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Colony sales keep coming Unicorp makes deals with six unit owners in December. Total price: $628,000. PAGE 3A YOUR TOWN

BACK IN THE Barrel of fun

Have you been wondering what’s up with the orange reflective barrels lining the road along New Pass Bridge?

They form a barrier for pedestrians and bicyclists on that side of the bridge while the Florida Department of Transportation undertakes a $2 million rehabilitation project aimed at renovating the east sidewalks, the bridge tender house, electrical systems and gates. The state expects to finish the project this spring, said FDOT spokesman Robin Stublen.

But when exactly will the barrels disappear?

“Spring of 2017 is the best I can give you,” Stublen said.

SPOTLIGHT Latest additions to Ring of Fame gave their all to the circus life. PAGE 1B

Photo courtesy of BJ Bishop

The 3.5 National Team Captains Mac Spitzer, BJ Bishop and Ann Zaltman

Tennis Center teams sweep up competition The Longboat Key Public Tennis Center’s Women’s 3.5 Tri-Cities Tennis League teams swept the competition Jan. 5. The 3.5 American Team won all its matches against the Longboat Key Club, and the 3.5 National Team won all its matches against Lakewood Ranch. It was the second sweep for both teams this season.

Turning point?

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Sidewalk concerns trip up turn lane

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Funding swap on hold as town considers if there is room for pedestrians when center lane added.

The town of Longboat Key wants to spend $130,000 to design a new turn lane along Country Club Shores.

Proposed extended turn lane

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A month after a Dec. 12 workshop in which the Longboat Key Town Commission moved forward with a $130,000 plan to design a new turn lane on the island, concerns about room for a sidewalk sidelined the proposal Monday.

Town staff sought to reallocate the funds for a study to place sidewalks along the west side of Gulf of Mexico Drive to instead design and engineer a 4,000foot center turn lane on the road south of Longboat Club Road to the stretch in front of Dry Dock Waterfront Grill. The aim was to tackle traffic issues along the southern portion of Country Club Shores, where traffic can bottleneck during rush hour.

“You stop, and all of your friends and neighbors get backed up,” said Town Manager Dave Bullock with a laugh during an interview with the Longboat Observer. “And they just love you for it.”

Country Club Shores Unit III Secretary Ned Jewett said providing relief for emergency vehicles is the highest priority in advancing the project.

“It’s very important to Country Club Shores that this be completed, and I feel it’s very important

neering will begin.

Public Works Director Juan Florensa said the study will provide a cost estimate for the work, which can go out to bid after Oct. 1 if funded in the coming budget workshops this spring.

“It’s not going to solve all the problems,” Florensa said. “But it will alleviate traffic.”

Commissioner Phill Younger questioned whether staff could even provide an accurate assessment of the roadway before the study is complete, but said he would be surprised if there wasn’t room for pedestrian features after the work is complete.

The transfer, if approved, would still leave $170,000 in the fund to study a completed western sidewalk on GMD, which is slated to cost about $4 million for construction, according to the town’s 2016-2017 fiscal budget.

“We don’t want to throw the sidewalk issue away,” Younger said. “And I think everybody agrees with that.”

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A van attempts to turn out of Country Club Shores, a neighborhood that has lobbied for a new center turn lane to alleviate traffic congestion.

to the whole island to have the center turn lane extended the full length,” Jewett said.

But after receiving a letter from local bicycle and pedestrian activist Mike Lasche with concerns that widening the road would preclude sidewalks being built along the west side of the road, town commissioners balked at the fund transfer and set aside the discussion until a special meeting Jan. 23.

“In this case, when this road was first constructed many years ago, no sidewalk was built on the west side,” Lasche wrote in the

email. “In recent years, an effort was made to correct the mistake by providing funds for a sidewalk.

But, now, once again, the powers that be are attempting to actively neglect the pedestrian.”

Although Assistant Town Manager Mike Hein couldn’t say for sure whether there would still be room for sidewalks along the Longboat Key Golf Club, he said in his opinion it looked like there would be.

“We are technically satisfied that if we go through with the center lane, there would be room to accommodate the planned

sidewalk,” Hein said.

But with sidewalks stretching all the way up the island on the east side of Gulf of Mexico Drive, Mayor Terry Gans questioned the need for one along the golf course.

“We received a question today whether having a sidewalk on the west side of GMD along the golf course was even safe, which I think was a valid question given the way I hit a golf ball,” Gans said.

Still, town commissioners this month will consider more staff input on whether a sidewalk will be possible on the stretch of road, after which the design and engi-

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Unicorp continues buying Colony units COLONY UNITS ACQUIRED IN DECEMBER $84,000

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uring a Longboat Key Town Commission meeting last year, developer Chuck Whittall said he has spent $27 million in planning the redevelopment of the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort. In December, his company continued investment in the property with the purchase of six units for a combined $628,000.

Despite uncertainty about a March 14 referendum that would allow Unicorp National Developments to seek more density in its vision for the Colony, the company in December bought two units for $165,000 each, two units for $84,000 each and another two for $65,000 each, according to documents filed with the Sarasota Clerk of the Court. Since 2014, Unicorp has purchased 14 units for a combined $808,000.

The more units Unicorp owns, the more clout the company has in negotiations over a development agreement between Unicorp and Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association, which requires 91% of unit owners to approve a deal that offers an average buyout of $186,000. While the latest round of unit sales don’t match that offer, they’re significantly higher than the $20,000 and $40,000 deals Unicorp cut with 13 owners in 2014.

“We’re under contract with another four or five right now,” said Whittall. “We’re going to continue acquiring property out there.”

Still, Tennessee investor Andy Adams, who remains in control of a 29% share of votes, has not yet officially announced support for the agreement.

“I think Andy is sitting back and seeing what happens with the referendum,” Whittall said. “We continue to have great conversations and eventually, we’ll come to an agreement.”

Under the contract, owners would receive between $167,000 and $368,000 at closing, and Unicorp would move forward with $1 billion plans for 237 tourism units and 180 condominium units, plus amenities including a lazy river, saltwater swimming lagoons and beach-view dining, as was the former Monkey Room.

Sissie Lipton, who had owned a unit at the Colony for more than 20 years, originally came to the island about 35 years ago. She sold her unit to Whittall for $84,000.

“We had the best years there,” Lipton said. “Our children grew up at the Colony.”

But, since the Colony closed, she has been vacationing in Nice, France, and in the Tampa Bay area.

“We’re not really interested in waiting any longer for the redevelopment,” Lipton said.

Last July, Unicorp spent $22 million to acquire the 2.3acre recreational piece of the property at the center of the former resort, which allowed the firm to begin demolition. And in the same month, the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Associa-

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WELFONDER CONTINUES COLONY QUEST Although he has no legal standing or ownership interest in the former Colony Beach & Tennis Resort, Longboat Keybased developer Manfred Welfonder has released renderings depicting his vision for the property.

“It has that tropical theme and the identity of the west coast of Florida,” said architect Bob Koch, founder of Winter Parkbased Fugleberg Koch.

“It’s a very lush and tropical thing, not an urban kind of a thing.”

Despite Welfonder’s push to reimagine the Colony, Unicorp National Developments remains the only contender with an agreement waiting to be approved between unit owners and ownership of more than a dozen units and the 2.3-acre recreation piece of the property.

“I will never sell the property,” said Unicorp President Chuck Whittall.

“The property will not leave my hands.”

tion chose the Orlando-based developer, which built the Orlando Eye, as its representative to the town.

Association President Jay Yablon did not respond to multiple calls for comment.

Whittall held his first voluntary neighborhood workshop to unveil his vision for the property at the Lazy Lobster in December, with plans for more than 80 workshops in total. He has mailed out postcards urging a “yes” vote on the coming referendum. The website touting the project has received more than 100,000 unique visitors since it launched in December, he said.

Further adding to the uncertainty about the project are the

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Manfred Welfonder continues to pursue plans for the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort with the release of above rendering.

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Unicorp National Developments is the official development partner of the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association.

proposed planned-unit development regulations, which the Planning and Zoning Board — and then the Town Commission — will consider. Those guidelines would limit building height to eight stories, which falls short of the 10+ stories Unicorp includes in its Colony plans.

Although she doesn’t have a stake in the 17-acre Longboat property, Lipton wants to see redevelopment occur nonetheless.

“I think the owners, if they don’t accept the deal, are being very foolish,” she said. “It’s been 10 years, and it’s time to develop this wonderful waterfront site.”

“It’s been 10 years, and it’s time to develop this wonderful waterfront site.”

— Sissie Lipton, sold her unit to developer Chuck Whittall for $84,000

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East Coast vs. West Coast.

No, it’s not a hip-hop rivalry, nor is it a comparison of offensive styles in the NFL. It’s my life, and Interstate 4 runs right through it.

I’m new, you see, to the Sarasota area. But while you can count my days traversing Tamiami Trail without flipping a calendar page, Florida’s West Coast isn’t a total unknown.

I’m nearly a Florida native, moving to Pasco County at age 13 at a time when U.S. 19 was four sparsely traveled lanes, and traffic lights were few.

High school and college also came and went in the Tampa Bay area, with occasional springtraining trips, reporting assignments and vacations bringing me south of the Sunshine Skyway.

All told, I’ve logged nearly 70% of my 54 years in Florida.

Hudson, Tampa, Merritt Island, Melbourne.

Most recently, I spent 24 years on Florida’s Space Coast, where surfers rave over waist-high waves, and rockets fly so frequently that we act like we aren’t watching (we are, though).

So now, it’s back west for another chapter as managing editor of the Longboat Observer and Sarasota Observer, practic-

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HOW TO REACH HIM Eric Garwood can be reached at 366-3468, Ext. 334, and at egarwood@yourobserver.com

ing the kind of journalism I like best — putting your neighborhood and its issues center stage.

Often, it will be serious, but maybe we can make you smile.

But I bet we never publish an issue without including someone or thing in which you’re interested.

While doing that, I’m eager to learn more about our new home (peacocks in the Village?). Along the way, I’m looking forward to meeting you, listening to your concerns and getting a sense of what’s important in these parts.

I keep hearing from pretty much everyone I meet that the West Coast is the Best Coast.

From what I’ve seen so far, that’s more than just a clever turn of a phrase.

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HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR BEACH?

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Cedars East owners Gill and Dave Hughes hope the groin adjustment slows the flow of sand on the north end.

Town tweaks beach saver In an effort to slow erosion, Longboat Key adds concrete teeth to one of its sand-protection structures.

ALEX MAHADEVAN NEWS INNOVATION EDITOR

Gill and Dave Hughes have been vacationing on Longboat Key for 25 years. That means they’ve seen about 25 variations of the northend beach they frequent.

Although their grandchildren like playing on the 2-foot-tall sand canyon that has formed south of the south groin in front of the 360 North condominium complex, they wish the beach

maintained more of the sand placed during last year’s $18 million renourishment.

“It’s a shame it disappears so fast,” said Gill Waters, a Wales native who owns a condo in Cedars East.

While Public Works Director Juan Florensa can’t say for sure if it will slow erosion significantly, his crews are shoring up one of the two sand-saving features, called groins.

“The thinking was, they were

The town of Longboat Key will begin updating its comprehensive beach-management plan over the next year, following the placement of more than 700,000 cubic yards of sand along the island’s shores.

The document, which hasn’t been updated since 2008, quantifies the size and color of sand granules to be used in renourishment projects, how wide beaches should be and how the town should go about mining sand for such projects.

Town commissioners will vet those policies throughout meetings this year, and input from residents will be considered.

But, most important, the details in the plan will revolve around costs, which will likely soar to more than $20 million for the next renourishment.

“We all want sand, but what kind of sand?” Florensa said. “Are you willing to pay a premium to get that white, fine sand?”

leaky,” he said of the structures, which stretch out across the Gulf of Mexico and contain strategic “teeth,” or baffles, to help slow the drift of sand. On the north end of the Key, sand naturally flows northward toward Beer Can Island and Longboat Pass, which is contrary to the normal flow for barrier islands on the gulf.

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Last month, four public works employees spent a day hauling 100-pound concrete baffles to the North Shore Road beach access for placement. Because the groins are adjustable, there is a hole on each of their three levels to drill new pieces into place.

City staffers have installed 12 baffles, which were left over from the $2 million installation of the sand feature a year and a half ago, and plan to place between six and 12 more if weather permits.

Choppy surf makes installation impossible, Florensa said.

The small-scale sand-saving project, for which the town paid roughly $2,000, comes more than a year after Town Commissioner Phill Younger criticized the then-new groins’ engineering — especially compared with the structure in front of the Islander condominium complex.

“Before one grain of sand from the dredging goes in,” he said at the time, “we ought to reassess this and make sure the issue of the baffling is addressed.”

The adjustment didn’t happen before the town mined 205,000 cubic yards of sand out of Longboat Pass to shore up north end beaches.

“I wasn’t happy with it when it happened,” he said in an interview with the Longboat Observer. “But they are taking steps to address the issue now, and I’m certainly happy about that.”

“It’s a shame it disappears so fast.”

— Gill Waters, a Wales native who owns a condo in Cedars East.

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Task Force wants traffic solutions — now The organization hopes to persuade planning board to take immediate action on traffic ideas.

“Our goal is for somebody to do something.”

— Lenny Landau, task force member

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Longboat Key Revitalization Task Force members Tom Freiwald and Lenny Landau hope to persuade local leaders to implement short-term traffic fixes.

along Gulfstream Avenue at Sunset Drive and Golden Gate Point, Ken Thompson Parkway and Longboat Club Road at Gulf of Mexico Drive and Fruitville Road at North Tamiami Trail; n Bypassing routes and pedestrian control on St. Armands, and eliminating eight parking spaces between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.; and n Banning bridge openings for training, testing and maintenance between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.

If the MPO doesn’t take action at the meeting, Freiwald said he

will take Florida Department of Transportation Secretary Jim Boxold up on his suggestion to deliver the ideas to him personally.

“Our goal is for somebody to do something,” said Lenny Landau, a Task Force member since the group formed in 2011. “We don’t see any evidence that anyone’s doing anything.”

The MPO is currently vetting consultants for a $675,000 barrier island traffic study that the state has estimated it will take up

to 1,500 hours to complete. And of the four similar traffic studies conducted since 2005, no concrete solutions have been implemented.

“The MPO process is a bureaucratic process, and I’m not being critical of it, but it’s very bureaucratic to say the least,” said Commissioner Jack Daly, the town’s representative on the board.

Freiwald and Landau hope the petitions they have received — one all the way from the United Kingdom — persuade MPO board

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If Longboat Key set aside portions of its noise ordinance, perhaps some island workers could begin their jobs earlier and leave earlier, eliminating a bloc of traffic during peak periods.

If Sarasota and Manatee counties imposed a higher tourist tax during season and scrapped it during the summer, maybe fewer visitors would be on the roads at peak times.

While these are obviously hypothetical — and not ideal — traffic fixes, the Longboat Key Revitalization Task Force wants government officials to stop waiting for perfect solutions when good ones might just work. The group’s main point: try something — anything — and see what happens.

The Sarasota-Manatee Metropolitan Planning Organization will consider the issue during its Jan. 23 meeting, during which Task Force Chairman Tom Freiwald will present a file-folder full of petitions the organization has received pushing for temporary traffic solutions. The top of the list includes: n Manually controlling the light at 119th Street and Cortez Road; n Manually controlling — or synchronizing — traffic lights

members to work on pilot traffic programs as the study is underway.

“My focus is more on keeping the focus on the barrier island study, and on the long-term results and from my perspective, anything we can do short-term or in a pilot program is good,” Daly said. “It’s almost like gravy on mashed potatoes — it’s good.”

Landau said there are other creative solutions that town commissioners and businesses could consider as well, such as realtime cameras mounted at hightraffic corridors. That way, residents would have a supplement to Google Maps in determining when they should leave the Key. “The secret is you get local businesses to sponsor it, and that way the town doesn’t have to pay anything,” Landau said.

Although the group is seeking solutions to traffic issues, they’ve also encountered hurdles in finding data to help guide these fixes.

The state conducts traffic counts once a year, and because that data is extrapolated over the year, it doesn’t take seasonal traffic into account, Freiwald said.

Traffic may have the biggest immediate impact on residents, but Task Force members warn that ignoring short-term fixes — or even giving different solutions short-term trials — could harm the region’s tourism draw.

“We’re going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg,” Freiwald said. “People are going to say, ‘I’m not going back there.’’’

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We need a traffic czar One impediment to solving the region’s traffic congestion is a lack of ownership of the problem. No one loses a job for failed roads. It’s another tragedy of the commons.

PETITION TO EASE TRAFFIC CONGESTION The Longboat Key Revitalization Task Force distributed the following petition, which the Sarasota-Manatee Metropolitan Planning Organization will discuss at its Jan. 23 meeting at the Venice Community Center, 326 Nokomis Ave. S.

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ere’s the real problem with traffic congestion: No one locally owns the problem. And when no one is the owner, seldom do the best outcomes occur.

So Longboat Key data guru Lenny Landau is right: Longboat Key isn’t the cause of our traffic congestion.

The traffic problems are caused elsewhere — Bradenton Beach, Cortez Bridge, Cortez Road, City Island stop light, Longboat Key Club stop light, St. Armands Circle, U.S. 41 and John Ringling Causeway, John Ringling Causeway and Golden Gate Point, U.S. 41 and Fruitville Road, etc.

But no one person, no one entity carries the day-to-day responsibility of making everything work, of keeping cars moving, of managing capacity in real time.

Everyone has heard all of the local elected officials: “We can’t do anything, Gulf of Mexico Drive is a state-owned road.” … “We can’t do anything. The state controls the Gulf Drive and Cortez Bridge intersection.” … “We can’t do anything. The state controls the Fruitville and U.S. 41 intersection.”

And where is “the state” — the Florida Department of Transportation? It’s like an absentee landlord who has too many aging apartments to manage and not enough people or money to deal with the load.

Consider this: FDOT is responsible for 43,820 miles of roads in Florida.

That’s the equivalent of driving from Miami to Seattle and back six and a half times (3,300 miles per trip). Now add to that 307,532,000 miles traveled daily on those roads in a state of 20 million people.

It’s a daunting task, to say the least. And it’s destined and sentenced not to be successful — in large part because the roads are publicly owned.

It’s the proverbial “Tragedy of the Commons.” When the Pilgrims settled in America, they set up a communal economic system. Everyone would share and share alike.

The results were disastrous. The Pilgrims almost starved. They all thought someone else would do the work, so no one tended the crops.

No one owned his food. No one took responsibility. Everyone suffered.

When the Pilgrims converted everyone to owning a piece of property, they had a surplus of food. Ownership makes a big difference.

Public roads are similar. We all pay gas taxes into a big pot to provide for the maintenance and construction of roads. But individual Floridians have no control or ownership over how their gas-tax dollars are spent; it’s communal money. And even though we pay those taxes, we all drive on the roads as if they are free.

Here’s more of the tragedy: When a good is perceived to be free, it is overused. Demand overwhelms supply. Cars overwhelm road capacity.

Aristotle captured this phenomenon in the 300s B.C.: “That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it.”

Ownership and consequences.

We, the undersigned, are not content to await the results of yet another traffic study, the results of which will not be available until 2019.

We respectfully demand that the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), in cooperation with the Sarasota/ Manatee Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), and local Mayors and Chiefs of Police take immediate and proactive action to institute pilot programs (temporary solutions) during peak traffic hours of the 2017 tourist season. None of these temporary solutions requires new or modified infrastructures: n 119th Street at Cortez Road — Manual control of the traffic signal

Although every Floridian owns the roads, no one owns them. State government is the manager, maintainer, builder and allocator of gas-tax money. But in that role, the state faces few consequences for poor performance.

There is no competition; FDOT will never lose its job or business.

Sure, the secretary of the FDOT could get fired, or the governor or a state representative may not be reelected because of public outcry over roads and road management. But rarely do you see any consequences that actually result in an expeditious elimination of traffic backups snaking from Bradenton Beach to Longboat Key, or the jams at U.S. 41, Gulfstream and Fruitville Road.

To further complicate no one taking responsibility for congestion is how city and county roads feed into state roads. Who owns the problem? Local jurisdictions? The state?

Typically, county and city commissioners will point to what we know as the Sarasota-Manatee Metropolitan Planning Organization as the higher authority. This is the state-required bureaucracy of committees of elected officials from the two counties and all the municipalities. One of its main functions is to serve as an official liaison between FDOT and the local jurisdictions in prioritizing how FDOT funds are to be spent on local and regional transportation needs.

But with all due respect to the earnest elected officials who serve on the MPO, our best way to describe the MPO is that it’s our version of the United Nations — an ineffective, hydra-headed bureaucracy that thinks five years is moving fast and that every decision must be predicated on a high-priced study that typically ends up on a “Raiders of the Lost Ark” research shelf. Read the minutes of an MPO meeting, and you’ll want to bang your head on a table.

Or, as one MPO observer put it: “The mission of the MPO is to have a lot of meetings to make everyone on the MPO and the voters think something is actually being done … [But] they are all hung up on what can’t be done.”

Two members of the Longboat Key Revitalization Task Force — Landau and Tom Freiwald — are hoping they at least will be able to garner the backing of the MPO for ideas that could mitigate congestion imme-

and a continuous always-green eastbound lane from Cortez Bridge. n Manually controlled and / or more efficient traffic and pedestrian light timing — John Ringling Causeway at Tamiami Trail; John Ringling Causeway at Sunset Drive/ Golden Gate Point; Ken Thompson Parkway and Longboat Club Road at Gulf of Mexico Drive; and Fruitville Road at Tamiami Trail. n St. Armands Circle — Pedestrian control, bypass routes and temporary elimination of several parking spaces from 3 to 7 p.m. n Local Barrier Island Bridges — Prohibit bridge openings for training, testing and maintenance from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The purpose of these pilot programs is to mitigate short-term traffic congestion, test the efficacy of each program and then develop and institute longer-term solutions as part of the new traffic study.

diately. The MPO agreed to put on its Jan. 23 agenda the petition the task force has been circulating (see box, above). It expresses opposition to another planned study and “respectfully demand(s)” FDOT and local officials take immediate steps to implement four ideas in key choke points.

Freiwald told the Longboat Observer on Monday it would be more effective to have the MPO behind the task force ideas than go to FDOT on their own. “We just want someone at least to try something,” Freiwald said.

Good for Landau and Freiwald.

We know they — and the Revitalization Task Force — are persistent. But they also are pragmatists who know how government works (slowly and with avoidance to taking responsibility — our words, not theirs.) They, as do we, believe the region’s traffic congestion is a two-pronged issue — one that can be mitigated now with fairly easy-to-do, low-cost steps and a second prong that requires the implementation of steps over many years to address capacity and traffic management.

Ultimately, to achieve effective results, both efforts require one leader, a traffic czar who owns the problem locally and is held accountable locally. It’s a job akin to that of schools superintendent. Elect a regional transportation authority board. Have the state allocate road money to the region as it does for schools, and then turn responsibility for roads and congestion over to a traffic czar. If road conditions remain at D or F, fire the czar.

Someone must own it.

LEE COUNTY PLAN We have advocated this before: If the regional elected officials are serious about wanting to address traffic congestion now and for the future — and there are scant indications they are — they should 1) Go to Lee County; 2) Hire the Reason Foundation.

The Reason Foundation (Reason. org) helped Lee implement just the kind of short- and long-range plan needed in Sarasota-Manatee.

See for yourself. Go to: http://bit. ly/TrafficStudy

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When sitting in gridlock, you may recall seeing futuristic mid-20th century renderings showing cars flying. As we know, fortunately or unfortunately, flying cars have never taken off.

Although low-flying drones may have some interesting implications in terms of taking some pressures off our streets, possibly delivering local goods, they likely will not be the panacea to eliminate traffic congestion in America’s cities.

In lieu of flying cars, or our sky being occupied by large numbers of drones, planners in most big metro regions are working feverishly on options available for our ever-increasing and mobile population.

Our basic transportation system of airplanes, trains, subways, light rail, taxis, Uber cars, buses, shuttles and boats is increasingly being supplemented by bicycle trails and other local innovations that make sense.

Here in Sarasota, as in most communities, the car is king.

Florida has 20 million residents and is now the third-most populous state in the country.

Moving more and more people in cars is challenging considering that many of the roads laid out decades ago are limited in terms of the potential to expand.

Today, it would be very difficult and prohibitively expensive to add traffic lanes to many of our main coastal roads. Property acquisition and business relocation costs would be enormous.

first two will be implemented on U.S. 41 at 10th and 14th streets in 2017 and 2018.

To take some of the pressure off the roads from local traffic, the city has miles and miles of multi-use recreational trails and bike paths on the drawing board to implement as funds become available. Within the next few years, we are hopeful the wonderful Legacy Bike Trail, which runs all the way to Venice, will connect to downtown Sarasota, opening the connection to Lido Key and Longboat Key, as well as North Port.

We in the city are also looking forward to working on the Longboat Key-inspired mainlandto-islands traffic study that was recently approved by the Metropolitan Planning Organization.

The city is also planning on testing a downtown connector this winter to experiment with small but flexible downtown shuttles using an Uber-like app.

And conversations about water taxi options to St. Armands and perhaps Longboat Key from the mainland are picking up. We are also encouraging people to consider living as close to work as possible, when possible, to also help reduce traffic.

Longer range, we are pursuing a dialogue with local leaders on how to advance transit options between downtown Bradenton and downtown Sarasota.

This option of creating a transit backbone will not only help connect area college students to the four universities on the U.S. 41 corridor, it would also connect affordable housing to our employment centers.

This is a big and important challenge. We look forward to working with Longboat Key and others to do all we can reasonably do to address this challenge in a smart and cost-effective way using as many of the traditional tools and modern, new innovative technology that continue to come online.

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Ah, a clean-cut time. The list of problems is long. The probability of succeeding on many approaches zero.

Still it must be worth a BIG try.

This is at the top of my list: Let’s get rid of drugs, and the drug culture, even tobacco.

What would our lives be like without the ruined lives, lost lives, crime, fear, etc., that goes along with drugs?

I consider the sale of illicit drugs to be a capital crime. There are at least three countries in the world that don’t have a serious drug problem: Singapore, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. Their severe punishment is death.

I have confessed that I am opinionated on this subject because my nephew has spent 40 schizophrenic years in a Pennsylvania mental hospital after my sister sent one kid off to college and got another one back with a life ruined.

The grandson of one of my best friends in this life (aside from my wife) overdosed in Boulder, Colo., home of the University of Colorado, the wellknown party school. He was 18, son of a professional and had a lot of potential.

Another lost-life that held so much promise. And, so sadly, so very sadly, his parents will be deeply scarred. And never find out if or where they went wrong.

Selling drugs is a capital crime.

The death penalty is how we will get rid of the problem.

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So what can we do? What should we do?

Within the city of Sarasota, a number of short- and longerrange initiatives are underway.

Like much of Florida, we are being challenged to address the difficulty of moving more and more vehicles during peak season and peak hours of peak season, when seasonal residents and visitors return. For 75% or more of the time, our roads have good capacity and may even appear to be oversized. But during peak season it’s a different story. It’s akin to whether to size the year-around mall parking lot for Christmas shopping the day after Thanksgiving.

In the weeks ahead, you will begin to see the Florida Department of Transportation making improvements to move traffic more efficiently on U.S. 41 between Fruitville Road and Gulfstream Avenue. A dedicated right-turn lane on northbound U.S. 41 at Fruitville Road is being added, as well as a median divider from Fruitville Road to Gulfstream Avenue. Both should help move traffic a bit more efficiently on and off Lido Key and Longboat Key. Sarasota also has just received a grant to review and improve the timing of traffic lights within the city to make them as efficient as possible through the high tech, Sarasota-Manatee Regional Traffic Management Center located in Bradenton.

Within the city of Sarasota, we have an important and priority sidebar issue to moving traffic. That is taking steps to make sure the more densely populated areas of the city, including the downtown and waterfront districts, are safe and comfortable for pedestrians. Pedestrian safety is also king.

The 11 major roundabouts being planned along U.S. 41 are advancing and were conceived to move traffic in a steady yet safer fashion, once drivers adapt. The

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The waterway in front of the complex may look like a canal, and it is located right next to a system of canals the town clears during cleanups. But it’s actually a marina, at least according to town commissioners, which means it’s not eligible for town cleanup.

The condo’s board wants that to change.

“We hope you and the commissioners will be sympathetic to our request to be assigned the same status as the Country Club Shores residential boat canals for purposes of dead fish removal,” Bay Harbour Condominium Board of Trustees President Alan Fishbein said last month in a letter to Mayor Terry Gans. “If a simple reclassification is not a workable way forward, we do ask to be added to the agenda for the first appropriate meeting in February.”

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LICENSE PLATE LOOTER 5:02 p.m. — 5500 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Larceny from vehicle: A man called police to report that while his daughter was at work, someone stole the license plate from her vehicle. One of the screws holding the plate in was missing and the plastic trim was broken, leading him to believe it had been stolen and had not fallen off naturally.

JAN. 5

TRAFFIC TROUBLES 1:57 p.m. — 7200 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Traffic: A caller reported to officers that a bus had broken down on Longboat Pass Bridge, causing a major traffic backup.

Upon arrival, the officer could not locate a disabled bus, or any traffic congestion.

JAN. 5

SHOPPING SPREE 2:21 p.m. — 1400 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Missing property: A woman walked into the police station to report she had lost two rings worth $3,600. She put them in her wallet, for she was planning to work out, but decided to go shopping instead. After shopping, the woman could not find the rings in her purse. None of the stores she visited could locate the jewelry, either.

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Bay Harbour owns a thin strip of land on the south side of its waterway, which may have houses adjacent to it, but owners and tenants rent out spaces in which to dock their boats. Although it’s a nonprofit organization, it does hold a business tax license.

“You sweep the streets, but you don’t sweep the parking lots in front of the stores,” Town Manager Dave Bullock said in an interview with the Longboat Observer.

If the town reclassified Bay Harbour, other marinas may ask for the same, he said.

“That would be an interesting conversation,” Bullock said.

Public Works Director Juan Florensa said he couldn’t recall a specific time when the town cleaned Bay Harbour’s waterway.

But, when a red tide kill so severe hit Longboat it cost the town more than $320,000 for cleanup as it did in 2001, it may have occurred.

Town commissioners on Nov. 7 unanimously agreed to allow the condo to reimburse the municipality for a cleaning, but the board of trustees declined the offer. As part of that motion, commissioners asked to revisit the subject at a workshop.

“This matter is important to us, and we will pursue other approaches on an as-needed basis,” Fishbein wrote.

VEHICLE VANDAL 9:03 a.m. — 800 block of Spanish Main Drive Vandalism: A man called police to report that an unknown person carved a scratch into a fender of his SUV, and that it was the third incident of vandalism to his vehicle since July. Earlier, someone carved a scratch in his side door, and months later he found a screw in his tire. Officers

JAN. 7

STARS ALIGN 8:55 — 4300 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Public service: A man called police to report a suspicious drone in the air.

When police arrived, they determined the drone was actually a planet. The officer used an astronomy app on his phone to show the man it was in fact Venus he was seeing.

dusted for prints, but could not collect any.

WHERE THERE’S A WILL 3:23 p.m. — 5400 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Disturbance: A man reported a dispute over an inheritance with a woman on the island. He told police the deceased had promised him some cameras upon his death, but the deceased man’s daughter took possession of the property and has refused to give them to him since her father’s death in 2014. Officers told the man it was a civil issue.

JAN. 7

QUICKSAND 3:45 a.m. — 400 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Public service: A man could not see out of his windshield due to a thunderstorm and pulled off the road to wait out the weather.

His vehicle then became stuck in sand, and a friend gave him a ride home. The man asked police for a ride to meet the tow truck.

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5841 Gulf Of Mexico Drive #242 $365,000 | Web ID A4164968 Dennis Girard 941.809.0041

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250 Sands Point Road #5106 $324,000 | Web ID A4166597 Greg Van Natter & Gloria Bracciano 941.730.1999

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Push to lure business keeps EDC in hot seat After a failed try, the spotlight will stay on the Sarasota County Economic Development Corp. in 2017.

MARK GORDON BUSINESS OBSERVER

Although most of the business assistance activity at the Sarasota County Economic Development Corp. happens behind the scenes, its biggest misstep was a highly public spectacle.

That event — an attempt to land a corporate headquarters that went astray and alienated several longstanding business leaders and companies — is likely to play a key role in shaping 2017 for the EDC. The EDC is a publicprivate partnership with a board of high-powered executives that helps retain local businesses and recruit new ones, often with subsidies and incentives.

The incentives side is what concerns Sarasota County Commissioner Mike Moran, who was elected in November. Moran has spoken in board meetings and retreats about the county’s need to improve how it tracks its return on its investments. That includes a deeper dive into the data, done more frequently.

Another issue Moran will pay close attention to in 2017 is whether there is too much overlap between the county’s Office

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Mark Huey is president and CEO of the Sarasota County Economic Development Corp.

of Business and Economic Development, run by Jeff Maultsby, and the EDC. Moran, in a December letter to County Administrator Tom Harmer, says he’s been “watching the OBED and EDC as a resident and taxpayer of Sarasota County and my concerns have been growing over the years.”

“After meeting with Mr. Maultsby on multiple occasions, I am concerned that the vision for his department needs to be much more defined,” Moran wrote. “I feel his department needs to be held to MEASURABLE goals that leadership can easily monitor.”

Moran, in a December interview with the Sarasota Observer, also said he wants the county to “be extremely specific about the business we are trying to attract.”

That’s a reference to Project Mulligan, the corporate head-

quarters endeavor that put the EDC in the spotlight.

That happened in May, when county commissioners, by a 4-1 vote, rejected a proposal to use at least $720,000 in state and local funds to lure a national roofing company headquarters to town.

That company, North American Roofing, ultimately agreed to move its corporate headquarters from Asheville, N.C., to Tampa.

The performance-based incentives package for North American Roofing was $900,000, with $180,000 from the city of Tampa and Hillsborough County. The company is required to hire up to 180 people to earn the incentive.

The fallout from the failed effort in Sarasota to land North American Roofing was swift and steep.

Area builders and contractors, led by several roofing companies, mobilized against the incentive package, saying it’s wrong to use taxpayer money to aid a competing business. The county lost a second time when officials were criticized in some site selection circles for missing an opportunity to land a headquarters.

Mark Huey, president and CEO of the EDC, says his goals in 2017 revolve around the ongoing mission of the organization — to recruit and retain companies that bring in and retain jobs.

Huey, looking back at the failed North American Roofing project, added that “my No. 1 priority for the year is to be aligned with the County Commission.”

“... I am concerned that the vision for (the Office of Business and Economic Development) needs to be much more defined. I feel (the) department needs to be held to MEASURABLE goals that leadership can easily monitor.”

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Not only is Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate’s Roger Pettingell the top-ranked individual agent in Sarasota County for the fifth consecutive year, but in 2016, he also ranked No. 1 in real estate sales in Sarasota and Manatee counties.

According to the Multiple Listing Service’s 2016 Agent Awards Report, Pettingell closed 66 sales in 2016 with a total sales volume of $77.54 million, up from the $72 million he sold in 2015. He credits his success to what he calls the marketing machine — five fulltime employees who support him.

“I’ve been here since 1983, so I kind of love seeing the progressions,” Pettingell said. “I’ve sold the same property three or four times, sometimes.”

Pettingell said his team, which consists of employees who specialize in such areas as internet marketing and customer support, can help personalize showings for a customer. He said he knows

These agents ranked in the top 10 for total volume in the 2016 MLS yearend report for Sarasota and Manatee counties.

what works and can show that to buyers and sellers and continue to prove his results.

He is among the first Realtor to hold a Smart Home Certification and recently visited the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

“So year after year, I am reinventing myself … reinventing the edges,” he said. “At the core, what we’re doing is working, so I like that.”

He calls Sarasota County a small world with cutting-edge technology, but when he attends CES, he sees other technology that can further the county.

“Sharpening the sword and finding new things,” he said.

That’s what keeps me going.”

1. Roger Pettingell, Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, $77.54 million 2. Nicole Caldwell, Neal Communities Realty Inc., $77.39 million 3. Amy Drake, Property Perspectives Inc., $72.22 million 4. Judy Kepecz-Hays and Buky Team, Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, $61.18 million 5. Kim Ogilvie, Michael Saunders & Co., $59.35 million 6. Bruce Myer, Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, $47.12 million 7. Cheryl Loeffler, Premier Sotheby’s International Realty, $47.04 million 8. Cliff Glansen, Flatfee.com, $46.78 million 9. Joel Schemmel Property Group, Premier Sotheby’s International Realty, $43.52 million 10. The Ackerman Group, Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, $41.32 million

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The Kepecz-Hays and Buky Team credits its success to family and experience.

And it makes sense. The team consists of Judy Kepecz-Hays, her son Steven Kepecz, brother Gabe Buky and nephew Charles Buky. The team of four was the top-ranked real estate group on the MLS awards report with a total sales volume of $61.18 million.

That placed them fourth on the list for 2016.

In 2015, the group took the No. 3 spot on the MLS list, with $72.6 million in sales. Kepecz-Hays, who has been in the industry since 1978, said the group hopes to reach $100 million in 2017.

Kepecz-Hays said as a family, she and her team communicate well, and they also draw confidence from one another. But having experience and being passionate about the industry are keys to their success.

“I love what I do,” Kepecz-Hays said. “There isn’t anything else in the world I would do ... I love people.”

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For Sharon Burde, photography is about seizing the moment.

The Bayport Beach and Tennis Club resident has been snapping photos since her college days. But even before that, certain images led to her appreciation of the craft.

On countless occasions, photographs have helped Burde recall memories she wouldn’t have otherwise. Burde’s grandfather died before she was born, but she learned about him through photographs. In another instance, Burde remembers V-J Day, Aug. 14, 1945, because someone, she assumes her father, snapped a photo of her, and to this day she remembers what she was wearing and what the weather was like on that historic day.

“I think that was part of what intrigued me,” she said, “that it was a way of capturing and transmitting history.”

Transmit history it does. When Burde’s son was young, he stared at an old family photo and pointed at a young girl in the picture and asked who it was. It was his grandmother, whom he happened

to closely resemble. He turned to Burde and said, “Now I know I’m not adopted.”

For Burde, photography is a way of preserving moments. She photographs light, shadow, reflection and time.

“I follow things photographically so that I’m recording time through the changes in the photographs,” she said.

Burde has published one book of photos. The subjects are the Longboat Key eagles that lived at Bayport before relocating. Burde took the photos over several years as she followed the eagles, capturing small moments in their lives.

“They moved to a street close to the Publix where they are less accessible and not just a couple steps away from my door. So it was the confluence of their being here and accessible that made this possible,” she said. “So out of the thousands of images I took, there came a book.”

Her photos are on display at Art Center Sarasota until Friday, Jan. 13 in the “Reflections” juried exhibit. Through the exhibit, local artists can submit their work, and if their piece is chosen, it will appear in an upcoming

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exhibit. Typically, the Art Center receives 250 to 300 submissions for its juried exhibits, and chooses about 130 to 150 to showcase, said Sarah Valdez, exhibitions and marketing coordinator.

One of her photos, “Looking In, Looking Out, Looking Ahead” is of a building being renovated in New York. Burde said that like photographing children, photographing construction is a way of measuring progress.

“It’s a moment of transformation,” she said. “It’s a work in progress. I often photograph works in progress and construction projects because they change all the time, and what’s there one day changes the next day. While it’s a work in progress, it’s constantly changing until it’s complete.”

Sometimes, the lapses in time she captures aren’t always pro-

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Longboat Key photographer Sharon Burde says photography is “a way of capturing and transmitting history.”

“I follow things photographically so that I’m recording time through the changes in the photographs.” — Sharon Burde gressive. Sometimes, the subjects are regressing, like the dying cactus she photographs at her cousin’s home in Tucson, Ariz.

“It’s capturing beauty,” she said. “It’s capturing an event. It may not be beautiful. It might be horrific, but it’s capturing the moment.”

Photography is an open realm.

Burde said the wonderful thing about photography is that it’s appropriate for every stage of life.

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Gator will find a happy home at Mote ‘The Teeth Beneath: The Wild World of Gators, Crocs and Caimans’ will open Feb. 25.

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should look like and then what happens when animals become established invasives, and how that can change the environment.”

Like the “Otters & Their Waters” exhibit, the gator exhibit will show visitors the importance of watersheds, as well as explain why the conservation of the species is important.

Barniskis said gators truly are a conservation success story. Once hunted to near extinction in the 1950s and 1960s, the American alligator gained protection in 1967 under the Endangered Species Act. Two decades later, the American alligator population rebounded and was delisted.

“It’s really important we educate our visitors about the need to conserve and protect the watershed environments and the important animals that live there, like the American alligator that will be on display,” Barniskis said.

Senior biologist Brian Siegel said he’s waited nine years for this exhibit to come to life.

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Siegel said the gators, as icons of Florida, will be showcased in a positive light with a strong storyline. He will train and work with the animals to be conditioned to accept human care. It’s important, he said, because Mote staff will be doing medical exams and drawing blood.

“It’s amazing how many animals you can train, and I’m looking forward to working with new animals,” Siegel said.

“We’ve got a fantastic staff here to help me out because it’s also new for

myself.”

Alligators have never been on display at Mote, so not only are they new to the staff, but they’re also new to visitors, too.

“I think that’s one of the most exciting things about this exhibit,” he said. “We’re able to bring in a new-to-Mote animal. We’ve never had these on display here before, so we’re excited about our abilities to work with them, and we’re super excited to share that with our visitors,” Barniskis said.

The exhibit opens Feb. 25.

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This baby alligator, named Albert, hatched in August.

TOWN OF LONGBOAT KEY PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TOWN OF LONGBOAT KEY JANUARY 17, 2017 PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD Please take noticeNOTICE that the TownOF of Longboat Key will hold a public hearing on the PUBLIC HEARING following Ordinance to adopt proposed amendments to Chapter 158, Longboat Key TOWN OF LONGBOAT JANUARY 17, 2017KEY Zoning Code: PLANNINGORDINANCE AND ZONING BOARD 2017-02 Please take notice that the Town of Longboat Key will hold a public hearing on the AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LONGBOAT KEY, FLORIDA, AMENDING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING following Ordinance to adopt proposed amendments to Chapter 158, Longboat Key WITHIN TITLE 15 LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, CHAPTER 158, ZONING CODE; Zoning Code: JANUARY 17,AMENDING 2017 SECTION 158.153(B)(1), AMENDING SECTION 158.006, DEFINITIONS;

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One of the state’s approximately 1.3 million alligators will be lucky enough to call the Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium home.

An exhibit, “The Teeth Beneath: The Wild World of Gators, Crocs and Caimans,” will bring one American bull male gator and three female caimans to live a life of relative luxury at Mote.

Caimans are similar to crocodiles but smaller — their maximum size is 5 feet long.

The exhibit aims to educate Mote visitors on how wetland and coastal habitats are vital to native species.

The pedigree of the gator coming to Mote is unknown, and could

well be a nuisance animal that was captured, said Evan Barniskis, assistant vice president of Mote Aquarium.

“It will basically continue our rescue theme where we take in animals that wouldn’t have a chance otherwise,” Barniskis said.

“We’ll be providing a great home for them here at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium.”

The exhibit, which will be located in the Ann and Alfred E. Goldstein Marine Mammal Research and Rehabilitation Center of Mote, will allow visitors to see the animals in their natural habitat from an underwater viewing area and from above.

“The one side will be the native American alligator with native planting and native fish and everything,” Barniskis said.

“The other side is going to be the invasive caiman, and that’s an established invasive animal that’s found in Miami-Dade County, and we’ll also have some invasive fish in that side. So, we’ll be able to talk about what natural Florida

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Abundance of fitness classes for ’17

Fit, fitter, fittest: A record number of fitness classes are available on the Key.

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ew venues, new classes, new teachers and so many different varieties — and yes, yoga now gets its own category.

Longboat Key residents and visitors have a remarkably expanded array of fitness classes to choose from this season.

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Debby McClung opened her new studio — the Key’s first and only dedicated to yoga — in 2016.

She did a beautiful job converting the building just south of Christ Church into a tranquil yoga sanctuary. The spotless classroom accommodates up to 15 students and offers 12 classes weekly. In addition to multiple flavors of yoga, including the Key’s only Sunday session, the

schedule features Nia, a nonimpact cardio-dance workout, and McClung’s newest: “FUNctional Fitness,” which focuses Pilates, balance, strength and stretching exercises on the activities of daily living. Private sessions are available. The studio is home to the office of Loren Batsell, a doctor of Oriental medicine and licensed acupuncture physician.

Nuts and Bolts: Single classes are $15, five classes $70 and 10 classes $130. Walk in, no reservations required. Call 904610-7565 or visit FeelGoodYogaLongboatKey.com.

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This senior center is an expanded community service of the Longboat Key Island Chapel with a mission to provide “quality solutions and exciting opportunities for local seniors enabling all to live with dignity and the highest possible level of health, independence and quality of life.” It offers two flavors of tai chi plus yoga and the Key’s only Zumba class, Suzy Brenner’s 45-minute “Zumba for Seniors.”

Nuts and Bolts: Reservations are suggested for yoga and Zumba, $10 per class. Call 941-3836493 or email MaryAnnBrady@ AgingInParadise.org.

Registration is required for tai chi, and classes are 10 lessons for

Studio owner and instructor Debby McClung demonstrates a lunge posture at the new Feel Good Yoga studio.

$100. Contact Christine Killeen at 941-383-1924 or info@taichiflowing.com. Visit AgingInParadise.org.

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The Longboat Key Education Center annually amazes with its catalogue. There has been yoga here since the doors opened 31 years ago. This season, there are classes five days a week. In a change from the established order, the 9 a.m. Monday class will alternate weekly between

Susan Goldfarb’s “Easy Yoga” and Angelena Craig’s “Slow Flow Yoga.” There are additional mind and body options, including “Mindfulness Meditation” and an intriguing series on “Improving Brain Health & Performance.”

The Education Center also offers Saturday workshops on fitness-related topics, starting with “Older, Bolder, Better” coming up Jan. 14.

Another unique offering is “Sounding Young at Any Age” on Feb. 18. Nationally certified vocologist Tess Hogan will show students how a simple vocal fitness program and a few behavioral changes can lead to a more vibrant, youthful voice.

Nuts and Bolts: Fitness classes are typically $88 for members and $104 for nonmembers for an eight-week term, but they can be taken individually. Workshops are $30-$40 for members and $35-$45 for nonmembers. Registration is required. Call 383-8811 or visit lbkeducationcenter.org.

BAYFRONT PARK RECREATION CENTER 4052 GULF OF MEXICO DRIVE

While the park is still a work-inprogress, the Recreation Center building is reopening and fitness classes are resuming.

Ann Alvis is returning with “Muscles and More” at 7:30 a.m. and 8:45 a.m., Monday-

Wednesday-Friday. Mirabai Holland will be teaching her aerobic and strength combo “Pumping the Prime” and adding a new class, “Fabulous Forever.” It is first on the Key to incorporate sports-specific training for activities like golf and tennis.

Nia teacher Gail Condrick is also introducing “Movement for Living,” gentle movements to stretch your body and your brain. Barbara Anderson is offering reformatted and refreshed “Cardio + Strength” workouts on Tuesday and Thursday. The classes include aerobics and both upper- and lower-body strength training. My own Pilates mat session “Joy of Stretch/Yoga,” is now in its 20th season.

Nuts and Bolts: Recreation Center classes are all walk in and all are $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers. Membership is $25 for resident, $35 for off-island resident and $45 for resident couple. The schedule and full descriptions of classes are online at Longboatkey.org.

Molly Schechter is an ACEcertified personal trainer with a specialty in older adult fitness plus YogaFit Instructor Training, SCF Yoga Fundamentals I and II, SCF “Active Aging,” and Power Pilates Mat Certifications. She teaches classes at the Bayfront Park Recreation Center. Email her at mschechter@YourObserver. com.

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Thomas Patrick Greeley, 37, of Longboat Key, died Dec. 25.

He was born in Neptune, N.J., and moved to Longboat Key in 2002.

He was a graduate of St. Rose Grammar School and St. Rose High School in Belmar, N.J., and attended Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J. Mr. Greeley was an avid reader and enjoyed scuba diving, fishing, soccer and movies.

He owned Key Video Store.

He is survived by parents, Thomas and Judith; twin brother Timothy; sister-in-law Lauren; two nieces; numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.

JOHN LEWIS

John “Jack” Lewis of Longboat Key, and formerly Chicago, died Jan. 3.

Jack was a former employee of the Chicago Title and Trust Co. and was a loving husband, father and grandfather.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Rosemarie, and children Thomas and Margaret.

He is survived by his granddaughter, Jaina Shaw; grandson Marcus Lewis; their spouses; and great-grandson Thomas Shaw.

He was born in Glasco, N.Y., one of nine children.

He was a Korean War veteran, a professional skater and an accomplished businessman.

He owned several business including the Spring Lake Roller Rink in Kingston, N.Y..

He moved to the area with his wife, Melania, in 1977. He ran a personal service, drove cars and worked at Seaplace on Longboat Key. He retired at age 93 saying “work was his hobby.”

He is survived by his children, Barbara Peterson, Karen Bomar and Stephen Madison; their spouses; nephew Thomas Misasi; 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

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ROBERT PATRICK RAHAIM

She was born in Philadelphia to the late Michael and Tekla Prokopovich.

She worked as a commercial artist at Sterns Printing in Philadelphia and was an avid painter and woodcarver.

Alberta spent her winters on Longboat Key and was involved with the Longboat Key Center for the Arts. She loved to travel with her husband, but her true passion was her family and spending time with them.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Edwin; son Michael Mark Sherman; brother John Prokop; and sisters Gertrude Bunadona and Albina Sikora. She is survived

Anthony Marrelli, 95, of Sarasota, died Dec. 12.

Robert Rahaim, 77, of Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., died Dec. 6.

He was born on Nov. 25, 1939, to Samuel and Rosemund Rahaim.

He was an avid boater and enjoyed spending his summers on Lake St. Clair and his winters on Longboat Key. His passion was spending time with his family, especially around the holidays.

He was preceded in death by his parents and wife, Patricia.

He is survived by sons,

Richard Sennott, 90, of Longboat Key and formerly, Northfield, Ill., died Dec. 23.

He is survived by his wife, Sue; children, Richard Steven, Arthur Christopher, Robert Bradley and Jeffrey Douglas; and five grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Misericordia, 6300 N. Ridge Ave., Chicago, 60660.

ALBERTA SHERMAN

Alberta Sherman, 87, of Harleysville, Pa., died Jan. 3.

degree at the University of Maine at Augusta.

In 1950, he married Barbara Belle, and they moved to Maine in 1959 so he could start working at First National Granite Bank. The bank later became the Bank of Maine, and he was president and CEO until 1984.

He then became director of the Maine State Lottery until 1987. He was also president of the Augusta Board of Trade, trustee of the Maine Maritime Academy and served in many other leadership roles throughout the state.

He believed that being a husband and dad were the most important jobs. He and Barbara spent their time traveling to Russia, China, the Caribbean and Europe. Later in their lives, the couple split their time between Maine and Longboat Key. He was preceded in death

by Barbara and granddaughter Melissa Timm.

He is survived by his daughter, Betsy; her sons, Douglas and Jeffrey; their spouses; and five grandchildren.

Memorial donations can be made to Friends of Cobbossee Watershed, P.O. Box 5003, August, Maine, 04330.

by her daughters; Joyce Anne Sherman and Carol Jeanette Sherman; their spouses; five grandchildren; one greatgrandchild; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Memorial donations can be made to the Montgomery County SPCA, 19 E. Ridge Pike, P. O. Box 222, Conshohocken, Pa., 19428.

MADGE D. THOMAS

Madge Thomas of Warren, Mich., and formerly, Longboat Key, died Dec. 18.

Madge was a high-fashion model in the Detroit area in the late 1950s and early 1960s with her identical twin sister, Margie.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Reid and Marie Rice; and her husband, Daniel P. Thomas.

She is survived by her children, Wendy Monkowski and Daniel Thomas Jr.; their spouses; five grandchildren; three great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.

H. ALAN TIMM

H. Alan Timm, 90, died Jan. 3.

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He was raised in New Haven, Conn., by Anne and Henry Timm. He attended Brown University, the University of New Haven and Stonier Graduate School of Banking.

He completed his bachelor’s

Send obituaries to Katie Johns at kjohns@your observer.com.

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From performers to owners, this year’s inductees shaped the circus world in their own ways. performed sites and acquired more animals. North also is credited with naming Gargantua, a captive gorilla.

“It was just the greatest show on Earth,” said Lamar Matthews, an old friend of North.

The circus for Ringling North was more than the performances. It was family. He was instrumental in bringing John and Mable Ringling’s remains back to Sarasota from New Jersey in 1989. They, and North’s mother, Ida Ringling North, are buried in front of Ca d’Zan on the grounds of the Ringling Museum.

Even after he retired, North returned annually to Sarasota to celebrate his birthday and visit with his circus family.

“So he was always around, he loved the circus,” Matthews said.

“It’s like in your blood.”

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Rudolf Mootz and Gerda Meyer performed a wire-comedy act as part of their show. Together with their daughter, Dagmar, they formed the Pedrolas.

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It is fitting, then, that the majority of this year’s class of inductees into the Circus Ring of Fame have a direct link to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which is synonymous with Sarasota.

This year’s induction ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. Jan. 14. at St. Armands Circle Park. A circus concert band will perform at 1:15 p.m.

The six inductees are Reggie Armor, Allan Bloom, Henry Ringling North, Dora Foster, the Pedrolas and Starless Night, an equine star.

REGGIE ARMOR

Even though Reggie Armor didn’t start flying until he was 28, it was his true love in the circus universe.

Armor was born in Santa Monica, Calif., in 1929 and grew up on Muscle Beach. At 22, he joined the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus as a trampoline and teeterboard performer. When he was 28, he found the trapeze, and became one of the few trapeze artists who would master triple full-twisting somersault.

Throughout his career, he traveled with a number of circuses, including the Shriner Circus, and appeared on several television shows.

“It’s an incredible honor for my family as well as my children,” Armor’s daughter, SaSa, said.

“For me, it just kind of marks his immortality in a way that we weren’t expecting.”

Armor said her father felt fortunate to have found his niche early in life. She said it was obvious how much he adored performing. All you had to do was watch him.

“I think that’s what marks all really great performances — that transformation extends to the audience,” she said. “They feel like they’re being performed to.”

He retired from the circus in 1978 and died in 2010.

HENRY RINGLING NORTH

Henry Ringling North was the nephew of circus founder John Ringling, so it was only natural his life would revolve around the circus.

North was vice president of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey from 1938 to 1967. During his time in that role, the circus moved from using buses and trucks to railroads, expanded its

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Allen Bloom

ALLEN BLOOM

It didn’t matter if it was a Thursday morning performance or a sold out Saturday night show, Allen Bloom had a mission.

“That mission was to fill seats,” said Bill Powell, a mentee and employee of Bloom. “He wanted to make sure that those performers had an audience.”

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about 1995, Bloom served as a top executive of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey and Feld Entertainment. Throughout those years, the circus doubled in size, and Disney on Ice, then known at Walt Disney’s World on Ice, was absorbed into Feld Entertainment. As a boss, Bloom could be demanding, but only because he saw potential in his employees.

He wanted them to be their best, Powell said.

“It was really about the passion he brought, the ability to never give up, to turn over every stone,” he said. “When you thought you did your best, you really needed to go back and do more.”

Before joining Ringling and Feld, Bloom worked for music promoter Irvin Feld.

“He had the greatest respect for the smallest person and organization, and I think that was the greatest thing about Allen, was the humanity,” Powell said.

DORA ‘ROGANA’ FOSTER

With a dagger between her lips, a sword balancing on the tip and a tray of cranberry juice-filled glasses atop the sword, Dora Foster, known as Rogana, ascended a swaying ladder for most of her circus days.

Foster began performing in the circus when she was 6 with her sisters, who made the rolling globes act a phenomenon. They appeared in Germany and Tom Arnold’s circus at the Harringay Arena in England. In 1961, Rogana made her debut at the Bertram Mills’ tent show and toured with the group until 1963. Later, she and her husband left the Mills group to travel the world with her sword-and-dagger balancing act.

While Foster doesn’t like to toot her own horn, the circus life was in her blood. She has no single favorite part. She said you have to like it all in that environment. “... You can only be good if you like what you’re doing,” Foster said. “It doesn’t matter if you come into the ring or onto the stage, you are there and you have to enjoy everything.”

THE PEDROLAS

Photo courtesy Dagmar Mootz-Beavers

The Pedrolas performed complete shows with high and low wires, a wire comedy act and aerial cradles.

At the age of 6, Dagmar Mootz Beavers debuted as the youngest wire walker alongside her parents, Rudolf Mootz and Gerda Meyer. Together, the three formed the Pedrolas Troupe.

The family performed a complete show with a contortionist,

musical clowns, high and low wires, an aerial cradle and slide for life. The standouts of the show were the cradle act, the loop-deloop and the wire comedy act, all done by Rudolf and Gerda.

For the family, the circus was a lifestyle. The family performed in shows in Norway, Denmark and Austria before coming to the U.S. in 1958 for the Mills Brother Circus. Beavers remembers the trailer her father built the family and practicing her wire act outside while listening to Carlos Santana.

As for where the Pedrola name came from, Beavers said her father invented the name that evolved from his self-proclaimed nickname.

“Well, my father loved everything Mexican. He kind of fancied himself a Mexican cowboy,” Beavers said. “Early in life, he gave himself the nickname Pedro.”

STARLESS NIGHT

Like many circus animals, Starless Night was a staple for many seasons in various circuses and fairs.

The Saddlebred mare was trained and presented by Capt.

William Heyer. He bought the mare when she was 2 years old, and three months later, the duo performed at Radio City Music Hall.

Throughout her life, Starless Night was shown in the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the parade movie “The Greatest Show on Earth” and other shows and movies. She performed side passes, cantering, lead changes, high trots and piaffes.

Cindy Herriott Wells, whose father, John Herriott, was also a horse trainer and poet who wrote about Starless Night and Heyer

Photo courtesy Circus Ring of Fame

Starless Night was 2 years old when Capt. William Heyer began training her.

and other circus acts, said it’s important rider and horse click.

And with Starless Night and Heyer, they did.

“It was just such a beautiful act, the two of them,” she said.

The circus ring made it possible for riders to balance better on galloping horses, so Herriot Wells said it’s an honor that a horse is being recognized for its achievements in the Circus Ring of Fame.

Herriott Wells said most people who worked with high school dressage horses preferred stallions because mares have a different temperament.

“That’s not true to all,” she said, “because Starless Night was amazing, just a fantastic horse.”

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earing their fanciest hats, the ladies of the Sisterhood of Beth Israel gathered for an English high tea on Dec. 19 at Temple Beth Israel.

From black hats to blue hats, flowered ones and simple ones, too, the ladies dressed for the occasion.

“It’s just silly, but it’s fun,” said Barbara Siegel, president of the Sisterhood of Beth Israel.

The idea for an English high tea was suggested by Corinne Sniderman, Rabbi Stephen Sniderman’s wife, who was the speaker for the afternoon.

Sniderman, a former Presbyterian, discussed her conversion to Judaism and shared with the ladies what it’s like to be married to a rabbi.

About 60 members enjoyed the afternoon complete with a variety of tea, scones and lemon curd, finger sandwiches and cream of mushroom soup. While the ladies ate, two members, Judy Goldstein and Barbara Pressman, modeled selections from J. McLaughlin, an upscale clothier with locations in Longboat Key and Sarasota, among others.

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The choir of All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church performs sacred and secular music during the church’s annual Epiphany celebration.

All Angels by the Sea celebrates Epiphany

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Epiphany concluded the 12 days of Christmas on Jan. 6, and members of All Angels by the Sea gathered for a concert and potluck dinner in honor of the occasion.

The church’s choir performed secular music and “Brother Heinrich’s Christmas,” a musical fable

by John Rutter that follows Heinrich Suso, a Dominican abbot and his donkey, Sigismund, as Heinrich tries to figure out the correct ending to “In Dulci Jubilo” after it is sung to him by angels.

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Takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Longboat Key Club Harbourside dining room.

Enjoy bites from 11 local restaurants and a fashion show featuring styles from Tommy Bahama. Admission is $50, and raffle tickets are $100. Tickets are limited and can be purchased at The Lazy Lobster and Suntrust Bank, or by calling Susan Phillips at 387-1909.

BINGO NIGHT Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and play will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. at Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road. The event is open to the public, and there will be money prizes and raffle gifts.

Refreshments will also be served.

Admission is $25, which includes five games and three cards and a jackpot card. Additional cards can be purchased for $5 each.

Call 917-721 8390.

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SANDPIPERS MEETING Takes place at noon at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road. Ethan Frizell, a Salvation Army major, will be speaking. Lunch starts at noon and Frizell will begin speaking at 12:30 p.m. RSVP to 383-8161.

REPUBLICAN CLUB OF LONGBOAT KEY Takes place at 5:30 p.m. at the Longboat Key Club Harbourside Dining Room, 3200 Harbourside Drive. Joe Gruters, chairman of the Republican Party of Sarasota County and a member of the Florida House of Representatives for District 73, will speak about what to expect from Presidentelect Donald Trump’s first 100 days. Cost is $40 for members and $50 for guests. Make reservations at rclbk.org, or call Ruth Strauss at 383-5349 or Frank Cona at 387-0171.

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LONGBOAT KEY PENTHOUSE! Bay & Golf views 2Br/2Ba/2CG w/southern exposure, wrap-around balcony, great rm plan, tile, crown moldings, volume ceil , Kitch w/Sub Zero & Corian, walkins w/built-ins, gated comm w/resort amenities, w/deeded beach access near golf & marina!

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LIDO BEACH! Custom 5Br/5Ba/2CG w/Gulf views, 4 balconies, fab covered patio SF, roof top sundeck, pvt courtyard, 3-tier pool, 12 person spa, casita, elevator, gourmet kitch , Brazilian flrs , game rm, wet bar, 4th flr cupola w/180 deg views, mos to St Armand’s & Downtown!

MLS#A4143440 $3,795,000

DOWNTOWN FURNISHED W/BAY VIEW! Extended 2Br/2Ba on 7th flr, main living bay views and balcony w/city vista, hurricane shutters, hardwood flrs, kitch w/upgrades; Corian & bkfst bar, in secure bldg w/fitness, assigned pkg, pool & concierge across from Bay Front park MLS#A4170262 $625,000

MF W/DOCK ON LBK! 3Br/3Ba/2CG upgraded villa w/big bay views, volume ceil , furn quality cabinetry, granite, SS appls , built-ins, wood flrs, tile, summer kitch , end location w/paver brick, in gated comm w/ amenities & deeded beach access, near golf & marina!

MLS#A4172105 $1,550,000

UPDATED PH W/BAY VIEWS! 2Br/2Ba/1CP w/bonus rm, diagonal tile, granite, crown moldings, eat-in kitch w/SS appls & tray ceil , MBr w/walk-in, storm shutters & pvt laundry in bldg on Sarasota Bay w/amenities, close to IMG, beaches, Downtown Sarasota & more!

MLS#A4144415 $400,000

RENOVATED BEACHFRONT! 3Br/3Ba/2CG w/4 balconies, direct gulf views, detailed high ceil , custom wood & marble flrs, wet bar, gourmet kitch w/granite & Viking, artisan cabinetry, French doors, 3 level townhouse w/elevator install set up, on north Longboat w/pvt beach!

MLS#A4158073 $1,500,000

BAY PLAZA VIEWS! 3Br/3Ba/2CG/3 balconies, over 3300SF w/sweeping bay views, open & flexible plan, hardwood flrs, ceramic tile, crown moldings, built-ins, kitch w/all appls , guest qtrs w/kitchenette & its own entry + pvt laundry in full service downtown building w/amenities!

MLS#A4146244 $1,200,000

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 18

LBK NORTH This neighborhood forum takes place at 6 p.m. at the Longboat key Center for the Arts, 6860 Longboat Drive S. The topics are stormwater, coastal erosion and traffic congestion. Speakers include Town Manager Dave Bullock and Longboat Key Revitalization Task Force Chairman Tom Freiwald. The forum is free; contact Pat Zunz at 383-0001 for more information.

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MLS#A4164206 $1,750,000

SIESTA KEY - DOCK & LIFT! Mid Century Modern 5Br/3Ba/2CG on ½ acre, ½ mile to beach, 145FT canal frontage, open concept, high beamed ceil , 2 masters, skylights, ceramic tiled flrs, marble, granite, updated kitch , infinity edge pool, 900+/- gallon pond, one bridge to bay!

MLS#A4172653 $1,850,000

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the finest services of real estate

Kelly Mooney, REALTOR® 941-587-8430

Cheryl Loeffler, MBA, REALTOR® 941-302-9674

Betsy Sublette, REALTOR® 941-284-8483

GOLDEN GATE POINT

$5,495,000

CASEY KEY

$5,295,000

L’AMBIANCE – LONGBOAT KEY

BAY ISLES – LONGBOAT KEY

$2,749,000

RITZ TOWER – SARASOTA

$1,890,000

GOLDEN GATE POINT

SABAL COVE-LONGBOAT KEY

$1,390,000

PIERRE-LONGBOAT KEY

$1,299,000

DOWNTOWN-LAUREL PARK

BEACHPLACE – LONGBOAT KEY

$949,000

Third floor grand residence with 5,658 SF, 4 bedrooms, 5 baths, 2 terraces with water and city views. Private boat dock and 2 car garage.

Open and bright Harbor Section home with over 4500 sq. ft. of sensible living area. Lovingly maintained with southern exposure and protected boating.

Delightful lakefront home provides the perfect privacy. Spacious 4 bedroom with volume ceilings & generous pool deck.

Penthose residence wth an expanded terrace and views up and down the beach! Two bedroom, furnished unit with 2 parking spaces.

Key West Style Gulf to Bay compound on over 3/4 of an acre offers coveted island living only available on Casey Key.

Sophisticated corner residence with 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, generous terraces for viewing, meticulous finishes and 2 parking spaces.

Mesmerizing views of the Gulf! Elegant penthouse unit with three bedrooms, three baths, generous terraces and two parking spaces.

BEACHPLACE – LONGBOAT KEY

$529,000

Largest, two-bedroom unit with sunny southern exposure, recent updates and views of the Gulf, pool and community lake.

$2,795,000

Ninth Floor residence with 12’ ceilings and amazing views of Gulf, Bay and city Skyline! Sophisticated updating. New impact rated doors and windows.

FROM $1,650,000

Eight unique residences with floor-to-ceiling windows. Resort style pool/spa, cabana, individiual garage space and private elevator foyer.

$1,199,000

Open and spacious 3 bedroom custom home with detached fully-equipped guest house, hand-scraped wood floors, two car garage, and magical water feature!

DOWNTOWN DREAM OFFICE

$499,000

Converted historic bungalow just blocks from downtown. Two private offices, reception area, conference room, and media room. Parking for 7 cars.

Sotheby’s International Realty® and the Sotheby’s International Realty logo are registered service marks used with permission. Each office is independently owned and operated. Equal Housing Opportunity. Property information herein is derived from various sources including, but not limited to, county records and multiple listing services, and may include approximations. All information is deemed accurate.

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JoDene Moneuse REALTOR

941-302-4913 | jodenemoneuse@gmail.com

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3BR/3BA RENOVATED HOME close to the beach PLUS SPACIOUS 1BR/1BA GUEST SUITE with separate entrance.

Saltwater screened pool, wood burning fireplace & new high impact windows. Great rental income! $899,000

KS OA

Katie Johns

RARELY AVAILABLE spacious 3BR/3BA maintenance free villa located behind the gates of Bay Isles Harbourside.

Impressive views overlooking the sparkling lake and one acre golf course. $899,000

Mia Cunningham and Vicki LaMotte of South Lake Designs, Cabinetree owners Tom and Diane Junker, Mayor Terry Gans and Randy Ross, also of Cabinetree, cut the ribbon.

BEAUTIFUL DEEP WATER LOT in the secluded community of Hideaway Bay on LBK. Cul-de-sac peninsula style lot with deep sailboat water on 3 sides. Great location to build your dream home. $890,000

Longboat welcomes Cabinetree

48 #5 1-4 N UM U RI S AT PEN O

STUNNING BAY VIEWS from this 3BR/2.5BA condo on the 4th floor at The Atrium. Hardwood floors throughout most living areas, updated kitchen & new master bath.

Large balcony overlooks Sarasota Bay. $879,000

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ENDLESS DIRECT GULF VIEWS from every room in this fabulous 2BR/2BR rarely available penthouse unit. Views of the bay and downtown Sarasota are also picturesque. $849,000

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COZY CANAL FRONT ESCAPE, 2BR/2BA condominium adjacent to Durante Park on LBK. Tastefully updated with wood cabinets & granite counters. Easy access to the Intracoastal Waterway. $299,900

Nightly and weekly rentals available: 941-387-8344

www.WagnerRealty.com

5360 Gulf of Mexico Dr. Suite 101, in the Centre Shops, Longboat Key | 941.383.5577

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SPECTACULAR BAY VIEWS from this updated 2BR/2BA beach inspired get-away. Bring your boat and launch it right at your boat slip. $529,900

he Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce held one of its many “firsts” of 2017 on Jan. 5.

Cabinetree LBK Design Studio celebrated its opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The occasion was made complete with extra-large scissors to make sure the ribbon completely cut. Mayor Terry Gans assisted cutting the ribbon, his first as Longboat Key mayor.

Guests enjoyed food and drinks following the ribbon cutting.

This is Cabinetree’s second location, joining its Venice location. The Longboat site opened in September.

“I think it was a much needed service that we haven’t had before,” Chamber President Gail Loefgren said.

Cabinetree co-owner Diane Junker said it feels wonderful to be officially opened. Cabinetree is located at The Centre Shops, which is also where the Chamber is located.

“It’s friendship and networking at the same time,” Junker said.

Cabinetree is located at 5360 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Suite 103. The store is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

— KATIE JOHNS

Linda Weber My HEART will always be in a little cottage by the SEA

LBK CLUB GOLF COURSE CONDO - Panoramic views across the fairway of the White Egret Course this 2540 sq.ft. residence features an open flr plan, vaulted ceilings, 2 ½ BA, large kitchen, spacious master suite, 2 car garage. Beach Club membership included. $774,000

DOCK 62’ X 20’ LBK CLUB MOORINGS

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Deep water, direct access to ICW & Bay w/no bridges. Located on C Pier the only pier with a built-in platform making easy boat access during high or low tide. Cable, water, electric, internet at dock and 24 hr security.

Priced for quick sale.

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$105,000 BAY ISLES, LONGBOAT KEY CLUB - Recently

updated, 3BD, 2870 sq. ft w/ open floor plan, volume ceilings & marble flooring. The southern exposure offers a caged pool w/ spacious lanai great for outdoor entertaining. Beach Club membership inc.

FOR SALE

Cottage by the Sea

$849,000

Linda Weber Office 941.387.1863 Cell 941.504.2000 227482

Listed For Sale with Roger Pettingell COLDWELL BANKER, Longboat Key www.PelicanHarbourMH2.com

Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate 201 Gulf of Mexico Dr. Longboat Key

lindaweber@longboatwaterfront.com | WWW.LONGBOATWATERFRONT.COM

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Beach Front | Mid-LBK | 2 Bedroom/2.5 Bath $1,345,000 941-387-1840

DIRECT GULF FRONT condo at Islands West w/ water views. 2BD/2BA 1468 sq.ft, wrap-around terrace w/ views of the Gulf & Bay. Updates of kitchen & baths, impact sliding glass doors, and tile flooring. Amenities inc. beachfront grilling, social rm, fitness rm & covered parking. $829,000

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LONGBOAT KEY - “Acqua Vita - Water of Life”, a masterful collaboration of the award-winning firms Perrone Construction and Clifford M. Scholz Architects.

Located on nearly an acre of land, offering 11,000+ sq ft of living area, and 260 ft of seawall.

AcquaVita-LBK.com $8,400,000

BIRD KEY - Retreat to this enchanting private oasis!

Featuring two levels of living, majestic free-form pool and cascading waterfall, outdoor kitchen, multiple fire pits, boat lift, and 100’ of seawall. www.444MeadowLarkDr.com $2,695,000

BIRD KEY - A stunning “Shangri-La” on approximately ½ acre of bay front with 278’ of seawall. Dock with a 30,000-lb lift can accommodate a large yacht. Renovated in 2012 by luxury builder Perrone Construction.

100SWarblerLane.com $5,730,000

LONGBOAT KEY - Experience elegant Bayfront living in Country Club Shores!

Luxurious details throughout, including a dramatic cascading staircase, stone fireplace that spans two levels, indoor balcony throughout the length of the home, and endless glistening water views with almost 300’ of seawall! This seductive estate needs to be seen to be appreciated in all of its splendor. 590GolfLinksLane.com $3,950,000

ST. ARMAND’S CIRCLE - Spacious coastal contemporary beauty! One-story floorplan, 4BD/3BA + study.

Luxuriously updated, with high-end appliances and SMART home technology. Canal-front, with pool, spa, & 6,000 lb boatlift.

315SWashington.com $2,195,000

JUST LISTED!

BIRD KEY - Largest home site on the market in Bird Key! Offering 25,895 sq ft on Sarasota Bay and 233’ of frontage. Multiple vast terraces, pool with fountain, boat lift, and magnificent endless water views.

554SSpoonbillDr.com $4,395,000

LONGBOAT KEY - Rarely available top floor corner condo in Buttonwood Cove. 3 BD/2 BA, 2 terraces with sweeping views of both the Gulf AND the Bay! Updated kitchen, bathrooms, new A/C, and laundry in unit.

3630GulfofMexicoDr301.com $575,000

LONGBOAT KEY - Bright and airy 2BD/2BA condo in the Castillian. The terrace has been enclosed, adding square footage and extending the breathtaking views of the Gulf! Newer tile throughout, and washer and dryer in unit.

4525GulfofMexicoDr204.com $749,000

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LONGBOAT KEY Escape to this magical 3 level Bayfront Oasis! The 3BR/3BA residence features a heated pool, vast outdoor terraces, and grand floorto-ceiling windows with breathtaking bay views from every level.

5054GulfofMexicoDr.com $1,299,000

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LO C A L LY K N OW N . G LO B A L LY CO N N E C T E D.

L O N G B OAT K E Y 655 Longboat Club Road 17B Jenifer Schwell 941-780-0968 A4161520 $3,300,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 593 Rountree Drive Linda Driggs 941-374-2920 A4172941 $2,995,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 741 Hideaway Bay Drive Saint Cacchiotti & Marie Monsky 941-809-0787 A4103504 $2,500,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 640 Rountree Drive Christine Del Monte 941-266-6733 A4169177 $4,295,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 415 L Ambiance Drive D706 Ian Addy Pa 941-961-8850 A4170348 $2,199,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 521 Ranger Lane Lindsey Paulsen 941-993-9637 A4152415 $1,795,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 1281 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 906 Laurie M Mock 941-232-3665 A4159835 $1,795,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 435 L Ambiance Drive H202 Klaus Lang 941-320-1223 A4167486 $1,695,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 6551 Bayou Hammock Road Cathy Meldahl 941-724-7228 A4165873 $1,650,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 2165 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 132 Anne Mitchell 941-725-0227 A4170493 $1,600,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 3421 Bayou Sound Stephen Strong 941-201-9662 A4171639 $1,599,900

L O N G B OAT K E Y 545 Sanctuary Drive B305 Robert Dardas 941-376-7591 A4172173 $1,550,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 513 Hornblower Lane Jenine Meyer 941-266-8303 A4160876 $1,100,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 575 Sanctuary Drive A103 Larry Mitchell 941-330-0987 A4155681 $799,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 1701 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 606 Jennifer Linehan 941-266-7555 A4165486 $795,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 2110 Harbourside Drive 527 Ian Addy Pa 941-961-8850 A4172815 $729,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 2425 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 2F Mel & Jan Goldsmith 941-356-6673 A4167488 $697,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 2159 Harbourside Drive 801 Jenifer Schwell 941-780-0968 A4155328 $679,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 3240 Gulf Of Mexico Drive B604 Diana Kryszak 941-993-4078 A4173331 $500,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 210 Sands Point Road 2402 Thomas Cinquegrano 941-284-5049 A4145433 $495,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 615 Dream Island Road 308 Sylvia Zimmerman 941-350-5022 A4110859 $475,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 3240 Gulf Of Mexico Drive B407 Crystal Cosby 571-230-5013 A4162850 $445,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 5260 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 401 Kathy Valente 941-685-6767 A4152740 $349,500

L O N G B OAT K E Y 4410 Exeter Drive 103 Malihe Karimi 941-386-5099 A4165674 $345,500

L O N G B OAT K E Y 4400 Exeter Drive 307 Sandi Layfield 941-914-2807 A4155101 $337,900

L O N G B OAT K E Y 4360 Chatham Drive 202 Sandi Layfield 941-914-2807 A4173453 $299,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 2600 Harbourside Drive G-18 Janet Walter 941-232-2000 A4172298 $129,900

L O N G B OAT K E Y 5060 Gulf Of Mexico Drive Beverly St Hilaire 941-504-3303 A4145711 $8,200,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 596 Outrigger Lane Maureen Horn 941-539-3384 A4158567 $4,500,000

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L O N G B OAT K E Y 6051 Gulf Of Mexico Dr Ann Martin & Joanna Benante 941-356-7717 A3983113 $3,950,000

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L O N G B OAT K E Y 641 Ranger Lane Michael Moulton 941-928-3559 A4138569 $5,850,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y 6695 Gulf Of Mexico Drive Bobbi Banan 941-356-2659 A4165951 $3,500,000

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RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

DEC. 26 - DEC. 30

ADAM HUGHES RESEARCH EDITOR

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home on Bird Key tops all transactions in this week’s real estate.

Ronald Manganiello, of Norwalk, Conn., sold his home at 271 Robin Drive to Patricia Baer, trustee, of Sarasota, for $3.11 million. Built in 2015, it has four bedrooms, one bath, a pool and 3,858 square feet of living area.

A home on Bird Key tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. The home at 271 Robin Drive sold for $3.11 million.

BEACHPLACE

LONGBEACH VILLAGE

Power of 8 LLC sold the Unit 506 condominium at 1135 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Mida Associates LLC for $1.3 million. Built in 1980, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,819 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $505,000 in 1995.

SLEEPY LAGOON

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Stanley and Estelle Hopmeyer, of Quebec, Canada, sold their Unit 13 condominium at 7125 Gulf of Mexico Drive to William Fochi and JoAnn Lev, of Bradenton, for $435,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,170 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $335,000 in 2013.

Paul Brown, of Lancaster, Pa., sold his home at 6485 Gulf of Mexico Drive to William and Adele Morris, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, for $1,195,000.

Built in 1951, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,548 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $680,000 in 2013.

Wendy Austin, of Bradenton, sold her Unit 13 condominium at 7105 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Lorraine Mork, of Longboat Key, for $205,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,170 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $188,500 in 1993.

Katherine Huelster, of Sarasota, sold her home at 6525 Gulf of Mexico Drive to 6525 Gulf of Mexico LLC for $650,000.

Built in 1985, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,344 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $499,000 in 2003.

Joseph Neme and Annie Neme, trustees, of Farmington Hills, Mich., sold the Unit G2-105A condominium at 2055 Gulf of Mexico Drive to John and Barbara Wicker, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., for $425,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,257 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $124,000 in 1992.

BUTTONWOOD COVE

Diane Haugland, of Bay Shore, N.Y., sold her Unit 104 condominium at 3540 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Connie Judge, trustee, of Longboat Key, for $485,000. Built in 1980, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,284 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $565,000 in 2004.

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William Daniels, of Tampa, sold his Unit 329 condominium at 6701 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Ric and Gina Gregoria, of Bradenton, for $415,000. Built in 1971, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 936 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $575,000 in 2007.

SEAPLACE

SARASOTA HARBOUR APARTMENTS

Christina Pouliopoulos, trustee, of Kittery, Maine, sold the Unit 6 condominium at 763 John Ringling Blvd. to Robert and Mary Bowmaster, of Marietta, for $244,000. Built in 1963, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 816 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $70,000 in 1990.

LO C A L LY K N OW N . G LO B A L LY C O N N E C T E D.

Michael Moulton

440 Gulf of Mexico Dr • Longboat Key • 941.928.3559 Exceptional Properties. Unrivaled Expertise. Extraordinary Results.

A Sarasota resident and REALTOR® with Michael Saunders & Company since 1982, Michael is known throughout the region as an extraordinary force in luxury real estate. n Over $375 million in transactions in the past 10 years n Perennial top-producer at Michael Saunders & Company n Locally and globally connected n Exceptional expertise in real estate and business n Dedicated to integrity, attention to detail and service excellence

Seaplace Knights LLC sold the Unit 107A condominium at 2039 Gulf of Mexico Drive to James and Mary Conner, of Cincinnati, for $355,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,257 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $53,200 in 1975.

Seasoned veteran Michael Moulton and his team are always ready to help you. Whether buying or selling, he will deliver the results you desire.

MichaelMoulton@michaelsaunders.com

TOP BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of Dec. 29 to Jan. 5, in order of dollar amounts.

L O N G B OAT K E Y PERMIT Seawall

APPLICANT KI Property Holdings

S A N D H A M N O N L O N G B OAT K E Y 5362 Sandhamn Place A4167782 $2,995,000

B AYO U B AY I S L E S 3591 Bayou Circle A4172901 $1,875,000

L O N G B OAT K E Y G U L F F R O N T L OT S 3515 Gulf of Mexico Drive A4150139 & A414654 $2,895,000 & $2,475,000

AMOUNT $105,000

LLC

3402 Fair Oaks Lane

Reroof

Richard Etsell, Trustee

$42,300

6681 GMD

Glass door

Mark Tormey

$24,670

3462 Winding Oaks Drive

Glass door

Viera Family Trust

$20,000

600 Sutton Place

Windows

Chris Rossman

548 Yawl Lane

Seawall

James Ferlita

$6,374 $35,000 Source: Town of Longboat Key

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ADDRESS 784 Lyons Lane

C O U N T RY C L U B S H O R E S 641 Ranger Lane A4138569 $5,850,000

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3174 Gulf of Mexico Dr. Longboat Key, FL 34228

Michael Saunders & Company Licensed Real Estate Broker

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Penthouse Unit

LONGBOAT KEY – Corner penthouse in desirable mid key location. Direct Bayfront with 2 bedroom/2 baths plus bonus room; Community has great amenities and is pet friendly ....................................................................................................................$425,000 2105 Gulf Of Mexico Dr #3104, Longboat Key, 34228, 2 beds, 2 baths, 1,463 Sq. Ft.

JUST LISTED

$949,900

LONGBOAT KEY – Gulf front home with 120 feet of beach frontage and 443 feet in depth.

Enjoy a magnificent beach and ultimate privacy in this 4 bedroom, 4.5 baths, family room, great room, heated gulf side pool and spa, wooden decks and screened porch across the entire home....................................................................................................................$3,500,000

1050 Longboat Club Rd #1004, Longboat Key, 34228, 2 beds, 2 baths, 1,409 Sq. Ft.

$629,900

SARASOTA MAINLAND – Situated on a 2 acre site, this waterfront home has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, pool, spa, 3 car garage ..............................................SOLD $599,000

Penthouse Unit

WINDWARD BAY – Penthouse with spectacular views across the Bay. Watch manatees and dolphins frolic in the marina. Enjoy deeded beach access and a multitude of community amenities.

Pets allowed. Enjoy beautiful tile and travertine floors in this 2/2 sunny residence..........$455,000 WINDWARD BAY – This bay front residence is for the young at heart. Two bedrooms, two baths, large lanai tastefully decorated and furnished as a seaside getaway. The community amenities include 2 pools, tennis, pickle ball, fitness room, kayak racks, boat docks, deeded beach access and an abundance of social activities. Two pets up to 25 lbs. ........... $399,900

$749,900

1050 Longboat Club Rd #303, Longboat Key, 34228, 2 beds, 2 baths, 1,409 Sq. Ft.

BOBBIE BANAN, REALTOR®

356-2659 • 383-2659 • bobbiebanan@michaelsaunders.com

Michael Saunders & Company Licensed Real Estate Broker

St. Armands Circle, Sarasota, FL (941) 388-4447

Ambassador’s Circle

$449,900

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1701 Gulf of Mexico Dr #604 Longboat Key, 34228, 3 beds, 2 baths, 1,551 Sq. Ft.

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Gulf Views for Miles

2105 Gulf of Mexico Drive #3204 Longboat Key, 34228, 2 beds, 2 baths, 1,463 Sq. Ft.

$835,000

GRAND BAY BLDG. 2 Views galore! 6th floor, 2bd + den, 3.5ba, elevator to private foyer, beach access. $ 1,000,000 - MLS # A4169309

DOWNTOWN SARASOTA Fantastic professional remodel, 14th Fl, 2bd, 2ba, 1200 sq ft. Superior walkability to Bayfront. $ 615,000 - MLS #A4170836

LAWRENCE POINTE Best in class! Perfect downtown Sarasota locale, 2bd, 2ba, 1736 sq ft., high quality remodel. $ 899,000 - MLS # A4170546

$1,375,000

New price for Sorrento South – Nokomis $870,000.00 Remove Gated Tuscana – SOLD (add Grand Bay 1,000,000 – sent in email link from MLS) Remove Amenity Rich Esplanade – SOLD (add 123 Island Circle 650,000) Serving Sarasota and Beyond . . .

Remove Villages Sarasota – SOLD (Add new one 4336 Callista Lane Immaculate 2 bed + den with private pool, in Contact Pam for Your Perfect Florida Lifestyle. maintenance free Callista Village $333,900 MLS # A4170259 Broker Associate | Over 30 Years Experience Pam@SarasotaAndBeyond.com Callista Village Picture perfect 2 bed + den, 2 car with pool and private setting Premier Sotheby’s International Realty Remove Whispering Sands – SOLD SarasotaAndBeyond.com 540 John Ringling Sarasota, Florida (Add Blvd., Manatee Oaks – 239,900 sent34236 in email link from MLS) Remove Pinehurst – SOLD Cell: 941-809-0041 | Fx: 941-556-4664 (Move Double lot to main area 275,000)

Dennis Girard

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BAYPORT BEACH & TENNIS CLUB Best priced 2bd, 2ba, covered parking, private beach access, amenity rich. $ 435,000 - MLS# A4150033 3503 Fair Oaks Cr, Longboat Key, 34228, 4 beds, 4 Full baths, 1 Partial bath, 3,462 Sq. Ft.

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Items Under $200 For Sale ADVERTISE YOUR MERCHANDISE with the total value of all items $200 or less in this section for FREE! Limit 1 ad per month, 15 words or less. Price must be included next to each item. No commercial advertising.

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STORAGE FACILITY Boat/ RV/ Trailer. Secure facility, low monthly rentals, Clark Rd area.

941-809-3660, 941-809-3662.

Condos/Apts. For Rent

3 BEDROOM Longboat Key. Available Feb., March, April, 2017. 2/Month Minimum. Across from private beach, sunset deck, updated, turnkey complete, 1/car garage, 55+ No pets. Non-smoking. Annual or Seasonal. 941-232-1357.

LIDO BEACH HOUSE: 3BR/2BA, lanai, across from beach, walk to St. Armands.

No pets. Unfurnished. Available immediately.

Long term/Seasonal. 703-638-8128.

BEACHPLACE, LBK. Newly renovated 2BR/2BA, updated kitchen/bathrooms, plenty of closets.

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L’AMBIANCE: LBK. Luxury beachfront 2BR/3BA. See details under Seasonal/Vacation rentals. View at: www.thephotos.smugmug.com 2BR/2BA LONGBOAT Key completely renovated and beautifully furnished one level end unit villa with all the amenities. Gated beach access, 2 pools, clubhouse and dock space avail. Avail Feb. 1st (845) 633−5824

Condos For Sale GORGEOUS WATER CLUB Condo: 3BR/4BA, beautiful Gulf view, exquisitely designed 2965/sq.ft. residence w/private elevator. 941-586-6252.

Gene Deporis, Coldwell Banker R.E. LONGBOAT KEY: Bayport Beach and tennis #810.

Larger 1st floor 2BR/2BA condo, 4 Har Tru tennis courts, Olympic pool. $525,000. 941-387-8727.

PELICAN HARBOR: 4234 Gulf of Mexico Dr. $324,000. 2BR/2BA, first floor, very easy accessibility to door and car, water view, end unit, dock space available, pool, tennis court, fishing pier, club house. Outstanding location! 941-387-3219 or 651-414-1181.

FloRIDA VACATIon ConnECTIon www.Flvacationconnection.com 941-387-9709 877-705-2460

“Your Home by the Sea” LBK: BOOK NOW for your seasonal rental. 1 & 3 Bedroom furnished condos starting at $1250 weekly. Beachfront and heated pool. The Outrigger Resort, 941-383-3187 or 941-383-3844.

941-400-8811 “Paying the highest prices in the Sarasota area for over 40 years” PURCHASING EAMES, Knoll, Danish, Dunbar, Evans, Laverne, Nakashima, Parzinger furniture, glass, pottery and designer clothing. Tommy McDonnell 772-643-3209.

Autos Wanted WE BUY CARS. TOP $$ PAID FOR YOUR VEHICLES. Call Hawley Motors, 941-923-3421.

Boat Slips For Rent/Sale 45’ BOAT Slip for rent: Longboat Key Moorings.

941-812-3395.

Boats IslandBoatSales.net Season Is Here - Very Busy "Business On A Hand Shake" 17 Year Owner & Island Resident 941-228-3489 - Dave

3BR/3BA SARASOTA Bay New construction, Unobstructed water views, Walking distance to town and marina ,17th floor, 11ft ceilings, Design selections available upon request, www,vuesarasotabay.com Sale is assignment of contract (approved by developer) OFFERING 3% TO BUYERS BROKER $2,499,000 (702) 283−6500

Homes For Sale FOR SALE BY OWNER OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY: 1/15 - 1P.M.-4P.M. or shown by appointment BANYAN BAY - Unit 503 5270 GMD, Longboat Key, FL Fully renovated 2BR/2BA SPECTACULAR FULL WATER VIEW! $435,000 Brokers Welcome: 3% commission.

Call Judy Welsh - 941-393-6269

Merchandise Wanted CASH FOR Old Military Items. Swords, uniforms, insignia & old guns. Call 941-416-3280.

Personal Messages SOCIAL BRIDGE players, Canadian snowbirds, seek good-natured players for occasional games. Longboat Key, Whitney Beach: Donna 941-552-6977.

Personals *ADOPTION*: A Creative Financially Secure Home, Art, Music, LOVE, Laughter, Family awaits 1st baby. FLBar42311 Expenses paid *1-800-552-0045*

LBK BEACH HOUSE: private beach access 3BR/3BA, totally renovated, nearly half acre, gorgeous plantings. 941-586-6252. Gene Deporis, Coldwell Banker R.E.

Vacation/Seasonal Rentals L’AMBIANCE, LONGBOAT KEY Beach front 2BR/3BA condo on high floor with wrap-around terrace, 270 degree views over the Gulf, Sarasota Bay and LBK Club. Sunrises, sunsets through floor to ceiling windows.

View at: www.thephotos.smugmug.com Call John at: 203-984-8477 or E-mail: garment@optonline.net

www.casadelmar.net Weekly/Monthly Condominium Rentals 4 Night Minimum Reservations: 941-383-5549 Fax: 941-383-7925

Weekly/ Monthly/ Seasonal Rates Beachfront, Bayfront and In Between Houses or Condos

5360 Gulf of Mexico Dr., Suite 101 Longboat Key, FL 34228 Rental office 9a.m. - 5p.m. M-F

Call Al Tomlinson

WEEKLY RENTALS. Luxurious, fully furnished 1 - 4 bedrooms. Condominiums and Cottages.

Beach to Bay. On-site management. Pools, tennis, boat slips. Visit: www.FloridaRent.com for information and virtual tours. 800-333-7335, 941-383-3117.

GULFFRONT CONDO 2BR/2BA, tastefully decorated.

Available 2018 Seasonal 321-279-3610

Reservations 941-383-6127 Visa/ MC 800-352-0367

Oil Paintings - Water Colors Sculpture - Bronzes Statuary - Asian Art

LONGBOAT KEY, FL. Waterfront 2BR/2BA Condo.

Pool, tennis, beach, beautiful views, 5th floor.

Available January-April. Would consider year round rental. 631-332-1509.

Ask about our special rates!

Wagner Realty Since 1939 www.wagnerrentals.com

Office Open 7 Days, 9a.m. - 5p.m.

4621 Gulf of Mexico Drive Longboat Key, FL 34228 Fully equipped 2BR/2BA condos with washer and dryer, and wireless internet in each unit.

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Winding Oaks – Longboat Key Lakefront Villa behind the gates of Bay Isles with beautiful water views! Larger 2BR/2BA floorplan has a bonus room, wraparound patio and brand new wood deck. Kitchen has new GE appliances and private sundeck. Pet friendly w/ deeded Beach Club access. $619,000

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Water Club I – Longboat Key Light & bright 4th floor Brighton plan with private elevator lobby, 3 FULL bedrooms & custom interior touches throughout.

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Grand Bay I – Longboat Key Move-in ready furnished, 3BR/3.5BA residence provides views of the Bay, Gulf & City. This south facing, 8th floor, corner apartment is located in a pet-friendly & gated community. Includes deeded access to Bay Isles Beach Club.

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NEW Tangerine Bay – Longboat Key This 2BR/2.5BA + den Bay front beauty has a brand new water filtration system throughout the home + updated windows & doors, AC, plumbing & electrical. Tangerine Bay is a pet-friendly community with tremendous amenities. $1,198,000

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Sunset Beach – Longboat Key Meticulously modern 2BR/2.5BA + possible 3rd BR residence with private walk-down to beach & Gulf of Mexico. Turnkey furnished with numerous custom pieces. Bringing contemporary design to coastal living! $1,950,000

Grand Bay III – Longboat Key Over $200,000 in designer upgrades throughout this 2,950 SF Antigua floor plan apartment. Enjoy sweeping views over Sarasota Bay, downtown city lights & the Marina from every room in the residence AND from the 658 SF wraparound terrace.

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Bay Plaza – Downtown Sarasota 12th floor residence with spectacular views of Sarasota Bay, Golden Gate Point and the Marina! Private 2BR/2BA split floor plan, wood floors, granite & stainless kitchen and luxurious entertaining terrace. Pet friendly w/ excellent amenities. $885,000

Beaches – Longboat Key 6th floor, 3 FULL BR/3BA SW corner residence with brand new kitchen featuring stainless steel appliances & crisp white cabinets! Ready for immediate occupancy with furnishings available separately. $1,495,000

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Village Place – Siesta Key Turnkey furnished 2-story villa with 3BR (2 with private balconies) & 2.5BA located in a quiet 6-residence enclave in Siesta Key Village.

Upgrades include wood floors, crown molding & granite kitchen w/gas stove. Pet-friendly community. $819,000

Grand Bay I – Longboat Key Redesigned 3BR/3.5BA residence on the 8th floor. 3rd bedroom currently being used as a den with en-suite bath. Walls of floor-to-ceiling glass doors frame views from Sarasota Bay to downtown! Gated, pet-friendly community with deeded Beach Club membership. $1,195,000

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Hammocks – Sarasota Mainland 4BR/4BA + possible 5th bedroom/den & 3-car garage! Bonus 2nd floor living space. Sliding pocket doors allow for continuous entertaining from the homes interior out to the screened-in pool & summer kitchen area!

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Grand Bay II – Longboat Key Modernized & redesigned 2BR/3.5BA + den/possible 3rd BR apartment with full exposure to Bay, City & Golf course views. Wide open floor plan created by eliminating walls in the kitchen + wet bar area. Grand Bay is a pet-friendly community with first-rate amenities. $1,845,000

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Botanica – Palmer Ranch Unique opportunity can be yours! Beautifully laid out Wisteria split floor plan with 3BR/2.5BA PLUS morning room & large glassenclosed lanai. Community amenities include two pools, fitness center & clubhouse. Moments from Siesta Key! $499,500