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City lights up cigarette ban With state law in effect, commissioners begin talk of beach regulation. SEE PAGE 3A

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Sarasota High School graduate Diana “Nicole” Valero and Sarasota Military Academy graduate Abigail Koester each received $2,000 scholarships from the Education Foundation of Sarasota to attend schools of their choosing.

Valero will attend the University of South Florida this fall where she will study biology in the hopes of entering medical school and becoming an anesthesiologist.

Koester plans to study mechanical engineering at the University of Florida and intends to work in urban planning to help underprivileged communities.

The scholarship program is a partnership between the Education Foundation and Suncoast Credit Union Foundation since 2019.

Bayfront fireworks show attracts thousands to close out festive July 4. SEE PAGE 1B

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Staff at Sarasota Memorial Hospital work hard to save lives, which is typically its own reward. But sometimes it’s good to be recognized.

SMH recently was named among the top 100 hospitals in the country by Fortune/Merative, which conducts its annual ranking based on factors including patient mortality, low instances of hospital-acquired infections, inpatient expenses, re-admission rates and more.

This is the sixth year SMH has ranked in the list and was judged against 2,650 acute care hospitals in the country.

The hospital’s teaching program was highlighted in particular.

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Fans of fireworks gathered on land and on the water Monday night for the sparkling show over Sarasota Bay.

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New Selby display focuses on photos

“I’m a neat freak. There’s a lot of structure in the space, but sometimes it does become a chaotic space of thread. ”

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens will premiere a new exhibition this summer that celebrates flowers through the art of contemporary photography.

Flora Imaginaria: The Flower in Contemporary Photography will display works by 49 photographers, many of them at the forefront of their field. The show, which is organized in partnership with the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP), runs from July 16 through Sept. 25 at Selby Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota campus.

“We are excited to continue ‘The Year of Photography’ at Selby Gardens with another world premiere of contemporary art in dialogue with nature at our Downtown Sarasota campus,” said Jennifer O. Rominiecki, president and CEO of Selby Gardens. “Diverse images of flowers drawn from many different genres of photography will create a vibrant bouquet befitting our model as The Living Museum.”

Artist Katrina Coombs on her studio space, Read more on page 10A

BY THE NUMBERS $44,643

Salary for each of the five Sarasota City Commissioners if approved by voters in November..

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The demonstration march followed a path from City Hall to the Unconditional Surrender statue on the bayfront.

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Abortion-rights protestors gather July 4th

CALENDAR n Sarasota County Commission regular meeting — 9 a.m. July 12, Commission Chambers, County Administration Building, 1660 Ringling Boulevard. n Sarasota City Commission regular meeting — 9 a.m., July 18, Commission Chambers, City Hall, 1565 First St. n Sarasota County School Board regular meeting — 6 p.m., July 19, Landings Administration Building, 1980 Landings Boulevard.

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ourth of July activities at Bayfront Park were interrupted by abortion rights supporters marching and protesting the overturning of Roe v. Wade on July 4.

The protesters gathered at City Hall and marched through downtown Sarasota while chanting “Overturn SCOTUS” and “My body, my choice” as they went.

The march ended in Bayfront Park, where the many protestors gathered around the Unconditional Surrender statue commemorating the end of World

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“A lot of Americans seen July 4 as a holiday to celebrate freedom,” Boggs said.

“It’s ironic with so many freedoms of women and LGBTA+ people being threatened and attacked. It felt like a perfect day to make people aware of the fact that many people don’t feel free right now.”

In June, demonstrators gathered in Five Points Park for a 12-hour protest shortly after the 4-3 decision to send the question of abortion rights back to the states.

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Chloe Boggs, a 17-year-old Riverview High School student and president of the youth chapter of Women’s Voices of Southwest Florida, led the crowd in chants as they made their way to Bayfront Park.

“We need to rally the troops to get out here and defend our rights,” she said.

Choosing July 4 as a day of protest, and ending the march at a location celebrating America’s history, was intentional.

One of Sarasota’s oldest and most prestigious law firms, Williams Parker Attorneys, is moving out of its longtime home but, in a way, it’s going back to where it began.

The firm has signed a lease for a 35,024-square-foot space at the Plaza at Five Points in Sarasota. The firm will take up the eighth floor of the downtown building, at 50 Central Ave. The move is expected to be complete by the middle of 2023.

The firm is moving from its office at 200 S. Orange Ave. where it has operated from since about 1976.

Shareholders in the firm, officially named Williams Parker Harrison Dietz & Getzen, sold the headquarters in May 2018 to a New Hampshirebased investment firm. That firm, at the time of the sale, intended to redevelop the 3.3-acre property into a mixed-use building.

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With enabling legislation going into effect last week, city and county governments are poised to implement smoking bans on public beaches.

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Participants in Friday’s beach smoking ban event ceremoniously place giant cigarette butts in a trash bag, illustrating the state’s enabling legislation allowing localities to prohibit smoking on the beach.

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arasota’s decadelong quest to eliminate smoking — and the proliferation of cigarette butts — from its beaches might finally meet success with a state law that allows local governments to institute such bans that went into effect July 1.

The enabling legislation does not apply to cigars, though.

Marking the occasion at Lido Beach last week, a news conference with bill sponsor State Sen. Joe Gruters of Sarasota (R-District 23) and advocates of the bill took place near where the smoking ban movement began.

In 2013, that effort was thwarted when a judge sided with the American Civil Liberties Union against Sarasota County, which had instituted a smoking ban on Siesta Beach.

Gruters was joined by Director of Florida Conservation for Ocean Conservancy J.P. Brooker and Stephen “Dr. Beach” Leatherman, a recognized expert in creating the ratings to rank the world’s beaches.

Leatherman previously rated Sarasota County beaches among the best in the country, but Gruters suggested the wrong butts on the beach have worked against the local beaches in recent years.

“I’m hoping that Dr. Beach will give us those bonus points finally, and Lido Beach and Siesta Key Beach, which are probably two of the nicest beaches in the whole world and which I represent, will be back in the top five and maybe No. 1,” Gruters said.

That will first require codification of the ban by local governments.

Gruters indicated a forthcoming ban by the city is likely.

Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch, who attended the event, echoed that sentiment.

“I’m so thrilled that we finally have the ability in the city of Sarasota — and the rest of the cities in Florida have this ability now that that preemption is gone — to regulate cigarettes and smoking on our beaches and in our parks,” Ahearn-Koch said.

Sarasota Mayor Eric Arroyo, who was not in attendance, foreshadowed the direction that commissioners might take.

“It will be interesting to see what collective action the commission takes,” Arroyo said. “There is a community desire to take action to mitigate the trash that is being carelessly disposed of at our beaches, which often comes in the shape of cigarettes.”

In addition to the city of Sarasota, Longboat Key is likely to proceed with a cigarette ban in its parks and beaches in September, signaling a desire to consider an ordinance on its first meeting in September following town commissioners’ two-and-ahalf-month summer break.

There is no word yet on if or when the Sarasota County Commission will take up the matter.

The town of Indian Harbour Beach in Brevard County had an ordinance ready to approve on June 28, becoming the first municipality in the state to approve a cigarette ban once the state’s enabling legislation became law.

During Tuesday’s Sarasota City Commission Meeting, City Attorney Robert Fournier sought direction

regarding any local action, reminding commissioners of differences between the city and county ordinances prior to being struck down in court.

“The city did not act to prohibit smoking in parks. The county did, but only when youth athletic organized events were going on,” Fournier said.

“So the question right now is, if you want to address this, would you prefer to wait and see what Sarasota County does? Or, if you know now that you either do want to regulate or that you don’t, I could prepare an ordinance accordingly to be brought back.”

Consensus among the commissioners, minus the absent Hagen Brody, was to not wait.

“I would say move as swiftly as possible,” Ahearn-Koch said of a beach smoking ban. “Then I guess it would have to be a separate one for parks.”

“I think you might want to do it separately,” Fournier replied.

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Stephen “Dr. Beach” Leatherman, a nationally recognized beach ranking expert, helped lobby for the beach smoking ban legislation.

State Sen. Joe Gruters of Sarasota sponsored the bill signed into law last week that allows local governments to ban smoking on beaches.

According to Ocean Conservancy, cigarette butts have been the most commonly found litter on Florida beaches during the organization’s annual Coastal Cleanup for the past 31 years. The butts are made of tightly packed plastic fibers that erode into smaller bits, which accumulate in fish and other organisms, adversely impacting sea life health and reproductivity as well as human health when consuming the affected fish.

Among the reasons for the cigar exemption: Typically, cigars don’t have filters.

“Ocean Conservancy stood up and advocated for this very important law, and today we are beyond thrilled to see it officially go into effect,” Brooker said. “For too long, cigarette butts have hurt our environment and Florida’s beaches.”

During his remarks, Leatherman, who lobbied lawmakers in Tallahassee on behalf of the bill, extolled the success experienced by Hawaii when it moved to ban beach smoking.

“People said: ‘Oh, it can’t happen.

Waikiki Beach is a world-famous beach. People won’t come here and cause a dip in tourism,’” he said. “It had no effect on tourism. In fact, people are so glad there are not cigarette butts to litter the beach make it unattractive.”

Two Florida beaches did make Leatherman’s top 10 list for 2022, Caladesi Island State Park in Dunedin/Clearwater is ranked second, and St. George Island State Park in the panhandle is fourth.

Enacting a ban here is one thing.

Enforcing it is another. Discussions among Sarasota city staff and commissioners might include options for smokers, such as a designated smoking area well away from the shore.

“Now comes: How do local governments tackle this issue?” Gruters said.

“We’re hoping that through education campaign, hopefully by setting the example early on in by widespread the PR campaign at the local level, that we’ll be able to deal with some of those issues, but there’s no question law enforcement has to have a buy-in.”

“Ocean Conservancy stood up and advocated for this very important law, and today we are beyond thrilled to see it officially go into effect. For too long, cigarette butts have hurt our environment and Florida’s beaches.”

— J.P. Brooker, director of Florida Conservation for Ocean Conservancy

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n March, Sarasota city commissioners set into motion a referendum that would raise their pay from $29,000 a year to more than $44,000. During Tuesday’s City Commission meeting, they wrote into an ordinance and set forth the language for the referendum to appear on the ballot in November’s general election.

The salary paid to city commissioners is established by the city charter, and although Florida statute does address compensation for county commissioners, it is silent on the matter of those elected to city government, City Attorney Robert Fournier told commissioners.

City charter specifies the salary for commissioners is two-thirds of that paid to a county commissioner of a Florida county in the same population group as the city. In March, commissioners heard a recommendation by the city’s Charter Review Committee that commissioners be paid $42,000 a year and suggested a salary of $45,000 a year for the mayor. Compensation would then be raised by 2% each year thereafter.

“The City Commission accepted the general recommendation for an increase in commissioner salaries, who did decide to modify the recommendation slightly,” Fournier said.

“The City Commission directed that the ordinance placing the proposed increase on the ballot be worded so that instead of commissioners getting two-thirds of the salary that a county commissioner for a county in the same population group would be paid, that it be increased to 100% of that amount. But it would be the

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Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch recommended deleting a phrase from ballot language.

same for all five commissioners, including the mayor.”

That adjustment amounts to $44,643 a year for all five commissioners. Further, commissioners directed that the annual adjustment increment be eliminated and that the compensation be addressed in 10 years by a subsequent Charter Review Committee.

The salary numbers for the referendum established, the conversation turned to word count. Per Florida statute, local charter amendments are subject to a 75-word limit on the ballot and not more than 15 words in the title.

Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch suggested Fournier, in preparing the referendum language, edit one confusing passage that may be interpreted that city commissioners presently make $44,643. In addition, Koch added, some voters may read it as though the city commissioners would be paid the same amount as members of the Sarasota County Commission and not a county board that has a similar population to the city of Sarasota.

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CITY COMMISSIONERS ALSO… n Authorized the execution of the year two amendment to the Public

Transportation Grant Agreement between the city and Florida Department of Transportation to provide $539,082 to operate the Bay Runner open air trolley program. The city’s total commitment to the program over three years its $1.59 million. The Bay Runner, which is free to ride, launched service in February. n Authorized increasing the agreement between the city and Ajax Paving Industries of Florida for Ringling Trail design-build services by $29,114 to a total of $2.79 million. Initial work on the project is under way, and Ringling Boulevard has been reduced to one lane in each direction from Lime Avenue into downtown. The project is designed to establish wider cycling lanes to link the Legacy Trail to the Bayfront and beyond. n Authorized amending the budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 to establish a revenue and expenditure budget of $2.86 million in funds from the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Fund. The funding source is a second award of the Federal Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, which will be used for personnel and operating costs. No local match is required to receive the grant.

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Remove a prepositional clause here, add a verb there and Fournier said he still had about 23 words with which to play to craft the final language for the referendum.

When the pay increase would take effect, if approved, is currently not prescribed in the ballot language.

According to the city charter, if not otherwise specified, amendments approved by the voters via referendum become effective 30 days after the election.

“I think, though, in this case I should consult with our Human Resources department and cite the date that would be at the beginning of the first pay period after the expiration of 30 days from the ordinance, so I would like to make that change so that we hit the precise date of the start of a pay period.”

Commissioners approved the language of the referendum with suggested changes 4-0, with Commissioner Hagen Brody absent.

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Demographics of new residents in the North Port-SarasotaBradenton area are shifting as the area ranks seventh in the nation among mid-size MSAs in approving new home construction.

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New home construction approvals in the North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton MSA grew by a whopping 59.1% from 2019 to 2021 as buyers in record numbers from across the nation selected the region for relocation. Here are comparisons between the last pre-COVID year and 2021.

NORTH PORT-SARASOTABRADENTON n New per 1,000 existing 2021: 36.2 n New per 1,000 existing 2019: 23.6 n Total new units authorized 2021: 15,924 n Total new units authorized 2019: 10,009 n Percentage change in housing units authorized 2019–2021: 59.1% n Median home price: $471,267

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Amid the COVID-19 hangover of sluggish supply chains and personnel shortages, Florida remains among the most robust homebuilding states in the country. As the North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton metropolitan statistical area continues to attract new residents seeking a more suitable lifestyle, it ranks seventh among all mid-size MSAs for new home construction.

Researchers at Inspection Support Network analyzed the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Zillow, ranking metro areas according to the number of new housing units authorized per 1,000 existing homes in 2021.

In general, fast-growing states in the Mountain West — Utah, Idaho and Colorado — along with Sun Belt destinations such as Texas and Florida lead the nation in the rate of new housing authorizations relative to existing homes.

Neal Communities Chairman Pat Neal said the demographics of the new residents in the Sarasota area are shifting, and homebuilders are responding.

“We have been selling homes to people from New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, as we always do, but in bigger numbers now,” Neal said. “But in 2021 we sold 39 homes to people from California, which we rarely ever do. Our customers, who are younger and more likely to be in their working years than before, have chosen

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ers are is responding to the need at a rate nearly triple the 12.5 new units authorized per 1,000 existing homes nationally.

Federal mortgage backer Freddie Mac has estimated a nationwide housing supply shortage of 3.8 million homes, citing in part a decline in single-family home construction — particularly starter homes — since the 1980s. The condition is exacerbated as millennials enter the homebuying market, partially driven by their ability to live anywhere and work remotely.

Neal said his company’s customers are a reflection of the remote work trend among mid-career families.

“We are selling many more homes to people whose children are in high school or college. We have been selling more bonus rooms than we have ever done before, which serve, I believe, as an office for remote work,” Neal said. “This, of course, is for people whose business address is a digital address for a company based

in New York, for example, but whose personal address and real place of residence is in Florida.”

North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, though, isn’t the fastest-growing home construction MSA among Florida markets. Lakeland-Winter Haven is ranked second nationally, with 43.5 new homes authorized per 1,000 existing, Port St. Lucie is fifth at 37.5 and Ocala sixth at 36.4.

Following the local MSA are Cape Coral-Fort Myers in ninth at 33.4 and Naples-Marco Island 12th at 31.0.

Not surprisingly, Florida’s largest MSAs are also highly ranked with Jacksonville leading the way at fourth with 34.6 authorizations per 1,000 existing, followed by OrlandoKissimmee-Sanford in fifth at 29.0.

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How much will you tolerate?

MATT WALSH

Everyone knows Joe Biden has created an unmitigated disaster for the American people. And he has no intention of reversing course. How much lower are you willing to go?

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et’s be honest. There isn’t a corporation, not-for-profit organization, civic club, sports team, school, university, church or synagogue in America whose board of directors and constituents would tolerate another day — nor two more years! —of a CEO who has inflicted the kind of disaster that President Joe Biden has inflicted on the American people and the United States of America.

Every one of those organizations’ oversight bodies and constituents would be screaming and demanding: For the sake of their organization’s existence and for the sake of shareholders and constituents the organization serves, the CEO and associates who created such a monumental disaster need to be fired — now.

Be honest. They would be demanding they be sacked.

Then, why aren’t we? Why aren’t the suffering American people demanding Biden be gone, that he resign?

They did it to Nixon. Public pressure boiled to the point that Richard Nixon knew he wouldn’t survive.

How much more are Americans willing to take now?

To that point, how can anyone believe that Joe Biden and his puppet masters are going to wake up tomorrow or the next day and suddenly take responsibility for their deepening economic disaster, admit to and apologize for their errors and policies, and correct course?

They will never do it.

Joe Biden, his cabinet secretaries and the Democrats in Congress are delusional. They believe they are doing a good job.

But everyone can see: The emperor wears no clothes!

WHY SUFFER THIS AGAIN?

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With 97% of all global transportation fueled by oil, do you think all the owners of those vehicles, ships and jets are ready for Joe Biden to “end fossil fuels”?

intervention into our lives.

But not since Jimmy Carter 45 years ago have Americans lived with a president who has been so colossally damaging and destructive to the United States and its people — at home and abroad. Left unchecked and on their current course, Joe Biden and the people managing him are on track to displace Carter.

So this has compelled us to comment and raise the questions that the national media won’t touch because of their allegiance to Biden and the socialist agenda: Why do Americans want to go through the Carter misery again?

Two-thirds of American adults can remember the Jimmy Carter days.

They were awful. So why tolerate that — and probably worse given the track Biden is on?

How much longer will we allow these conditions to deteriorate?

How low do we want to go?

Or, at what point will Americans heed the words of the Declaration of Independence: “To secure the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. … That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”

ELECTIONS WON’T SOLVE IT

We have elections, you say. We can correct course after the 2022 midterm elections.

Yes, that offers some solace and hope. But be realistic, even with a Republican Senate and House starting in January 2023, you know it will take them at least three more months, probably longer, to reverse Biden legislation — only to have him stall everything with his vetoes.

Worse: Biden and his appointees will remain in office for another two years.

Meantime, you can expect Biden & Co. to remain determined to stay their course.

It will be stunning to see such gall. Here we are in the midst of a terrible gasoline shortage, and yet the Biden team appears intent on doing everything it can to make those conditions worse — all in the name of their desire and decision that Americans should no longer use fossil fuels, and that all Americans should be forced to purchase and drive electric vehicles.

Just last week, the Wall Street Journal revealed more evidence of how the Biden administration is trying to use even more regulatory force to curtail Americans’ access to oil. The Biden administration

intends to stop drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Remember this campaign pledge: “I guarantee you we are going to end fossil fuel”?

Few people took that seriously. It was just another flagrant applause line from a politician who would say anything to be elected.

But even if he did mean it, wouldn’t you have expected a decent politician to have spelled out for Americans how he was going to do that, and what it would mean for all Americans?

Of course, had he been completely truthful about his fossil fuel plans, he would never have been elected.

Consider these facts from Mark Mills, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute: n Oil, natural gas and coal provide 84% of all of the world’s energy. n That percentage has declined only 2 points in the past 20 years. n Oil still powers nearly 97% of all global transportation. n Mills: “After two decades and $5 trillion of government investing in green energy, we have barely moved the needle.” n “To get the same amount of energy from wind and solar that we now get from fossil fuels, we are going to have to massively increase mining by more than 1,000%.”

The increase in mining would be needed to produce the raw materials that are required to manufacture the motors, turbine blades, solar panels, batteries and other industrial components — all of which require energy to mine and manufacture.

According to Mills: “As a World Bank study put it, these green technologies are in fact significantly more material intensive than our current energy mix. That may be the understatement of the century.”

Now here’s a kicker: Just this year, Biden canceled a proposed copper and nickel mine in Minnesota — two crucial ingredients for alternative energy products.

This is the point: Biden and his team cannot achieve their fossil fuel goal without first exacting excruciating, destructive economic harm on Americans and our standard of living.

INTENTIONAL MALICE?

But he and his puppeteers do not care. They are doing it anyway.

Call us naive, but in real life, in the conference rooms of most businesses, whenever business owners and managers want to initiate dramatic changes in the way they operate or what they offer customers, they typically go through detailed “if-then” discussions. “If we do this, then this will happen. …

If we do this, what’s the worst that

can happen?”

Now, let’s first assume this horror: that Biden and his team are so incompetent that they neglected to discuss the “if-then” scenarios of their policies to end fossil fuels. If that is the case, that alone would be cause for their resignations.

Every American would be appalled to learn that discussion did not occur at the highest levels of American government.

But now let’s assume Biden and his team were smart enough to have discussed the “if-then” scenarios of the energy policies they are pursuing. That means every action Biden has taken and takes, every executive order he issues, every new antioil and gas regulation imposed is intentional — with full knowledge of the likely consequences.

In other words, he is intentionally inflicting massive economic pain on the American people to pursue an unattainable, unrealistic, leftist, socialistic goal and agenda.

Take that further: Open borders?

Intentional. Letting China flood the U.S. with fentanyl? Intentional. Afghanistan evacuation and leaving behind the $50 billion in U.S. military assets? Intentional.

Printing more than $4 trillion to flood the economy with too much cash and cause runaway inflation?

Intentional. Borrowing and printing billions upon billions the U.S. does not have to fund Ukraine’s war with Vladimir Putin? Intentional.

Increasing the overwhelming debt burden on future generations?

Intentional. Failure to respond to the baby formula shortage? Intentional. And on and on.

ENSLAVING AMERICANS

If you look back and evaluate the Biden presidency so far, one way to characterize it, other than incompetence, is that he is sacrificing your life to himself and his behindthe-scenes masters — to their chosen ends, not yours.

To be even more precise: You didn’t elect him to choose all of this for you, but through his actions — the expansion of the State, he is enslaving all of us to his powerhungry gang members who think they know what is best for us, for our lives and for all American people.

Ayn Rand had a succinct description of what Joe Biden and his behind-the-scenes masters are putting us through: “Any group, any gang, any nation that attempts to negate man’s rights (life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) is wrong, which means: is evil, which means: is anti-life.”

Look back. This is what Biden & Co.’s actions are doing. Inflation and high gas prices — caused by government — are destroying people’s lives, negating their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and placing them increasingly in bondage to the State.

“The good,” Rand said, “is that which promotes man’s life, and the evil is that which hinders it.”

In 1974, public pressure shamed Richard Nixon into resigning because of the crimes we knew he committed. You might think it outlandish, but how much pain are Americans willing to tolerate before they shame Biden into doing the same? Be sure of this: He is not going to change course. He doesn’t believe in individual liberty. He and his masters have always believed, first and foremost, in all-powerful, god-like government.

“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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These cone-shaped structures are part of the Coombs piece called “Oshun’s Glory.”

A FINER THREAD Katrina Coombs is making art with her head, her hands and her heart, and she’s exploring what it means to be a woman and a mother in society piece by piece.

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K

atrina Coombs isn’t trying to be provocative. She’s just taking the results of her introspection and turning them into fine art.

Coombs, a Jamaica-based textile and fiber artist, has a debut exhibition at the Sarasota Art Museum entitled “I M(O)ther,” and her pieces invite you to consider subjects that aren’t everyday conversation.

Coombs tackles birth and death, sexuality and the menstrual cycle, and she wants to examine maternal identity and what it means to be a woman in the world. But the works are subtle, and sometimes only hint at deeper meaning through their title or materials.

“One of the most beautiful things about the works themselves is that I’m not directing it toward a specific issue and forcing that issue,” she says. “I am simply giving you my truth as it is, as raw as it may be or as pure as it may be. You can take it or you can leave it. But it’s neither here nor there, because it is who I am. This is who I am. And I love it.”

Coombs uses a variety of methods to create her pieces.

Photos by Spencer Fordin

Katrina Coombs stands beneath Prolapse, a piece at her new I M(O)ther exhibit at the Sarasota Art Museum.

Coombs tackles both the male and female gaze with “The Beauty Between Her Thighs.”

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This piece is entitled Seed II and is made of coiled mixed fibers and amethyst.

Some of them are done by hand, while others are created with the help of a floor loom. She began her mastery of textile art through macrame while in high school, and she later progressed to the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Jamaica.

Eventually, she earned a masters in fine art from Transart Institute via the University of Plymouth.

But in many ways, she’s creating the very methods by which her art will be conveyed.

“I’ve been fascinated with the medium and I’m always constantly exploring new techniques,” she says of her artwork. “A lot of times, it’s an exploration of the material. What can I do with it? Can I build a form with it? Or do I stay on a two-dimensional plane? For me, it’s about the textures, about the form and the thickness as well as the colors.”

As you walk around the exhibit, you can’t help but notice the many different styles. Her piece “Oshun’s Glory,” inspired by Yoruban culture and also by the death of her grandmother, consists of several coneshaped knit structures protruding from the ceiling.

There are other pieces that resemble rich tapestries, and one that could be a coffee table centerpiece.

The unifying element — beyond the themes connecting them — is the literal thread, and Coombs estimates that it could be as many as thousands or millions of strands.

So what’s her studio look like?

Are you imagining an explosion of fabric? Coombs said that her material lives in a finely sorted and colorcoded cupboard in her home studio.

“I’m a neat freak,” she says.

“There’s a lot of structure in the space, but sometimes it does become a chaotic space of thread.

“I just throw the threads on the ground and process through them to select and get my palette through.

I do a lot of sketches, both on paper but also with the material. A lot of it is just me exploring what the material can do in small bits.”

Coombs, at root, is fascinated by the ways the human body is constantly evolving and by the apparent contradictions contained in some of their very basic functions.

She gestures at her work “Her Constellation,” a vertical wall piece with hand-woven mixed fibers and beads. The piece’s coloring starts with lighter yellow threading near the top and red tasseled fringes toward the bottom, and it’s imbued with a deeper meaning.

“The woman’s body,” she says, “You’re born with thousands of eggs within you that are constantly combusting before they even go to the fallopian tube to then kind of form and cause the process of the menstrual cycle. It’s just amazing how the body transforms. You’re not even realizing it, but you’re creating life and also you’re taking life.

“There’s constant destruction

Katrina Coombs stands with her piece “As It Breathes, Life is Taken.”

that’s happening within the body but then also there’s constant healing.”

That’s also the theme of “As It Breathes, Life is Taken,” a horizontal hand-woven piece with mixed fibers and cowrie shells. Here, Coombs is referencing the many ways we perceive the maternal figure both as a symbol of value and of spirituality.

“A lot of the work is really on identity and maternal instincts and the maternal figure literally and metaphorically,” she says. “But also even just rights of passage of a girl going into adulthood.

“I brought in the cowrie shells because universally it has this element of currency. But it also represents security. It represents the womb. It represents authority as well as position in society. Within this piece, there’s a right of passage once a girl sees her first cycle. She’s now garnered with beads around her waist, and the cowrie shell is also used as that.”

Some of the pieces are literal, and some are figurative.

Coombs addresses the male and female gaze with an eye-catching piece entitled “The Beauty Between Her Thighs,” and she confronts loss and tragedy with her works entitled “Prolapse” and “Lost Souls Not Forgotten.”

the hard work was done in hours or a week. And for others, she says, they’ve developed over years.

She worked on them, put them down, worked on other things and came back with fresh fingers.

Rosie Gordon-Wallace, the founder of Miami-based Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, has worked for decades to discover artists in the Caribbean and beyond. GordonWallace met Coombs when she was still a student, and she’s seen her work develop over the last 15 years.

There are many great textile artists, says Gordon-Wallace, but what separates Coombs from the rest is her ability to take relevant complex themes and turn them into art.

“I admire her ability to do a body of work around a personal narrative with boldness,” says Gordon-Wallace. “That is unique, because the subject she’s talking about — loss and spirituality, memory and joy — are probably not seen in this genre of work in the same sentence.

“And we live in Florida. In this time, when our government is making all of these different suggestions around the body of women, it is wonderful to see an artistic outcome with labor and material that everyday people can enjoy. That’s the draw.”

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Coombs says all of her pieces have been inspired by her life, except Prolapse, which was inspired by one of her closest friends.

Her art has helped her recover from the loss of a child, and it’s helped her better understand who she is and where she’s come from.

“It’s how I process my life,” she says.” It’s how I move through everything that is going on with me. But it’s not even so much about healing.

It’s really for me about celebrating at this point. Because even with the loss, it has made me who I am as a woman. It has given me the opportunity to explore so much. I have been able to build myself as a woman.”

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BLUES BROTHERS SOUL BAND 7 p.m. at Venice Performing Arts Center, 1 Indian Ave., Venice $35-$50 Visit VeniceTheatre.org.

This soul band is a tribute to Dan Akroyd and the late John Belushi that will have you foot-stomping and dancing along to some of the most familiar songs in the soul and R&B canon. Grab your sunglasses and your half-pack of cigarettes, because it’s dark and the Blues Brothers are ready to hit it.

SUMMER CIRCUS SPECTACULAR 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. at Historic Asolo Theater, 5401 Bayshore Road $18 adults, $12 children 12 and under Visit Ringling.org It’s a feast for the senses and show for all ages. The Summer Circus Spectacular brings a roster full of acrobats, balance artists and contortionists to this one-hour show, which

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Do you think you’re getting out of this room without hearing “Stairway to Heaven?” Not this time, pal.

The planetarium seats ease all the way back, and the lasers play all over the curved dome ceiling.

They move in patterns, drawing shapes that repeat in different sizes, colors and proportions.

And it isn’t all abstract art.

You may see Led Zeppelin’s trademark dirigible in some songs, or you might see a petaled flower or an intricate animal drawn.

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That probably means that you’ll see pianos and tiny dancers, and also maybe a Rocket Man? I’m speculating.

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Laser Light Nights are scheduled to run through Aug. 13 at the Bishop, and they’re shown on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

There’s an artist and a light show for every rock and pop taste. The Bishop Museum has multiple evenings scheduled to play the Beatles, and there’s also nights with Prince and David Bowie.

Do you like high volume? AC/DC and Metallica are primed to assault your eardrums. There are Van Halen shows and Nirvana shows, not to mention Aerosmith and U2 shows.

The audience, your fellow travelers, are with you all the way, clapping at the end of some songs and singing along with others. You’re all taking the same visual journey, but without the deafening crack of fireworks or the interminable line to move out of the parking lot.

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The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature has been hosting Laser Light Nights this summer, a production that brings streaming music and dazzling lights to its planetarium three nights a week.

There’s an incredible array of acts involved, and you can see psychedelic stalwarts such as Pink Floyd or even bubblegum pop artists such as NSYNC and Bruno Mars.

This reporter, a child of the 1970s, chose the masters of thunderous percussion and primal wailing, Led Zeppelin, for his close-up experience with the indoor fireworks.

From the moment the music starts to the moment you file out exhilarated, the lasers etch out pulsing patterns and figures and never take a second to breathe.

They intensify in speed and color to the pace of the music, and with Led Zeppelin, that means a wild ride.

How does it all work?

The Bishop Museum leases cutting edge projectors from a company named Laser Fantasy that has been doing these shows for decades.

They warn you, before the show starts, that lasers are potentially dangerous and to stay seated.

Laser Fantasy’s website cautions that “it’s important to treat high powered lasers like power tools,” and in this case, that means not peering into the projector. The Bishop Museum has blocked off seats in which a very tall person might be at risk, and they urge visitors with epilepsy or conditions triggered by intense sensory experiences to take caution.

But for everyone else, it’s a good time with a rock-and-roll playlist.

The Laser Zeppelin show hits all the highlights you might expect, exploring both the explosive and cathartic aspects of the music but also the slow and romantic side.

You’ll hear Robert Plant shrieking like a banshee on “D’yer Maker,” and you’ll ride with Jimmy Page as he plays out the guitar lines to “Black Dog” and “Whole Lotta Love.”

John Bonham’s propulsive drumming on “Rock and Roll” gets its

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Sarasota High rising senior Maddox Marchbank, an offensive and defensive lineman on the Sailors football team, received an offer from Seton Hill University (Greensburg, Pennsylvania) on June 29.

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Former Sarasota High baseball player Evan Mendoza, now with the AAA-level Memphis Redbirds (St. Louis Cardinals), went two for three with a double, a walk and a run July 2 in the Redbirds’ 4-3 home win against the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (Miami Marlins). Mendoza is hitting .232 on the season.

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9-18. The event, which was scheduled to be held in 2021, will see three games a day split between the two stadiums.

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The Sarasota National 8-9-10 AllStars will play its state Little League baseball tournament July 8-10 in St. Augustine.

The Sarasota National 50/70 team (Intermediate level, ages 11-13) will play its state tournament July 8-10 in Coral Springs.

For the 8-9-10 All-Stars, the name of the game is “Believe.” It’s also the name of the team’s monkey.

The team’s coaches wanted to keep the kids motivated through the summer heat, so assistant coach Danny Snider thought about giving the kids some kind of reward.

That’s when he thought about a stuffed monkey.

It is similar to the chain the Baltimore Orioles put around the necks of people who hit home runs, but for the person who hustles the most during a practice or a game. That player gets to keep the monkey for the night and brings to practice the next day to give to someone else. It also doubles as a traditional rally monkey when the team is trailing, something it’s not done much of this season.

Coach Shain Eicher said that getting out of its district was more difficult than getting out of sectionals.

The team’s district consists of Venice, North Port, Englewood and Port Charlotte teams as well as its Sarasota American counterpart; the two Sarasota teams are divided by location because of the league’s size.

The National team won, beating its American rival twice in the process.

The team then swept through the sectional tournament, beating LaBelle 12-10 and Bonita Springs 4-3, to reach the state level, where, according to Eicher, things will hit a whole new level of challenge.

The players do not seem nervous.

Like their monkey, they believe.

“We need to play hard, have good base-running and reading (the play), and that’s pretty much it,” player Miles Wilkes said.

Nathanael Leet said the team has developed a “humble type of confidence” from playing its stiff district competition and coming out on top.

The team believes it can beat anyone and do anything, he said, but will not let that confidence get in the way of giving maximum effort, nor will the team show up an opponent through taunts.

The All-Stars take care of business quietly — metaphorically speaking, anyway.

The dugout can still get raucous, Leet said.

Leet and Wilkes played on the AllStars team last year, but Jase Baldwin did not. This All-Stars season is his first All-Stars experience. Baldwin said he was excited to play alongside the best athletes in the league, though he also felt like he had to

prove himself in the beginning, earning his spot in the eyes of his teammates. He did that, hitting a walk-off double in the district tournament that scored Wilkes. Baldwin and Wilkes both said the hit was their favorite moment of the All-Stars season thus far.

The 50/70 team — named for the classification’s pitching distance (50 feet) and base-running distance (70 feet) — had a bit of a different path.

It, too, had a tough road through districts like the 8-9-10 team, but did not play in a sectional tournament. Why? Coach Steve Jeantet said no other teams in Section 6 have 50/70 teams, so Sarasota National advanced by default. The classification was introduced by Little League in 2013.

The team skipping through sectionals does not mean it should be taken lightly. In the team’s district tournament, Blake Nichols hit three home runs and won two games on the mound, at one point striking out nine in a row. Vincent Hernandez also showed off his power, hitting two home runs. In fact, every player on the team collected a hit during the tournament, showcasing the team’s depth.

To connect the two teams even further, Hernandez’s brother, Vaughn Hernandez, is on the 8-9-10 team.

This weekend, the brothers will be playing in different cities, but under the same bright All-Star lights, hoping for a chance to represent Florida as the national tournament continues.

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The Sarasota National 8-910 All-Star team is headed to St. Augustine July 8-10 for the state-level tournament.

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PopStroke Entertainment Group, a brand of golf putting courses and restaurants, opened its Sarasota-Bradenton location April 28 at the Mall at University Town Center. The chain is co-owned by Greg Bartoli and Tiger Woods’ TGR Ventures.

The main hook of the chain, besides the baseline appeal of putting, is that each location features courses designed by Woods’ TGR Design team. The Sarasota location actually has two courses, the Tiger Black course is touted to be for the whole family while the Tiger Red course is a more difficult layout.

I hadn’t been to the location since it opened so I wanted to fix that and get a sense of how it plays. It’s $25 for an individual all-day pass (with various discounts for kids, senior citizens, veterans and large groups).

Going with a friend on June 26, I learned this bit of advice before arriving. Do not put PopStroke’s address into your phone’s map app of choice. In both my and my friend’s experience, doing so will take you back to the northern entrance of the Mall. Instead, keep your phone in your pocket and follow the signs lining the Mall’s roundabouts. If you are driving south on Cattleman Road, that means taking a left at the third roundabout. If you are driving north on Cattleman Road, it means taking a right at the first round-

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Once we were inside, the process was easy. We picked up our passes, then were handed a signature Bridgestone golf ball (which we were allowed to keep) and we chose our putters.We walked outside and our day started. We elected to play the Tiger Red course first.

The PopStroke experience was a bit choppy. We decided to play straight through the course’s 18 holes, but other groups — who had presumably been there much longer than us — were walking around and playing specific holes, getting in line behind whoever was currently playing the hole. Both strategies are valid at PopStroke.

I shot 55 on the first 18, which was 10 over par, but this was less because the course is hard than the fact I am a horrific putter. I have little control over my speed of a putt, and pace is key. The putting courses at PopStroke do not rely on cartoonish, miniature golf features like windmills or moats. It’s a more realistic feel of being on an actual green.

The Tiger Red course’s 18 holes have greens, and for those who stray, roughs and “sand traps.”

There is no actual sand in the sand traps, but they still are hard to get out of nonetheless. My favorite hole was No. 18, a longer, winding hole that lets you put some oomph behind your putt — as long as you avoid the sand traps to the left of the hole. It was one of four holes I birdied.

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My score was also dragged down by the rain, which I mentioned above. It started as a drizzle but turned into a full-fledged storm by the time our 18 holes were up. We were soaked, but it was a lot of fun and I’m glad the PopStroke staff lets groups play through the rain if they so choose.

Once we finished the Tiger Red course, we decided to test the restaurant section of the venue.

PopStroke has a full kitchen and has different menus for its firstfloor restaurant and its rooftop bar. We sat in the restaurant and watched other groups tackle the courses in the rain. and I ordered the BBQ chicken flatbread for $14.

My friend ordered the chicken tenders and fries entree for $15. Both of us thought our meals were well worth the price.

In addition to lunch and dinner, PopStroke offers a substantial ice cream selection as well as multiple bars located inside the restaurant, on the roof and on the course.

Groups can even have drinks delivered to them on the course, though we did not try this. We were playing fast and were not waiting behind another group, so there was hardly time to stop and have a drink.

After eating, we attempted to play the Tiger Black course to compare it to Tiger Red, but after one hole the rain came down harder than before — and brought thunder and lightning with it. We decided to call it a day. In retrospect, this may have been a good thing. It gives me a reason to return.

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The annual event might have skipped the parade this year, but that didn’t stop thousands of eager visitors from filling downtown Sarasota in anticipation of the fireworks show over the bay. Families arrived early at the park — once the day’s rain had subsided — and set up blankets and lawn chairs for the light show to come. Children played games and bought glow sticks as the sun slowly set.

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It’s a system they’ve learned well and stick to, except for a few weeks over the summer.

Over those weeks, when campers between the ages of 6-11 visit the facility, shelter staff bring all sorts of furry friends the Humane Society.

Ferrets? Check. Guinea pigs?

Definitely. Even mini-horses, baby chicks and other out-there animals? Depends on the week, but they’ll be there.

Summer campers had a fun surprise on July 1 when Sue McGonegal from McG’s Farm in Bradenton brought rabbits both large and small to the camp.

Kids finished their arts and crafts and sat down to learn from McGonegal all about the many characteristics and traits of rabbits.

McGonegal brought small bunnies as well as a massive Giant Flemish rabbit that the kids admired from a distance.

The campers didn’t just learn about the bunnies, they also had a chance to bond with them.

McGonegal and HSCC staff let a number of the rabbits out onto patches of carpet in front of campers, who were able to pet and learn more about them.

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SARASOTA BLOCK 6 Pamela and Lee Kennedy, of Sarasota, sold their Unit PH-1903 condominium at 401 Quay Commons to Michael Marberry, trustee, of Sarasota, for $10,575,000. Built in 2021, it has four bedrooms, fourand-a-half baths and 5,893 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $8,928,000 in 2021.

HARBOR ACRES Merle and Patricia Butler sold their home at 1486 Hillview Drive to Benjamin Max Curren and Genia Ryan Curren, trustees, of Sarasota, for $9,342,200. Built in 2008, it has five bedrooms, five baths, a pool and 8,433 square feet of living area.

It sold for $7.5 million in 2012.

HARBOR ACRES Michael Kaiser and John Spencer Roberts sold their home at 1364 Harbor Drive to Mitchell and Dawn Epstein, of Sarasota, for $8,768,700.

Built in 1999, it has five bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 5,240 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $6.1 million in 2020.

INDIAN BEACH Charles and Nancy Parrish, trustees, of Sarasota, sold two properties at 3139 Bay Shore Road to John and Kathleen Szabo, of Sarasota, for $7.48 million. The first property was built in 1912, it has four bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,140 square feet of living area. The second property was built in 1912, it has one bath and 825 square feet of living area. They sold for $2.5 million in 2012.

SAN REMO ESTATES Christopher Quinn and Reyna Rosanna Quinn, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3631 San Remo Terrace to Donald Patterson, of Sarasota, for $7 million. Built in 2021, it has four bedrooms, three-and-ahalf baths, a pool and 4,705 square feet of living area.

SIESTA KEY ROBERTS POINT ROAD Samuel Logan, of Sarasota, sold his home at 3936 Roberts Point Road to Joel Morganroth, trustee, of Siesta Key, for $6,333,400. Built in 2015, it has four bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths, a pool and 6,114 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $4,175,000 in 2020.

SIESTA KEY BL Lane LLC sold the home at 3536 Bayou Louise Lane to Brian and Rebecca Wood, of Sarasota, for $6.3 million. Built in 2004, it has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 6,044 square feet of living area. It sold for $5.35 million in 2006.

BAY ISLAND SHORES Dilip Mathew and Cynthia Adams sold their home at 852 Freeling Drive to Patrick and Jennifer Burnam, of Columbia, Missouri, for $6.25 million. Built in 1963, it has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,212 square feet of living area. It sold for $2.65 million in 2018.

BAY ISLAND Rebecca and Gordon Nidiffer sold two properties at 3821 Flamingo Ave. to John Melk and Karen Palmer Melk, of Naples, for $6.2 million. The first property was built in 1925, it has three bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths, a pool and 5,806 square feet of living area. The second property was built in 1925, it

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1144 and 1148 Sea Grape Point Road sold for $10.5 million.

has one bedroom, one bath and 504 square feet of living area.

MIRA MAR Scott and Linda Schaeffer, of Osprey, sold their home at 7967 Midnight Pass Road to Michael and Amie Redman, of Zionsville, Indiana, for $5.99 million. Built in 2020, it has four bedrooms, four baths, a pool and 4,904 square feet of living area. It sold for $3.5 million in 2021.

PALMER RANCH PRESTANCIA Thomas and Mary Jo Runfola, trustees, of Sarasota, sold the home at 3944 Losillias Drive to Tom and Patricia Lietha, of Sarasota, for $2,595,000. Built in 1989, it has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,779 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.26 million in 2014.

PRESTANCIA Melvin and Meryl Cohen, of Sarasota, sold their home at 4198 Boca Pointe Drive to Teresa Parsons and Jorge Fernandez, of Sarasota, for $2.25 million. Built in 1992, it has four bedrooms, six-and-two-half baths, a pool and 8,025 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.8 million in 2002.

WILDWOOD ACRES Michael Cole, of Venice, sold two properties at 6677 Mandarin Road to Steve and Faith Zenker, of Sarasota, for $1,685,000. The first property was built in 1994, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 3,163 square feet of living area. The second property was built in 1994, it has one bedroom, one bath and 528 square feet of living area.

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