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Lost and found

Freda wanted her freedom.

A busy and independent lady, she’s bucked the idea of communication. No one should keep tabs on her and her private life — not even the Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program associates at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, who tagged the nesting-age green sea turtle in the first place.

She was first observed nesting on Manasota Key in 2015 and tagged in June 2019 on Casey Key. The tag stopped transmitting in August 2019, but Mote researchers tagged Freda again in summer 2021.

This time, she kept it on until October. Inexplicably, it started transmitting again in late December, this time from Marathon.

Divers had found the device in Florida Bay and taken it to The Turtle Hospital there. Staffers contacted Mote. Miraculously, the battery had been preserved when it sunk, and the tag can now be used on another turtle this summer.

Safe travels, Freda, wherever you are.

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Sandy Smith toasts the opening round of Longboat Key’s Savor the Sounds concert series, which opened last weekend at Town Center Green.

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Marc Preininger is the owner of the 6541 Gulfside Road property, known as the “half-moon seawall.”

Preininger said beach access issues are more than just “an Ohana issue.”

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Long way around Talks continue on Ohana seawall, beach access.. SEE PAGE 2

In the Christ Church of Longboat Key fellowship hall, the soft shushing of seeds poured carefully into tiny plastic bags mixed with the gentle piano of parishioner Tim Leget on Jan. 24 as members packed seeds for local ministry Hope Seeds.

The organization sends packs of seeds to countries with undernourished populations in the hopes of establishing a longterm nutritional option for families.

CCLBK just finished its fifth year working with Hope Seeds and packed 86,000 in 2021.

Monday was the first packing program of the year and brought in 30 members for a social volunteer hour.

More than 3,500 seeds were packed on Monday and will go to Haiti to hopefully help families rebuild after the recent earthquake. Each seed pack is designed to fill common nutrient gaps in underserved communities and grow easily in the climate where it’s planted.

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Longboat leaders find going rough regarding Ohana seawall passage Longboat Key staff will not continue negotiations with the Ohana property owners for a lease or easement agreement.

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owners proposed that the town pay between $880,000 and $1.3 million annually for public use as a path past the property.

Commissioner Penny Gold asked on Monday whether the town should get a separate appraisal. However, Schneier called Ohana’s appraisal, which Sarasota-based Bass Fletcher and Associates valuation professional Richard Bass conducted, “ridiculous” for the town to consider. Several other commissioners have said they did not view the Ohana owners’ proposal as reasonable.

On Monday, attorney Alicia Lewis, a partner in the Tampa-based law firm Kelley Kronenberg, read a statement on behalf of the Ohana property owners.

“We are willing to rent to the town on an annual basis the property associated with the Ohana beach crossing,” Lewis said. “This needs to be structured as an annual agreement as opposed to a perpetual or permanent easement because it allows the owners to preserve the value of the property by not encumbering it with a long-term easement.”

Lewis said the Ohana owners are the only party to engage a professional appraiser to estimate a value for such an agreement. She also said the Ohana owners are concerned about privacy and liability on their property.

To avoid trespassing on the Ohana Hale Estate Land Trust property, the public can do two things: n Try to wade the surf. This is dangerous considering the water breaks right on the seawall and there are rocks in front of it. n Walk around by using public beach access points at 6847 Gulf of Mexico Drive to the north and 6399 Gulfside Road along General Harris Street to the south. The beach access points are about a mile apart.

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ongboat Key Mayor Ken Schneier sees several ways for the town to address the difficulties of navigating around the private Ohana property, which extends to the surf, blocking passage along the beach.

After an hourlong discussion Monday among the Longboat Key Town Commission, Schneier advised town staff to do the following: n Discontinue negotiations for a lease or easement agreement with the Ohana owners. n Continue to see if there is a shortterm, streetside detour near Gulfside Road or Gulf of Mexico Drive. n Instruct staff to look at the larger issue of beach renourishment with multiple rock-groin structures near the property. n Post a summary on Longboat Key’s website of what town leaders have done to address the issue.

“There is no obvious solution at hand, and at some point, you have to admit that,” Schneier said. “It doesn’t mean that we’re going to give up entirely on what’s going on here.”

Town leaders have had discussions with property owners at 6633 Gulf of Mexico Drive and their legal counsel.

Town Attorney Maggie Mooney said the town’s negotiations with the Ohana property owners have been unsuccessful.

“The commission may recall at the Dec. 13 meeting, we talked about a number of different potential ways to skin this cat,” Mooney said.

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rental agreement on the terms outlined today, we ask that our clients’ private property rights are respected and we will move on from this issue,” Lewis said.

Mooney and the town’s special legal counsel explained the town’s legal options.

“We do not think it is advisable to pursue a claim that will result in many, many years of litigation at every appellate level over legal theories that are not grounded in blackletter law today,” Mooney said.

Schneier explained his understanding of the town pursuing a legal claim.

“If you ask an attorney, ‘What are my chances of success?’” Schneier said. “And then, you have an arrangement of what you might call, ‘yes, maybe, no and hell no,’ I think we observed ‘hell no’ from our counsel in that situation,” Schneier said.

Vice Mayor Mike Haycock said he’d like to see the town revisit the possibility of beach renourishment in the area, which would require placing permanent rock groin structures and tons of sand around the seawall structures. The additional sand would create more dry sand seaward of the seawall, allowing passage without trespassing.

“You’ve heard from our coastal engineer (Dr. Al Browder) and public works director (Isaac Brownman) that their initial estimate would be about $1 million a year to put structures in and try and maintain sand in that area,” Town Manager Tom Harmer said.

Harmer said it would take at least four permanent rock groin structures to maintain the sand in the area.

“Some portions of the island are more erosional than others,” Harmer said.

Marc Preininger, who owns the seawall at 6541 Gulfside Road, also spoke on Monday afternoon before the Town Commission. Preininger’s

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Marc Preininger (right) owns the seawall at 6541 Gulfside Road. On Monday, he spoke before the Longboat Key Town Commission about his concerns regarding beachgoers traversing his private seawall.

property is known as the “halfmoon seawall” and sits just south of the Ohana site.

“The bottom-line issue is that this is a beach erosion management issue,” Preininger said. “It’s not a seawall issue.

“The topic in itself states the obvious, uninterrupted public beach access. There is no beach in front of these seawalls.”

Preininger said the normal twoto three-year renourishment cycle in which there is a public beach near his property now lasts “less than eight months.” He also spoke of his concerns about liability as a private seawall owner.

“In today’s litigious society, it only takes one accident or worse yet, a nefarious actor, to bring a lawsuit that opens up financial ruin for the owners of the seawall properties for being neighborly,” Preininger said.

Preininger said no one from the town has spoken with him, but he eventually planned to close down public access to traverse his seawall, too.

“This is not just an Ohana issue,” Preininger said.

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HOW WE GOT HERE

The building of a Longboat Key Town Center has gone through different proposals.

March 2014 Town Commission approves purchase of 2.8 acres that had once been considered for condo construction.

December 2014 Town holds first public workshop for the Town Center concept for the land.

January/February 2016 Town and Ringling College of Art and Design announce signing of a memorandum of understanding.

January 2017 Town Commission votes to buy 2-acre Amore property to add to the previous parcel for the purpose of developing an arts and education center. The price: $2.2 million.

August 2017 The Longboat Key Foundation begins spearheading efforts to raise money to construct a 40,000-square-foot facility, which was expected to include a 299-seat black box theater and art spaces, galleries and events.

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CONCEPT PLAN

Tom Aposporos speaks before the Town Commission on behalf of the Theatre on the Green group.

Town leaders publicly addressed an independent effort to build a black box theater on the Town Center Green site.

EVENTS PLANNED AT TOWN CENTER GREEN

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ongboat Key Foundation Chair Jim Brown had a request of Longboat Key leaders about the future of the Town Center Green on Monday.

“I would like you to approve the town manager moving forward with an architect to come up with a concept plan – not a design, a concept plan,” the former mayor said, adding that for 20 years he’s been working on proposals for the green space and what might someday be built there.

Ultimately, town commissioners agreed by consensus to ask Town Manager Tom Harmer to move ahead with the broad plan to set basic boundaries of what the town might want on the land.

Brown also asked a group called Theatre on the Green, which announced in December it was raising money for the construction of a black box theater performance space on the land, to hold off until such a concept plan is created.

“I love the idea of a concept plan,” said Tom Aposporos, the former Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce president who spoke on behalf of the group proposing and raising money for a black box theater.

The question about what to do with the Town Center land and how to do it isn’t new. But the rejuvenated talk of construction on the Town Center Green comes about a month after Theatre on the Green’s $750,000 fundraising campaign was announced. Some town leaders said they were surprised by the December announcement.

It’s the first chance town leaders have had to discuss the latest in a public forum.

Longboat Key Mayor Ken Schneier asked Aposporos how the Theatre on the Green group planned to build a black box theater after Ringling College of Art and Design was trying to raise $11.32 million for an Arts, Culture and Education building three years ago. The town’s partnership with Ringling College has since fallen through, but Schneier said one of the phases of the project would have cost $6,755,000.

“How do you expect to do a $7 mil-

lion project for $750,000?” Schneier asked.

Aposporos said he anticipates the cost to increase for a proposed structure or structures.

“I can tell you that the person who has provided information to us and who has built a black box theater called me years ago and wondered why that was so expensive,” he said.

Aposporos declined to say with whom he spoke. He also said he envisions the Theatre on the Green group as a “positive contributor” to what town leaders want to build.

“We’re at the beginning of a process in which we’re coming to you to say, there are individuals in our community who have put money forward in order to encourage the construction of a black box theater,” Aposporos said. “They are not trying to compete with anything.”

The Longboat Key Foundation is already helping the town raise money to fund the project.

“I would ask the black box group if they would just back off a little bit and wait, and let’s see where this is going,” Brown said.

At-Large Commissioner BJ Bishop said she thought Theatre on the Green’s announcement was “blindsiding.”

“I am thrilled if people want to contribute to our future projects on phase three, but phase three and how that project comes about will be decided by the Town Commission and the leadership of the town with (the) assistance of our experts with (Tom) Harmer and Isaac (Brownman’s) staff and others to assure that we have an integrated property that works for everyone,” Bishop said.

The town has more than $1 million set aside for phase-two construction of the Town Center project, which includes developing an outdoor venue and stage. Harmer estimated the town would seek contractors in March, and stage construction could begin shortly after.

Longboat Key residents Paul and Sarah Karon are providing funding of up to $500,000 in exchange for the naming rights to the outdoor stage, which will be called the Karon Family Pavilion.

Harmer said the plan is to add bathrooms to the stage and expand the stage’s storage area.

The plan includes having bathrooms in the southeast corner of the site.

In plans put forward by the town, two building sites for future construction are set aside with no specific uses identified.

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March 2019 As costs mount, Longboat Key Town Commission agrees to drop the idea of a black box theater for its proposed Arts, Culture and Education Center and replace it with a multipurpose room.

The price for the project falls to $11.3 million.

October 2019 Plans moves forward on creating a basic villagegreen site.

April 2019 Longboat Key Town Commission rejects a memo of understanding with Ringling College over the proposed Arts, Culture and Education Center, and aims to keep working on the wording.

Ringling College tells Longboat Key leaders the college would reconsider a venture with the town to develop the proposed Arts, Culture and Education Center.

April 2020 Crews began working to clear the 4.8-acre townowned site.

August 2020 First-phase improvements are finished, including clearing vegetation, raising the site, adding pathways and sidewalks and improving parking.

January 2021 The Longboat Key Historical Society moves its historic cottage on the morning of Jan. 13, 2021, from 521 Broadway Street to the northeast part of the Town Center site.

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One is about 11,200 square feet, and the other is around 7,700 square feet.

Public documents explain what the town hopes to accomplish with the concept for phase three of the project, which could include buildings: “It will help serve as a hub of resident connectivity through lifelong learning, community engagement and cultural activity. The Center is intended to have programming and amenities targeted to residents and visitors on the island while enabling a limited attraction to guests from the mainland. The intent is to colocate multiple uses, activities, and offerings in a flexible space.”

Town staff have spoken with Sarasota County Libraries, Sarasota County Schools staff and the Education Center at Temple Beth Israel about the Town Center site.

The town is looking to advance a county-funded public library, classrooms and meeting space to support an educational component and a large multipurpose space.

Longboat Key is Sarasota County’s only municipality without a public library.

“We’re focusing on how do you develop that multipurpose community facility that might have a library piece, an educational piece and some level of larger, multipurpose space that can be used for various things,” Harmer said. “So how does that then play out on the site?”

February 2019 Vacant for nearly two years, demolition begins on the former Amore restaurant building.

July 2021 The Town Commission approves $50,000 for planning to complete design and construction plans for an outdoor stage at the Town Center site.

December 2021 Town commissioners approves calling the to-be-built outdoor stage of the Town Center Green the Karon Family Pavilion. In exchange, Sarah and Paul Karon agreed to donate up to $500,000 to the town.

November 2021 Town Manager Tom Harmer announces Paul and Sarah Karon would donate up to $500,000 to fund and design the construction of the Town Center stage in exchange for its naming rights.

January 2022 The Theatre on the Green proposal calls to raise $750,000 in private donations to build a black box theater.

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mproving chronically spotty cell service on the north end of Longboat Key was too important of an issue for the Town Commission not to have a say, commissioners said.

During Monday’s special meeting, commissioners voted 7-0 in favor of granting the Town Commission as the final approval authority for freestanding personal wireless facilities.

The Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board remains the government entity in charge of such decisions until next month. The P&Z Board is set to relinquish this power to the Town Commission at a second reading and adoption of an ordinance on Feb. 7.

“This is a very unusual circumstance where we realized that something that was really a very highlevel policy issue had been … where we didn’t have a say,” Mayor Ken Schneier said. “I think if we were to discover something else like that, we would have to act on it specifically.”

Schneier recommended the change of authority for freestanding wireless poles from the P&Z Board to the Longboat Key Town Commission on Dec. 6, 2021.

Monday’s vote comes after the P&Z Board unanimously recommended approval of the ordinance at its Jan. 18 meeting.

If the changes are approved next month by the Town Commission, commissioners are scheduled to hold a special meeting on Feb. 28 to consider a proposal from Verizon.

P&Z Chair David Green has publicly stated his support of Schneier’s

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proposal.

It was Green’s suggestion to extend the town’s public hearing with Verizon, which seeks to build nine small cell poles and antennas throughout the north end of Longboat Key. The board is set to address Verizon’s proposal in an advisory role at 9:15 a.m.

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Several northend residents spoke publicly before the P&Z Board on Nov. 16, 2021, in opposition to the specific placement and aesthetics of the nine proposed poles.

It’s too soon to say whether Verizon will change its proposal during next month’s public hearings in terms of pole locations and quantity.

The city of Sarasota has similar poles to those the town of Longboat Key is considering for wireless carriers to properly install their infrastructure.

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Longboat makes money moves Tennis center fencing, badge security system get go-ahead for 2022.

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ongboat Key’s amended five-year capital improvement plan will look a bit different than planned.

Town Manager Tom Harmer explained the reason for changes.

“We knew we had some funding in the general fund that was unencumbered,” Harmer said. “It was above the reserve levels, and we had a capital plan and some capital needs, so that was during the (Oct. 18, 2021) retreat, a point of discussion to say, we can allocate this money for these things.”

During the retreat, town commissioners indicated how they would like the town to use the $3,654,228 it is due to receive as part of the $350 billion in COVID-19 relief funds provided by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA).

Commissioners said they would like the town to allocate funding to the sewer line that runs under Sarasota Bay to a mainland treatment plant, and to sea-level rise and stormwater management. Harmer said the town planned to do a stormwater assessment for the Buttonwood Harbour and the Sleepy Lagoon neighborhoods. Town staff plans to present budget amendments for these projects at a later time, according to a memo from Finance Director Sue Smith.

After the retreat, town leaders also decided that the unassigned fund balance in excess of 60 days was at about $651,000, which would be used to move up certain projects in the five-year CIP plan. Since the retreat, the town’s unaudited, unassigned fund balance in excess of 60 days has grown to $1,009,989.

“You had instructed us to go back and look at the capital plan and look for ways that we could expedite some

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Above: Longboat Key is due to receive $3,654,228 as part of the $350 billion in COVID-19 relief funds provided by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA).

Left: Longboat Key will spend $120,000 to update tennis center fencing.

projects to fiscal (year) 2022, and actually use some of those fund balance reserves that we have built up greater than the 60 days,” Smith told commissioners.

Changes approved by the town commission include the following: n Reducing the cost of a new fire truck in fiscal year 2025 by $250,000.

The town had requested a ladder truck but changed to a regular truck.

It would maintain the town’s current capabilities of two ladder trucks and one fire engine. n Moving the $140,000 cost for the Longboat Police Department and Longboat Key Fire Rescue Department mobile data terminals and mobile tablets to the Infrastructure Surtax Program instead of being ad valorem funded. n Moving tennis fencing to fiscal year 2022 from fiscal years 2025-2026.

The town also added $110,000 to the existing $10,000 budget. n Moving the $149,000 cost of the Fire Station 91 roof replacement at 5490 Gulf of Mexico Drive from Sarasota County Surtax funding to Manatee County Surtax funding. n Spending $90,000 this fiscal year to complete the badge security system at door entrances that began in 2018 and was scheduled to continue through fiscal year 2026. Installing police station security cameras will also be done. n Moving up $55,000 for network infrastructure to make improvements to town facilities, including the town center and cyber security enhancements.

“This was really (town staff) returning back to the commission to say, ‘Here’s our recommended plan,’” Harmer said.

District 2 Commissioner Penny Gold asked whether the town would consider changing the town vehicles to electric vehicles.

“Right now, we have funding in place for the regular-scheduled replacement of our fleet,” Smith said.

“Whether we buy an EV or not is still yet to be determined, and which ones (are) still be determined.”

Smith estimated the town could address Gold’s question about EVs during the fiscal year 2023 budget.

District 5 Commissioner Maureen Merrigan asked why the allocation of $120,000 toward replacing fencing at the public tennis center took priority compared to the town’s other needs.

“We obviously don’t want to replace something that still has a useful life left to it,” Smith said.

Smith also said the tennis center’s

fencing is in “terrible shape in certain places.”

Federal eligibility rules offer four categories for the ARPA funds: n Replacing lost public sector revenue for government services n Negative economic impacts of COVID-19 n Premium pay for essential workers n Improvements in water, sewer and broadband infrastructure.

As of September 2021, Longboat Key had received about $1.83 million of the total. The town is expected to receive the other half this September.

While the town has until Dec. 31, 2026, to spend the money from the federal government, it must allocate the funds by Dec. 31, 2024.

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What do you get with 1,804 pennies, 556 dimes, 209 quarters and 356 nickels? About $143.69 and a shoebox that weighs about 70 pounds, said Kiwanis Club of Longboat Key bell-ringing organizer Chris Sachs.

He accepted the hefty donation from a woman on Dec. 23, just before Salvation Army bell ringing ended for the year.

“It was a big shoebox; it must’ve been hiking boots or something,” Sachs said.

Sachs rounded the total to $160 with just over $17 of his own money and swapped out the coins with $20 bills so they would be matched by the area’s anonymous donors. But first, all that jingling change needed to be counted.

Suntrust Bank let Sachs borrow a coin counter, and he enlisted his mother- and brother-in-law, who had just arrived for Christmas.

“They spent like an hour at our kitchen counter just stacking these little things; it was actually a great Christmas story to us,” Sachs said.

The club’s Jan. 20 meeting served as the formal wrap-up for the bellringing volunteer efforts in 2021.

There were other heartwarming, “most joyous time of the year” stories throughout the bell-ringing season, including a record amount of

folks in festive dress ringing the bell and a friendly “Go Blue” to a Michigan fan who got the the passerby to take a second look and drop an extra $20 in the kettle.

“This is what makes it fun,” Sachs said. “I actually look forward to this now.”

The Kiwanians were joined by volunteers from Christ Church of Longboat Key and the Rotary Club of Longboat Key. Overall, the distribution of volunteers was about equal from each organization, Sachs said, and the Kiwanians are grateful to their partners-in-bells.

But try as they might, the Bay Isles bell ringers couldn’t overtake the St. Armands Circle bell ringers, said speaker and Salvation Army Sarasota Director of Development Glenda Leonard. The same family foundation that donated $35,000 to the kettles to the south last year followed up with a total of $40,000 this year with checks for $25,000, $10,000 and $5,000 from separate family members. In total, that group, led by St. Armands Key Lutheran Church, brought in $57,979.

In total, Longboat Key bell ringers brought in $25,390, an increase of about $1,000 from 2019. Because of the unusual nature of 2020, Leonard said comparisons are being drawn between 2019 and 2021 this year.

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“He will be missed, but he did great work in the almost three years that he was here moving major projects forward to completion on schedule, under budget.”

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Charlie Mopps worked as a projects manager in Longboat Key from April 2019 to January 2022.

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harlie Mopps has left his role as a Longboat Key projects manager and started his new job as public works director for the city of Venice.

Jan. 14 was Mopps’ final day with the town.

“I have been a civil servant for most of my life and enjoy serving the public,” Mopps said in a city-issued news release.

Mopps replaces James Clinch, who was promoted to Venice’s assistant city manager in October 2021.

“This position has an extremely challenging set of duties, between parks, maintenance, solid waste, fleet and historical resources,” Clinch said. “Not only does Charlie bring a wealth of public and private sector knowledge, he is already invested in the Venice community on many levels.”

Mopps will make $105,000 in his new role with Venice. Public records show Mopps made $80,315 last year at Longboat Key. In April 2019, he began working for the town after holding project man-

ager positions from 2001 to 2016 with Charlotte County and from 2016-2017 with Atkins, which is part of the Canadian-based engineering company SNC-Lavalin. Mopps also has served as a police officer in North Port.

“During my time in the private sector, I did not experience the occupational fulfillment that I had come to know in the public sector, so I quickly returned to it,” Mopps said.

In Longboat Key, Mopps was responsible for overseeing the town’s $36 million beach renourishment project, clearing of the Town Center Green site and making improvements to the North Shore public beach entrance.

Last year, Town Manager Tom Harmer awarded Mopps the “Town Manager Award” for his work on the beach renourishment project.

Fire Chief Paul Dezzi also recognized Mopps in November 2021 with the “Chief’s Award.” Mopps won the award for his oversight of the rebuilding of Fire Station 92 at 2162 Gulf of Mexico Drive and the renovation of Fire Station 91 at 5490 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Combined, the construction costs exceeded $5 million.

“He was an all-around really great team player,” Longboat Key Public Works Director Isaac Brownman said of Mopps. “He will be missed, but he did great work in the almost three years that he was here moving major projects forward to completion on schedule, under budget.”

Brownman said the town is recruiting for a permanent projects manager to fill the opening. Also, Brownman said projects manager James Linkogle would continue work

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“Things like the beach program, for example, are second nature to James, so we’re going to be leaning on James for a bit to help us manage some of those things moving forward,” Brownman said. “For example, the New Pass structure tightening is kind of the latest thing that we’re working on, on the beach program.”

The town also plans to rely on public works staff to pursue other projects, such as drainage assessments and advancing the town’s redundant pipeline project.

“I would say, ‘All the best,’” Brownman said of his message to Mopps. “‘We’ll miss you, but may you have great success in the future.’”

Mopps also served as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve from May 1993 to January 2016. He has a bachelor’s degree in marine affairs and military science from the University of Rhode Island.

“My son, Gabe, graduated from Venice High School,” Mopps said.

“My daughter, Elizabeth, is a sophomore on the volleyball, weightlifting and track teams. And my wife, Kara, has been an English teacher at Venice High for most of her working life. We love this community.”

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How a Sarasota nurse practitioner saved COVID lives without shots Vanessa Hamalian and her Latitude Clinic treated 1,092 patients with ivermectin and the FLCCC protocols, none with vaccines. 1,091 recovered.

Regular readers of this page know that we have published articles, news stories and editorials in support of alternative treatments to COVID other than vaccines, including the protocols of the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Alliance doctors and their use of the drug ivermectin.

We are not anti-vax, but we believe the federal health agencies have duped the American people by intentionally disparaging alternative treatments that work and are far less expensive than the vaccines.

To show there is another side, we are publishing this week the story of Vanessa Hamalian, a Sarasota nurse practitioner who opened a family practice in 2021. Hamalian treated all of her COVID patients — 1,092 of them — according to the FLCCC protocols and most of them with ivermectin.

What follows is only a segment of a longer story. To read the entire story, go to: YourObserver.com/ Vanessa-Hamalian. — Matt Walsh MATT WALSH CEO

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urse practitioner Vanessa Hamalian unexpectedly found herself confronting a life-changing dilemma.

It was the same one hundreds of thousands of Americans faced time and again throughout 2021.

Earlier in the day, her employer of seven-and-a-half years, a family physician in the Sarasota area, informed his staff he had obtained a supply of Moderna vaccines and that every employee would be required to be vaccinated.

Hamalian drove home that evening, her mind spinning, somewhat stunned: “What?” she thought.

“In modern medicine we are now accepting ‘no data’ equals ‘safe’ and ‘effective’ and ‘mandated?’”

Before she left work that day, she asked for time to research the vaccine. She was still breastfeeding her and her husband’s 7-month-old child, and she was concerned about the effects the vaccine could have on her baby.

Hamalian spent that weekend reading as much as she could on the data and studies about the vaccines.

What she found “was not much data at all.”

She made up her mind. “I was not comfortable doing something this new,” she says. “It has been accepted knowledge for a long time that mothers’ antibodies transfer to their children during breastfeeding.”

The following Tuesday, Hamalian hand-delivered a letter to her employer (see sidebar). She cited four sources: the FDA, the U.S. Surgeon General, the Moderna vaccine fact sheet and an article from PubMed, the Google for medical research. Each of them convinced Hamalian there still wasn’t sufficient evidence of the effects and efficacy of the vaccine.

She concluded her letter: “I have a strong and closely held belief that I alone am responsible for the medical treatments that I accept for myself. I understand that any adverse outcomes of this medical treatment are my responsibility alone and that neither the federal government nor the vaccine manufacturer nor the mandator of the vaccine will hold any responsibility or liability.

“I speak with the same conviction that has driven the Right to Choose for so long, “My Body, My Choice.”

In addition, I now have the added responsibility of my child who is dependent on my choices which directly impact his nutrition and his immune system.

“I hope you will consider delaying the mandate to vaccinate until the vaccine is FDA approved and the safety studies are complete. The answers of safety that have stopped every other mRNA vaccine need to be answered before this fasttracked vaccine is made manda-

tory.”

That afternoon, she was fired and given six weeks’ notice.

What happened over the next 12 months was a dizzying and exhilarating — sometimes harrowing — 365-24-7 whirlwind, with Hamalian deep in the treacherous trenches and on the frontlines of COVID-19. With her and husband’s savings, they took an all-or-nothing risk and opened her own family practice in Sarasota.

From July 2021 to mid-January 2022, Hamalian and her Latitude Clinic have treated 1,092 COVID-19 patients.

For most of them, she prescribed the much-disparaged drug ivermectin, and to all of them the treatment protocols of the muchdisparaged doctors of the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance.

Her results would shame mainstream medicine: Only one of Hamalian’s patients died.

None was intubated.

None was put on a ventilator.

Only 10 were hospitalized.

The one who died was a man of advanced age with multiple endstage cormorbities.

Hamalian says that except for the one deceased patient, “all are better and have returned to their normal lives. Some of the long-haul patients we are still working with and do not know if they will recover to 100% of the pre-COVID health.

Most of our long-haul patients say they have recovered completely.

Most that are not fully recovered say they are 70% to 90% improved so far.” nnn

SATURDAY, JULY 31, 2021

Corey Green, 30, father of four children ages 6 and under and owner of a fast-growing youth recreation business in South Florida, is lying in bed, eyes closed, body aching. He doesn’t even want to talk.

He has COVID. He has had it for 10 days. At one point his temperature reached 102.5 F; his oxygen level dropped to 93%, an alarming level for a usually healthy 30-yearold. Normal O2 is 97%-100%.

At this moment, he is calling his wife’s cell phone. It’s a struggle for him. Ashley Green is waiting for a Walgreens pharmacist to fill her husband’s prescription for ivermectin. Nurse practitioner Vanessa Hamalian in Sarasota had called it in.

Corey tells Ashley his temperature is rising and his oxygen saturation level has dropped to 96% again.

But the pharmacist resists. He tells Ashley that ivermectin “is not a normal prescribed medicine. We need to verify the prescription and call (the prescribing practitioner).”

The pharmacist sends her to the end of a long line.

She waited for an hour. “I was so frustrated,” she says. “It was ridiculous. I had a prescription. Vanessa texted me that she was frustrated, too.”

The pharmacist finally com-

THE VACCINES

Asked whether she has been vaccinated, Vanessa Hamalian replies: “That’s personal information I don’t share.”

Asked how she responds when a patient asks whether to be vaccinated, Hamalian says: “People need to do their research. Study. Ask questions.

“I believe people are intelligent enough to make their own decisions. Not every person needs the same medical treatment. And if your provider is not answering your questions, find another provider.”

Hamalian says her office does not have the space or facilities to administer the vaccines.

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

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Sarasota nurse practitioner Vanessa Hamalian: “I feel such passion to give primary health care access to all people that is free of judgment and condemnation and respects the individual’s intelligence and ability to make good choices for themselves and their families.”

THE STATS These are the numbers of COVID patients and patients seeking ivermectin for prophylaxis reasons seen by Vanessa Hamalian and the Latitude Clinic in 2021: Covid Prophylaxis

July 21 August 470 September 231 October 73 November 68 December 179 50 January

32 425 267 64 44 105 250

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plied and filled Ashley’s ivermectin prescription. By the time Ashley returned home, Corey’s temperature had reached 104; his O2 was a dangerous 87.

Three days later, Corey Green beat COVID, a result he and Ashley attribute especially to Hamalian, her care, and to ivermectin and the FLCCC protocols Hamalian prescribed.

For Hamalian, Green’s case is etched in her mind. Green was her first patient suffering from COVID who came to her from her being listed on the FLCCC site and the first for whom she prescribed ivermectin.

Although she didn’t know how Green would respond to her treatments, within three hours of his first doses of ivermectin and the FLCCC protocols on Tuesday, July 27, Green’s temperature dropped to 99.9 from 103, and his O2 level rose to 98% from 93%.

“It was pretty shocking to see it work that dramatically,” Hamalian says. nnn

Hamalian’s year of treating COVID patients with ivermectin, no vaccines, and Corey and Ashley Green’s nine days of beating COVID with ivermectin, are microcosms of rarely told success stories in the war on COVID. For two years, the national public health agencies, national medical establishment, national media and Big Tech social media have portrayed the doctors and practitioners who follow the protocols of the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance as kooks and discredited and fringe physicians.

The heads of the Washington health agencies have refused to acknowledge the extraordinary success that drugs such as ivermectin

and hydroxychloroquine and other treatments have had around the world saving lives and reducing COVID outbreaks. And hospitals throughout the country, including Florida, have refused to allow ivermectin to be administered to patients.

Even after her husband’s remarkable recovery, Ashley Green recalled a father of one of the youths in their recreation program believing that ivermectin had nothing to do with Corey’s recovery. It “was just a coincidence,” he told her.

But the details of Hamalian’s journey and the Greens’ experience with the coronavirus and ivermectin show how our governments’ mandates, the incessant push for vaccinations, the constant flow of conflicting information, the partner-like relationships of Big Pharma with Anthony Fauci and the nation’s Big Three health agencies, the no-visitation and draconian policies of the hospitals, and the national media’s often-distorted and dishonest reporting have compelled health care providers like Hamalian and consumers like the Greens to do what would not have been done pre-COVID: question, doubt and ultimately reject the medical establishment and seek other alternatives.

Hamalian is on the front edge of a spreading medical trend. Spawned by the tumult the pandemic has brought to institutional medicine and science, family medicine practitioners are reviving the old doctor-patient relationship. No insurers come between them to dictate treatments. Patients pay their doctors and medical providers directly. And as a result, the providers don’t feel compelled to see a patient every 15 minutes. They spend the time their patients need.

“Vanessa was texting me every day,” Ashley Green says, “which I thought was amazing.”

Likewise, the Greens are among untold Americans who are growing increasingly distrustful of and angry with authoritarian governors, Joe Biden’s vaccine mantras and mandates, and the obfuscatory statements and conflicting information that come out of the national health agencies. These Americans don’t want Big Brother telling them what to do. Their distrust is compelling them to turn elsewhere to control their own medical destinies.

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NO REPLY AT ALL 8:27 p.m., 4300 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Citizen assist: A caller to police reported finding a cell phone in the parking area of her residence and said it appeared that multiple people had been calling and texting it while in her possession. The ringer had been silenced, though, so all of the attempts to connect with the phone were missed. Police switched on the ringer. The phone finder said she would try to answer a call in an attempt to locate the owner. Police said to call back if she was unable to make a connection.

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MONDAY, JAN. 17

SHIP SHAPE? 9:57 p.m., 600 block of Yardarm Lane Welfare check: A caller sought a welfare check on a couple living aboard a sailboat anchored in Sarasota Bay. The caller said a man and woman had been seen aboard, but a man left in a dinghy earlier in the day and had not returned. Police checked on the couple days earlier and found them to be fine.

Three hours later, police received a call about the same man, who had fallen from a dinghy and was able to swim to a nearby shoal while the small boat drifted off. Fire-rescue brought him to shore, where he refused treatment. The man confirmed that he and his boat companion were fine.

SATURDAY, JAN. 15

NO DAY AT THE BEACH 10:15 a.m., 7100 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Suspicious vehicle: An officer was flagged down by someone who wanted to report a vehicle with five people inside parked on private property. An officer found two vehicles, the occupants of which said they parked to go to the beach. Once told they were on private property, they left.

Eric Garwood

While median prices rose throughout the area, the average price of a home rose faster, indicating growth in the upper end of the price range.

range. A home on Casey Key sold for $16.5 million as the region’s highest price, which tied for the highest price ever in the area for a sale. n Of the 19,405 closed single-family home sales, 42% of them were in cash. In 2020, the cash percentage was closer to 29% of total sales.

Both Pettingell and Tony Veldkamp, president of the Realtor Association of Sarasota Manatee, said they see a potential flattening of the upward trend in 2022 with the local market remaining strong.

“We anticipate the price growth and velocity of sales to start leveling off, helping to increase inventory,” Veldkamp said. “Now is a great time to consider selling your home if you’ve been thinking about it.”

In December, the median sales price for a single-family home reached $435,788 in Sarasota County and $460,000 in Manatee. The region closed out 2021 third in the state behind Miami-Dade-Palm Beach counties and the Naples area.

Median sales prices for condos were $360,000 in Sarasota and $302,965 in Manatee in December, also all-time monthly highs.

“Sellers remain in control,” Pettingell said.

THE KEYS TO SUCCESS 6:20 p.m., Gulf of Mexico Drive and Broadway Street Citizen assist: A caller to police said he was locked out of his rental home and that a locksmith was on the way to help him gain entry. The tenant said he had no luck reaching his rental agency and that the locksmith was about 30 minutes from arriving.

TIDES OF THE TIMES 10:52 p.m., 500 block of Bayview Drive Citizen assist: Police were called over concern about water pooling on the road and determined the cause was higher-than-normal tides backing up into storm drains.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19

LOST AND FOUND 10:20 a.m., 5400 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Found property: A man who wished to remain unidentified reported finding a wallet and turned it in to police.

Officers were able to connect with the wallet owner, who came to the police station and retrieved it.

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The owner of the car and the dog told police she had been away from the vehicle for only a short time.

THURSDAY, JAN. 20

YOU NEED A PLUMBER, NOT A COP 9:45 p.m., 3400 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive Citizen assist: Police notified the Public Works Department following a report of a water leak in the road.

An officer found that a crew working on the town’s underground utilities project struck a water feeder line.

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ore than $15 billion changed hands in residential real estate deals across Manatee and Sarasota counties in 2021, a year that included prices that rose to unprecedented levels while the number of closed sales still managed to break levels set a year ago.

Virtually every measure of the market in the two-county area continued an ascent that began in 2016.

“The real estate market was running on all cylinders in 2021 with a massive migration of homebuyers from the Northeast, Midwest and California, while international buyers were few and far between,” said Roger Pettingell, a Coldwell Banker Luxury Realty agent who MLS yearend data says was involved in the sale of $206.8 million in 2021, a personal record and the highest total of any individual agent selling residential properties. “Buyers were looking to escape high-tax states, choosing Florida as a safe, more affordable, healthy place to live.”

Some numbers from 2021: n Overall sales volume for singlefamily homes in Sarasota and Manatee counties was $11.1 billion, a 42% increase from 2020. Condo sales volume rose 57.9% to $4.6 billion. n The region’s median time to contract in 2021 was seven days for single-family homes, 76% faster from the 30 days seen in 2020. n Virtually every sale was for list price, down from 97% in 2020. n While the median price for single-family homes rose 20.9% to $405,000, the average price rose more, 25.7% to $573,804, indicating faster growth in the segment of properties on the high end of the

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Above: Sally and George Rauch give a presentation of the church’s early days. Below left: The Rev. Bruce Porter and Barbara Grimes Below right: The Rev. Norman Pritchard addresses his congregation before dinner.

Members raise their hands to show they had attended the earliest services at the church in Bayfront Park.

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oyce and Bill Wartinbee knew they were going to come back to Christ Church of Longboat Key when an usher offered to make them permanent nametags after their first Sunday at worship.

More than 15 years later, they’re still wearing those nametags and coming to every event they can, including the church’s 10th anniversary of its permanent building, which the congregation celebrated on Jan. 19.

More than 100 church members

attended, including about a dozen founding members. After a buffet dinner from Harry’s Continental Kitchens and homemade carrot cake from founding member Patty Buck, members settled in to hear from five speakers. The Rev. Norman Pritchard, who has been the church’s leader for about seven years, kicked things off, followed by founding members Sally and George Rauch, retired pastor Bruce Porter, and founding members Burt Borgelt and Bill Buckley.

Though the celebration was for the 10th anniversary, CCLBK actually began more than 15 years ago when about a third of the congregation of Longboat Island Chapel decided to leave because of ideological differences. Rather than scatter to different congregations as was the original plan, one member suggested they all stick together. They began meeting

in homes to plan the organization of the church in late 2004 and by early 2005 were meeting at Bayfront Park.

“We had a lot of meetings at our house when we were trying to decide the denomination,” founding member Sally Rauch said. “We didn’t want to be nondenominational, and the Episcopalians and Lutherans were already close by. We all came from different backgrounds, and joining PCUSA (Peace River Presbytery) worked really well.”

Pastor Ray Woody, whom some members had coaxed out of retirement, was in place by the second service, and by the church’s fourth meeting, there were already 104 people attending, said George Rauch.

After a few months, the church moved into Mediterranean Plaza, which needed some renovations to go from office building to church. A nondescript cross from those days is

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The church’s members count one another as family, Wartinbee said, and the dedication to its many ministries is a big part of what keeps them coming back. Social lives revolve around church events, and friends made in the pews get together on other days besides Sunday. More than 10 years later, the church is still growing and changing with its congregation.

“When the church was formally taken into PCUSA, someone took me aside and said, ‘I see you’ve got a lot of enthusiasm here, but the question is if you can keep it going,’” Sally Rauch said. “I said, ‘Oh, of course,’ and here we are. I’d say we kept going.”

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“That was a gift from (longtime member) John Paul,” Sally Rauch said. “He searched the lumber yard for special wood, put it together and got it to our church on top of his car.”

Soon, members began looking for land for a place to build their church.

By 2008 they had bought the land, and but construction didn’t finish until nearly 2012.

Janet Walter, who has been a member for about three years, remembers watching the church get built as she took her young daughters on walks through their neighborhood.

Now that her girls are older and out of Sunday school, the family joined CCLBK. Steve, Walter’s husband, sings in the choir every Sunday.

The music program and the people they’ve met through it are the family’s favorite parts of membership.

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Mourning jewelry Sylvia Pastor has a matching set of garnet earrings and a necklace that her husband bought her years ago. She thought the set was from the 1890s, but Ford said it was from earlier than that, about 1865 to 1875. In the back of the necklace, Pastor said, is a space to keep a lock of loved one’s hair or another small memento.

“This is known as mourning jewelry,” Ford said. “It was very common in the 19th century to show homage and love for a loved one. But this is a very high-style necklace, and a lot of mourning jewelry is somewhat subdued in style. It’s more about showing respect than it is about the opulence of the piece. This is a combination. It’s mourning a loved one while showing a very high-style look.”

Ford said that it would do better being sold by a dealer who specializes in mourning jewelry. A jewelry dealer could bring in about $1,000 to $1,500, whereas a mourning jewelry specialist would find a more specific market, especially with the earrings included.

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Pippa Schwimmer and Andrew Ford examine a bird box.

An afternoon of

auctioneering T he women of Temple Beth Israel spent an afternoon talking antiques and their values during

their luncheon on Jan. 17. Attendees brought items

whose value they were curious about for a grown-up version of show-and-tell.

Andrew Ford, an appraiser, auctioneer and collec-

Singing bird box Lois Barson brought in a jewelry box with a hidden surprise: a tiny singing bird. With a few twists of a key, a bird pops out of the top and chirps before sliding back into its home. Ford has sold many of these over the years, he said, and they were typically from the late 1800s. Barson has had it for about 20 years, since her husband bought it for her at a Venice show, and has always been exceedingly careful with the delicate bird. The bird alone has more than 170 parts, Ford said.

“It’s a very complex piece,” Ford said. “Many things can go wrong, like the smallest bending of it. Children love to look at the bird box, but they force it back down before it’s done singing.”

Ford has sold these bird boxes for $5,000 to $7,000 but said that this one was quite advanced.

tor who owns a gallery in Sarasota as well as Sarasota Trading, spoke about his work and how he does it.

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Typically when pricing items, he looks at the fair mar-

Arlene Krum is the third generation in her family to own these silver pieces. She got them from her mother, who got them from her father, who came from Russia. Ford pointed out the pieces’ niello, a black mixture Russian silversmiths used to fill in engravings. On Krum’s cups, it was used to make the landscape stand out.

“It’s marked with an 84 on the bottom, which is a silver standard,” Ford said. “It’s pre-revolution. Anything that happened after the revolution changed dramatically. The artisans before the revolution were better because they were silversmithing for nobility; this shows a tremendous amount of skill. These are very much sought after.”

All told, Ford said the cup would garner about $500, or perhaps more if a buyer was specifically interested in Russian pieces.

ket valuation rather than the replacement valuation, which can often differ.

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After lunch was served, attendees brought out their show-and-tell packages, and Ford went around giving context and prices for most of them.

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This vibrant ballerina is part of Eduardo Kobra’s “Dance” mural on the second floor of the Palm Avenue Parking Garage.

The “Music” mural by Chor Boogie on the fourth floor of the Palm Avenue parking garage contains super bright colors and images.

This Nate Baranowski mural at Florida Studio Theatre is based on a work by Edward Robert Hughes.

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The Nate Baranowski mural below is based on art

by Eugene Ivanov.

Five Points, a historic anchor of downtown Sara-

sota, is now so full of public art that it seems like you’re seeing another mural or another sculpture on every corner – and sometimes even in the crosswalks.

Enter Arts Advocates, who have developed a walking curriculum of the city’s public art treasury.

The local group is running three tours in which its docents discuss the pieces on display and the public proliferation of local art, and the Five Points walk recently brought a group to enjoy the scenery around the Art Ovation Hotel and the Florida Studio Theatre.

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Nate Baranowski’s “Man With Umbrella” takes up the whole side of a building.

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Arts Advocate docent Stephenie Frasher stands in front of Brandon Thrift’s “Love One Another” mural.

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The tour, led by docents Nanette Crist, Judy Levine and Stephenie Frasher, started right in the shadow of the Art Ovation Hotel, and the talk began at the beginning of Sarasota’s local art scene.

The first contributions to Sarasota public art occurred through John Ringling back in the 1920s, and the sculptures he donated still decorate St. Armands Circle.

Decades later, Sarasota began its own public art program, and it now has more than 80 pieces of public art on display.

Starting at Art Ovation and walking up Cocoanut Avenue, the tour finds three highlights within the first block.

There’s a bike painted white with two flamingoes on it by local artist William Pearson — also known as Dr. Nik — and a technicolor mural with a message by Brandon Thrift.

The mural reads “Love One Another” and is festooned with rainbow bright lines and colored hearts.

And just yards away, there’s a painted crosswalk that brackets Cocoanut Avenue and Second Street.

That installation, known as the Pride Walk & Street Mural, was laid down last spring to commemorate Pride Week and to foster an air of inclusivity.

You won’t have to walk too far — like literally across Cocoanut Avenue — to find the next hub of activity.

There are a group of murals and sculptures around the Florida Studio Theatre campus, and the area is dominated by the work of muralist Nate Baranowski.

Baranowski contributed three murals that take up the entire side of a building, and he also worked on a smaller and more intimate piece of William Shakespeare in the theater’s inner courtyard.

Two of the Baranowski murals are re-creations of pieces by Eugene Ivanov, and another was inspired by a piece made by Robert Evans Hughes. That last piece, an ethereal woman, evokes the style of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

“There’s a lot going on. The col-

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ors are very saturated. It’s a complex painting,” says Crist of the mural.

“It’s a beautiful work of art. You don’t really need to study it to look for some deeper meaning.”

The tour also makes a stop at a lovely sculpture with a long history in Sarasota called Butterfly Lady that graces the front courtyard of Florida Studio Theatre, and another sculpture arranged in the intersection of Cocoanut Avenue.

That latter sculpture — dubbed Jumping Fish by Jeff Laramore — is intended to evoke the image of fish

leaping out of the water, and Levine said it was commissioned with a $150,000 grant by the city.

“It’s here in the roundabout. It stands 16 feet tall, 12 feet wide,” says Levine. “Look how open the design is. The artist has to think about safety, visibility of traffic and things we never really consider an artist doing.”

Jumping Fish is one of three roundabout projects that have already been brought to completion, and there are roundabout art improvement projects in the works at four additional locations.

The Five Points tour winds past the Art Ovation hotel and includes a brief lesson on sculpture and a chalk drawing on the sidewalk, and then it proceeds to its piece de resistance: The Palm Avenue Parking Garage.

There are five distinct murals in the garage dealing with elements of the Sarasota art scene: theater (sixth floor), opera (fifth floor), music (fourth floor), film (third floor) and dance (second floor).

The murals were completed as

part of the “Going Vertical” edition of the 2012 Sarasota Chalk Festival, and they each choose fitting subjects to illustrate their theme.

Muralists Marco Bell and Monica Spain, who painted the opera mural, chose a Madame Butterfly motif to underline that the garage empties into the Sarasota Opera facility.

“Musicians and artists always say, ‘It’s nice to get work,’” says Bell of the mural. “Originally, I think we thought we were going to be the one on the floor below.

“We had originally planned for this to be on one facade, but it turns out that it turns right here. It worked out in that our design didn’t have to be modified; it just took a bend in it.”

The interesting part is that the tour, which takes about 90 minutes, only covers part of Sarasota’s public arts legacy.

Arts Advocates also conducts tours of the City Hall area — which will next be held on Feb. 14 — and of the Rosemary District, which is scheduled for March 11.

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Nicholas Caycedo, Sheffield Chastain and Linden Tailor in “America in One Room.”

We can work it out Jason Odell Williams’ ‘America in One Room’ proves the power of dialogue in a world-premier production at Florida Studio Theatre.

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Jason Odell Williams is an awardwinning playwright and Emmynominated television producer based in New York City. His plays, such as “Church & State” and “Handle with Care,” explore both the political and the personal.

His latest play, “America in One Room,” does both. It’s now on stage at Florida Studio Theatre. Williams created this reality-based drama in 2020 during the summer of social distancing as part of FST’s Playwrights Project.

Writers are often asked where they

got the idea, and they usually give the same answer: Ideas are everywhere. There’s a constant stream on TV, snippets of conversation, dreams, the radio, the internet or the newspaper.

Getting an idea is the easy part.

Finding a good idea is not so easy.

The trick, as Williams knows, is noticing when a good idea comes along.

“I got it from a news story in ‘The New York Times,’” he says. “Not a front-page article. It was buried in the back of the news section.”

According to Williams, that article was about an event called America in One Room.

A nonprofit, nonpartisan group was behind the experiment.

In September 2019, the group gathered more than 500 people from all across the country and put them in one hotel room in Texas.

The participants came from all walks of life and all political affiliations: Democrats, Republicans and

everyone in between. In one room, they were divided into big groups and small groups to talk about the big issues.

And talk across party lines.

The theory: If you put a diverse array of people in a room and get them talking to one another, you could change the polarized dynamic of contemporary America.

“It had to be real talk, not people yelling at each other on Twitter, not quoting sound bites back and forth,” says Williams. “It had to be a real conversation, with real answers to honest questions. ‘Why do you think that? Why do you vote that way?

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it felt like there was much more wiggle room, more give and take. More people started seeing things from the other person’s point of view. and it wasn’t contentious.

“The experiment finally did work,” Williams says. “It showed that peoples’ hearts and minds can change.

That captured my imagination.”

Williams adds that America’s contemporary political landscape can seem hopelessly divided, like a deadlocked shouting match with no possibility of change or real dialogue.

“If you’re on one side, that’s it; if you’re on the other side, that’s it,” he says. “You’ve got to pick sides, and you won’t even talk to the people on the other side.”

Williams saw this experiment as a glimpse of hope. It grabbed his attention, and he instantly saw the dramatic potential.

“I thought this news story would be a great jumping-off point for a play,” he says. “But ‘America in One Room’ is still a fictionalized version of the actual events. For this story to work on stage, I had to make it interesting. The reality was just a room with people talking. So I had to invent some dramatic conflict.”

After a long gestation, Williams’ reimagining of America’s one-room dialogue is finally on one stage. The playwright says he was “thrilled” to see a fully staged performance of his new play in front of a packed house at FST. What would he like to see next?

“My corny hope with this play is that it will go on to get produced all across the country and start conversations and make America a little less divided,” says Williams. “A little more united, and maybe even a little happier, at least until they turn on the news again.”

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PIANIST EMANUEL AX PERFORMS CHOPIN Emanuel Ax, winner of a handful of Grammy Awards, is coming to Van Wezel to pay tribute to Chopin. Ax, a piano professor at Juilliard who has collaborated with famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma on multiple award-winning productions, won honorable mention at the International Chopin Festival in 1970.

IF YOU GO When: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1 Where: Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, 7777 N. Tamiami Trail Tickets: $30-$95 Info: SCASarasota.org/ GreatPerformers.

Elizabeth Baker will perform “Void” on Monday as part of EnSRQ’s season.

THURSDAY LUNCHEON SERIES: STUDIO OPERA STARS 11 a.m. at Bird Key Yacht Club, 301 Bird Key Drive $54 Visit ArtistSeriesConcerts.org.

Come enjoy a delectable meal and listen as singers from the Sarasota Opera’s Studio Artists Program play the Bird Key Yacht Club. Program director Maestro Johannes Löhner will accompany the singers as they power their way through a selection of opera favorites.

CHAMBER SOIRÉE 6: ‘INHERITANCE’ 5:30 p.m. at Holley Hall, 709 N. Tamiami Trail $38-$48 Visit SarasotaOrchestra.org.

A number of nationally acclaimed contemporary choreographers, including Dazaun Soleyn, Jennifer Nugent and Adele Myers, will be taken on by the expressive movers of the Sarasota Contemporary Dance troupe.

Dance Makers will also bring back

“Kinda Cagey,” a piano and dance duet performed by Leymis Bolaños Wilmott and Francis Schwartz.

Runs through Jan. 30.

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

You might have seen her on her Netflix special, “Hormonal Beast.”

Now, Lynne Koplitz is coming to make you laugh in person. Koplitz will play two shows Friday and two shows Saturday before wrapping up her stay Sunday. Koplitz, a Long Island, New York, native, has also appeared in several Comedy Central programs.

HARRY CONNICK JR. 8:30 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, 7777 N. Tamiami Trail $162-$207 Visit VanWezel.org.

The New Orleans crooner will be the featured performer at the 2022 Van Wezel Inspiration Gala. Connick Jr. will play selections from his distinguished career after diners contribute to support arts education in Sarasota. The gala is in its 20th year of working toward its mission of enriching the community through the power of the arts.

FRIDAY JAZZ AT TWO: THE FIVE POINTS QUINTET 2 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Church, 3975 Fruitville Road $10-$20 Visit JazzClubSarasota.org.

Guitarist Marc Mannino fronts the Five Points Quintet, which plays a variety of standards as well as jazz and bossa nova. The supporting musicians are vocalist Darcie Allen, saxophone player Pete Carney, drummer Bob Lunergan and bassist Pete Innocenti.

KANSAS: ‘POINT OF KNOW RETURN’ 8 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, 7777 N. Tamiami Trail $68-$141 Visit VanWezel.org.

Carry on my wayward band. Kansas has been touring the country for nearly five decades, and this tour commemorates the band’s fifth album, which contains the smash hit “Dust in the Wind.” Kansas has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, and now it’s bringing the Midwest to Van Wezel.

TONY SANDS PRESENTS ‘RAT PACK TOGETHER AGAIN!’ 2 p.m. at Manatee Performing Arts Center, 502 Third Ave W., Bradenton $30 Visit ManateePerformingArtsCenter. org.

They’re still swinging. Relive the timeless singing of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. as the revival act’s hep cats cruise through some of the best-known songs in the pop canon.

HISTORY OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM 4:30 p.m. at Midge Johnson Fine Art, 3983 Destination Drive, Osprey $25 Visit MidgeJohnsonFineArt.com.

The moving worlds of piano and painting intersect at Midge Johnson’s Fine Art gallery.

This one-hour event will feature the piano playing of Alan Wasserman and commentary by Johnson as the married couple trace the movement of abstract expressionism in both music and art.

THE GRAND SHANGHAI CIRCUS 7 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, 7777 N. Tamiami Trail $22-$57 Visit VanWezel.org.

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Family ties are the theme for this event; the three featured composers — Beethoven, Mozart and Michael Tilson Thomas — all entered their field after learning their craft from their fathers.

The orchestra will play Beethoven’s “Quintet Op. 16 for Piano and Winds,” Mozart’s “String Quartet No. 17, K. 458, The Hunt,” and “Street Song” by Thomas.

‘DANCE MAKERS’ 7 p.m. at Jane B. Cook Theatre, 5555 N. Tamiami Trail $10-$45 Visit SarasotaContemporaryDance. org.

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‘LOVE & BETRAYAL’ It’s a classic repertoire of British ballet fronted by routines choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton and Dame Ninette de Valois. Ashton’s “Valses noble et sentimentales” will be presented again by Iain Webb, who worked with Ashton on the ballet in 1987 and revived it in Sarasota in 2012.

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The Pops Orchestra is proud to welcome the Josie Music Awards “Tribute Artist of the Year” nominee, Mark Sanders, to the stage singing all your favorite Barry Manilow hits from “I Write the Songs” to “Copacabana.” This is THE Valentine ticket to get this season on the Suncoast!

the legendary figure.

Now, Barbieri brings the de Valois choreography back to Sarasota for the first time since 2016.

IF YOU GO When: 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 28; 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 29 and Jan. 30; 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 31.

Where: FSU Center for the Performing Arts, 5555 N. Tamiami Trail Tickets: $40-$115 Info: SarasotaBallet.org.

SUN, FEB 13, 3PM Riverview Performing Arts Center

MON, FEB 14, 7:30PM SCF Neel Performing Arts Center

Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.

Dancers, acrobats and aerials are on the menu for the traveling circus company playing in a traditional American circus stronghold.

but also to the smash hit “Jersey Boys,” which chronicles their rise to fame. It will be tight harmonies, taut choreography and high notes as far as the ear can hear.

FST IMPROV: ‘LIFE’S A BEACH’ 8:30 p.m. at FST’s Bowne’s Lab Theatre, 1265 First St. $15 Visit FloridaStudioTheatre.org.

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WINTER CONCERT Lakewood Ranch Wind Ensemble 2 p.m. at Peace Presbyterian Church, 12705 FL-64 East, Lakewood Ranch $10 Visit LWRWindEnsemble.org.

The ensemble’s Winter Concert will feature songs composed by John Philip Sousa, Percy Grainger and Robert Schumann, among others. The Lakewood Ranch Wind Ensemble was formed as a professional-level community band; it debuted in 2019 and played a July Fourth concert with the Choral Artists of Sarasota last year.

THE CHOIR OF MAN 7 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, 7777 N. Tamiami Trail $22-$57 Visit VanWezel.org.

It’s a love message to your local pub, and the Choir of Man hopes you’ll spend the evening singing.

The international sensation, which features a live, working bar on stage, will bring a variety of voices to bear on a succession of pop, Broadway, folk and pub rock tunes.

‘LET’S HANG ON!’ FRANKIE VALLI TRIBUTE SHOW 7:30 p.m. at Venice Theatre’s Jervey Theatre, 140 Tampa Ave. W. Tickets $42 Visit VeniceTheatre.org.

Pay tribute both to the music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

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‘VOID’ 8 p.m. at First Congregational Church, 1031 S. Euclid Ave. $25 Visit ENSRQ.org.

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MONDAY NIGHT JAZZ CABARET WITH ZACH BARTHOLOMEW TRIO 7:30 p.m. at FST’s John C. Court Cabaret, 1265 1st St. $39, members $35 Visit JazzClubSarasota.org.

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Get down with Zach Bartholomew as he plays the music of Chick Corea. Bartholomew, a pianist and music educator, has performed at a number of national and international engagements, including the Jacksonville Jazz Festival and the Monterey Jazz Festival.

WEDNESDAY ‘ROSE’ 7:30 p.m. at Studio 1130, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail $18-$36 Visit SarasotaJewishTheatre.org.

Call your mother, then settle in for a one-woman tour de force that will take the show’s star from the devastation of the Holocaust to the triumph of living in Miami Beach.

A FEW OF OUR FAVORITE THINGS 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Friday; noon to 4 p.m. Saturday Free with museum admission Visit RinglingCollege.Gallery/ BaschGlass.

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ote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium supporters braved cold weather for good food during the second Farm to Fillet lunch on Jan. 23.

The second annual lunch event — which was delayed in 2021 due to the pandemic — had more than 350 guests meeting at the Mote Aquaculture Research Park to support its work in researching new technology, bolstering local snook populations and more.

After delaying the event a week due to inclement weather, Mote Marine had a new hurdle to work with in the form of chilly weather and a light drizzle that persisted throughout the event. Guests arrived in warm clothing and carrying umbrellas for the social hour before sitting down for lunch catered by Mattison’s.

Chef Paul Mattison gave the crowd some insight into the food the guests would soon enjoy — étouffée, arapaima fish and ending with a parfait — before passing off to Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium President and CEO Michael P. Crosby and Mote Aquaculture Research Park Director Kevan Main.

The event concluded with guests touring the research park’s facilities.

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WED, FEB 2 | THUR, FEB 3 7:30PM SPONSORS: Wilde Lexus Sarasota and ABC7 Courtesy photo

Ashley and Timothy Gruters welcome their son Timber Bertram Gruters into the world.

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Some weather, huh?

That statement tends to be the worst kind of small talk when you’re with people to pass the time, but in this case I think it’s valid. When it’s not been rainy, it’s been drizzling and when it’s not been drizzling the temperature been reaching the low 40s. I’m probably just complaining — especially compared to our many snowbird neighbors who’ve faced worse temperatures than this —but Farm to Fillet this past Sunday was particularly bracing.

In any case, we have a nice slate of events coming up that will include circus acts and a performance from Harry Connick Jr., but this past week had fun happenings as well.

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Ashley and Timothy Gruters like golf, that much is certain.

Ever since learning they’d be having a baby boy to join their three daughters, Ashley and Tim have decided to go all out with a golf theme. That’s included a Christmas photo shoot at the Bobby Jones golf course and a “babymoon” vacation to Streamsong Resort in Bowling Green to play golf and other sports.

Their daughter Piper even plays in the U.S. Kids golf series.

For baby number four — or is it fore? — Ashley had a baby shower luncheon at the Laurel Oak Country Club complete with a golf-themed cake and decor on Jan. 2.

Timber Bertram Gruters was born at Sarasota Memorial Hospital right on time — the newborn baby arrived into the world on Jan. 17, precisely the date he was expected.

With all this golf iconography to set the scene, we hope Timber grows up to have a mean swing. No pressure, buddy.

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The Child Protection Center has its fair share of events in support of its services helping child abuse victims.

That’s included the Night of Hope and Healing and the Blue Ties and Butterflies event each year.

The organization recently added another event in the mix, this time to show appreciation to its donors.

The first donor luncheon was held at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens on Jan. 19 with more than 60 supporters and CPC figures attending in support of the organization.

Top supporters received coins from the organization in appreciation of their continued support.

Staley said the event won’t t be an annual affair but hopefully will be held again in the future.

Top: The 76-pound arapaima was on-site to welcome guests.

Above: Graci McGillicuddy and CPC Executive Director Doug Staley

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Visitors to the Mote Marine Aquaculture Research Park had a different kind of sight welcoming them to the Farm to Fillet lunch on Jan. 23: A 6-foot, 76-pound arapaima fish laid straight out on ice.

The massive fish was brought to the location off Frutville Road from the Horse Creek Aqua Farm in Arcadia, which breeds the fish.

The fish’s presence was showing the guests exactly what type of meal they’d be having later in the event and putting a spotlight on the lesserknown breed. The second course of the dinner was arapaia served three ways with Worden Farm greens, cannelli beans and sea purslane. The fish was so large that Chef Paul Mattison was able to get several distinct cuts for the audience to enjoy.

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Maureen Merrigan’s table brought plenty of different snacks.

SWEET SETUPS AT SAVOR THE SOUNDS Despite the wind and drizzle of earlier in the day, about 100 people turned up for the concert.

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s the wind died down, the attendance picked up at the first Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce Savor the Sounds of 2022. On Jan. 22, the day was turning out gray, chilly and wet. Although the chill didn’t go away, about 100 people came out on to enjoy the music of Doug Deming and the Jewel Tones, a blues band from Detroit that got people dancing on the grass of Town Center Green.

Jenny Casch, Lisa Miller, Beth Miller and Debbie Fulton

The idea of Savor the Sounds is for attendees to put their best outdoor dining gear forward for an elegant picnic on the green. With varying definitions of the perfect picnic, Longboaters turned out with a mix of real wineglasses, plastic plates and carefully packed snacks for the night.

Bob and Carol Erker brought their “Ravinia” table for Savor the Sounds, thus bringing a touch of Chicago down south. Ravinia Festival is a musical event north of Chicago, where the Erkers are from, that emphasizes the picnic aspect. Carol Erker said people at Ravinia, like Savor the Sounds, set up elegant picnics for the summer series and even bring candelabras to light the night.

For Savor the Sounds, the Erkers kept

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ened aesthetic of the table.

Another set of Chicagoans took a page out of their old book for their Savor the Sounds setup: Maureen Merrigan said her group put their table together based on their jaunts to Millennium Park for festivals.

There were trays of sushi (from Publix, of course) and sandwiches for easy snacking, precut vegetables and a quick charcuterie board for the table’s many guests to grab. Wendi Bundy brought more lighting to add as it got dark, so their table glowed and lit the way for more snacking throughout the evening.

Top: Bob and Carol Erker Above: Maureen Merrigan unwraps a tray of sandwiches.

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their setup simple: plastic poolside wineglasses and chips and cheese.

Reva Jackson, who purchased a VIP table for some of her clients at Cadence Bank, went for the Publix aesthetic for the concert. Her original plan had been to make packaged meals for each guest with chicken salad sandwiches on croissants and multiple sides. When the day dawned gray and damp, she worried it might get canceled. As the day improved, however, she headed to the Publix just a stone’s throw from Town Center Green and picked up plates, plastic goblets, trays of sandwiches and desserts. She even picked up a sunflower centerpiece to complete the warm picnic aesthetic.

“Good ol’ Publix saves us in a pinch,” Jackson said.

Lisa Dexter cooked the whole meal for her table, which was decked out with delicious appetizers, including spinach dip, shrimp (packed neatly in a temperature-moderating Yeti tumbler), chicken tikka with mint dip and vegetables. For dessert, Dexter and her crew planned on digging into a pineapple upside-down cake with homemade whipped cream.

There were even real wineglasses for their drinks and a package of Andes mints to cleanse their palates between courses.

“We came to party and eat,” she said.

Everything had been carefully packed into coolers in the car on the way over. Dips were carefully poured into single-serve containers, the meats were packed into Yeti tumblers to keep them cold and warm, and there were even bundles of napkin-wrapped silverware closed with the twist ties from old coffee bags.

The food was the centerpiece at the Dexter table, and the containers took up most of the table, so guests could easily scoop a second serving onto clear plastic plates.

Sandy Smith from sponsor SecurAll struck a balance between elegant and casual with her dinner of takeout pizza and salad from Pattelini’s Pizza in downtown Sarasota paired with a set of real champagne glasses for their drinks.

“Solo is good for beer, but not for champagne,” Smith said.

She brought four pizzas and offered slices to those wandering around the concert, even if they weren’t at her table.

Jenny Casch from WrightWay brought clients to the concert and went all out with her elegant picnic setup. She brought a tablecloth for the table, two orchids, a decorative lighting fixture that was seatbelted into the car and a large charcuterie board. She said she packed and repacked her work car twice that day to get her strategy down.

“The food was the most difficult (to transport),” Casch said.

The charcuterie board was the star of the show, and her guests quickly dug in. Casch took care to bring only nonbreakable items, including plastic wineglasses and plates, but it didn’t take away from the height-

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One person’s donation is another person’s new living room statement piece. That’s what leaders at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church hope happens at the second annual New to You art show, which collects donated, secondhand art from Key residents to sell. The first art show did much better than the Rev. Dave Marshall expected, and this year’s is turning out to be the same.

“We have a village of items,” Marshall said. “We were worried after the first run that people had given all the art they were going to give, but now we have 110 pieces.”

Among the donations are a rooster sculpture that Marshall said weighed more than 10 pounds, tiny, feather-light woven ducks and an octopus lamp. The pool of donors has increased; Marshall said about a third of the donations came from nonparishioners, and several people brought in multiple pieces. Interested buyers can visit the gallery during the week or come to a wine-andcheese reception on Feb. 3.

“Our reception with Pam (Olin, a former Artist of the Month) did so well, we figured we had to do this again,” Marshall said. “There’s been so much art given by the residents of Longboat Key that we thought we had to have a party.”

The goal is to raise at least $2,000 for Habitat for Humanity Manatee County’s faith home. It’s an interfaith project that local churches undertake, and this year’s home will go to a working mother who has a 20-year-old son who uses a wheel-

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chair. It will be the first fully ADAcompliant Habitat for Humanity home in the area and will allow him to take care of himself while his mom works. The family will choose a few pieces of art from All Angels to decorate their new home. Pieces that don’t sell will be donated to Mothers Helping Mothers’ thrift store.

“The spirit of unity moves through the community, and even though it’s many different pieces, it’s bringing all of the community together to help someone else,” Marshall said.

Dave Marshall stands with a needlepoint piece.

IF YOU GO

Visit the gallery from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., starting Feb. 1. The gallery will also be open Monday through Friday at 563 Bay Isles Road. You can still donate art to the show, too.

The reception will be from 4-5:30 p.m. Feb. 3.

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A morsel of the Mediterranean arrived on Longboat Key with the opening of La Vita Zen, a lifestyle coaching business owned by recent Longboater Jenni Kopelman.

Her business will operate from an office above the Lazy Lobster in the Centre Shops, a space she has transformed with blues, whites and vibrant Mediterranean yellows. It’s big enough to host one-on-one fitness sessions or small gatherings when she hosts clients. Kopelman became a member of the Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the office on Jan. 11 with ambassadors there to hold the ribbon while she hoisted the oversized scissors. They celebrated with prosecco and Italian pastries.

“I’m trying to bring the Zen magic of Italy,” Kopelman said. “This is where the Italian magic happens.”

Kopelman, a woman with Italian family who has traveled extensively in the country and hopes to live there part-time soon, is a certified fitness trainer, lifestyle coach and chef.

Those will be the building blocks of her business, and her programs will serve to support her life-coaching business. Habit changing is a big part of her coaching philosophy.

“Self-care, I’ve found, is not always prioritized, so the goal is to help people become their best version and put self-care and wellness at the cornerstone of that,” Kopelman said. “People on Longboat have done so many things in their lives, but now is the time to play and maintain longevity.”

After moving to Longboat Key, she saw a need for a gathering space, so she decided to open a physical business for her life coaching. Using the

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resources and other businesses on Longboat Key is important to her as she builds community.

“I thought, ‘What can I do during the pandemic to elevate people’s joy?’” Kopelman said. “I wanted to create a place where people could drop in and feel connected. There’s a social aspect to finding your creative self.”

One of her ideas is a monthly women’s workshop focusing on different topics, like cooking around Italy, astrology or other spiritual themes.

In the future, Kopelman hopes to host trips with clients, all timed to coincide with events in Italy. Here at home, she already has two weekly events — Mediterranean Mondays and Tuesday Italian classes — that she hosts offsite. The former is at Harry’s Continental Kitchens and the latter is held at La Norma, where students dine with their Italian teacher after class. Many things, like the beach yoga and Italian-inspired cocktails of Mediterranean Mondays, will be outside, to get students in touch with the natural beauty of Longboat Key. “It brings our world a little closer,” Kopelman said. “And we can bring our island a little closer, too.”

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SATURDAY, JAN. 29

MAGIC FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART From 1-3 p.m. at the Education Center at Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road, learn simple, entertaining tricks with magician and instructor Mark Hogan. $30 for members and $35 for others. Call 383-8222 or email EducationCenter@TBI-LBK. org to register.

TRASH TO TREASURE SALE From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Gulfshore clubhouse, 3710 Gulf of Mexico Drive. Annual community sale includes furniture, kitchenware, clothing, jewelry and more. Facemasks required.

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NEW TO YOU ART RECEPTION From 4-5:30 p.m. at All Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church, 563 Bay Isles Road, attend the New to You art gallery reception. Browse and purchase donated art, including paintings, metal sculptures, pottery, wood carvings and fabric pieces.

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RECURRING EVENTS MONDAYS

GENTLE CHAIR YOGA From 9-10 a.m. at the Education Center at Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road, with Emme Shapiro, certified yoga instructor. Eight sessions, but can be prorated. $88 for members and $104 for others. Call 383-8222 or email EducationCenter@TBI-LBK.org to register.

AT THE MOVIES From 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Zoom and at the Education Center at Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road, with film critic Gus Mollasis.

Discuss assigned films over eight sessions, ending Feb. 28. $120 for members, $130 for nonmembers.

Call 383-8222 or email EducationCenter@TBI-LBK.org to register.

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GUIDED AUTOBIOGRAPHY From 1-2 p.m. on Zoom with the Education Center at Temple Beth Israel with Melissa Kotler Schwartz. Eight sessions began Jan. 10 but can be prorated for four sessions. $145 for members and $155 for others. Call 383-8222 or email EducationCenter@TBI-LBK.org to register.

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HOLLYWOOD ICONS THROUGH THE DECADES (1920s-1950s) From 1-4 p.m. on Zoom and at the Education Center at Temple Beth Israel, 567 Bay Isles Road, with film critic Gus Mollasis. View movies followed by discussion. Available on

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Saturday, February 19th KETTLE OF FISH

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MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

LONGBOAT LIBRARY The Longboat Library is open again from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. Visit the library at 555 Bay Isles Road. There will also be a half-price sale on the library’s collection of used books every Wednesday. Call 383-2011 for information.

MUSCLES AND MORE WITH ANN ALVIS From 8:30-9:30 a.m. at the Bayfront Park Recreation Center, 4052 GMD, use strength equipment to build flexibility, endurance and balance.

Class focuses on proper lifting technique. $10 for members and $15 for others. Visit LongboatKey.org for information.

PUMPING THE PRIME WITH MIRABAI HOLLAND At 10 a.m. at the Bayfront Park Recreation Center, 4052 GMD, take this low-impact cardio and strength class. Participants should be able to get up and down from the floor.

Bring a mat or towel. Classes are outside. $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers. For information, email Mirabai Holland at mirabai@ movingfree.com or call 201-9561466

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Come out and “Savor the Sounds,” and enjoy an elegant, yet casual, outdoor picnic setting. BYOPB! Bring a picnic basket and blanket. (Lawn chairs, tables and coolers are welcome.)

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ST. ARMANDS CIRCLE WINTER ART FESTIVAL From 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, browse the works of dozens of artists in a gallery booth setting in St. Armands Circle. For information, visit ArtFestival.com, email Info@ArtFestival. com or call 561-746-6615.

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and 2,446 square feet of living area.

It sold for $615,000 in 2012.

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condominium in The Beach Residences tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Christopher and Jane Tutoki, of Gainesville, sold their Unit 1201 condominium at 1300 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Richard and Lorraine Schwartz, of Sarasota, for $5.4 million.

Built in 2005, it has three bedrooms, three-and-ahalf baths and 4,189 square feet of living area. It sold for $5 million in 2018.

THE WATER CLUB AT LONGBOAT KEY

Albert and Joyce Dombrowski, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 903 condominium at 1241 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Grace Masefield, of Longboat Key, for $2.34 million. Built in 1996, it has three bedrooms, four baths and 3,045 square feet of living area. It sold for $796,600 in 1996.

INN ON THE BEACH

Adkins LBK LLC sold the Unit 3207 condominium at 230 Sands Point Road to Speed-Wing Investment Co. LLC for $1.76 million. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,602 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.25 million in 2020.

SLEEPY LAGOON PARK

John Townsend Tubbs Jr., trustee, of Bozeman, Montana, and Sally Sue Roch, of Longboat Key, sold the home at 635 Marbury Lane to Craig and Katherine Cather, of Longboat Key, for $1.5 million. Built in 1958, it has four bedrooms, one bath, a pool

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Terrance and Lisa O’Hara sold their home at 573 Juan Anasco Drive to Alexander Daniel Conlan and Sheila Sue Hooker, of Lithia, for $1,475,000. Built in 1954, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 3,027 square feet of living area. It sold for $745,000 in 2015.

GRAND BAY

Raymond and Betsy Kotcher, of Manhasset, New York, sold their Unit 435 condominium at 3010 Grand Bay Blvd. to Mary Beth Beasley, trustee, of Longboat Key, for $1,435,000. Built in 1999, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 2,143 square feet of living area. It sold for $800,000 in 2014.

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Leonard and Tina Scavron, of Longboat Key, sold their Unit 132 condominium at 3060 Grand Bay Blvd. to Steven Peters, of Charlottesville, Virginia, for $1,281,500.

Built in 1994, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 2,143 square feet of living area. It sold for $975,000 in 2021.

EMERALD POINTE SOUTH

Keith Nelson and Judith Marquis, of University Park, sold their Unit 10 condominium at 1914 Harbour Links Circle to Gregory Goebel, trustee, of Longboat Key, for $1.25 million. Built in 2001, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,180 square feet of living area. It sold for $747,000 in 2018.

Built in 1988, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 2,031 square feet of living area. It sold for $690,000 in 2016.

Christopher Charles Alger and Andria Jean Alger, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 1302 condominium at 1926 Harbourside Drive to Vadim Afonkin, of Bourne, Massachusetts, for $785,000. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,590 square feet of living area. It sold for $375,000 in 2015.

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Donna Smith, of Los Angeles, sold the Unit 502 condominium at 4825 Gulf of Mexico Drive to S.T.M.T. Properties LLC for $950,000. Built in 1970, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 1,393 square feet of living area. It sold for $175,000 in 1985.

FAIRWAY BAY

Built in 2005, Unit 1201 of the Beach Residences offers three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and 4,189 square feet of living area.

Cynthia Monchecourt sold her Unit 414 condominium at 1102 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Kelley and Paul Swanno, of Denver, for $769,000.

Built in 1976, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,213 square feet of living area. It sold for $382,000 in 2014.

LIDO HARBOUR SOUTH

Jeryl Ann Van Vleet, trustee, of Midlothian, Virginia, sold the Unit

Calvert Tazewell Hawkes and Joanne Reis Hawkes, of Newport, Rhode Island, sold their Unit 526 condominium at 2110 Harbourside Drive to John and Cynthia Masson, of Ontario, Canada, for $820,000.

206 condominium at 2110 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Donald and Theresa Davis, of East Granby, Connecticut, for $740,000. Built in 1968, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,357 square feet of living area. It sold for $725,000 in 2005.

SAND CAY

Mikedev Investments LLC sold the Unit 208 condominium at 4725 Gulf of Mexico Drive to David Gallo and Susan Lynn Ambriano-Gallo, of Staten Island, New York, for $615,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,071 square feet of living area. It sold for $444,000 in 2021.

CEDARS EAST

Jill and Joshua Ball sold their Unit 8 condominium at 802 Evergreen Way to Joel and Holly Adornetto, of Longboat Key, for $550,000. Built in 1991, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,440 square feet of living area. It sold for $316,000 in 2020.

In with the new SALES GALLERY OPEN

TOP BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of Jan. 14-20 in order of dollar amounts.

L O N G B OAT K E Y ADDRESS 584 Yawl Lane

PERMIT Plumbing

APPLICANT Jeffry S. Snauwaert Trust

525 Putter Lane

Re-roof

Shane M. Mikula Enterprises $105,205

1930 Harbourside Drive

Roof

Fairway Bay Association Inc

$64,075

1932 Harbourside Drive

Roof

Fairway Bay Association Inc

$64,075

571 Putter Lane

Seawall

Kristin B. Herendeen

2121 Harbourside Drive #905 Windows and dors Theo S. Lioutas

Longboat Key

AMOUNT $225,000

$59,773

The Residences at the St. Regis | 941.213.3300 | From the $2,000,000’s | Call for appointment. SRResidencesLongboatKey.com

SALES GALLERY NOW OPEN

$42,184

542 Spinnaker Lane

Gas fireplace

David Bespalso

611 Yardarm Lane

Mechanical

Sticks and Stones Ventures

$38,000

$41,070 $34,445

631 Ranger Lane

Dock and lift

Vishal and Melissa Soin

3621 Bayou Circle

Resurface pool and

3621 Bayou Circle Land Trust $32,900

replace deck 3582 Fair Oaks Lane

A/C change-out

Trust

548 Cutter Lane

Mechanical

548 Cutter Lane LLC

540 Harbor Point Road

A/C change-out

John J. Petchul

$24,647

4960 GMD Unit 206

Windows

Carl Myers

$21,500

$30,000

1211 GMD #909

A/C change-out

Joann Heisen

$20,972

5265 GMD Unit 307

Doors

Kimberly Basch

$20,030

5372 Sandhamn Place

Lift

Junwei Song

$16,457

3511 Bayou Pointe

A/C change-out

T. Elijah Benioni Rev. Trust

$15,000

1955 GMD #302

A/C change-out

Confidential per 119.071 F.S.

$13,936

4621 GMD Unit 3A

Door

Mark Imsande

$13,762

2214 Harbour Court Drive

Lift

Fredric C. Jacobs

$13,335

3543 Fair Oaks Lane

Screen

Jan Hurwitz Trust 1999

$11,448

Debra B. Izzo

$11,434

1000 Longboat Club Road Windows

Downtown St. Petersburg

William J. Montgoris Revocable $31,689

400 Central | 727.209.7848 | From the $1,000,000’s | Call for appointment. | Residences400central.com

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Downtown Sarasota

#1106 A/C change-out

Edward P. Ryan

$11,336

Interior alterations

Christopher Daniels

$8,650

5342 Sandhamn Place

Shutters

Barbara L. Erb-Pappas

$8,464

622 Ranger Lane

Railing

John Morris Peacock

4234 GMD Unit Y1

A/C change-out

Art M. Hartmann

$7,800

589 Spanish Drive N.

Re-roof

Audrey M. Shields

$6,990

541 Chipping Lane

A/C change-out

James W. Green

$6,800

589 Spanish Drive N.

A/C change-out

Audrey M. Shields

$6,577

$7,975

2105 GMD #3503

A/C change-out

Stephen J. Roach

$6,501

76 Twin Shores Blvd

A/C change-out

Joseph Tupper

$6,350

1075 GMD #603

A/C change-out

Edward J. Tannebaum

$6,045

The Collection | 941.232.2868 | From the $2,000,000’s | Call for appointment. | thecollection1335.com

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

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

WWW.MICHAELSAUNDERS.COM/NEW-HOMES | 844.591.4333 | SARASOTA, FLORIDA Prices as of November 2021.

Source: Town of Longboat Key

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SELLING LOCAL LUXURY WITH G L O B A L C O N N E C T I O N S

Judy Kepecz-Hays

$2.3 BILLION IN CAREER SALES

941.587.1700

Lori Lawson

Steven Kepecz

941.735.4385

941.376.6411 January 27, 2022

NEW ON THE MARKET

L’AMBIANCE

415 L Ambiance Drive Unit B602 Enjoy 270 degrees of unobstructed Bay with Gulf views in this exquisitely designed residence in L’Ambiance. This southern exposed 2,500 sq. ft. residence offers 2 bedrooms plus a den and 2.5 baths, a private elevator that opens up to your private foyer, walls of glass sliders in every room and a spacious wraparound terrace. Located behind the gates of the Longboat Key Club enjoy the luxury lifestyle that living on the beach offers. One small pet welcome.

Offered for $2,785,000. www.LAmbianceB602.com

Ritz-Carlton Managed Residence THE RITZ-CARLTON RESIDENCES

1111 Ritz Carlton Drive #1204 As an owner of a Ritz-Carlton Residence, you will be pampered with world-class services and amenities within a luxurious lifestyle in Sarasota. This residence provides a generous amount of square footage (3,600 sq. ft. under air) featuring three bedrooms, and a Grand Room of walls of glass overlooking an expansive terrace for entertaining and relaxation. Southern Exposure features beautiful Bay views from every room. Two parking spaces included and two pets welcome.

Offered for $3,950,000. www.Ritz-Carlton1204.com

Ritz-Carlton Managed Residence THE BEACH RESIDENCES

1300 Benjamin Franklin Dr #809

Epic views, day and night from this very private casual elegant residence. Walls of glass showcasing the beauty of Sarasota Bay and Skyline as your backdrop. When you step out of your private elevator into your 3,352 sq. ft. residence, you’re welcomed into a bright open floor plan that offers you 3 bedrooms 3 baths or 2 bedrooms plus den. Two parking spaces included and two pets welcome no weight limit.

Offered for $2,985,000. www.TheBeachResidences809.com

$2.3 BILLION IN CAREER SALES If you’re thinking of buying or selling, please call us for exceptional service.

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COLDWELL BANKER REALTY

423 St. Armands Circle | Sarasota, FL 34236 595 Bay Isles Road, Suite 250 | Longboat Key, FL 34228 Email: Kepecz@JudyHays.com Website: LongboatKeyLuxury.com

$134 MILLION IN CLOSED SALES IN 2021

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19 Stuffed Indian pastry 48 D.C. MLB player 20 Plasma globe, e.g.

49 “Wreck-It ___” (2012 21 Chicks’ noises film) 22 Michael Jordan’s 51 Commenced Tarheel State sch.

53 Allen of “Assembly 23 Movie theaters Required” 24 Brisbane bouncer, 54 Comfortably wealthy briefly (... letters 9-6) 25 Phablet released in 2014 (In this clue’s answer, 58 Company concerned with fake reviews see letters 15-12)

59 “That’s too bad,” oldstyle 60 What slip-ons lack 61 Heron’s habitat 62 Oodles 63 Hesitates 64 Source of Pringles 66 Fireplace flakes 69 Font with a Narrow style 70 Practical folks 74 Gas in Sin City signs 75 Parting words (... letters 14-10) 78 Explosive letters 79 Enjoys a short break 80 Elizabeth of “Avengers: Endgame” 81 Anti-piracy warning org.

82 Smidgen 84 “Whaddaya know!”

85 Come clean about 87 Ducks’ are webbed 88 Broke the ice with humor (... letters 9-6) 92 Singers’ charity events 95 “Families of the Mafia” channel 96 Coins in Cologne 98 Name within “admiral” 99 Does everything possible, or a theme hint 109 Know-it-___ 110 Enjoyed a short break 111 “Found it!”

112 Potions professor at Hogwarts 113 ___ with caution 114 Less distant 115 Dark ‘n’ Stormy liquor 116 Conversation focus 117 Some, in French

1 Bubble Wrap noises 2 Cross-section calculation 3 Look to be 4 Odds-on favorite 5 Make certain 6 Outlet insert 7 Sounded like a phone 8 Muppet who sang “I Love Trash” 9 V formation?

10 “Preach it!”

11 Longtime Cowboys QB Tony 12 H.S. exam 13 Slip past 14 Netflix subscriber, often 15 Its legs go into the dish swikee 16 “Island Prelude” woodwind 19 Philly NBA player 23 “The Rebel” author Albert 26 Surveillance grp.

27 Lung division 28 Subsides 32 “Zip your lip!”

33 Many a Muscat Festival attendee 34 Oven gloves 35 Paintball sounds 36 Like most lapdogs 38 Not genuine 39 A wee bit open 40 Very thin 41 Trains travel on them 42 Minor nature goddess 45 P, in Greek 49 Seized autos 50 Landed 51 Bend under pressure 52 Some seek a more perfect union 55 Van ___ (“Jump” band) 56 Waves wildly

57 Bygone legal drama with Susan Dey 58 “Feel me?”

61 1998 Disney role for Ming-Na Wen 63 Londoner, e.g.

64 Handles efficiently 65 Spread written with two accents 66 Piece of mischief 67 Mister, in Managua 68 Spicy Mexican foods 69 Offshore 70 Artifact 71 Not as dangerous 72 Asian land where “The Golden Child” is set 73 Peevish moods 75 Impulse 76 Requirement 77 Parent celebrated in May 83 Last part of “The Tempest” 85 Ohio rubber city 86 Cole of “Black-ish” 87 “Don’t worry,” biblically 89 Gripe 90 King’s card?

91 Word before “space” or “planet” 93 Minor quibble 94 Pizza leftovers, perhaps 97 Scorches 99 Praise to the skies 100 “What ___ is new?”

101 By oneself 102 “Shanghai ___” (2000 martial arts Western) 103 “And I should care because ...?”

104 “Nah!” 105 Thelma or Louise 106 California wine region 107 Movie such as “Gladiator” 108 Backyard barbecue site

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Each letter in the cipher stands for another.

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Puzzle Two Clue: P equals W

Sarasota

Puzzle One Clue: P equals K

CARPET

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1281 GULF OF MEXICO DRIVE #302

$3,495,000

1653 PROSPECT STREET

Panoramic views that stretch out to the azure waves of the Gulf of Mexico are the perfect introduction to this spacious beach getaway at the soughtafter Water Club community. Arlington residences, spanning more than 3,400 SF, do not come on the market often in this resort-style neighborhood.

The open floor plan lives like a single-family home, boasting living/dining room with wraparound views, family room/den just off the eat-in kitchen, plus three terraces to relish direct sunrise and sunset views at your leisure.

Southern exposure West of the Trail! Swaths of glazing sunlight and lush greenery frame this newer built, designer home in the sought-after Hudson Bayou, offering a beautiful family lifestyle just minutes from downtown Sarasota. Constructed in 2015 by Flagship Builders with exceptionally high standards, this striking home features an open-concept interior spanning nearly 4,200 SF with storm impact glass throughout. From any room in the house, you can enjoy the natural light that brings the outdoor entertaining inside.

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3731 INDIAN BEACH ROAD

$6,495,000

15111 GADDY UP RANCH ROAD

Gorgeous, lush landscaping and private gated entry welcomes you to this 5BR direct bayfront estate. Built in 2006, designed with energy efficient and sustainable materials. The enviable central locale, plus spectacular bay and sunset views perfectly complement the lavishness at this custom residence.

Country breezes rustling through century old oaks and pines welcome you to this unique, 82.5-acre property known as the fully-operational Gaddy Up Ranch, offering many possibilities. Some equipment and livestock are also available for purchase separately.

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862 GRANDE PASS WAY

$2,995,000

4235 GULF OF MEXICO DRIVE #84

Create your dream beach home at this private, gated enclave on the southern tip of Boca Grande. One of only 19 homesites in the exclusive Hill Tide Estates community, this spectacular parcel boasts more than a quarter-acre of direct beachfront property to make your own.

Direct Gulf, beach walkout! This delightfully updated and well-maintained villa at Turtle Crawl Inn is immediately ready for guests to enjoy, offering a worthwhile rental program with daily leasing options. Beautiful beach views of sparkling Gulf waters welcome you to this 2BR/2BA residence spanning nearly 1,800 SF.

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1241 GULF OF MEXICO DRIVE #805

$1,899,000

3060 GRAND BAY BOULEVARD #112

Sparkling views of Gulf waters that stretch out to the bay and city are the star of the show as soon as you enter this 8th-floor Water Club residence, located on the quiet side of the South Building. Fall immediately in love with this resort-style community offering first-rate service and amenities. Includes secure parking.

This 3BR sun drenched getaway at Grand Bay is in ideal condition, featuring big bay views throughout. Offering an open-plan layout adorned with walls of glass sliders that lead out to the spacious wraparound terrace, lovely eat-in kitchen and a private master suite. Many first-rate amenities to enjoy.

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