ticked off. They don’t want any more of what they have been getting, and they have spoken.

SARASOTA COUNTY

Post-election attention has focused primarily on the sweep of the three Gov. DeSantis-supported school board candidates. It was a longsought victory for conservative Republicans. They at last ended 14 years of an increasingly leftleaning majority, culminating with its embrace of mask requirements in spite of strong opposition from parents and Florida’s governor.

The voters’ message was clear: Sarasota County Republicans and independent voters rejected, in particular, the way the board majority treated parents during and after the pandemic. The majority ruled as if it was in charge and parents were the servants.

The new board members campaigned on flipping the dynamics — putting parents and taxpayers back in charge, with board members where they should be — public servants.

The new board members’ first order of business will be reverting the board’s public comment policy. From there, voters can expect the whole tenor of the board to change from one of constant strife and obvious disdain toward each other to constructive consensus. Every board member — new and old — knows maintaining the district’s A-rating is a priority, as well as assuring parents the district is indeed free of divisive CRT and LGBTQ-gender influences.

Meantime, while the school board’s new conservative majority captured most of the media attention, the most surprising and stunning results occurred in the races for the Sarasota County Hospital Board. Unheard of in hospital board history, four of five incumbent board members lost.

Three of the victorious candidates were part of the four-candidate slate that campaigned on their objections to the way Sarasota Memorial Hospital treated patients and families during the pandemic.

Apparently, that resonated.

You can also conclude voters were dissatisfied with the incumbent board members’ awarding a 10-year employment contract to SMH’s CEO David Verinder — also unheard of in the hospital system’s history and the industry at large.

To make the hospital board elec-

tion results even more startling is that three of the four new board members — Bridgette Fiorucci, Patricia Maraia and Victor Rohe — were all first-time candidates for public office and essentially unknowns to most Sarasota County residents. The fourth, Brad Baker, has been a well-known and successful entrepreneur in Sarasota for the past 30 years, including extensive experience serving on corporate boards.

Fiorucci and Maraia have been registered nurses for 30 years and regard themselves as patient advocates. Rohe is a former New York City police lieutenant and Realtor.

Their commonality is their dissatisfaction with SMH during the pandemic.

For the hospital system’s sake and the sake of Sarasota County taxpayers, surely these three recognize their responsibilities will be much greater and broader than advocating for changes in patient care.

Sarasota Memorial Healthcare is a complex $1 billion enterprise. It also is a top-flight healthcare system — financially and in the services it provides. During the tenure of CEO David Verinder, the hospital system has doubled its annual revenues; built the Jellison Cancer Center and a Venice hospital; become a graduate teaching hospital; is a short time away from breaking ground on a North Port hospital; and is recognized as a top hospital nationally in a multitude of rankings.

Serving on its elected board will require new members to take a year-long crash course in all the hospital system does and the issues management constantly confronts.

While they may have a high interest in what motivated them to run for their seats, their job is not to create chaos and disruption to achieve a narrow agenda. It is to help and challenge management to do what it has been doing — striving to deliver the best healthcare possible for the citizens and taxpayers of Sarasota County.

MANATEE COUNTY

Manatee Republicans continued the sweeping out of the County Commission that voters decisively began in 2020. They routed, trounced and gave a resounding boot to moderate Republican incumbent Misty Servia and liberal Republican and longtime Commissioner Carol Whitmore.

First-time candidate Michael Rahn, a longtime leader in the region’s real estate industry, won 62% of the vote to Servia’s 37%. For Whitmore, it was worse. First-time candidate Jason Bearden won 61% of the vote to Whitmore’s 25%.

Carol Ann Felts won the other 13%.

Rahn and Bearden will join the conservative coalition of Vanessa Baugh, Kevin van Ostenbridge, George Kruse and James Satcher, forming the most fiscally conservative, limited-government, lowtaxes-oriented commission in the 2000s. The only philosophical foil and lone voice to these six commissioners will be Democrat Reggie Bellamy.

Now that this coalition has such dominance, plus the conservative county administrator, Scott Hopes, voters will be watching closely.

PRIMARY INSIGHTS, SNAPSHOTS SARASOTA TURNOUT ABOVE NORMAL 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022

Florida 21% 18% 24% 27% 28% 25.8%

Sarasota 16.4% 21.3% 26.1% 31.9% 32.3% 36.7%

Manatee 21.0% 20.6% 26.8% 32.2% 28.3% 31.3%

Primary election turnout typically is about a fourth to a third of general election turnout. So when you examine turnout for Florida’s Aug. 23 primary, statewide turnout was in line with five previous primaries.

But there was an aberration: Sarasota County.

Sarasota County turnout increased 4.3 percentage points — enough of a jump to conclude voters were charged up more than usual. The voting for Sarasota County School Board illustrates the point: The three seats recorded 122,000 votes each compared to 45,000 to 95,000 votes cast in the Sarasota County Hospital Board races.

SARASOTA JOINED TOP COUNTIES IN TURNOUT Sarasota County was the most popu1. Jefferson........... 44.8% lous county among the counties with 2. Sumter.............. 43.9% the highest voter turnout.

3. Lafayette........... 42.3% Jefferson County, which is just east 4. Sarasota........... 36.7% of Tallahassee, has about 15,000 5. Holmes.............. 35.8% population.

6. Hamilton........... 34.3% Sumter County is home to the 7. Monroe.............. 34.2% Villages, the popular senior-citizen de8. Gadsden............34.1% velopment. Its turnout is always high.

Sumter’s population is about 130,000. 9. Baker..................33.7% 10. Suwanee......... 33.6% Sarasota County’s population is estimated at 440,000, according to the Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research.

The other counties with the highest turnout primarily are in Florida’s panhandle, where population is under 20,000 and residents are loyal voters. Monroe County, of course, is Florida’s southernmost county.

DEMOCRATS RALLIED, BUT TO NO AVAIL Sarasota Republicans Democrats Other Manatee Republicans Democrats Other

Registered 351,137 152,721 101,394 97,022 277,740 122,522 79,388 75,830

# Voted

% of Party

62,478 47,418 18,637

40.9% 46.7%% 19.2%

46,640 30,012 9,774

38.0% 37.8% 12.8%

The Democratic Party of Sarasota County rallied its voters more so than the Republican Party, generating a 46.7% turnout among Democrats compared to 40.9% for Republicans. They just didn’t have enough voters to overtake the Republicans.

Same for Manatee County. The percentage turnout for Republicans and Democrats was almost identical. But it wouldn’t have mattered.

As in Sarasota, Republicans far outnumber Democrats in Manatee.

DEMOCRATS VOTE EARLY; REPUBLICANS WAIT Sarasota Republicans Democrats Other Manatee Republicans Democrats Other Totals

By Mail

Early Voting

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24,394 34,641 10,612

9,683 3,912 1,846

28,401 8,865 6,179

22,782 21,073 6,906 69,647

4,861 2,309 458 15,441

18,997 6,630 2,410 43,445

Two conclusions from the above results: • Democrats typically beat Republicans when it comes to vote by mail and early voting.

• Republicans (traditionalists) prefer to vote on election day.

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What will they produce: n A regulatory environment that will bring a greater supply of housing for the working class? n A funding strategy for future road infrastructure without raising taxes? n Lower property tax rates and smaller county government?

And can they do all that in the face of a growing population and outspoken residents who don’t want growth?

One clear message that came

through in the primary: Republican voters want less government spending.

For Manatee’s school board, voters simply replaced the veteran Democrat politician James Golden with a conservative retired Air Force colonel, Richard Tatem — tried and true, old ideas versus new ideas.

The Manatee school board could use the new energy — as long as it used to improve the schools, not for political causes.

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MIGHT AS WELL JUMP 3:30 p.m., Longboat Pass Bridge Citizen assist: Only juveniles walking on the bridge were seen in the area following a caller report of youth jumping from the span into Longboat Pass below. No violations were noted.

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IT CAME FROM THE SKY 10:30 a.m., 6800 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Found property: A caller who originally reported finding a drone on the beach subsequently alerted police that she no longer wanted to meet with an officer and would keep the drone until someone reported it missing. A day later, someone did just that. Once police reconnected with the original caller, a Bradenton woman, officers learned the found property was now at a relative’s home several states away.

After some back and forth trying to connect with Longboat police, the relative asked for a make, model and serial number of the found article to compare with the property in her possession. Once convinced all the information matched, the original caller’s out-of-state relative four days later agreed to send the flying machine back to its rightful owner on Longboat Key. By mail.

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8 a.m., 500 block of General Harris Street Found property: A resident informed police she had found a wallet with cash, credit cards and more in the middle of the street, not far from a town office. An officer took posses-

sion of it, and a police department employee mailed a notification letter explaining the wallet’s whereabouts to an address connected to the possessions. Additionally, police repackaged the wallet in a bag to ward off effects of condensation.

ERRATIC? WHO SAYS? 4:28 p.m., Pine Street Suspicious vehicle: Police arrived in a neighborhood on the lookout for a golf cart a caller said was being operated erratically. An officer spotted a golf cart in the same color as described in the call with one main difference . . . it was not operating erratically. The officer pulled alongside the cart and relayed the gist of the complaint to the driver. No other action was required.

SO LONG, BUDDY 8:13 p.m., 2800 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Animal complaint: Following up on a call about a dog on the beach, an officer learned the dog had cancer and his owner brought him to see the water for the last time. The owner and dog left the beach in accordance with town regulations banning such canine visits to the shore.

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BOOM TIMES 5:30 p.m., 500 block of Bay Isles Road Alarm: Officers responded to an intruder alarm but surmised it might have been triggered by the effects of a passing thunderstorm. Nothing appeared out of the ordinary.

SUNDAY, AUG. 21

LOST HIGHWAY 2:09 a.m., 6100 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Suspicious vehicle: An out-of-town man who had stopped his vehicle in the bike lane told an inquiring officer he was lost and was working out the best path to Tampa. With his course plotted, the man pulled away with no violations noted.

DAY AT THE BEACH 8 p.m., 2600 block of Harbourside Drive Boating call: Police notified the owner of a cabin cruiser that either dragged its anchor or broke free from its mooring and beached itself near the Longboat Key Moorings.

The owner said he would have the vessel removed in a day or two.

TUESDAY, AUG. 23

TAKING A BREAK Noon, 3200 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Citizen assist: The driver of a car police found pulled off the road with emergency flashers activated told the inquiring officer he had stopped because a relative in the car with him was experiencing a dizzy spell.

The passenger was asked if she

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wanted an ambulance to respond, but she said she was OK and refused medical treatment.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 24

OLD, BUT NOT MOBILE 9:20 p.m., 1200 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Abandoned vehicle: An officer stopped to investigate why a 25-year-old vehicle was parked in a turn lane with no one around. Using the vehicle’s license plate number, the officer reached the owner who said he parked it there, with its keys inside, then contacted a roadsideauto service provider to pick it up and take it to a Sarasota-area GM dealership.

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LIGHTING THE WAY 9:43 p.m., 3100 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Suspicious person: Police attracted the attention of a group of people they saw walking on the beach after dark with flashlights. Though there was a language barrier with some of the people, one man was able to communicate with an officer, who explained the town’s turtle-nesting regulations as they pertained to flashlights. The Bradenton man said he was unfamiliar with the regulations, gathered his family and left the beach.

NO PROBLEM 11:19 p.m., 4800 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Alarm: Police responded to a home on the basis of a panic-alarm alert.

When they arrived, they learned the man had been changing a battery in the alarm button device and accidentally pressed the button. The man went on to say there was no emergency and that the police were not required. Officers reported the man did not appear to be in distress, confirming the false alarm.

FRIDAY, AUG. 26

BRANCHING OUT 12:39 a.m., 6600 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Traffic hazard: Following a round of storms, a police officer on patrol removed a large tree branch blocking southbound lanes.

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Alex Cabrera offers Stephanie Streeter a caramel praline to sample.

Jillian Cowart, Virginia Griffin, Kenneth Fleming, Alex Cabrera and Megan Young staff the grand opening of River Street Sweets Savannah’s Candy Kitchen on Aug. 25.

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avannah pralines have taken over the country and now St. Armands Circle.

Stephanie Streeter’s eyes closed in response to biting into one. She murmured through a full mouth, “creamy, buttery and sweet.”

River Street Sweets Savannah’s Candy Kitchen opened its 24th store in the Circle on Thursday, Aug. 25. Owner Tim Strickland and his staff celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, while shoppers celebrated with free samples.

“We’re known for our pralines. We’re the largest praline manufacturer in the country,” said Strickland. “We’re from the New Orleans/Baton Rouge area, so that’s why we have that kindred spirit with the praline.”

Beyond the pralines, which are made fresh daily, the store offers fresh-churned ice cream and candy — barrels full of candy. From basic jelly beans to gummies that look like tacos, the candy shop is a mecca fit for Willy Wonka.

Strickland wanted to open on St. Armands five years ago, but without a lot of vacancies to choose from, he waited it out. Before deciding on the location at 318 John Ringling Blvd., he researched his neighbors: Wyland Galleries, Kilwins and Tommy Bahama.

“Those are all the top one or two or three within their chains, so I knew if they were doing that well that we would do really well too,” Strickland said.

“That’s the reason why we picked this area.”

The candy shop chain sprawls the east coast from Asbury Park, New Jersey, to Key West and heads as far west as San Antonio, Texas. For right now, the focus is on Florida.

“It’s in our backyard,” Strickland said. “I would like to go 25 to 35 stores in Florida in the next five years.”

The shop on St. Armands Circle opens daily at 11 a.m. Closing hours vary between 9-10 p.m. For information, visit RiverStreetSweets.com.

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The Asolo Repertory Theatre spent this summer in the early stages of an inventory process that could take years.

“We have all of the raw materials. And that’s usually the reason for me saving something if it has the potential.

But that’s, of course, what every single hoarder says.”

— David Covach

he curtain is down and the seats are empty. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing going on at the Asolo Repertory Theatre.

The summer has been a busy time of preparation for upcoming shows, and it’s also provided a chance for the Asolo Rep to come to grips with its overflowing supply of props and costumes.

David Covach, the Asolo’s costume shop manager, has been presiding over a digitization of the company’s wardrobe holdings so they’ll have a permanent record of what exists in their closets.

It’s like your own personal spring cleaning, but only if you had more than 70,000 items of clothing.

The Asolo’s warehouse-like Koski Production Center — which was originally a Wilson Sporting Goods distribution center — houses decades’ worth of clothing worn in various productions, and Covach has to keep mental inventory of items he hasn’t used for decades.

“We’ve got every single corner legally that the fire marshal will allow me to cram with something,” says Covach. “There are some costumes in our stock made by artists 60 years ago that are still hanging there and haven’t been used for 60 years.”

Think about it.

The Asolo Repertory Theatre has put on countless shows over the decades. And if there’s a potential use for a costume down the road, it hasn’t thrown it out.

Covach and his assistant have had the hard job of keeping all of that in their mind. That means vintage suits and dresses and denim distressed in every form and fashion.

Do we have a pink frock from the 1940s?

Yes, Covach might say, but then he’d have to go and find it.

So this summer, he assembled a four-person team to begin digitizing their inventory.

One person would bar code the item, and another would write down a description. A third person would photograph the item, and then a fourth would do the data entry.

If the clothing were related, they’d be entered in together.

“This summer, I had hoped that we would get close to 20,000 items in, being the first year,” said Covach. “We didn’t have quite as much time as I thought we’d have, and we didn’t have quite as many people as I thought.

Once we got into the job, it takes much longer to do than I ever thought. We ended up probably inputting about 3,000 pieces.”

That’s a lot of clothing. But what does it represent in the grand scheme of things?

“Oh my god, it’s a drop in the bucket,” says Covach. “That’s like one row in our stock.”

The interesting part is that Covach is in the process of creating more costumes. He recently spent $20,000 on fabric for the 2023 production of Three Musketeers, which hasn’t been performed by the Asolo Rep

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Costume shop manager David Covach is presiding over the Asolo Repertory Theatre’s attempt to inventory all of its wardrobe items.

since 1995. Covach’s team will make dozens of costumes for the venerable classic, even though they still have stuff lying around from the last time they performed it.

Is there irony there? Not really, says Covach. Even if it’s the same show, a director may want to see a completely different aesthetic.

Costumes are sized precisely for the actor that wears them, so they may not have utility to ever be used again for the next cast. If that’s the case, then why are they hanging onto 60 years worth of clothing?

“It may not be relevant,” Covach says. “But if we can make it look different or add a different feather, it’s gonna save us $150 here or there. We have all of the raw materials.

And that’s usually the reason for me saving something if it has the potential. But that’s,

of course, what every single hoarder says. ‘I’ll do something with it some day.’

“I can tell you that every single costumer that I’ve ever met has that mentality. They will save three beads in a Ziploc bag.”

Covach says he expects the inventory process to take a number of years, and he’s not going to inventory every single sock and shoe.

Year by year, though, he wants to get a better picture of everything he has on record, not just in his mind.

“My job before the internet was 10 times worse,” he says. “Or 10 easier because you just went to Jo-Ann’s and got it. If it wasn’t at Jo-Ann’s, the show didn’t have it.”

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The Koski Production Center includes tools of many varieties, and it’s basically a shop class on steroids.

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Bill Atkins is hard at work constructing a boat for a future production.

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PROP DEPOT

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If there’s chaos in the clothing aisle, it’s every bit as wild in the props department.

Production manager Mike Rodgers recently led the Observer on a tour of the facility, and workers were toiling to create sets for Opera Colorado.

One worker sat inside a boat as he built it out, and others were busy reupholstering furniture.

It can take a year for a set to go from concept to reality, says Rodgers, and that furniture is frequently custom-made for a particular production. But still, the Asolo Rep keeps rows and rows of couches, chairs and other furniture items.

“My boss likes to say that it’s

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organized like Walmart; there’s a chair aisle, a couch aisle, a toaster aisle,” says Rodgers. “It would take probably years to get it all digitized and catalogued. And tracking it would still be a nightmare.”

For now, the staffers are on the honor system, he says. Put everything back where you found it.

Frank Paul, the Asolo’s senior property master, spent the time during the COVID-19 shutdown trying to familiarize himself with everything in the inventory, and he estimates it will be a six- or eight-year project to make a detailed list.

“You can’t put a barcode on a fork,” he says. “We have vases and forks and cutlery and dishes for days. I mean, there are just so many things that are parts of so many things. We have lamp parts, I can’t put a barcode on a lamp part. When I started with Sweeney Todd, I took two coffee cans and two gooseneck lamps, and I

made train lanterns out of them.

“Now, I don’t have two gooseneck lamps or two coffee cans; I have two train lanterns I may never use again.”

Paul says he’ll never know everything that’s in the inventory, but he wants to make sure that if he lets another organization borrow something that he has a perfect record of what’s gone out the door. So they take pictures and they make a list, and then they make a packet both for themselves and for the organization borrowing the items.

Part of his job, says Rodgers, is taking the set and making it exactly like the director wants it. That could mean taking an old prop and turning it into something new, or it could mean making something smaller or putting wheels on it.

That process is never-ending, and it could literally be an ongoing concern all the way until the opening curtain. That’s why it helps to have a

large treasury of things, because you never know what will come in handy next.

Down the line, when the next phase of the Koski Center expansion happens, Covach’s clothes will be moved to a different space.

Paul is already eyeing those rows and hoping he’ll get to place more props in them.

“David was like, ‘What are you gonna do with all that space once all the costumes move out?’” says Paul.

“We’re gonna get more stuff. I don’t have to play Jenga down here. I feel like that game Parking Lot where you like take this and move it over here so that you can get the thing behind it, then you have to move that back into that spot so that you can pull it out.”

The Asolo doesn’t just create sets for its own productions; it also contracts to make sets for other companies.

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Shaking stigma Jesse Clark was distressed by the way media portrays Black subjects. So he created art of his own.

IF YOU GO

JESSE CLARK: EVERGLOW When: Exhibit runs through Sept. 30; Artist talk at 6 p.m.

Sept. 15 Where: Art Center Sarasota, 707 N. Tamiami Trail Tickets: Admission to the gallery is free; registration for the artist talk is $5 Info: ArtSarasota.org.

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arasota has been both Jesse Clark’s muse and his springboard into the world of photography.

Clark, who grew up in Lakeland, can recall his earliest days with a camera, and he fondly remembers trips to Sarasota with his father and photographing landscapes.

Now, as a senior at the Ringling College of Art and Design, Clark has bigger ambitions, and he’s hoping his art will help to change the way society perceives people of color.

“I fell in love with photographing the sunset. That became my introduction to photography,” says Clark.

“It wasn’t really until I got to Ringling that I learned photography could be a tool not just to capture the world around me, but change the world around me as well.”

Clark’s latest work, entitled “Everglow,” is a series of staged photographic works that will be exhibited at Art Center Sarasota for the entire month of September.

The exhibit — and much of Clark’s work in his young career — explodes out of his burgeoning social consciousness.

Thematically, you’ll see lots of pastels and floral images juxtaposed with Black male models, and Clark says that’s no less than an attempt to rewire the way we see society portrayed in media.

“In television and movies, the Black man is usually an aggressive character, a criminal or maybe a jock,” he says. “How do we show them in different ways, something that’s more truthful and essentially

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more human? Flowers always have this idea of peace and softness.

That’s what I want to show. I see myself as a soft, young Black man.

I have the strength to do everything else, but I’m not an aggressive trope that television likes to show.”

Clark says he grew up in a family of musicians and was encouraged to think creatively from an early age.

He first started expressing himself through painting, which gave him the tools to think about color and composition as a photographer.

He studied visual art at the Harrison School for the Arts in Lakeland before enrolling at Ringling, and that’s when he really started getting deeper into photography. Clark credits his professors for helping him think about creating themes with his art, and he says the Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative gave him an early assist in displaying his work.

“I couldn’t have done this alone,” he says. “There’s a lot of people before me that paved the way just so I could create the work that I want to create. I’m trying to also pave the way for others that come after me.

This is stuff that I would’ve liked to see more of when I was younger.

I want to produce that for the next generation as sort of a role model to look up to.”

Clark’s oeuvre isn’t just any old point-and-shoot.

He says his photographs always start from an image in his head, and he studiously writes it down when he has an idea he’d like to pursue.

Then, from there, he has to figure out how to put his idea into motion.

That means thinking not just about the model but about the lighting, the location and the costuming to boot.

“With ‘Everglow,’ I had the idea of what I wanted already laid out in my mind,” he says.

“If I’m trying to create these narratives, I have to find just the right people for these images. The right locations, the costuming, and that kind of curates together in itself.”

Clark’s work was first exhibited at Art Center Sarasota in February as part of a show with the Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative entitled “Visions in Black,” and that’s where the seeds of “Everglow” were sown.

Kinsey Robb, the executive director of Art Center Sarasota, was taken with his work, and she says that his vision is mature for an artist of his age and experience.

“I think what separates a great artist from lots of other artists is a sense of purpose,” she says. “Consistency, and also being able to kind of strike a

Photo courtesy of Jesse Clark

Clark’s “Everglow” compositions burst to life with pastels and floral imagery.

chord with the viewer.

“To be able to look at his work and see a thesis without it being explained is pretty remarkable. It’s an identity he knows within himself and his artistic practice, which sometimes takes decades to find.”

Clark says he’d like to pursue a career as a fine art photographer, and he’s excited about using his skills in some form or fashion after graduation. But his message is one that he hopes will resonate.

Clark says he’s thankful not just for the chance to show his work but

for a chance to interact with the public and tell them about it.

He’ll be part of an artist’s talk Sept.

15 at the Art Center, and he hopes to underline some of his themes in person.

“I think I’m excited to be able to have the artist’s talk and give a little more insight and background to those pieces,” he says.

“It really creates that dialogue so people that are outside the Black community can have a little more of an understanding of what those themes and symbols are in the work.”

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ROB LITTLE 7 p.m. at McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre, 1923 Ringling Blvd. $25 Visit McCurdysComedy.com.

FRESH FRIDAYS — AMERICAN ROUTES 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at North Palm Avenue by Art Ovation Hotel Free Visit Did-Sarasota.com/FreshFridays.

Don’t confuse this comedian with Rich Little. Rob Little, a big act in the world of comedy, has been working standup clubs around the country for more than 20 years, and he made his way into the living rooms of people all across America with his work on “The Best Damn Sports Show Period.”

Tampa-based band Southbound 75 will be the musical guests for this block party in the downtown arts district, and the theme will be Americana covers and originals.

You’ll hear a little bit of blues, rock, country and pop, but perhaps most importantly, you’ll have an opportunity to party and to partake in food and beverages from multiple vendors.

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Lakewood Ranch sees your downtown block party and raises you with Music on Main. Frequency M will be the featured band at the Lakewood Ranch block party, and this month’s philanthropic beneficiary will be Birds of Paradise Sanctuary. Get your groove on and leave some room for food vendors, beer trucks and sponsor booths.

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MEET THE ARTIST: SHIRLEY RUSH DEAN Shirley Rush Dean is Island Gallery West’s Featured Artist for September, and you’ll be able to view her work all month. But if you want the opportunity to meet the artist and ask her questions, you’ll have a great chance to do that on Sept. 7. Dean, a former professor at the University of Maryland, mainly works in acrylics, and she’s a signature member of the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society.

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CREATE 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at ArtCenterManatee, 209 Ninth St. W., Bradenton Free Visit ArtCenterManatee.org.

ArtCenter Manatee’s open show, Create, will be on display through the end of the month, and the first-place winner will be awarded a $1,500 prize. Rachel Stewart, a visual artist and educator, will serve as the juror. The exhibit will have an official opening reception between 5-7 p.m. on Sept. 8.

CORA MARSHALL: IN AND OUT OF TIME 2-4 p.m. at Arts Advocates Gallery, Crossings at Siesta Key Mall, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail Free with museum admission Visit ArtsAdvocates.org.

Cora Marshall, an artist and educator who earned a doctorate at New York University, will be displaying her work from Sept. 3 through Sept.

24 at the Arts Advocates Gallery.

Marshall, whose work centers on contemporary African American artists, has shown her body of work all over the country and even as far away as Ghana.

IF YOU GO When: 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., Sept. 3 Where: Sarasota Art Museum, 1001 S. Tamiami Trail Tickets: Free for members, $20 non-members Visit: SarasotaArtMuseum.org.

SUNDAY FARMERS’ MARKET AT LAKEWOOD RANCH 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 1561 Lakefront Drive Free Visit LakewoodRanch.com.

Shop local. Eat local. Waterside Place is the stage for a group of more than 90 vendors selling organic produce, flowers, speciality spices and rubs, honey, bread and much more. There will be food trucks if you’re not just shopping for ingredients to cook at home, and you’ll find products that you won’t find stocked on the shelves at supermarkets.

MONDAY FREE MONDAYS 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road Free Visit Ringling.org.

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Come down to the Sarasota Art Museum and listen as Steven and William Ladd talk about their “Lead With a Laugh” exhibit. The Ladds build their art around a three-pronged discipline that encourages them to collaborate, to be focused and to do what they love. The Ladds’ exhibit will run at the museum from Sept. 4 all the way through Feb. 5, 2023, so you’ll have time to see it.

HIGHLIGHTS TOUR 11:15 a.m. at Sarasota Art Museum, 1001 S. Tamiami Trail Free with museum admission Visit SarasotaArtMuseum.org.

Did you ever wish that you could tour an art museum with a curator?

Wish no more. The Sarasota Art Museum leads guided tours of its exhibitions twice a week, and you have a chance to tag along on Wednesdays and Fridays. You’ll learn about the themes and concepts that guide each exhibit, and you’ll learn about the ties that bind them together.

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her life story The first time Dedrea Greer saw a loom, she said it looked like serenity.

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Dedrea Greer won an award for this needlework piece she created.

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Dedrea Greer helps her granddaughter, Aven O’Shaughnessy, figure out a weaving problem.

Dedrea Greer shows off the layers in one of her woven pieces.

She’s fully retired, with the exception of volunteer teaching. Greer taught a beginners weaving class at Adult & Community Enrichment at Suncoast Technical College. She trades lessons for dog walking with her 13-year-old neighbor, Lark Rippy. And her 9-year-old granddaughter, Aven O’Shaughnessy, learns a little more about weaving on each visit from London.

“I am an educator by my heart,” Greer said.

Greer was born and raised near Chicago. Her affinity for weaving pre-dates the alpaca farm. She was a stay-at-home mom in her late 20s. Her husband ran a business that catered to stranded airline passengers. That was when she saw an old barn loom for the first time at a friend’s house.

“I had been an art major in school.

I’d been knitting since I was 7, and all these things. So I just said, ‘Well, this

is it. This is how I’m going to become serene sometime,’” she said.

She and Bill always liked the idea of living on a farm. Greer once rode horses competitively and also raised and showed Cavalier King Charles spaniels. After a trip to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home in Virginia, they bought a nearby house with enough land for a farm.

Both in their early 50s, the couple went from city slickers to alpaca farmers in three months. There were no animals or a barn yet, but they had a house and a plan. Greer went on to become an alpaca midwife.

“I could go in, turn the baby and deliver the baby,” she said.

Alpaca babies are called crias and have longer necks and legs than the average four-legged farm animal.

She worked closely with her own veterinarian and invited others to speak at seminars on the farm. At its peak, the farm housed 36 alpacas,

many of which won awards for the color of their fleece.

Breeding also required Greer to get an education in genetics. She learned how to match pairs to improve the herd and, in turn, create high quality finished products.

Yarn was at the heart of the original plan: Greer being a weaver and only using alpaca yarn. But in the end, the Greers were running five businesses from breeding to continuing education classes. The couple even invented and produced their own loom.

Bill died of prostate cancer eight years ago. Having always been a joint venture, the business was too much for Greer alone. She continued living on the farm but sold the alpacas.

She bought her Whitney Beach condominium four years ago in a similar fashion to how the farm was purchased. Her son, Devon, laughed and called his mom a crazy woman, “Lo and behold, I go back to the UK, and here she’s, you know, bought a place here.”

The family owned a condominium at Club Longboat so many years ago that according to Greer, Sarasota Bradenton International Airport was tiny back then.

“We had to pick up our luggage outside of the building on a conveyor belt under a tin roof,” she said.

Once again, Greer was the proud owner of a new home. Last year, she made the leap to full-time resident and is already the secretary of her condo association.

Beyond weaving, Greer paints watercolors and does needlework.

But she doesn’t sell anything anymore. Everything Greer creates now are gifts made with love.

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“I am an educator by my heart.”

hitney Beach is a far cry from an alpaca farm. Yet, Dedrea Greer, 74, spent 15 years tending to one in Virginia before retiring to Longboat Key. She and her husband, Bill Greer, ran a thriving business breeding alpacas and turning their fleece into yarn.

The enterprise was called Rivanna River Alpacas. Greer sheared. She delivered the babies, and she wove.

She no longer preps the fleece and dyes her own yarn, but Greer will never give up weaving. Wooden shafts were splayed across the floor of her workroom recently because a larger loom was delivered days earlier.

Her looms and style have evolved over time. Greer’s intricate, multicolored designs accent the walls of her sunny first-floor condominium.

“This is a deflected double weave.

What’s cool about this, and this is my passion now, is that one side is completely different from the other,” she said, pointing to one of her works.

“This is my forever weave structure now.”

Greer creates her designs using a computer. The actual weaving is the quick and easy part. Designing patterns and setting up the loom to produce them take time and patience.

Greer is a member of the Manasota Weavers Guild and holds a master’s degree in weaving from Olds College in Canada.

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e sort of pride ourselves on being a fun place to come and do stuff, thus the bingo,” Executive Director of The Paradise Center Suzy Brenner said.

The Longboat Key site hosted this month’s Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce’s after hours event on Aug. 23. What was called Business After Hours has been revamped to Off the Clock.

“Business After Hours is a nationwide thing chambers use,” chapter President Gail Loefgren said. “If you’re off the clock, you don’t necessarily want to do business, but you’re off the clock, so you can do whatever you want.”

About 40 members and prospective members wanted to play bingo, some more competitively than others.

“People get competitive, man,” Brenner joked.

“You give them a contest, and they’re like, ‘Where were you born?’”

Unlike traditional bingo, where players sit in one place, this was networking bingo. Players worked the room to find someone who was born in the same state, owns a cat or has blue eyes. One square read, “Has been in the Observer.”

Even the door prizes proved this was not your average networking event. Tim Wirt with Frontier donated a giant bottle of tequila.

“They don’t make a bigger bottle,” he said.

The crowd cheered when Zach Easton from Panhandle Cleaning won. Some business was still required: The chamber ushered in three new ambassadors, Tryla Larson, Brandon Solon and Deanna Mesghali.

Peter Birch is a new member and attended with his wife, Kirsten.

“I grew up here and dragged her with me coming back,” he said. “I’m trying to start a chiropractic business out on the island.”

The new chiropractic office is located near Christ Church on Gulf of Mexico Drive. A soft opening took place this week.

The next chamber event will be sponsored by Hearing Aids of Sarasota and will be held Sept. 15 at the Lazy Lobster.

“You need to make your reservation soon because it sells out,” event emcee Andrew Vac said.

Tryla and Earl Larson get to know new members Kirsten and Peter Birch better while playing networking bingo.

Gail Loefgren of the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce and Suzy Brenner of The Paradise Center host networking bingo.

Nancy Taussig, right, chats with Kim Bouchard of Jack Dean Flooring. Taussig’s business, Hearing Aids of Sarasota, is the scheduled host next month’s chamber event at Lazy Lobster.

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Cost is $10. Call 383-6493.

MONDAYS

STRETCH & STRENGTHEN From 10-11 a.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road. Focus is on strength training and flexibility for balance. Suzy Brenner leads the class. Fee is $10. Walk-ins welcome. Call 383-6493.

THURSDAYS

KIWANIS CLUB OF LONGBOAT KEY At 8:30 a.m. at Lazy Lobster, 5350 Gulf of Mexico Drive. This service organization meets every first and third Thursday of the month for breakfast and a speaker. Breakfast is $10. Email Lynn Larson at lynnlarson@comcast.net to register.

THINKING OUT LOUD: TIMELY TOPICS WITH MIKE KARP From 1-2:30 p.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road. Topics will include U.S. and world current affairs, popular culture and topics relevant to seniors. Cost is $10.

Walk-ins welcome. Call 383-6493.

ST. ARMANDS KEY LUTHERAN CHURCH BRIDGE CLUB Every Thursday beginning at 1 p.m. at St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, 40 N. Adams Drive, join an ACBL-sanctioned game of contract bridge with a certified teacher.

There is an $8 suggested donation for each session. Refreshments will be provided. RSVP to 952-9251.

MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS

LORD’S WAREHOUSE THRIFT STORE The thrift store will be open 9 a.m. to noon at 6140 GMD. Donations are accepted during business hours. Call 383-4738.

TUESDAYS

QI GONG From 10-11 a.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road. Qi gong is a mind-body-spirit practice designed to improve mental and physical health. The class will be held outdoors, weather permitting.

Cost is $10. Walk-ins welcome. Call 383-6493.

MAH JONGG From 1-3 p.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road. Fun time for experienced players. To check availability at the tables,

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BREAKFAST WITH THE SHARKS 8-9:30 a.m. at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway. Enjoy a continental breakfast while learning about sharks. Cost is $36 for member adults and $27 for member children, $40 for nonmember adults and $30 for nonmember children. Call 388-4441 for information.

email MaryAnnBrady@TheParadiseCenter.org.

ROTARY CLUB Meets at 5 p.m. on first and third Tuesdays in All Angels Parish Hall, 563 Bay Isles Road. To learn more, call Nancy Rozance at 203-6054066 or email Info@LongboatKeyRotary.org.

TUESDAY AND THURSDAY

BREATH BALANCE AND BLISS YOGA From 10:30-11:30 a.m. at Bayfront Park Recreation Center, 4052 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Cost is $10 for members, $15 for nonmembers.

Call 361-6411 ext. 2212.

TUESDAY AND FRIDAY

LONGBOAT LIBRARY The Longboat Library is open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays at 555 Bay Isles Road. Call 383-2011 for information.

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Come for 30 minutes or the full hour. Cost is $10. Walk-ins welcome. Call 383-6493.

FRIDAYS

QI GONG AND MEDITATION From 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at The Paradise Center, 546 Bay Isles Road, take qi gong and meditation with Sandi Love. Free for members, $10 for nonmembers. Call 3836493.

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“If haters come after me because I’m a Jew, they will feel empowered to come after Blacks, Hispanics, gays, Christians, Asians, Muslims. “ Lipton said. “We must come together, and we must stop hate.”

It was a statement that drew applause from the crowd. And the support didn’t end there. The event featured clergy members from different faith institutions joining AJC in support. Representatives from Catholic Diocese, the Lutheran Church, the Episcopal Church, the Unity Church of Sarasota and several synagogues attended in a show of solidarity with AJC. The event’s speaker was AJC’s U.S. Director for Combating Antisemitism Holly Huffnagle, who has led AJC’s response to antisemitism in the U.S. since early 2020.

After Lipton addressed the crowd, the audience enjoyed lunch before hearing Huffnagle speak on the importance of confronting a rising wave of antisemitism in the U.S. — HARRY SAYER

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He was a life-long supporter of arts and education.

Guy Asbury took an active part in establishing East West College of Natural Medicine in Sarasota. At different stages of life he enjoyed parasailing, water skiing, boating, powerlifting, and travelling all over the world. Guy was a dedicated

loving husband, father, and a reliable friend.

Guy Asbury had a vast professional experience, ranging from System /Aerospace Engineer and Principle Engineer (defense sector) at Harris Corporation (currently L3Harris Technologies), Chairman of the Board at East West College of Natural Medicine, golf course builder (El Conquistador golf course, Bradenton FL), to owner of Siesta Fish Market (Siesta Key, Sarasota FL).

Roots: Guy was born in Philadelphia, PA to parents Helen Pine Asbury, a nurse, and Norman B. G. Asbury, a Navy officer. His only sister is Norlen Gaile (Scottie) Holliday, wife of Sarasota architect James B. Holliday.

Education: Guy received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at Colorado State University.

He held a captain’s license and operated various types of sailing and motor boats.

Guy’s spirit continues in his sons Scott and Chuck, his daughters Shari and Anna, and grandson Tylor. He is survived by wife

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Vera H. Freeman Vera H. Freeman 91, of Longboat Key passed peacefully on Aug. 11, 2022. Formerly Vera Alder, she succeeded her husband Lt. Colonel R. S. (Bud) Freeman.

She is survived by two sons, Mark and Michael.

A graduate of Sarasota High School 1948, she traveled extensively but Sarasota was always home.

Vera in the Armenian language means faith/hope.

Vera (Faith) Hope Freeman: Did they name her perfectly, or did she fill the giant shoes she was given? We believe she earned her name by bringing hope to us all. Context changes over time as words change but we must look back at her origin.

Her father’s family, Aldermishian, were Armenian immigrants fleeing the Turkish Jihad. They escaped genocide with little more than their lives. What they did have was faith in God and hope that life in America would be better. Vera lived her namesake: the H is honor; the O is optimist; the P is pride; the E is excellence. Vera never brought any shame to the family, that is honor. Vera always saw a bright future, never a negative word. Vera was proud to be an American. She loved and protected our country.

Vera completed every task with excellence.

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Vera lived her namesake: the H is honor; the O is optimist; the P is pride; the E is excellence. military career, Vera and the family were his number two priority. On any given day he would accept any mission no matter how dangerous to protect America. Her husband was able to focus under incredible pressure because he knew Vera had the ability to maintain the family. The family name Freeman was the purpose of life. He knew Vera would prevail if he did not return home. Vera’s mother, Edith Adams, came to America on the RMS

Carpathia. Two hours after the Titanic went down, RMS Carpathia arrived on scene and rescued 705 survivors. I am confident that every soul was filled with faith, hope, and a drive for freedom. Later when Vera was born, they named her in the context of their lives.

After the military service, Vera’s husband made her and family priority one.

Mom used any spare time to serve America. In our grade school she was the school “nurse.” She is buried in that uniform as it exemplifies her dedication. The uniform also bears USAF Senior Aircrew wings she earned supporting the missions. There is also a service pin from the Republic of Vietnam, any wife who watched the evening news

while their husbands died on TV knows how this was earned.

We were blessed with two wonderful Americans who raised us to love God and country. We owe everything to their sacrifices. There are no words to express the depth of our gratitude.

Conservative values and prudent living allowed them the reward of a comfortable, and safe home. They were married 72 years, through cold wars, hot wars, political upheaval and the final insults of COVID. Mom passed peacefully at home in our arms and avoided the indignity of the hospitals.

Faith, hope and freedom exist in America today courtesy of their selfless sacrifices.

She was interned at a graveside ceremony attended by her family at Sarasota National Cemetery to rest in peace with her husband.

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Patricia Kirkpatrick Walsh Hunziker 1930-2022 Patricia Kirkpatrick Walsh Hunziker died on July 3, 2022 in St. Petersburg, Florida where she had lived for a number of years. She was 92.

Pat was born at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio, Texas, on June 24, 1930, the first child of Elmer E. Kirkpatrick, Jr. and Edith Louise Koelsch. Her father was an Army engineer and the family moved frequently while she was growing up.

By the time she turned ten she had lived in eight states as well as Alberta, Canada and Panama.

Pat graduated from the University of Maryland in 1953 and went to work in the entertainment industry in New York City and Hollywood. While raising her two children she received a Masters degree in Library Science and began her career as a librarian. She lived in Rye, New York for close to 40 years and worked as a reference librarian at the Rye Free Reading Room.

In the summer of 1955, Pat married Edward Walsh, a Brooklyn native who was an Emmy award winning television writer, producer and director. Their union produced two children, Catherine Breslin of Wilton CT and Christopher Walsh of Saratoga Springs, NY. In the spring of 1984, Pat married Fredrick Hunziker, then the Mayor of Rye, NY.

By the time she turned ten she had lived in eight states as well as Alberta, Canada and Panama.

She and Fred lived together in Rye and later in Longboat Key, FL for many years before Fred passed away in 2014. They enjoyed taking boat trips on Long Island Sound and traveling.

Pat will be lovingly remembered and missed by her brother, Col. William Terry Kirkpatrick of Turnwater, Washington, her two children, her three stepchildren and her eight grandchildren.

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LONGBOAT KEY 2161 Gulf Of Mexico Drive PH3 4 Beds 4/1 Baths 6,002 Sq. Ft. Jenifer Schwell 941-780-0968 A4534425 $8,950,000

ANNA MARIA ISLAND 520 58th Street 5 Beds 3/2 Baths 3,414 Sq. Ft. Hannah Hillyard & George Myers 941-744-7358 A4545105 $4,500,000

ANNA MARIA ISLAND 820 N Shore Drive 4 Beds 4/1 Baths 3,953 Sq. Ft. Kathy Harman 941-900-9828 A4524887 $3,999,999

SARASOTA 1718 Bay View Drive 6 Beds 5/1 Baths 4,644 Sq. Ft. Mackenzie Longueuil & Pat Mudgett 941-961-4023 A4536016 $3,650,000

LONGBOAT KEY 540 Harbor Cove Circle 3 Beds 2/1 Baths 2,081 Sq. Ft. Julie Klick & Beverly St Hilaire 941-780-6001 A4534178 $3,600,000

SARASOTA 1111 Ritz Carlton Drive 1204 3 Beds 2/1 Baths 3,582 Sq. Ft. Michael James & Laurel James 941-724-4034 A4544975 $3,100,000

LONGBOAT KEY 830 Tarawitt Drive 4 Beds 3 Baths 2,447 Sq. Ft. The Walter Group & Steve Walter 941-232-2000 A4545868 $3,100,000

LONGBOAT KEY 311 Firehouse Court 3 Beds 3/1 Baths 2,352 Sq. Ft. Cindy Fischer 941-465-1124 A4534473 $2,395,000

SARASOTA 3537 Founders Club Drive 3 Beds 3 Baths 3,544 Sq. Ft. Richard Hearn 941-313-1591 A4535534 $2,300,000

SARASOTA 1350 5th Street 301 3 Beds 3/1 Baths 1,928 Sq. Ft. Heidi Lusk 941-681-5227 A4540753 $2,195,000

SARASOTA 1403 Cedar Bay Lane 5 Beds 3 Baths 3,560 Sq. Ft. Alison Elizalde & Judy Nimz 941-928-9217 A4545558 $1,900,000

ANNA MARIA ISLAND 218 82nd Street 3 Beds 2 Baths 1,802 Sq. Ft. Kathy Harman 941-900-9828 A4541555 $1,895,000

LONGBOAT KEY 569 Rountree Drive 3 Beds 2/1 Baths 1,832 Sq. Ft. The Walter Group & Steve Walter 941-232-2000 A4545250 $1,595,000

SARASOTA 1646 7th Street Valarie Wadsworth 941-780-3858 A4531752 $1,369,000

SARASOTA 1648 Bonita Lane 3 Beds 3 Baths 2,585 Sq. Ft. Matthew Voss 941-237-0877 A4542361 $1,350,000

UNIVERSITY PARK 7015 Lancaster Court 4 Beds 3 Baths 2,717 Sq. Ft. Amy Chapman 941-225-1500 A4542575 $1,325,000

LONGBOAT KEY 3240 Gulf Of Mexico Drive B402 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,505 Sq. Ft. Sean Clark 941-312-1146 A4544923 $990,000

LONGBOAT KEY 4311 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 401 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,293 Sq. Ft. Victoria Lear 941-350-1064 A4522542 $899,000

LONGBOAT KEY 4800 Gulf Of Mexico Drive PH4 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,312 Sq. Ft. Tryla Brown Larson 941-962-1122 A4539305 $875,000

LONGBOAT KEY 4725 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 213 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,071 Sq. Ft. Ian Addy, PA & Gail Wittig, LLC 941-961-8850 A4539173 $869,000

LONGBOAT KEY 3806 Gulf Of Mexico Drive C404 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,514 Sq. Ft. Stephen Harris 941-780-2352 A4536940 $845,000

LONGBOAT KEY 730 Spanish Drive S 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,255 Sq. Ft. Sean Clark 941-312-1146 A4541965 $740,000

LONGBOAT KEY 3320 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 203-C 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,187 Sq. Ft. Sandi Layfield 941-914-2807 A4542770 $529,000

LONGBOAT KEY 4390 Exeter Drive I-203 2 Beds 2 Baths 1,152 Sq. Ft. Malihe Karimi & JoDene Moneuse 941-376-5099 A4545441 $525,000

LIDO KEY 170 Roosevelt Drive 21 1 Bed 1 Baths 601 Sq. Ft. Rudy Dudon 941-234-3991 A4538740 $460,000

SARASOTA 309 Ringling Point Drive 5 Beds 3/2 Baths 7,009 Sq. Ft. Kim Ogilvie 941-376-1717 A4535001 $8,950,000

LONGBOAT KEY 3060 Grand Bay Boulevard 1101 4 Beds 5/1 Baths 4,413 Sq. Ft. Stacey Fredericks 239-823-0277 A4535637 $4,999,999

SARASOTA 1111 Ritz Carlton Drive 1703 3 Beds 3/1 Baths 4,276 Sq. Ft. The Walter Group & Steve Walter 941-232-2000 A4537226 $4,995,000

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RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

AUG. 15-19

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home in Weston Pointe tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. George Volinn and Marc Elfman, trustees, sold the home at 605 Weston Pointe Court to Roger Lane Sifferman, trustee, of Springfield, Missouri, for $2.05 million.

Built in 1993, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,806 square feet of living area. It sold for $468,800 in 1994.

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Roy and Linda Kinnan sold their Unit 2-A condominium at 1700 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Donald Erwin and Patricia Provenzano, of Sarasota, for $1,511,000. Built in 1968, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,492 square feet of living area. It sold for $101,700 in 1980.

Photo courtesy of Ryan Ackerman, Coldwell-Banker Realty

Built in 1993, the home at 605 Weston Pointe Court has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,806 square feet of living area.

square feet of living area. It sold for $585,000 in 2018.

square feet of living area. It sold for $505,000 in 2021.

Jordana and Lee Parker, of Wyckoff, New Jersey, sold their Unit 702 condominium at 1000 Longboat Club Road to Zachary Stinson and Leah Gross, of Orlando, for $1.05 million.

Built in 1972, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,290 square feet of living area. It sold for $650,000 in 2005.

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Deborah Burns, trustee, of Rockford, Illinois, sold the Unit 307 condominium at 6701 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Tiffany Ann Maurycy and Christopher Lesser, of Denver, for $905,000. Built in 1971, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,449

Bradley and Susan Smith, of Longboat Key, sold their Unit 108 condominium at 4350 Chatham Drive to Anthony and Kristy Holland, of Longboat Key, for $719,000. Built in 1969, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 1,092 square feet of living area.

It sold for $385,000 in 2021.

E. Belinda Bauer, trustee, of Fontana, Wisconsin, sold the Unit 1 condominium at 852 Evergreen Way to John and Caroline Chambers, of Chicago, for $652,000.

Built in 1991, it has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,440

Arlene Delloro, of Otisville, New York, sold the Unit M1-614F condominium at 2045 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Bradley and Susan Smith, of Longboat Key, for $640,000.

Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 928 square feet of living area. It sold for $139,500 in 1993.

PORTOBELLO

Louise Graham sold her Unit B404

condominium at 3240 Gulf of Mexico Drive to AERC INVESTMENTS FL LLC for $600,000. Built in 1975, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,260 square feet of living area. It sold for $176,900 in 19979.

CHATEAU VILLAGE

Magnavent LLC sold the Unit 204AR condominium at 722 S. Blvd. of the Presidents to Charles and Karen Haff, of Edina, Minnesota, for $420,000. Built in 1972, it has one bedroom, one bath and 657 square feet of living area. It sold for $240,000 in 2017.

In with the new

TOP BUILDING PERMITS

NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION

These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of August 19-25 in order of dollar amounts.

L O N G B OAT K E Y ADDRESS 582 Juan Anasco Drive

PERMIT New construction -

APPLICANT Markus Waite

AMOUNT($) $950,000

Longboat Key

single family 1211 GMD #401

Interior alterations

Albert R. Thigpen

$220,000

545 Sanctuary Drive

Windows and doors

Deborah J. Milliken

$198,000

#A703

Revocable Trust

1561 GMD

Unicorp Acquisitions

The Residences at the St. Regis | 941.213.3300 | From $2.4MM to $10.9MM | Call for appointment | SRResidencesLongboatKey.com

II LLC

1571 GMD

Unicorp Acquisitions

Wiring install

II LLC

1581 GMD

Unicorp Acquisitions

Wiring install

II LLC

1591 GMD

Unicorp Acquisitions

Wiring install

II LLC

1601 GMD

Unicorp Acquisitions

Wiring install

II LLC

$185,000 $185,000 $185,000 $185,000

5211 GMD Unit 102

Remodel

NORBAN

$165,000

Master bath

Richard Trumpler

$139,082

Road #5PH

alterations

571 Putter Lane

New pool

Kristin B. Herendeen

$133,545

1561 GMD

Fire alarm

Unicorp Acquisitions

$120,000

II LLC

1571 GMD

Unicorp Acquisitions

Fire alarm

II LLC

1581 GMD

Unicorp Acquisitions

Fire alarm

1591 GMD

Fire alarm

400 Central | 727.209.7848 | From the $1MM’s | Call for appointment. | Residences400central.com 2 UNITS LEFT

$120,000 $120,000

Downtown Sarasota

II LLC Unicorp Acquisitions

II LLC

1601 GMD

Unicorp Acquisitions

Fire alarm

Downtown St. Petersburg

$185,000

455 Longboat Club

NOW TAKING CONTRACTS

II LLC

639 Bayview Drive

Construct seawall

Phillip Bolles Burke

5950 GMD

Pool

Renee D. Dillon

$120,000 $120,000 $114,663 $104,350

1109 GMD

Pool resurfacing

Beachplace Association

$103,670

510 Bowsprit Lane

Interior alterations

Rachel Diane Ghormley

$100,000

1065 GMD #505

Windows and doors

Tom Wanat TTEE

501 Harbor Point Road

Installing A/C system Glass Family Living Trust

$80,000

783 Tarawitt Drive

Enclosure &

$79,528

Timothy G. Belew

The Collection | 941.232.2868 | From the $2MM’s | Call for appointment. | thecollection1335.com

$85,576

Sales galleries open and available for virtual or in-person presentations.

Virtual home tours | OnDemand local experts | Interactive site and floorplans

alterations 2319 Harbour Oaks Drive

Bathroom renovations George Y. Press

$70,000

1085 GMD #604

Windows and doors

$58,779

Sam G. Bala

Source: Town of Longboat Key

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25 Rugby 101?

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36 Cheerleading 101?

40 Apt rhyme for “masquerade” 43 Budget-friendly lodging 44 “___ I do that?”

45 Word after “flat” or “curling” 46 Aptly named spinoff of Uno 47 Agonizing, so to speak 48 Double Dutch 101?

52 Squeaked (by) 53 + 55 Supply-and-demand subj.

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By Luis Campos Celebrity Cipher cryptograms are created from quotations by famous people, past and present.

Each letter in the cipher stands for another.

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Puzzle Two Clue: V equals K

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