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YOUR TOWN

Town gets its man, again Commissioners OK deal to hire their first choice to replace retiring manager. PAGE 3A

Photo courtesy of Steve Liffmann

A gem of a snowbird Ruby-throated hummingbirds are nature’s snowbirds, wintering in Central America and summering in the Eastern United States.

Along the way, many play it safe and fly around the Gulf of Mexico shore along the Texas coast, but at least one brave (or perhaps misguided) bird found its way to Longboat Key during the recent migration season.

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, rubythroated hummingbirds beat their wings 53 times per second. They can travel 30-60 mph without stopping for traffic or a restroom, a speed and stamina that can propel the tiny birds 500 miles over the Gulf.

HummingBirdCentral.com tracks sightings and migration routes. The map of sightings shows a ruby-throated hummingbird was spotted near St. Judes Drive North.

NEVER FORGET

Town again remembers Sept. 11 victims. PAGE 4B

Eric Garwood

Town leaders said adding an additional element to beach-rule signs wouldn’t be difficult.

SMOKING’S DAYS ARE NUMBERED Commission moves ahead with ban on cigarettes in parks and on the beach. PAGE 2A

Lesley Dwyer

Honoring the Queen Like cities and towns around the country, Longboat Key lowered flags to half-staff last week in memory of Queen Elizabeth II. In keeping with protocol, the town will keep its flags in the honorary position until sunset on the day of the queen’s interment, which is scheduled for Monday, Sept. 19.

Across Sarasota, flags were likewise lowered to half-staff.

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Totals since April 24 2022 2021 Nests 1,300 1,032 False crawls 1,521 1,441 Source: Mote Marine Laboratory

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Town staffers Charlie Mopps and Curtis Vandermolen line Gulf of Mexico Drive with flags on Friday, a tribute for Sept. 11.

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Town Commission takes next step in smoking ban The second reading and adoption is scheduled for Oct. 3.

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moking on the beach and in Longboat Key parks is one step closer to being banned.

The first reading of the ordinance passed with a 6-0 vote by the Longboat Key Town Commission Monday as part of its first meeting back after its summer recess.

District 2 Commissioner Debra Williams was absent.

The ban would not hinder use of unfiltered cigars and pipe tobacco use, which are still protected by state law. A state law that previously stopped local governments from passing beach smoking bans was rescinded in the most recent session of the Florida Legislature.

Before the commission’s summer hiatus, the commissioners present at the final meeting before recess in July indicated that they didn’t want to wait until September to simply begin discussions on beach smoking.

Instead, they asked town staff to skip that step and be ready in September with a prepared ordinance.

“I think the only change that would be anticipated would be an addition of signage to indicate smoking would not be allowed,” Allen Parson, the town’s Planning, Zoning and Building Director said. “It would be a pretty easy addition to the signage that we have on our beach access points.”

Much like other prohibited behaviors, including dogs on the beach or alcoholic beverages, law enforcement would be able to respond.

The commission vote follows Sarasota City Commission’s initial approval of a similar ban, which would affect Lido Beach.

On Sept. 6, city commissioners unanimously approved the first reading of two ordinances intended primarily to prevent the proliferation of cigarette butts on beaches and in city parks. Holmes Beach

has also approved a first reading of its ordinance with a second reading scheduled for next week. Venice has planned discussions on the topic as well.

“We are not alone in pursuing this,” Parsons said. “This addition would be fairly straightforward. We have a number of activities that are prohibited at parks, beaches and public places; this would add smoking to the list of prohibited activities.”

The knowledge that other local entities are moving in the same direction aided in the Town Commission’s decision to also approve the first reading of the ordinance.

“I certainly don’t want to have Longboat Key be the only smoking beach around here,” Vice Mayor Maureen Merrigan said.

At the time of Parsons’ report, Bradenton, Anna Maria and Manatee County did not have scheduled discussions about a potential ban.

Her comments also switched the conversation to keeping the beaches clean and the Key more environmentally friendly as a whole.

“If it’s about littering, it’s a bit redundant because you are not allowed to litter on the beaches,” Merrigan said.

She added her concern about plastic and soda cans littering beaches even as a rule is already in place against leaving trash in the sand.

“If we are going to be serious about becoming a premier community, we’ve got to be serious about what we are doing environmentally,” Commissioner BJ Bishop said. “We are way behind the 8-ball. Longboat Key is further ahead than most, but I think we can do a lot more.”

The next step for the ordinance is another public hearing on Oct. 3, which could include the approval and adoption of the ban.

The statewide legislation that allows for this ban to be put in place amends Florida’s Clean Indoor Air Act. The bill was signed into law June 24 and took effect July 1.

According to the Ocean Conservancy, cigarette butts have been the most commonly found litter on

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“I think the only change that would be anticipated would be an addition of signage to indicate smoking would not be allowed.”

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— Allen Parson

Florida beaches. The butts are made of tightly packed plastic fibers that erode and accumulate in fish and other organisms, adversely impacting sea life health and reproductivity as well as human health when consuming the affected fish.

Planning, Zoning and Building Director Allen Parson said it would be relatively easy to add smoking to signs already indicating appropriate beach behaviors.

Commissioners on Monday afternoon gave initial approval to the fiscal year 2023 town budget and will consider it for adoption at 5:01 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 26.

The revenue and spending plan relies on a millage rate of 1.99, a reduction from the 2022 budget’s millage of 2.1144.

The millage cut was largely driven by a rise in property values in the town, up 14.39% from the previous year.

Spending is budgeted at $17,796,774 in the operating budget, which represents a nearly $36.000 decrease from 2022.

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IT’S A DEAL County administrator from St. Lucie gains unanimous approval to replace the retiring Tom Harmer early next year.

Lauren Tronstad

LAUREN TRONSTAD STAFF WRITER

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nother former county administrator was approved as Longboat Key’s next town manager Monday, but this one hails not from Sarasota but rather Florida’s east coast.

Town commissioners in their first public meeting in two-and-a-half months approved a contract making St. Lucie County Administrator Howard Tipton the barrier-island town’s next chief executive, replacing Tom Harmer, who announced his retirement in June.

Harmer had planned to step aside at the five-year mark in December but will stay on until Tipton can arrive in January, 2023.

The contract was approved in a vote of 6-0 by town commissioners.

District 2 representative Debra Williams was absent.

“We are delighted to have you here at the beginning of a wonderful relationship,” Mayor Ken Schneier said.

According to the contract, Tipton will not be able to begin his role until Jan. 30, 2023, because of his contract with St. Lucie County.

“It is a great honor to be before you today and to accept this appointment,” Tipton said after the approval of his contract. “I am looking forward to doing a number of great things; I

DEAL DETAILS Tipton requested a starting salary of $211,500, which is approximately $7,500 greater than Harmer’s current salary of $203,216.

The difference in salaries evens out due to Tipton’s indication he is not seeking the long-term care insurance benefit that the town provides Harmer. The removal of the benefit from Tipton’s contract saves the town about $7,000.

Tipton, 64, has agreed to an initial four-year term, compared to Harmer’s five-year term. After his contract is up on Jan. 29, 2027, Tipton would have a two-year extension opportunity. Following the potential extension, he would additional renewal opportunity yearly.

He requested the inclusion of housing allowance of $24,000 annually and a relocation allowance of less than $10,000.

am excited about the opportunity to follow in my friend Tom’s footsteps.”

Harmer himself came to Longboat Key in 2017 following a stint as Sarasota County administrator. His predecessor, Dave Bullock, had been a deputy county administrator of Sarasota County for 14 years.

And the similarities don’t end there.

Harmer previously served as the city manager of Titusville in Brevard County, adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center east of Orlando.

Tipton was county administrator of Brevard County from 2009 to 2014, though he and Harmer did not work in the county at the same time.

While they never formally worked together, Harmer and Tipton have known each other for more than 20 years.

MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE

After touring the town with Harmer, Tipton was able to see for himself what Harmer meant when describing the area as a “paradise.” The attractiveness of the area coupled with his interest in continuing similar work on a smaller scale is how Tipton came to accept Harmer’s nomination for the role.

“I love the fact that the team itself seems to be very strong,” Tipton said of his choice to pursue the position.

“Everything that I have heard from Tom and that I have read indicates that the town runs very efficiently and effectively. The customer service ratings are really off the charts in terms of satisfaction levels.”

Harmer in June told commissioners that he did not wish to renew his contract after five years. Commissioners in early July decided the best course of action to find his replacement was to avoid a broad search, instead hoping to connect directly with potential candidates.

When Harmer was conducting his search for a candidate to replace him, commissioners provided him with criteria for the right candidate.

Criteria included a candidate who is a seasoned public administrator, local government manager, someone with experience working in Florida and in a coastal area and someone who would be able to continue developing the relationship between Sarasota and Manatee counties.

“Howard has all of that background, so it became obvious that he would be someone who met that criteria,” Harmer said.

CONSIDERING THE CONTRACT

Even as Harmer was tasked with putting someone forward for con-

“I love the fact that the team itself seems to be very strong. Everything that I have heard from Tom and that I have read indicates that the town runs very efficiently and effectively. The customer service ratings are really off the charts in terms of satisfaction levels.”

MEET THE NEW BOSS In a biography posted on the St. Lucie County website, Tipton has served for 40 years with four Florida government agencies. Before coming to Brevard County, he served as deputy administrator of Orange County and was chief administration officer for the Orange County Clerk of Courts.

Additionally, he was president and chief operating officer of a golf course development company.

Tipton earned a Bachelor of Science from James Madison University and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Central Florida, and he completed the program for senior executives in state and local government at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Tipton has been married to his wife, Marion, since 1985.

They have two grown children.

sideration, ultimately the decision was solely that of the commission.

“This is the commission’s decision,” Harmer said. “They have all had meetings and discussions with Howard, and I know that Howard is interested and excited about coming, if the commission approves the contract. It is still ultimately the commission’s decision.”

Before Monday’s meeting, Tipton met with all seven commissioners individually.

“In my conversations with the commission, they were all very energetic and excited about the projects

— Howard Tipton

and things coming in the future,” Tipton said. “I thought to myself ‘What’s not to like?’”

BRIDGING THE GAP

Since Harmer’s five-year contract ends Dec. 10 and Tipton is unable to assume his new role until Jan. 30, 2023, Harmer agreed to a request from the town to extend his stay.

“I want this to be smooth, and so I am very much open to that, if that’s what the commission wants to do,” Harmer said. “It will probably involve a formal extension of my contract for that period of time, so I imagine that will be something we will talk about on Monday.”

For Harmer to continue with the town past his initial plans, he requested three items for him to agree to extend his stay.

He requested a 3% merit raise beginning Oct. 1 to honor his extended service to the town, exceeding his contract requirements.

Harmer has already sold his home on Longboat Key, leaving him without a place to stay for the extension. As such, he requested the town provide him with housing aid and allowance in finding and paying for a place to stay for his additional stay of about seven weeks. He and his wife, Dee, plan to move to Central Florida to help one of their adult children with a business venture.

His final request was to amend the terms of his existing contract to allow flexibility for him during his nontown working hours, allowing him to do work with his son.

The commission also approved Harmer’s contract extension in a 6-0 vote.

Howard Tipton was approved as Longboat Key’s next town manager.

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Barancik Foundation launches media plan A collaborative enterprise between the Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation and WUSF Public Media is expected to begin producing news and feature stories by the end of the year with a team of Sarasota-based journalists.

Content created by the Community News Collaborative will be made available to participating local media sites, including Observer Media Group, the Sarasota HeraldTribune, Venice Gondolier/The Daily Sun, The Bradenton Herald, Tempo News, ABC-7 WWSB, WSLR, Solmart Media, Sarasota Magazine, Sarasota Scene Magazine and West Coast Woman.

Recruiting is underway for four reporters and an editor with an eye toward producing multimedia content on such topics as grassroots school coverage, the environment, social justice, underrepresented communities, housing and nonprofits.

In announcing the project’s launch Monday morning, Matthew Sauer, the collaboration and impact officer for the Barancik Foundation, said the news team will operate independently under the auspices of WUSF. A board of three advisers also is being sought. The Observer Media Group participated in discussions with the Foundation and other news sites on the formation of the project.

According to a news release, the project will be financed by a donation of nearly $600,000 from the foundation.

“Journalism is the lifeblood of a functioning democracy and a civicminded population,” said Barancik Foundation President and CEO Teri A Hansen. “Yet the economic environment faced by today’s local media is challenging their ability every day to report on community stories. We aim to address that problem head on by adding new resources to cover important topics that affect our communities.”

Manatee Commission cuts millage rate Manatee County commissioners established plans this past week for a further reduction in the tentative millage rate for Fiscal Year 20222023.

Commissioners added a decrease of .10 mill to the previous decrease of .20, setting plans to lower the rate by a total of .30 mills. This change would bring the countywide operating millage to 6.2326.

The new rate was set through a vote of 5-1 after a motion by Commissioner George Kruse, who had also motioned in favor of the previous decrease. The vote took place with Commissioner Carol Whitmore offering the only dissenting vote.

Commissioner Misty Servia was absent.

Commissioner Vanessa Baugh said there were important trade-offs between decreasing the millage rate and managing other issues, including inflation and the maintenance of services to the public. She also said in the case of a disaster, the county could still adjust its funds to those emergency situations.

“I would not mind going down on that millage a little bit more and cut that stabilization fund a little bit,” Baugh said.

“I know it would be tough. It would be something we would have to look at very carefully.”

Town center slowly proceeds into phase two

Whitmore cautioned other commissioners about the need for emergency funds, emphasizing the possibility of hurricanes.

“I totally don’t support this,” Whitmore said. “The Gulf is 90 degrees now. This is a bad fiscal conservative decision, because you aren’t looking at what’s going to happen, and I’ve been here long enough to see things that have happened.”

The majority of work in the stage is expected to be complete by the middle of 2023.

Selby worker leaves $2.5 million donation The late Evelyn Mink went above and beyond in her benevolence and dedication to Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

Mink, who volunteered in the Selby Gardens Welcome Center for 25 years and retired just before her 100th birthday, left the botanical garden a $2.5 million estate gift.

Selby Gardens announced Monday that it will receive $2.5 million from the Evelyn S. Mink Charitable Trust and that her name will be on a volunteer suite in the Plant Research Center that will be part of the sprawling facility’s upcoming development plan.

Mink’s final day volunteering was in March 2020, just before Selby Gardens had to shut down because of the pandemic. Mink was two months shy of her 100th birthday at that point; the philanthropist died at age 101 in June 2021.

Mink worked for nearly 5,000 hours at Selby Gardens, and with her donation, the botanical garden has now raised more than $53 million for its upcoming master plan for redevelopment.

“Evelyn Mink’s dedicated service and generous philanthropy are an inspiration and, really, part of a legacy here at Selby Gardens,” said Jennifer O. Rominiecki, president and CEO of Selby Gardens. “Both of our campuses were established by forwardthinking women of their time whose influence continues to enrich our community many decades later.

When volunteers see Mrs. Mink’s name on their dedicated space in our new facilities, they’ll know she was a special woman who made Selby Gardens an even better place for those who came after her.”

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ven as the Longboat Key Town Center Green enters phase two of its development, nothing of note will likely take place there for about another month.

During a “Talk of the Town” segment, Town Manager Tom Harmer met with Ross Russo, a representative of Jon F. Swift Construction company.

“One of our big challenges right now is the supply chain demand and dealing with that,” Russo said. “Our scheduling, timing for us to start is in a strategic pause. We would have preferred to be turning dirt right now.”

Materials holding up the process include elements needed for the stage structure and its roof.

“Unfortunately, that is probably going to put us right in the middle of season, which we don’t want to do for our own reasons, let alone the impact to residents and the town.”

By the middle of September, fences will be up and trailers present, if the tentative timeline holds up, town leaders said. Then, the site will be raised and workers will begin installing sewer pipe for drainage.

Before construction can commence, utilities must be installed so that storm drainage structures can be fabricated and installed.

Around the middle of November, residents can expect to see the presence of more materials as the company is expecting to have the majority in their possession at that time.

A building pad and the beginning stages of the foundation of the site work and stage will start to form.

Impacts to traffic are expected as trucks of dirt and concrete will start to arrive during those months.

The majority of the stage structure is expected to be complete by Christmas, Russo said.

Harmer stated that the phase two site raising not only benefits the stage project but also potential plans for the site including a community center and library.

Evidence of construction will not be noticeable until the end of October at the earliest.

The majority of work in the phase should be completed by the middle of June 2023.

This phase of construction includes site work paid for by the town and the privately funded stage.

Site work for the town center is town-funded with about $530,000, which includes $445,000 from the town’s land-acquisition fund. Work includes raising and re-grading the site with fill. Additional stormwater infrastructure will be installed to accommodate site work and anticipated future buildings. The town’s portion is funding walkways, streetlights, landscaping and space for food trucks.

For the stage, the town originally

New York ferry passes on way to Big Apple Sarasota-area boaters can be forgiven if their Labor Day weekend voyages left them in a New York state of mind.

A few miles offshore on Saturday afternoon, mariners in the Gulf of Mexico spotted one of the Big Apple’s iconic Staten Island Ferry boats heading south under tow along the Sarasota coast.

No, the Yankees haven’t switched to a more leisurely road-game itinerary, nor did the level of pizza quality suddenly spike in these parts.

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And who was Dorothy Day, you ask?

She was a journalist and social activist who fought for the hungry and poor on the borough of Staten Island.

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“If I had the materials readily available, I wouldn’t expect it to take that long, but I have to build that in (to the timeline) because of the market we are in right now.”

Workers will initially raise the level of the Town Center Green property to help facilitate drainage.

— Ross Russo

had anticipated the project would cost about $500,000. One couple, Paul and Sarah Karon, opted to donate the entirety of that amount.

However, after going out to bids, the final total came back to the town at about $860,000. The remaining money was raised with the help of about 12 other individuals.

“If I had the materials readily available, I wouldn’t expect it to take that long, but I have to build that in (to the timeline) because of the market we are in right now,” Russo said.

Since construction will take place during peak season, scheduled events will be planned around the construction activities on the site.

Many of the larger events that would have occurred are not able to take place to allow for construction efficiency. For instance, the Longboat Key Kiwanis Club is working out location details for its annual Lawn Party signature event.

Still, some use of the space will be possible through efforts to keep attendees away from active work zones.

“My intent is this area is to try to preserve a significant portion of it and have that be available for smaller, midsized events,” Russo said. “The larger events we may not be able to accommodate on this site, but we are going to do everything we can to work with you.”

During events, areas will be fenced off to provide clear boundaries for attendees in hopes of ensuring safety for all guests and maintaining the condition of the site.

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THE BEST KIND OF BURGLARY 10:27 p.m, 2600 Harbourside Drive Suspicious incident: A caller aboard a moored boat called police that a break-in had nearly occurred on her vessel. In learning more about the incident, an officer noted the caller’s story changed several times and that the caller likely was inebriated. Another person on the boat said no near break-in took place.

A neighbor also denied hearing trouble. The officer canvassed the area and found nothing untoward.

THE BRANCH OFFICE 4:31 p.m., 600 block of Norton Street Suspicious incident: A caller complained to police that a landscaping crew dumped cut branches into a canal instead of disposing of them properly. A man on the crew explained to police that the crew was removing a tree from the premises and that they would return the next day to cut branches that were hanging over the water, though the officer reported no hinderance to navigation.

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THE UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD 5 p.m., Greer Island Boating call: The town’s marine patrol officer checked on the wellbeing of a pair of personal watercraft riders after their machine overturned. Both were swimming near a sandbar and told the officer they were OK. iPHOUND IT 11:10 p.m., 1600 block of Harbor Sound Drive Citizen assist: A resident called police from a nearby business upon coming home to find her cell phone missing and other phones in the house inoperative. Along with police, the resident reentered the home to find the alarm still armed and nothing out of place. A call placed to the missing cell phone was audible from inside, and the two were able to track it down outside near a pool.

The caller conceded she likely left it outside accidentally.

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KEYS TO HAPPINESS 10:14 p.m., Broadway Street Found property: An officer on patrol stopped to investigate an item in the road, which turned out to be a set of keys. Two days later, the owner of the keys came to the police department to correctly identify and claim them.

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A man was rescued from an apartment fire last week and brought to Sarasota Memorial Hospital, fire officials said.

The 1:35 p.m. fire on Sept. 6 prompted closure of a lane of traffic near Beach Harbor Club, 3804 Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Fire officials said the man was found in the kitchen of a third-floor unit and was conscious through the ordeal. He was taken by ambulance in stable condition.

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Who are the real fascists?

‘What we’re seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It’s not just Trump. It’s the entire philosophy — it’s like semiFascism.’

Biden’s tactics of vilifying Republicans has a sickening similarity to a German maniac in 1933.

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ho are the “fascists?”

Who are the authoritarians?

Three weeks have passed since Joe Biden’s now infamous remark at a fundraising event, where, essentially, he labeled as fascists Americans who voted for Donald Trump and embrace or embraced Trump’s “Make America Great Again” philosophy.

Biden followed that jaw-dropping moment with a speech that repeatedly proclaimed in higher decibels and length how horrible and dangerous Trump voters are and how they’re destroying democracy.

But what is so amazing is how oblivious Biden and his puppet masters are to reality.

If you take the time to read and analyze Biden’s speech and then place his accusations side by side with what has transpired during his administration, it is unavoidable to see that Biden, his White House maestros, Cabinet toadies and the Democratic Congress have done everything he accuses the Republicans of doing.

Who are the real fascists? They should look in the mirror.

To begin, the Biden team clearly

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doesn’t know what know what Fascism is.

Merriam-Webster: Fascism — “a political philosophy, movement or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation and forcible suppression of opposition.”

Undeniably, that is the Biden “regime.” To wit: Whenever Biden and the Democratic Party Congress push through $7 trillion in new federal spending, as they have in the past two years, they are expanding their powers over individual Americans and robbing them of freedom.

Through their “central planning,” they are confiscating taxpayers’ money (now and in the future) and spending it the way they want to spend it. What say, for instance, did you have in that ludicrous Budget Reduction Act? Where was the public support for that boondoggle?

When the Biden regime imposes regulations to thwart commerce that it doesn’t want (e.g. shutting down energy pipelines and drilling), it is using its centralized autocratic powers.

Dictatorial leader? Biden is not, but he is the doddering stooge and mouthpiece for the behind-thescenes cabal of Ron Klain, Susan Rice and the other leftist Democratic Party schemers foisting their fascist agenda on Americans.

No one can deny that the Biden

regime has imposed “severe economic regimentation.” Look what they have done to Americans’ standard of living with inflation and restrictions on the supply of energy.

They are doing everything they can to eliminate the use of affordable fossil fuels and force Americans to buy expensive electric vehicles. They are using their centralized powers to subsidize auto makers and EV buyers — taking from the working class and poor and giving unearned benefits to others — all to force on Americans their fascist-socialist agenda.

“Severe social regimentation?”

All we need say is: “diversity, equity and inclusion.” Look what that has done to the U.S. military, and how wokeness has destroyed the American values of being judged by merit and the content of character.

And then there is “forcible suppression of opposition.” The list is long and notorious: Raid on Mar-alago. Rampant big-tech censorship.

FBI and White House staffs colluding with big-tech to suppress the Hunter Biden and Biden corruption stories. Don’t forget the dozens and dozens of physicians and scientists whom CDC officials and social media platforms discredited because they challenged Washington authorities’ handling of COVID. Who are the real authoritarian fascists?

In 1965, author Ayn Rand gave a lecture in New York, “The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus.”

She began this lecture describing three political terms — Socialism,

Fascism and Statism, quoting the 1957 edition of the American College Dictionary’s 1965 lecture: “Socialism — A theory or system of social organization which advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production, capital, land, etc. in the community as a whole.

“Fascism — A governmental system with strong centralized power, permitting no opposition or criticism, controlling all affairs of the nation.

“Statism — The principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.”

Rand pointed out that Socialism and Fascism are merely variants of Statism, and the difference between Socialism and Fascism involves property rights. “Socialism negates property rights altogether, vesting the ownership and control of all property to the state. Fascism leaves ownership in the hands of individuals, but transfers control to the government.”

“In practice,” Rand said, “there is no difference between the two; both come from the same collectivist-statist principle; both negate individual rights and subordinate the individual to the collective; both deliver the livelihood and the lives of the citizens into the power of an omnipotent government.”

That is exactly what Biden and his leftist fascists are doing.

But here is the alarmingly scary part: The German people witnessed

‘Mad as hell’ — and not willing to take it anymore

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“If we are to build a better world, we must remember that the guiding principle is this — a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.”

t should make no difference whether you are a Republican, Democrat or Independent. We all should be “mad as hell” — and unwilling to take it anymore.

Let’s start with this: It is unconscionable for our president, Joe Biden, to call half of American voters “fascists.” It is likewise unconscionable for President Donald Trump to call people derogatory names. And it is unconscionable even for presidential candidates (e.g. Hillary Clinton) to call Trump supporters “Deplorables.”

We should be “mad as hell” and demand better! We should hold our elected officials to a high standard of serving “We the People” rather than serving themselves.

Even more, we should not tolerate elected officials — from the president down — knowingly breaking laws as they are doing now.

Our nation’s founding documents — the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights — are being trampled upon by all elected officials — locally and nationally, and therefore they are trampling upon our rights and liberties. They are violating the oath by which they all swore — to uphold the laws of the land.

We should be “mad as hell” that our immigration laws are not being enforced. It is unconscionable that our elected officials in Washington are knowingly violating immigration laws. Illegal immigration brings with it criminal elements, diseases and untold financial burdens on We the People.

Why should people whose first act is illegal entry into the country be given free lodging, food, education and medical benefits?

We should be “mad as hell” that they are treated better than many hard-working citizens. In many cases, they are treated better than our military — the men and women

who have volunteered to serve and protect us!

We should be “mad as hell” that elected officials have let crime skyrocket to epidemic levels. Evil thugs and repeat criminals are killing and mugging law-abiding citizens in broad daylight. They are robbing and looting stores unabated. And they are committing these heinous acts of violence with no fear of arrest or punishment.

We the People should be “mad as hell” that elected officials are defunding police and district attorneys are failing to protect the taxpayers they swore to serve. Every one of them should be fired.

What’s more, a nation founded on protests against undue taxation is now back where it began.

Our elected officials are taxing us into oblivion. We should be “mad as hell” at deficit spending at all levels!

Even more outrageous: Nowhere in the Constitution is the president given the right or authority to make decisions how taxpayer dollars are appropriated. Nowhere does the Constitution give the president the right or authority to forgive half a trillion dollars in student debt.

Congress has the sole responsibility of the nation’s purse. But, sadly and pathetically, even Congress has abdicated its oath to the Constitution and We the People. It should stop the president’s unconstitutional spending.

Everyone who has a rational, moral mind knows it makes no sense that plumbers, sole proprietors, contractors, restaurateurs, college students who paid off their debt or never went to college are now obligated to pay debts of others. If anyone should be punished to pay it should be the beneficiaries of this debt, the colleges and universities. They should pay.

Likewise, nowhere in the Constitution is the president given the authority to enter into treaties with

AN UNFORGIVABLE SPEECH Well, it actually and finally has happened.

You and I, our families and friends and 74 million other patriotic Americans have officially been designated enemies of the State by a 50-year impotent politician, our incompetent president.

Joe Biden officially declared war on more than half of American voters in front of a blood red wall wash with military symbolism on our Independence Hall, the birth place of America.

Ironically, he did this a day or two after calling Trump voters “Semi- Fascists.”

In this destructive speech, he unequivocally spewed the bile of full on Fascism in the most destructive presidential speech in American history. Even in the heat of the Civil War tearing apart the nation, Abraham Lincoln was

foreign countries. And yet Biden is negotiating a treaty with Iran, a terrorist nation whose stated goal is to destroy us. We should be “mad as hell” and yell from the windows.

To make all of this even worse, not only has the mainstream press become a biased, propaganda machine for the Democratic Party and its policies, our government — the FBI and White House staff — has colluded with the big tech companies to quash and censor our most cherished constitutional right, the Freedom of Speech.

Where is the press’ outrage against censorship? We should be “mad as hell.”

Amid all this outrageous disregard for We the People and our laws, there is at least a growing light of optimism. Rationality appears to be occurring across the nation with school boards.

more civil.

Cancerous American Marxism was on full display in this speech, and it was intentionally incendiary.

If President Trump had given that speech, he would be in irons for revolutionary incitement.

This unforgivable speech was written for Biden by elitist, leftist, anarchist puppet masters intent on destroying America to rebuild it into their government-controlled Socialist/Marxist Utopian State model. Pray to God America wakes up to this destructive force destroying America’s great and historic founding values.

Ignorance of history is our true enemy.

BOB GAULT LONGBOAT KEY

We the People never gave these boards the right to teach alternative history, alternative sex, ignoring religion or refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance. But thankfully, parents are taking back the education of our children.

We the People must continue to be “mad as hell” and continue to express it at the ballot box.

The United States has been the most successful and most giving nation in the world. We cannot let corrupt politicians succeed in redefining and destroying it. It is time to express our rights, vote them all out and start anew with people who will actually represent us and the Constitution.

Joel Schleicher is a Sarasota resident and chair of the Southwest Florida Water Management District.

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STATEMENTS OF FACT WITH NO FACTS Everyone who paid attention in school learned that one of the fundamentals of writing and speaking is when you make a statement of fact, you follow it with facts and examples that prove your point.

Here are seven paragraphs from Joe Biden’s Philadelphia speech castigating Republicans — but providing no supporting evidence.

Who is spreading fear and lies? n “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” n “And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people.” n “MAGA forces are determined to take

these tactics in the 1930s when the new chancellor of Germany orchestrated the overthrow of the Germans’ democratic republic and replaced it with his vision — the National Socialist Party of Germany, aka a Nazi dictatorship.

Author William L. Shirer recounted this chilling epoch in his 1960 masterpiece, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.” The cunning, scheming and evil were chilling.

So are the parallels to today.

Shirer recounts, for example, that on Feb. 3, 1933, one month after Adolf Hitler and his sordid schemers came to power, Paul Joseph Goebbels, one of Hitler’s top lieutenants, wrote in his diary: “Now it will be easy to carry on the fight, for we can call on all the resources of the State. Radio and press are at our disposal. We shall stage a masterpiece of propaganda.

And this time, naturally, there is no lack of money.”

Sound familiar? Are we witnessing the same? Democrats control all of the “resources” of the federal government, and the mainstream media clearly serves as a principal propaganda mouthpiece.

As Hitler took over Germany, Shirer quoted from Hitler’s own playbook, “Mein Kampf,” how Hitler would win over the masses

this country backwards — backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.” n “They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.” n “MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies.” n “MAGA Republicans … spread fear and lies — lies told for profit and power.” n “The MAGA Republicans believe that for them to succeed, everyone else has to fail.”

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with the use of what Hitler called “spiritual and physical terror.”

Hitler: “I understood the infamous spiritual terror … (At) a given sign, it unleashes a veritable barrage of lies and slanders against whatever adversary seems most dangerous, until the nerves of the attacked persons break down … This is a tactic based on precise calculation of all human weaknesses, and its result will lead to success with almost mathematical certainty.”

Shirer wrote: “No more precise analysis of Nazi tactics … was ever written.”

We saw it in practice in Philadelphia.

There he was, Joe Biden, who had the gall to use as his backdrop Independence Hall and U.S. Marines flanking him. He spewed vile about his fellow Americans.

Biden made derogatory statement after statement, vilifying Republicans. And typical of the politicians who use “spiritual terror,” he supplied no facts to back his statements (see box).

MAGA Republicans, he said, “spread fear and lies — lies told for profit and power.”

But who is the one spreading fear and lies?

Joe Biden and the schemers behind his curtain are the real fascists and authoritarians.

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ransporting 15,000 spotted sea trout got slippery for the Coastal Conservation Association of Florida.

The first attempt was shut down over fears the truck’s circulating pump was broken and the fish would arrive dead. Bad weather delayed the second attempt. But on Sept. 8, despite rains, a truckload of trout were shot out of a hose into Sarasota Bay on City Island.

The CCA and the Duke Energy Mariculture Center released the trout in an effort to replenish declining populations caused by red tide.

“Trout are the fastest growing, and one of the most prolific species of, fish other than mahi mahi,” Capt. Leiza Fitzgerald said. “This is an inshore fish, and it will make a huge impact once they get to spawning size.”

Spotted sea trout spawn three to four times a year and are among the fastest growing fish.

The juvenile trout released were from 4-6 inches long, big enough not to turn into immediate baitfish once hitting the water. Because trout spawn from three to four times a year, Fitzgerald says that even if only 1% survived, the bay will still benefit.

The fish are raised in a hatchery located in Crystal River, where 15,000 more fish were scheduled to be released the following day. The CCA releases fish all over Florida; 40,000 redfish were released on the West Coast.

It takes all day to prepare. Ponds are drained, and trucks are loaded and driven across the state. But once the hose is attached to the truck and there’s a boost of water pressure, 15,000 fish are pumped out in a matter of minutes. This batch was released directly into the bay past the boat ramps on Ken Thompson Parkway.

“Sarasota Bay got hit real hard– trout, redfish and snook. The board decided to raise some fish and release them to help give it a little kick,” said Capt. Scott Moore. “This area has nice seagrasses around the passes and good water flow. They figured this would be a great place to release.”

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hey’ve taken the summer off to rest their voices and learn new material.

And they’ve even had the time to learn some Gaelic.

Key Chorale is coming back from its summer recess with a tribute to the old country that will bring an Irish flair to Church of the Palms.

The show — entitled Equinox: A Celtic Celebration — is meant to kick off the choral group’s new season and also to pay tribute to the changing of summer to fall, and Key Chorale has enlisted tenor Brad Diamond and Foley’s All-Star Irish Band to make

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“All the five band members are all specialists in their instruments and in this kind of music,” says Joseph Caulkins, artistic director of Key Chorale. “We pulled together the best people from all over the country. When you read the bios of these guys, they’re amazing at all the things they’re doing.

“We wanted to do everything as authentic as possible, and having these five guys who have played it their whole lives is going to make a big difference in the quality of the performance.”

The show, which takes place on Sept. 24, will include songs such as “Danny Boy” and “Wild Mountain Thyme” that have moved into the world music vernacular.

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Key Chorale artistic director Joseph Caulkins leads the group through a recent rehearsal.

dulcimer and the uilleann pipes played by master craftsmen.

And then, of course, there’s the chorus of singers dozens strong that Caulkins leads from the podium.

They’ve never done such a show as this, but that’s part of what makes it exciting for singers and band alike.

“Last year we did a show that was all gospel music, and it was a nice way to kick off the season,” says Caulkins.

“I thought, ‘What would be another thing that would appeal to a lot of people?’ The timeless melodies and infectious rhythms of Irish and Celtic music seem to be a good fit.”

And while he might not have realized it at the time, taking on this music means taking on a new language.

Caulkins says that’s not necessarily difficult or out of the ordinary for

Key Chorale.

“We’ve probably sung in all the languages except Gaelic. Gaelic and Russian are the two outliers,” he says. “I think the hardest thing is that when you look at a Gaelic word it looks nothing like it sounds.

“Fortunately for us, Brad Diamond, our tenor soloist that’s coming down, he has so much Gaelic to spit out. We just have a little bit of a chorus to do.”

Diamond, a professor of voice at Samford University, won’t be the only distinguished guest.

Dylan Foley, a four-time All-Ireland Fiddle Champion, will be leading the supporting band, which will also feature guitarist Brian Hanlon, hammered dulcimer player Stephen Humphries, flutist Sean Cunningham and uilleann pipe artist Eamonn Dillon.

Foley, 30 years old, was raised in upstate New York.

He says he started playing the fiddle at age 8 and was inspired by virtuoso Jay Ungar, and he was first crowned an Irish fiddle champion at age 12. He later won in another two youth brackets and was crowned adult champion in 2014.

“They call me The Big Yank,” he says of his following in Ireland. “I’m 6-foot-7, so it’s hard to blend in over there. I’ve gotten out there and I’ve played a lot and people know my name. They know what I look like, but I’ve got a beard now. I’m no longer 12, you know?”

Foley, based just outside Nashville, Tennessee, is thrilled to be working with this assemblage of musicians.

He’s been in Nashville for about a year, and he plays with Dillon every

week. Cunningham pops in from time to time, and Hanlon runs his own recording studio in Nashville.

They haven’t played all together that often, says Foley, but when they do, it’s instant chemistry.

“It’s very natural to us. We all have the same repertoire,” he says. “Once we get down there and have our first rehearsal, it’s going to be really cool to see how it all pieces together.”

Foley says he’s never played with a choral group this size before. So the mix of sounds should be new for everyone; not just the audience, but also the musicians themselves.

For Caulkins, the hard work comes in blending all those talents.

How do you manage to rehearse when your performers are split between multiple states?

Caulkins says Key Chorale will be singing together for the first time since May, but the singers have all had access to a video guide of the material to allow them to practice.

Key Chorale rehearsed for the first time in person on Sept. 6, and they won’t meet with the Irish All-Stars

and their guest tenor until the actual week of the show.

Caulkins calls that kind of preparation a “grand experiment,” and he says the final days of rehearsal will be invigorating.

“When you’re rehearsing this online, you don’t get the sound of all the voices coming together,” he says.

“It’s always an exciting time. It’s fun to see where they are with learning their parts. Then we put the magic to it; we talk about phrasing and articulation and musicality.

“We’re going to just do the most fun part of music, the details which make it really enjoyable.”

The show will also have an appropriate opening act.

Blue Skye Pipes and Drums, an allfemale pipe and Celtic performance band, will play for a half-hour before the main program.

Caulkins is excited for another season of performances, and he says that visitors to Key Chorale’s website should have the opportunity to watch shows remotely. But he’s hoping, at this point, that people are ready to come hear music in person.

“We were mostly in person pretty much all last season, but everybody comes back to the concert hall in their own time,” he says.

“This whole season really is about just bringing our whole audience back and letting them enjoy live music again. That audience is coming back but they’re not coming back like a light switch. They come back as they feel ready.”

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Josh Scheible and Caegan Quimby, singers and songwriters for Physical Plant, went into a brief musical exile during the pandemic that allowed them to sharpen their material. They’ve emerged with a veteran rhythm section with ties to several other local Sarasota bands, and they’re celebrating the August release of their second album, “Hot Future,” which is a reference to cli-

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“We’re older now,” says Quimby, who started Physical Plant as part of an independent study project at New College. “We’re the age of the bands — maybe older —that were asking us to play shows back then.

“Things can happen here. But we have to make them happen.”

Scheible, a graduate of Bradenton’s Southeast High School, has been playing in Manatee County bars since before he was allowed to drink. The guitarist estimates he played more than 100 shows as part of Magic Tree Conspiracy, a classic rock cover band, by the time he got to New College. Then he met Quimby as a freshman and became friends.

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sit down together and trade licks and lyrics? No, not really.

Scheible says he’s more of a perfectionist and often doesn’t bring a song to the band unless it is a completely finished product.

But Quimby is a prolific songwriter with a backlog of material just waiting to get the full-band treatment.

The important part of their partnership, though, is that Scheible and Quimby share the same tastes.

“When we disagree, it’s usually pretty relevant. There’s a reason we disagree,” says Scheible. “About 95% of the time, we like the same stuff.

But the sticking points, it’s usually something interesting to tease out.”

“When we’re the closest to an argument,” adds Quimby, “It’s because we’re both wrong.”

The pair meets once a week, on Wednesdays, to tighten up musically and prepare for their Sunday full-band rehearsals, which usually see them striving to stay tight on their current material.

They’re scouring the local scene and looking for places to play.

Physical Plant is going to be playing a show at the Ringling Underground in November, and they say it would be nice to return to their roots at New College and play there again.

But when they look at the local scene, they realize that it’s a challenging environment for them and for other bands like them.

Most bars, says Scheibel, don’t want to book a band that plays original music.

“We’re going to book a cover band that keeps people here all night,” he says of the bar owner’s perspective.

“We have to cater to the demographic that’s going to come out and keep the place in business.

“That’s just business. As someone who came out of what I like to call the Margaritaville circuit, I get it. That’s what I came up doing.”

Scheible, who moonlights as a guitar teacher, says he saw one of his classmates from first grade at a

recent gig, and he underlines how fortunate he is to be able to do what he loves in his hometown.

The next step — the Hot Future, if you will — sees Physical Plant not just making its own music but also setting into the parallel path of finding gigs for themselves and other bands around them.

Their first album, “What’s Laid Down,” came out in 2018, and four years later it’s a completely different band with a different mindset.

They have enough material for a third album; and maybe a fourth, if you count the songs Quimby hasn’t brought to the band yet.

Best of all, they’re not in a rush.

They’re committed to seeing this thing out over the long haul.

“They say you get all your life to write your first album and a couple years to write your second one. But that’s not really a problem for us,” says Scheible. “We always have 10 new tunes. We’ll get to them when we get to them.”

Physical Plant is forging forward with a new lineup and a new album.

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“That was one of the very cool things at New College,” says Scheible of his student years. “They saw that we had a functioning rock band and said, ‘OK, well, let’s use it.’

“We got to play with people from the orchestra. We got to write for people from the orchestra. We got all these very interesting performance opportunities that happened through New Music New College.”

But it wasn’t just their schooling; Scheible and Quimby also say that the indie rock scene in Sarasota from about 2010 to 2015 was incredibly productive and nurturing.

There were a lot of good bands in the area back then, and a lot of them gave young Physical Plant an opportunity to open up for them.

The band’s new drummer, Michael Murphy, formerly played in Equines and Cats in the Basement, and young Scheible and Quimby first met him as a promoter who got them their first gigs. Dave Cornicelli, their new bassist, formerly played in Hail Dale and the Umbrella Cult, and he brings versatility because he can also play drums. But more than their musical chops, Murphy and Cornicelli bring a new attitude to the band.

“Caegan and I, we’re both classic perfectionists and overthinkers,” says Scheible. “It’s nice to have somebody in the room who is the ‘Just do it,’ attitude. It’s nice to hear that because between the two of us, (we) will just talk, talk, talk.”

At this point, they’re thrilled to be playing music again.

They make sure to point out that their old bassist, Dave Baker, has not left the band. He’s just entering a new phase of life as a father, and they’re forging ahead with their old music and with their new stuff.

Scheible and Quimby spent the pandemic rehearsing as a two-piece outfit with a drum machine, and their partnership was only strengthened by their mutual commitment.

“I’m going to keep doing it whether I’m getting paid or not,” Quimby says. “So we never doubted that we’re going to keep doing something. But each time the lineup dissolves, it’s very anxiety inducing.

“We always just tried to have faith, just kind of write more songs.”

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party started with its timeless mix of reggae and roots music. You’ll have your choice of food trucks and drink stations to wet your whistle.

SPOTLIGHT TALK: DR. ALIX PIERRE 6 p.m. at Sarasota Art Museum, 1001 S. Tamiami Trail Free members, $20 nonmembers Visit SarasotaArtMuseum.org.

THE REVOLUTIONISTS 7:30 p.m. at Venice Theatre, 140 Tampa Ave. W $29 adult, $21 College student/Educator, $15 HS Visit VeniceTheatre.org.

Join Dr. Pierre, the senior lecturer on African Diaspora and the World at Spelman College, as he dissects the roots and contexts of the Sarasota Art Museum’s Katrina Coombs fiber art exhibit “I M(O)ther: Threads of the Maternal Figure.”

Let them eat cake. This Laura Gunderson play tells the irreverent tale of four “bodacious” women set in the French Revolution who eventually lose their heads. It’s fast-paced and topical, and it will give you something to think about when you leave the theater. Candace Artim directs this production, which will run through Oct. 2.

‘CLIFFHANGER’ 7:30 p.m. at Island Players Theater Runs through Sept. 25 $25 Visit TheIslandPlayers.com.

THE JERSEY TENORS PART II 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at Goldstein Cabaret, 1239 Palm Ave. $10 members, $20 nonmembers Visit FloridaStudioTheatre.org.

These Jersey imports are still here, and they’re still singing their best tributes to the Garden State. They mash up rock and opera hits into their own imitable mixture, and they make sure to always sing a little something from Jersey natives Frankie Valli and Bon Jovi.

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SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM 2 p.m. at Studio 1130, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail, Suite 1130 $30, $13 students Visit ThePlayers.org.

It’s the finale of Side by Side by Sondheim, which means it’s your last chance to celebrate the canon of one of Broadway’s greatest songsmiths. You’ll hear songs from all over Stephen Sondheim’s ouevre, including songs from musicals like “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” “Gypsy,” “West Side Story,” “Company” and more.

MONDAY NIGHT JAZZ AT THE CABARET 7:30 p.m. at John C. Court Cabaret, 1265 First St. $25-$39 Visit JazzClubSarasota.org.

Danny Sinoff, a jazz pianist and vocalist based in Fort Myers, will take center stage at the Monday Night Jazz program. Sinoff performs as part of a trio, and he plays jazz standards and selections from the Great American Songbook. Bassist Scott

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There’s a murder in this play, but there’s no mystery. The main character, Professor Henry Lowenthal, accidentally kills his boss early in this play, and then he and his wife must find a way to get rid of the evidence before they’re caught by snooping students and suspicious police officers. Mike Lusk directs; ‘Cliffhanger’ will run at Island Players through Sept. 25.

BIG AND LITTLE CHEF: WE’RE TALKIN’ TACOS 11 a.m. at Publix Aprons Cooking School. 2875 University Parkway $80 Visit Apronscookingschool.publix. com.

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GOD’S COUNTRY 7:30 p.m. at Venice Theatre, 140 Tampa Ave. W $29 adult, $21 College student/Educator, $15 HS Visit VeniceTheatre.org.

White supremacy and sedition may not seem like prime ingredients for dramatic theater, but this play written by Steve Dietz in 1988 has taken on new relevance in the decades since it was created. Dietz interweaves three poignant stories burnished with true-life dialogue from court transcripts and sermons.

CANELO VS GGG III 8 p.m. at Hollywood Regal, 1993 Main St. $13 Visit RegMovies.com.

It would cost $85 to see this fight at home. Or you could see it on a big screen for $14 instead. Middleweight champions Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin have faced each other twice before, with their first encounter being judged a draw in 2017 and the second a majority decision in Alvarez’s favor the following year.

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You could call it a block party, but it’s more like a lawn party. The final Friday Fest of the year will take place at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, and Jah Movement will get the

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CHALK TALKS WITH DENISE KOWAL You may have questions like “How do you draw a shark the size of a football field?”

And “How do you start a local festival that eventually becomes a local institution?”

Denise Kowal, founder of the Chalk Festival, will have answers. Kowal started the Chalk Festival back in 2007, and it’s matured into a gigantic event that draws chalk artists from all over the world.

IF YOU GO When: 4 p.m., September 15 Where: Arts Advocates Gallery, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail Tickets: $10 members, $12 nonmembers Info: ChalkFestival.org and ArtsAdvocates.org.

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SARASOTA OPERA FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL Let the Sarasota Opera wine and dine you. This event took a hiatus during the pandemic, but now it’s back in full splendor. You’ll be able to nosh on foods from several local restaurants and swish wine around your palate to your heart’s content. Proceeds will benefit the Sarasota Youth Opera, and the talented

young coterie of singers will perform a few selections from the upcoming production of “The Secret World of Og” as part of the festivities.

IF YOU GO When: 1 p.m., September 17 Where: Sarasota Opera House, 61 N. Pineapple Ave. Tickets: $85 Info: SarasotaOpera.org.

Smith and drummer James Varnado will support Sinoff. The show starts at 7:30, but the doors will open at 6:30 for food and beverage service.

the audience after the screening.

This film is being screened as part of the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers.

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REFUGE DOCUMENTARY SCREENING 7 p.m. at Fogartyville, 525 Kumquat Court Free Visit WSLR.org/Fogartyville.

POINT OF VIEW 6 p.m. at Sarasota Art Museum, 1001 S. Tamiami Trail $10 members, $20 nonmembers Visit SarasotaArtMuseum.org.

This is a story sure to strike up a conversation. Refuge follows the story of a member of a white nationalist hate group forced to confront their own belief system and reevaluate his life. Director Din Blankenship will discuss the provocative film with

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Rebecca Cioci and Dr. KC Hill network at the luncheon after the tournament.

Dr. Hill joined the Chamber a week ago and volunteered to register golfers in the morning.

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Alex Lee enjoys lunch with Honorary Chair Patrick Mannelly.

Back on the he Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce’s golf tournament is back by demand.

The tournament was in its 25th year in 2012, and then a decade passed without one. But what the members want, Gail Loefgren delivers.

“Our members wanted the golf tournament back,” she said.

The chamber arranged an 18hole tournament at the Longboat Key Club on Sept. 9, complete with a buffet, prizes, gift baskets and a celebrity guest.

Patrick Mannelly, a long snapper and offensive lineman for the Chicago Bears from 1998-2014, was the event’s honorary chair.

“I’m Tryla’s neighbor,” he said.

Mannelly moved in next to Tryla Larson on Longboat Key in January. Larson is a Realtor with Michael Saunders & Company and a longtime chamber member.

Not all members who registered played, but 89 showed up rain or shine. The morning was a bit of both, but the golfers got lucky this time. Heavy rains in May caused the chamber to cancel its first attempt.

Golf Pro Terry O’Hara’s advice

THE WINNERS

Putting Contest: Tyler Hagan and Tim Rink (Tie) Straightest Drive: Ryan Barber Closest to Pin (Men/Women): Terry O’Hara and Andrea Cashner Longest Drive (Men/Women): Burt Romanoff and Amanda Foltz Bullseye Booze Basket: JC Cornell Last Place Team: Jeanie Lumpkin’s Team 7th Place Team: Brad Marner’s Team 1st Place Team: Matt McGuire’s Team 50/50 RAFFLE CASH PRIZE OF $325: Adam Dolman Bushnell Wingman Raffle (Provided by Tryla Brown Larson): Jim Turk

Golfers trickle into the Harborside ballroom as they finish up their rounds.

was to “play fast.” He and Loefgren were strategizing in the pre-dawn hours, but O’Hara was sure they had a window. He was right. The golfers left the course damp, not soaked.

— LESLEY DWYER The golfers love Ian Booth’s shirt.

Mike Condensa of Performance Pilates played golf with his sons, Sebastian and Lorenzo.

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AN Community Health brought back its CANDance fundraiser with a lively and colorful night of dancing and support at the Sarasota Municipal Auditorium on Sept. 10.

The annual event moved away from its typical dance competition structure in favor of a lively show celebrating CAN Community Health’s 30th anniversary.

“We didn’t want a competition this year,” said Roger Capote, senior vice president of marketing and communications with CAN Community Health. “Because of COVID, we weren’t able to celebrate CAN’s 30th anniversary, so this is that celebration.”

Guests met and mingled wearing a variety of bright-colored clothes and designs before sitting down for the program to start.

Emcee Brianna Summers welcomed the crowd and spoke to the importance of CAN Community Health’s programs help-

ing those living with HIV. Summers then introduced a group number from Dynasty Dance, where a series of performers took over the floor to dance, strut and spin.

Honorary co-chair Emily Walsh then took to the podium to speak to the crowd and introduce co-chairs Monica Kelly Cure and Donna Koffman. The pair surprised Capote with flowers and appreciation for his work bringing the 2022 CANDance event together.

New CAN Community Health president and CEO Rishi Patel then announced a new foundation as well as a donor wall with the nonprofit group.

After dinner was served, Summers introduced Maksym and Sarah Lototskyy for a solo performance, The evening concluded with the assembled guests cutting loose on the dance floor.

Photos by Harry Sayer

Honorary co-chair Jackie Rogers is shown with co-chairs Donna Koffman and Monica Kelly Cure.

President and CEO Rishi Patel addresses the crowd.

—HARRY SAYER

Roger Capote thanks the crowd.

Emcee Brianna Summers spoke to the importance of CAN Community Health’s programs and services for people with HIV. Dancers keep the lights spinning.

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TRIBUTES Cynthia (Cynda) Grenfell 1930-2022

2,974 small American Flags fly from bridge to bridge to honor the lives lost during the Sept. 11 attack.

Photo courtesy of the Town of Longboat Key

Public Works Department Project Manager, Guy Matricciani helps Joe Brunory put out the flags along Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Flags fly across all seven miles of Longboat Key on Sept.

11.

Cynthia (Cynda) was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1930 to William Duncan Green and Gertrude Jenkins Green. She was the youngest of three children.

She is survived by her three children Ann Jennifer Dierks, Cameron James Dierks, Elizabeth Dierks Yerkes, and grand and great-grandchildren.

She attended Vassar College. After college she married DeVere Dierks, Jr. of Kansas City, Missouri.

They moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas and raised a family.

In the early 1970’s Cynda moved to New Mexico to pursue her interests in horse ranching and art. After living in Santa Fe for many years, she moved to Plymouth Harbor in Sarasota, where she continued creating art in various forms. She died peacefully after a brief illness on September 3, 2022.

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Jason Schmidt and Mark Richardson spend four hours Friday morning putting up flags along Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Somber and stunning Sept. 11 tribute D rivers crossing the bridge onto Longboat Key from either direction were met with a line of 2,974 small American flags over the weekend, a heartwarming visual tribute to the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001.

The sight was eye-catching but somber as the flags continued along the entire stretch of Gulf of Mexico Drive from one end of the island to the other. Each flag signified a life lost, and each one was visible by car.

Most flags were placed in a straight line along the bayside sidewalk, but the line wove in and out around tufts of shrubbery when needed. The Public Works Department takes great care and pride in placing each flag an equal distance from the next.

“They don’t just stick them in the ground,” Gail Loefgren said, “And I didn’t want to just put out flags. I was going to put out the number of flags of the people we lost in the attack.”

Loefgren is the president of the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce, who organizes the tribute. At the start in 2003, her vision was much loftier. She wanted 2,974 big flags flying in Joan Durante Park each year, but knew right away it wasn’t feasible.

With the help of town workers, Longboat Ace Hardware, Chamber members and the community, a Longboat Key tradition was created, one that Loefgren feels will long outlive her role as Chamber president. Only a hurricane could stop these flags from flying.

In 2004 and 2017, hurricanes Ivan and Irma did just that. But Friday morning, eight Public Works employees spent four hours working through on-and-off rains to get them into the ground. The result is a stunning show of patriotism and remembrance.

“This is one of the proudest things I ever dreamed up,” Loefgren said.

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NETWORKING AT NOON 11:30-1:30 p.m. at the Lazy Lobster, 5350 Gulf of Mexico Drive. The Longboat Chamber of Commerce is holding a networking lunch. $30 for members, $40 for guests and prospective members. Registration is required. Call 383-2466.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

BIG BAND CONCERT 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in St. Armands Circle Park, 1 St. Armands Circle. The Sarasota Jazz Project celebrates the swing music of the 1930s. This event is free and open to the public. Call 388-1554.

RECURRING EVENTS 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.

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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.

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.

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Some plaza merchants will donate 10% of sales to the Longboat Island Chapel’s charitable outreach programs.

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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.

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. Class is outdoors, weather permitting. Cost is $10. Walk-ins welcome. Call 383-6493.

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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, email MaryAnnBrady@TheParadiseCenter.org.

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.

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

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“We and the dolphins breathe the same air, swim in the same water, catch and eat the same fish and live in a complex community that includes multiple generations of relatives and long-term friends and associates,” scientist Randall Wells said. “What we do to the local ecosystem affects us all.”

Since 1989, Wells has studied the local dolphin population for the Chicago Zoological Society. The Sarasota Dolphin Research Program is housed at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium but is not run by Mote.

About 170 dolphins are long-term Sarasota residents. The population typically increases around 2.1% each year. Down years are usually caused by red tide, but Wells credits the steady increase to five factors: a net ban in 1995, improvements to water quality, improved responses to dol-

phins in distress, the cessation of commercial dolphin collection in the 1980s and an increase in awareness.

The net ban reduced deaths due to fishing nets and left more prey fish available in Sarasota Bay. Mote’s Stranding Investigation Program has improved detection and responses to dolphins in distress. And as the public became more aware of the threats to dolphins, threats from fishing gear, boats and pollution decreased.

These results can be seen in dolphin FB15, also known as Nicklo.

Nicklo was presumed dead in 2017, but she was 67 years old at the time, making her the oldest wild dolphin documented in the world. She gave birth to at least four calves. The last born, Eve, died in 2020 at age 22.

Nicklo’s replacement as the oldest wild dolphin is FB54, a 51-year-old female. FB stands for freeze-brand, the dolphin version of a medical identification bracelet placed on the dorsal fin. It links the dolphin to its own specific medical record.

The focus of the program has changed since 1989. The initial goal was to learn about dolphin ranging and social patterns.

“Over the decades, our work has transitioned from an academic focus on what dolphins do to conservation related work to benefit dolphin populations here and elsewhere around the world,” Wells said. “We are also beginning research on dolphins offshore of Sarasota.”

of the Chicago Zoological Society’s Sarasota Dolphin Research Program

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membered as the “Shark Lady.” In honor of her would-be 100th birthday and her legacy and research, Mote is putting the spotlight women who have followed her path in a series called “Meet the Women of Mote.”

Lynne Byrd is the rehabilitation and medical care coordinator. The Longboat Observer’s Lesley Dwyer spoke with Byrd to find out more about her work.

How long have you worked at Mote?

I started at Mote in June of 2001.

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and released a dolphin named Freeway. I really admired how the aquarium was built to showcase all the great work the researchers were doing.

How did you get started in this field?

I began my journey in the Florida Keys, volunteering at night during a mass stranding of pilot whales.

Your experience cites an emphasis on stress reduction. How do animals behave when stressed?

Wild animals are resilient at hiding sickness and injuries. However, you can look at overall respiration, heart rate and changes in behavior.

Why did you want to work at Mote?

Mote drew my attention back in the early 1990s, when they rehabbed

What is your most memorable rescue experience?

A dolphin named Ginger was one of my most memorable and most

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challenging dolphin rehabilitations.

By the time Ginger was released in 2009, Mote volunteers and staff had spent 1,320 hours monitoring her condition along with rehabilitating this dolphin on an all-live fish diet because she refused to eat dead fish that we normally maintain our patients on. Ginger had eaten nearly 4,000 live pinfish. That’s 35 pinfish fed five times a day at about $1 per fish by the end of her release.

Researchers continue to see Ginger to this day.

What kind of work have you

done with the local sea turtles on Longboat?

We rescue, rehabilitate and release various sea turtles of all life stages from hatchlings through adults.

Connor is an example of a loggerhead turtle we rescued and released off Longboat Key.

Lynne Byrd works with sea turtle and cetaceans.

How many sea turtles has Mote rescued?

Currently, most of the animals Mote treats are sea turtles. At this point, Mote has rehabilitated over 800 turtles, not including the yearly 2,000 hatchlings we treat.

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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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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

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

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SARASOTA 1919 Irving Street 6 Beds 5/1 Baths 4,956 Sq. Ft. Stacy Hanan 941-266-0529 A4546099 $3,499,000

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

SIESTA KEY 472 Island Circle 4 Beds 3/2 Baths 3,339 Sq. Ft. Lenore Treiman 941-356-9642 A4526972 $2,995,000

LONGBOAT KEY 609 Halyard Lane 3 Beds 2/1 Baths 2,069 Sq. Ft. Tryla Brown Larson 941-962-1122 A4546210 $2,950,000

SIESTA KEY 4193 Roberts Point Circle 4 Beds 3/1 Baths 3,250 Sq. Ft. Kim Eskew 941-587-5999 A4542367 $2,850,000

ST. ARMANDS KEY 315 Jackson Drive 2 Beds 2/1 Baths 2,514 Sq. Ft. Terri Derr & Rita Holbrook 941-356-6694 A4546074 $2,679,500

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home in Country Club Shores tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Thomas Francis Curran and Dawn D’Onofrio, trustees, sold the home at 560 Outrigger Lane to Robert and Heather Schiederer, of Longboat Key, for $2.9 million. Built in 1963, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 2,917 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,537,500 in 2020.

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WESTON POINTE

Jane Karen Fielder, trustee, and Jerry Ben Fielder, of Longboat Key, sold the home at 617 Weston Pointe Court to A Storage One LLC for $2.7 million. Built in 1994, it has three bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 4,395 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.07 million in 2005.

COUNTRY CLUB SHORES

Stephen and Barbara Karp, of Cicero, New York, sold their home at 551 Chipping Lane to Kenneth and Kim McPartland, of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, for $2.1 million. Built in 1967, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,247 square feet of living area. It sold for $389,000 in 1999.

BIRD KEY

Monica and Richard Van Buskirk sold their home at 409 Partridge Circle to Nathan Lancry, of Hunting Valley, Ohio, for $1,895,000. Built in 1961, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,522 square feet of living area. It sold for $529,000 in 2003.

LIDO AMBASSADOR

Yury Benin, of Queens, New York, sold his Unit 409 condominium at 800 Benjamin Franklin Drive to 800BFA409 LLC for $1.36 million.

Built in 1978, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,150 square feet of living area. It sold for $153,500 in 1995.

The home at 560 Outrigger Lane was built in 1963.

HARBOUR OAKS II

Peter and Karen Kennedy, of Falmouth, Maine, sold their home at 2341 Harbour Oaks Drive to Vincent and Lisa Molinari, of Syosset, New York, for $1,275,000. Built in 1986, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,282 square feet of living area. It sold for $810,000 in 2019.

Personal Representatives, and Sydney Graham, of Ontario, Canada, sold the Unit 214 condominium at 5055 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Esther Sharp, trustee, of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, for $720,000. Built in 1973, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,484 square feet of living area. It sold for $255,000 in 1995.

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SPANISH MAIN YACHT CLUB

William and Catherine Potter, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, sold their Unit 106 condominium at 4400 Exeter Drive to Anthony and Kimberly DeSimone, of Buffalo, New York, for $530,000. Built in 1970, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 992 square feet of living area. It sold for $95,000 in 1989.

LONGBEACH

Ronald and Dawn Fiddler, of Morris, Connecticut, sold their Unit 23 condominium at 7095 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Jennifer Leddy, of Bradenton Beach, for $1 million.

Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,170 square feet of living area. It sold for $537,000 in 2020.

INN ON THE BEACH

Roxann Parker Lagow, of Austin, Texas, sold her Unit 4401 condominium at 240 Sands Point Road to Susan Griffith Lusk, trustee, of Venice, for $949,000. Built in 1982, it has one bedroom, one bath and 739 square feet of living area. It sold for $495,000 in 2016.

Marlene Slansky, of Longboat Key, sold the Unit 303 condominium at 3660 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Blake Slansky and Elise Kidd, of Vernon Hills, Illinois, for $480,000. Built in 1980, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,284 square feet of living area. It sold for $440,000 in 2004.

Jean Vucovich and Emil Daniel Vucovich Jr., trustees, of Mooresville, North Carolina, sold the Unit 207 condominium at 743 Spanish Drive S. to James Matras, of Lodi, Wisconsin, for $450,000. Built in 1969, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,343 square feet of living area. It sold for $102,000 in 1995.

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TOP BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of September 1-8 in order of dollar amounts.

L O N G B OAT K E Y

NOW TAKING CONTRACTS

Exterior and interior Jennifer M. Fischley

AMOUNT($) $850,000 $827,900

renovations

Revocable Trust

Revised site plan

Michael J. Roth

$120,000

Randall S. Welch

$85,305

2179 Harbourside Drive #501 Interior alterations Douglas O. Hoerr

$80,000

3315 GMD

for drainage 6201 GMD

New construction

584 Yawl Lane

New pool

Jeffry S. Snauwaert Trust

$74,530

591 Bowsprit Lane

Exterior alterations

Franklin D. Simmons

$72,880

Revocable Trust

3440 GMD

Replace siding

The Dock on the Bay Assn.

$72,170

3440 GMD

Replace siding

The Dock on the Bay Assn.

$72,170

3440 GMD

Replace siding

The Dock on the Bay Assn.

$72,170

525 Putter Lane

Stabilize foundation Shane M. Mikula Enterprise

$68,530

3400 GMD

Windows and doors

Michael W. Haycock

$65,829

2425 GMD #2A

Electrical

Curt & Stephanie Kassab

$62,797

6201 GMD

Mechanical

Randall S. Welch

$60,340 $50,000

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alterations 45 Lighthouse Point Drive

Interior alterations

Maylake Florida LP

3440 GMD

Replace siding

The Dock on the Bay Assn.

$48,114

3440 GMD

Replace siding

The Dock on the Bay Assn.

$48,114

3440 GMD #8

Windows and doors

Janice Frances Ball Trust

$43,851

1211 GMD #401

Electrical

Albert R. Thigpen

$40,000

Mechanical

Cherokee Trust

$38,480

4051 GMD

alterations 1075 GMD #101

Interior alterations

BP 7101 LLC

$34,335

415 L’Ambiance Drive #F308 Bathroom remodel Loretta S. Lobes TTEE

$25,000

2251 GMD

$23,235

Mechanical

Aria Longboat Key

alterations

Condominiums

3570 Mistletoe Lane

Replace poolcage

Varun Soni Revocable Trust

$20,291

4234 GMD Unit E2

Interior alterations

Kenneth Shusterman

$19,000

Source: Town of Longboat Key

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PENDING! $6,700,000

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