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Complete street nears finish Ringling’s downtown layout aims to accommodate cars, bikes, people. SEE PAGE 3A

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Paying tribute

The University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee recently paid tribute to the victims of Sept. 11 in a special way.

Students, staff and volunteers turned out to the college’s campus courtyard to plant 2,977 American flags on Sept. 6. The number represented the people who died during the terrorist attacks. By the time the volunteer effort had concluded, the campus lawn was filled with American flags.

The gesture was the first of the school’s plans to recognize Sept. 11. The flag placement was done in advance of a remembrance ceremony for the 21st anniversary that will be held on USF Sarasota-Manatee campus at 8:15 a.m. on Sept. 9.

The service is open to the public.

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Youth regatta attracts hundreds from around Florida. SEE PAGE 1B

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Start spreadin’ da news Sarasota boaters can be forgiven if weekend voyages recently left them in a New York state of mind.

A few miles offshore on Saturday, mariners spotted one of the Big Apple’s iconic Staten Island Ferry boats passing by.

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

Rather, the new passenger vessel — the Dorothy Day, for you Gotham-philes — was heading home from a successful U.S. Coast Guard inspection in Port St. Joe, prior to it entering service shuttling scores of commuters to and from Battery Park.

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Danny Castaldi was among the captains taking part in the 74th annual Labor Day Regatta at Sarasota Sailing Squadron.

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TOTAL FALSE CRAWLS: 2022 2021 Siesta Key 584 603 Lido Key 205 279 Casey Key 1,940 1,773 Source: Mote Marine Laboratory

Lawsuit to fly over SRQ-adjacent plan Airport Authority aims to challenge city’s approval of apartments across the street. SEE PAGE 4A File photo

Either landing on Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport’s main runway or taking off, commercial jets fly close to the proposed site of Aventon Sarasota.

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Father, daughter charged with cruelty

“ It’s not gamesmanship. I say this stuff because I believe it to be true, and I know what I’m going to do.”

A father and daughter have been arrested and charged in connection with a video that went viral on social media depicting a raccoon that had been apparently burned alive.

Sheriff’s deputies in Sarasota County arrested 30-year-old Alicia Kincheloe and 63-year-old Roddy Kinchloe on Thursday afternoon.

The man was charged with a single count of aggravated animal cruelty, while his daughter was similarly charged with an additional count of tampering with physical evidence. Both have been released on bond, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Attorney Robert Lincoln, on plans to sue the city on behalf of the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport Authority, Read more on page 4A

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Daily bicyclists expected to use a revamped Ringling Boulevard once a “complete streets” makeover is finished later this year.

City OKs first look at beach smoking ban

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Vote to approve land-use changes of the former Sarasota Kennel Club adjacent to SarasotaBradenton International Airport.

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Square footage of an apartment that qualifies for half-unit status under county affordable housing development regulations.

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Police sent a robot into City Hall to examine a suspicious package.

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CALENDAR n Sarasota City Planning Board regular meeting — 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept.

14, Commission Chambers, City Hall, 1565 First St.. n Sarasota County Commission regular meeting— 9 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 13, Commission Chambers, Robert L. Anderson Administration Building, 4000 S. Tamiami Trail, Venice. n Sarasota School Board final budget hearing — 5:15 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 13, Board Chambers, Landings Administration Building, 1980 Landings Blvd.

poster sent to a staffer in a suspicious-looking package, with an even more suspicious return address, prompted the evacuation of City Hall on Tuesday, according to a police report of the incident that interrupted a Sarasota City Commission meeting.

Police heard from Parking Manager Mark Lyons around 2 p.m. Tuesday. He told officers he had received an envelope in the mail containing a length of white, unmarked PVC pipe, with both ends capped, and which rattled a bit with movement, raising initial suspicions.

The return address appeared to be that of a shooting range in California, which heightened concerns.

With a large number of people in the City Commission chambers, officers with the Sarasota Police Explosive Materials Unit recommended evacuation of the building, along with the temporary closure of adjacent segments of First Street and Second Street.

A remote controlled robot entered the building and assisted officers in determining the pipe contained a rolled-up poster addressed to Lyons, along with

small, self-adhesive tabs to hang the poster from a wall.

Lyons told police, according to the report, that he recognized the poster as a version of one already in his office.

Police reopened the streets and allowed staffers and the public to re-enter City Hall around 4 p.m. The City Commission meeting resumed and continued into the evening.

Police said it was unknown why the poster was mailed in such a suspicious container rather than a more-conventional cardboard tube.

More than a decade after the city of Sarasota unsuccessfully attempted to ban smoking on city-owned beaches, smoking cigarettes and filtered cigars will soon be prohibited not only on beaches but also in cityowned parks.

Now backed by state legislation in the form of House Bill 105, city commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved the first reading of two ordinances intended primarily to prevent the proliferation of cigarette butts on beaches and in city parks, with the added benefit of mitigating second-hand smoke.

That’s good news for nonsmokers and those who seek to protect the environment, but not so much for smokers, which was a point of concern expressed by commissioners Hagen Brody and Liz Alpert.

“I think maybe in the parks that we designate some areas where people can smoke,” Alpert said.

The commissioners appeared to be in favor of designated smoking areas — specifically parking lots — and left an option for those who are compelled to light up, courtesy of Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch.

“I would move that we direct the city manager to bring back a resolution addressing the designated parking area or smoking areas of the parking lots and potentially bring that before the Parks and Rec Board for recommendation,” said AhearnKoch.

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WHAT’S NEW?

The eastern segment of Ringling Boulevard has been undergoing changes since June as part of the city of Sarasota’s plan to convert the thoroughfare into a “complete streets’’ project and establish a cycling link from Legacy Trail to the bayfront.

Among the new wrinkles: RAMPS AT BUS STOPS These new features will allow for Americans With Disabilities Act access from the sidewalk to a Sarasota County Area Transit bus, because now a bus might not be able to pull up as close to the curb as previously.

PARKING SPACES Parking had been accessible along the curb for much of Ringling Boulevard’s length. Now, in some cases, the cycling lane is the closest traffic feature to the sidewalk and curb. Particularly between East Avenue and U.S. 301, new parking spaces have been established.

BIKE LANE AND BUFFER One of the main reasons for the shift in traffic patterns was to allow for a protected cycling lane along Ringling Boulevard.

In so places, striped “no-go’’ zones buffer the cycling lane from the travel lane.

PLANTERS Built-in planters, where the outside travel lanes once were, will be completed in weeks to come to also help buffer the cycling lane from motorized traffic.

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Work began in early June on the Ringling Trail project, which will convert one lane of traffic in each direction between Lime and Pineapple avenues into a protected bicycle lane.

New street ahead With the first phase of work on the Ringling Trail from Lime to Pineapple avenues nearing completion, work is set to soon begin west of Washington Boulevard.

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lthough “complete street” construction on Ringling Boulevard in downtown is still incomplete, commuters are already getting a sense of two lanes of vehicle traffic on the formerly four-lane road.

Work began in early June on the Ringling Trail project, which will convert one lane of traffic in each direction between Lime and Pineapple avenues into a protected bicycle lane.

Ultimately, the bike lane will connect Legacy Trail from Payne Park to the downtown core, and eventually to the bayfront when work on the U.S. 41-Gulfstream Avenue roundabout is completed and trail access restored.

From there, cyclists may continue on the multiuse recreational trail across the Ringling Bridge to St. Armands and Lido keys.

The Ringling Boulevard complete street project was divided into two phases, the first between Lime Avenue and Washington Boulevard nearing completion. Work on the second phase between Washington and Pineapple began last week, with the $2.76 million project scheduled for completion before peak season this fall.

“Our strategy was to get the eastern side open first because that’s where the county’s Legacy Trail terminated, so that way we’d have the first connection with the Legacy

MADE IN THE SHADE This week marked the end of a survey period for public input on a complete street project for Shade Avenue, a north-south corridor, between Hibiscus and 15th streets. To date, complete street planning has been limited to east-west corridors.

The online survey is the first of several opportunities for engagement to better understand citizens’ preferences and concerns that can be incorporated into the conceptual design.

Shade Avenue is the No. 4 priority in the city’s transportation master plan, Sarasota in Motion. Ringling Trail is the first complete street project to begin construction. In May, the city unveiled design concepts for complete streets for 10th Street and Boulevard of the Arts, which followed public survey periods for each.

A complete street promotes safe travel for all modes of transportation from walking to public transit. It is intended to be accessible to all and to create a sense of place for the community. Each complete street is unique and can include features such as enhanced sidewalks, street lighting, benches, street trees and landscaping, art and more.

Planners will analyze the survey results and work with designers to develop three proposals to present to the public in the fall. As they did for the Ringling Trail, citizens may then offer feedback on those designs. The city estimates that the first phase of the the Shade Avenue project will be completed in fall 2023.

Trail completed and then move on to the western portion,” said Project Engineer Camden Mills.

Legacy Trail is a nearly 23-mile, multimodal paved trail that will ultimately connect Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport with the Venice Train Depot.

The trail currently terminates at Fruitville Road while the city of Sarasota either successfully completes negotiations with Seminole Gulf Railway to co-locate along the railroad’s right of way or, failing that, plots alternate routes through the city’s neighborhoods.

In addition to striping, landscaped islands near intersections will serve as visual and physical separations between motor vehicles and bicycles.

The city has projected as many as 1,000 bicyclists a day using the bike lanes.

Ringling Boulevard is a suitable route for the project, Mills said, because the road, which runs parallel to Main Street, it is not a thoroughfare or designated evacuation route.

Because traffic declined from an average of 14,000 vehicle trips a day in 2002 to 7,900 trips in 2019, losing one travel lane in each direction would have minimal impact on traffic, he said.

Some elements of the project, Mills said, intended to improve traffic flow.

“At East Avenue we’re adding some left turn lanes eastbound and westbound, and then at the intersection with U.S. 301 (Washington) there’ll be a dedicated right turn lane going westbound,” Mills said.

“I think that’s going to help traffic management long term.”

Often, vehicles had to squeeze past others stopped at the light to make a right turn on red, or simply wait their turn when the signal turned green.

Not everyone was thrilled with the new design, though.

Steven Chasen of Sarasota was driving through the area last week

RIGHT-TURN LANE Anyone who has ever tried to make a right turn from Ringling Boulevard to U.S. 301 while heading west will appreciate the new, dedicated, right turn lane.

“Our strategy was to get the eastern side open first because that’s where the county’s Legacy Trail terminated, so that way we’d have the first connection with the Legacy Trail completed and then move on to the western portion.”

— Camden Mills, Project Engineer

and said he appreciated the emphasis on cycling, but questioned the ratio of four-wheel access to two-wheel.

“This really is too much of a departure,” he said. “Look at the cars, but do you see any bikes? I think they overdid it somewhat.”

Concrete work for the first phase, which includes the landscaped islands and ADA-accessible ramps at crosswalks, intersections and Sarasota County Area Transit bus shelters, is nearly complete.

Late last week, striping had already been applied to begin marking travel lanes, cycling lanes, parking spaces and buffer zones.

The city posted an advisory on its social media accounts alerting drivers of new traffic flows and changing conditions from day to day.

“Once that’s complete in the next couple of weeks, we’ll be moving on to landscaping and irrigation,” Mills said.

“While they’re finishing that, they’re starting on concrete removal and prep work for the for the western portion west of U.S. 301.”

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or the time being, planning for a 372-unit apartment community at the former Sarasota Kennel Club will move forward.

Whether it’s actually built may come down to how a court defines the word “must.”

At Tuesday’s Sarasota City Commission meeting, commissioners green-lit Raleigh, North Carolinabased Aventon Cos. plans for Aventon Sarasota on the 25-acre property across University Parkway from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

By identical 4-1 votes, commissioners approved an amendment to the Future Land Use Chapter of the Comprehensive Plan, then the rezoning of the parcel to Residential Multiple Family 4 and the site plan for Aventon Sarasota. Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch cast the dissenting votes.

But “must” the city have approved residential on the site formerly zoned for commercial or mixed-use only? According to Sarasota attorney Robert Lincoln, who represented the Sarasota Bradenton Airport Authority during the public hearing, that will likely be up to the courts.

Both Lincoln and SRQ President and CEO Rick Piccolo cited a 2018 agreement between the city and airport. That agreement included prohibiting residential-only development on land surrounding the airport beneath the 65 decibel daynight average sound level (DNL) contour from the end of the runway, under which the majority of Aventon’s residential buildings would stand.

Unless, the agreement reads, housing “must” be built on the site.

Lincoln defines that to mean that if a subject property has a preapproved residential use or a deed restriction that requires residential be built, the restriction is rendered invalid. Conversely, city staff — which recommended approval of Aventon’s plan — and the majority commissioners interpreted “must” as a determined need for housing

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Under its previous zoning, the site could have hosted more intensive commercial uses such as a strip center or big box store, or even mixed use with a residential component.

Neighborhoods surrounding the site balked at intense commercial uses.

One nearby Manatee County resident spoke against the apartments, imploring commissioners to not allow new residences under the noise cone.

In addition to the agreement, Lincoln and Piccolo argued that a residential-only development on the site is contrary to the city’s comprehensive plan, and that amending it to accommodate Aventon’s project doesn’t hold legal muster.

“The verbiage in the comp plan and zoning code all cite the health, safety and quality of life reasons that residential units in the 65 DNL are only permitted in a must situation,” Lincoln said. “It’s the official position of the city adopted by this commission. No must situation exists.”

Ahearn-Koch based her objections to the apartments for health and safety issues, citing research that continued exposure to commercial aircraft operations result in hearing loss and even mental health problems. Further, she said, the city should honor its internal agreement with SRQ. Other commissioners and Mayor Erik Arroyo countered the city’s housing crisis constitute a “must” condition, even though rather than affordable housing Aventon’s rents — largely because of its proximity to the airport — will be on the lower end of the market.

That Aventon has emerged as the only willing buyer of the decaying kennel club site since it was forced to close in 2019 by statewide referendum banning greyhound racing, Commissioner Hagen Brody pointed out, only accentuates the need to move forward.

The airport authority had expressed interest in purchasing the land before 2020 but had to stand down amid the uncertainties of COVID-19. Piccolo insisted the airport’s objections are based on future noise complaints by new residents, and not its interest in the property.

Brody suggested potential legal action will be between SRQ and Aventon only, but before commissioners voted on the rezoning and site plan, Lincoln launched one final salvo across the dais.

“The city is going to be a defendant in any litigation,” Lincoln said. “And I’m not just here saying that because

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This is why it’s right, or this is why it’s wrong. It’s not gamesmanship. I say this stuff because I believe it to be true, and I know what I’m going to do.”

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“What you have in the record is that it must be allowed because there’s a housing crisis, and it’s needed for housing,” Fournier said.

“That’s the argument that’s being made as to why it’s a must.”

“In your professional opinion, is this a valid argument to support the city’s determination?” Brody asked.

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County asks staff to tighten up workforce housing loopholes Sarasota half-dwelling unit density ordinance has yet to produce results, so commissioners direct staff to review and refine it.

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hat began as a request by Sarasota County Commissioner Nancy Detert morphed into a discussion recently about affordable-housing intentions gone awry.

As the final weeks of Chair Alan Maio’s tenure on the County Commission approach, at the Aug. 30 commission meeting Detert brought up what she described as his signature piece of service over his eight years on the board — an innovative density formula designed to help facilitate lower-cost housing, particularly west of Interstate 75.

Adopted as a strategy in 2019, the policy allows residential units of 750 square feet or less to count as onehalf unit for density purposes in multifamily development. Although several projects that meet that criteria are in the early planning stages, the tangible results to date have failed to achieve the goal.

Detert’s request to review the rule’s language to tighten up requirements intended to incentivize density and achieve affordability morphed into a deeper discussion about market forces, supply and demand and the tightrope that separates the public’s desire for workforce housing and resistance to the necessary density to make it a worthwhile business plan.

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County Commissioner Christian Ziegler: “The only thing you can do west of the interstate is go taller.”

“The first things that came out of the box were a shock to us,” Detert said. “The ones that are going up are not what we envisioned. I would hope that you would support a board assignment where we review our half-dwelling unit policies and see what impact the current language has on housing affordability and how can we tighten it up.”

Half-dwelling credit is applied to rentals up to 750 square feet, the intent to incentivize entry-level workforce housing. Instead, Detert said developers are quoting rents of $1,900 to $2,300 for such units.

Commissioner Christian Ziegler, who will rotate off the board along with Maio this fall, said several developments in the planning pipeline demonstrate progress toward the affordability goal, and that legislation does take several years to manifest itself. He said he supports Detert’s proposal, providing the intent is to not eliminate the incentive altogether.

“I’m aware of a number of projects that are in design right now that are really excited about being able to do some studio-type of apartments over commercial development,” Ziegler said. “There are some overlays that we’ve done where we’ve increased density to 25 units per acre to facilitate that, and I’ve seen some preliminary designs. I think there’s going to be a lot more of that coming online.”

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Before consensus on the request in the absence of Commissioner Mike Moran, Maio and Ziegler — wanting to take the opportunity to ensure the program remains in place after their tenures end — expanded on the

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can’t go wider west of the interstate because there’s no room. You have to look at east of the interstate.

“That starts giving people some reservations in areas that they don’t want to see development go wider.

So how do you get affordable housing because if you don’t want to go taller, and you don’t want to go wider, we’re not going to get more supply here.

That’s the real honest debate that’s going on and as a commission, we have to decide how to navigate both.”

The county is going “wider,” the commissioners approving transmitting to the state SMR’s request to amend the comprehensive plan to allow for the development of 4,120 acres. As for going taller, Maio referenced Sarasota Square Mall as a target of redevelopment west of the interstate.

“There are people looking at doing just that when they come in and want to make it a mixed-use development and put a five- or six story-building in the middle of it surrounded by commercial and multifamily,” he said. “People will still come out and push back on that. I would ask them to please take a breath because what better place for some of this stuff?”

In the end, commissioners agreed with Detert’s request, providing it only offers a review and recommendations for improving the county’s affordable housing strategies rather than eliminating them entirely.

“Does the language we have accomplish that for us or does it not and should we make a change?”

Detert said.

“Nobody’s talking about eliminating the good idea that we started out out with.”

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subject and offered a reality check of the challenges of imposing housing restrictions on a free market.

Maio recalled public resistance to the half-dwelling unit credit concept, saying commissioners were “chewed up” for an idea that would double the population of the county.

“We did things very deliberately,” he said. “It only applies in multifamily districts. We recently added it to mixed-use, where somebody wants to put it on top of a strip center where it’s appropriate and follows all the mixed use guidelines. We are desperate in this community — that’s not an exaggeration — desperate for workforce housing. … This is a place young people can land for the first time.”

Ziegler went a step further, opining about those who resist new construction and greater density concepts while simultaneously demanding more workforce housing.

“The real discussion would be how do you get affordable housing?”

Ziegler said. “You get it through supply and demand. We don’t have supply. There’s a lot of demand. The price goes up. That’s how the market works.”

Ziegler referenced SchroederManatee Ranch’s request to build up to 5,000 homes in eastern Sarasota County between Fruitville Road and University Parkway east of Lorraine Road.

“How do you address supply?

Sarasota County west of the interstate is already built out,” he said.

“The only thing you can do west of the interstate is go taller. No one wants to go taller. … So then the question is (if) you don’t want to go taller, how do you go wider? You

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

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Some Floridians argue that issues should be solved by the Legislature, not left to the Constitution Revision Commission and voters to decide.

Do not hand your power to politicians An initiative on the November ballot could abolish the Constitution Revision Commission, but should we instead be working to improve it?

ADRIAN MOORE

O

ne of the initiatives on the ballot in Florida this November is Amendment 2, titled Abolish the Constitution Revision Commission Measure. Not surprisingly, all that Amendment 2 does is abolish the Florida Constitution Revision Commission.

The Constitution Revision Commission is a unique Florida institution, a commission that meets every 20 years to consider changes to the state constitution and agree upon ones to put before the voters as ballot measures. It is made up of 37 members: The governor appoints 15, the Senate president appoints nine, the speaker of the House appoints nine, the chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court appoints three, and the attorney general serves on it.

We have been through three rounds of the CRC since the state constitution was created. In 1978 the commission was appointed all

by Democrats and not even one of the measures they put on the ballot was approved by a majority of voters. In 1998 CRC was bipartisan and much more successful with voter approval. In 2018 Republicans appointed all the CRC members and all seven of their proposals that went to the ballot were approved by over 60% of voters.

As Carlos Beruff, a Manatee County developer who chaired the 2018 CRC put it, “The first one wasn’t terribly successful. the second one I think eight of the nine items they put on the ballot passed so it was pretty successful. So, we are going to be very careful with the taxpayer’s time and money and only bring forward things that we think will pass that 60% litmus test.”

Indeed, in the 2018 election, voters not only amended the state constitution by approving CRC proposed changes, but also got to vote on constitutional changes proposed by the Legislature and ones put on the ballot by citizen initiative.

PROS AND CONS OF THE CRC

The CRC has come under criticism in recent years, notably by State Senator Jeff Brandes (R). He has argued that both parties detest the CRC, and the fact that members are appointed, not elected, means they are not accountable to the voters. He tweeted: “It’s rediscovered every 20 years, has no rules, players have no experience, once it starts it can’t stop, crazy things pop out, and you never know how damaging they will be. Election night, you yell ‘Jumanji.’”

He and other CRC critics say that citizens can amend the constitution with proposals from the Legislature, citizen initiatives, a constitutional convention, and via the Taxation and Budget Reform Commission. They do not also need the CRC as a fifth mechanism.

But the single biggest criticism of the CRC is that many of the measures it proposes are things that should be legislative changes in law, not enshrined in the state constitution. Over the years the fact that Florida citizens can only vote on ballot initiatives that change the constitution, and do not have the option to change the law by initiative, as in other states, means the constitution is full of “issues of the day” rather than timeless rights and rules for the state.

On the other hand, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Editorial Board has pointed out that decades of corruption led the U.S. Supreme Court to force a new state constitution for Florida, and the CRC was included in it “to protect Florida from ever being paralyzed again by the self-interests of an entrenched political empire.”

New College professor of political science Frank Alcock argues that “the CRC is a mechanism that was intentionally built into our current state constitution during its formation in the 1960s. It’s unique among state constitutions, and it reflects two important values of its designers: (1) the ability to adapt the constitution to changing times; (2) robust input and final approval of amendments on the part of the citizens of Florida. Like any institutional innovation, however, it can be exploited or used by those that control it. The CRC is what we make of it.”

State Sen. Darryl Rouson (D) served on the 2018 CRC and says that “The CRC may not be perfect, but as lawmakers, we should work to improve it rather than scrap it.

Abolishing the CRC along with other efforts to make it more difficult and more expensive to circulate citizens’ petitions to amend the Florida Constitution will make it harder for citizen voices to be heard in shaping the future of their state.”

A 2020 poll by the LeRoy Collins Institute at Florida State University found 87% of Floridians like having

a commission do what the CRC does and provide an alternative to the Legislature. About two-thirds of them also supported some changes to the CRC to address the concerns of critics.

Professor Alcock told me “Amendment 2 would abolish the CRC entirely. While this would eliminate the political tactics that annoyed many Floridians this past cycle, it would also remove an important feature of our state constitution that was deliberately put there by its designers. And let’s not forget that we have another 15 years before the next cycle that could be used to talk about less drastic reforms.”

REFORMING THE CRC

There seem to me to be more advocates for reforming the CRC than for eliminating it. Along with those already mentioned, for example, Florida State University Professor Carol Weissert has advocated for reforming the CRC, not abolishing it, and University of Florida Professor Mary Adkins has written extensively about ways to improve the CRC. Some common reforms suggested include: n CRC members be more diverse and bipartisan rather than all appointed by the party in control at the time the commission happens. n Create a simple set of rules and procedures for all CRCs in the future so they do not make up their own each time. n Do not allow the CRC to “bundle” different issues into one initiative, imposing a single-subject requirement. n Apply Florida’s open meetings laws to the CRC. But the biggest change would be creating a citizen legislative initiative process in addition to the constitutional amendment initiative process. Most of the issues people bring to the CRC each time it convenes are legislative issues they are frustrated the Legislature has not addressed. Lacking a direct democracy mechanism to change the law, they take the only route they have, addressing the issue via the state constitution. A constitutional amendment to create a citizen legislative initiative process and require the CRC to focus on issues appropriate to address in the constitution would both improve the CRC process and answer many of its critics and give citizens a more appropriate outlet for change.

It would make much more sense to reform the CRC and the citizen initiative process than to eliminate it as Amendment 2 does.

Adrian Moore is the vice president of Reason Foundation and lives in Sarasota.

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ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT Greenberg has masters like H. Claude Pissarro lining his walls.

A work by Nikitas Kavouklēs.

Wayne Eastep captured this lightning bolt.

MASTERS ON

Cary Greenberg is an architect by trade and an artist by nature, and he’s enjoying his second life in business as the owner of an art gallery.

MAIN STREET

A limited piece by Henri de Toulouse-Latrec.

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ary Greenberg has staked his claim to a well traveled stretch of Main Street that features food and drink.

But he’s selling Picassos and Rembrandts.

Greenberg, a former architect who now runs the Stakenborg Greenberg Fine Art gallery, spent decades of his life yearning to open his own art space. That passion took a second place, though, as he developed his career and raised a family.

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He moved down permanently not long after that, and he began frequenting the Stakenborg Fine Art space owned by Christian Stakenborg.

A decade later, in 2016, Stakenborg wanted to retire, and he offered Greenberg the chance to take over after the two became friends.

“I had some pieces I wanted to sell and pieces I wanted information on,” says Greenberg. “ I bought some pieces from him.

“And finally the guy was like 80 years old; he said, ‘I’d like to retire.

Why don’t you buy my gallery?’ So we worked out a deal and he stayed with me for about three years.”

Stakenborg’s specialty was mod-

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ern masters on paper, and his collection featured etchings and lithographs from artists such as Picasso, Goltzius, Rembrandt and Piranesi.

At one point, says Greenberg, Stakenborg had the largest collection of Rembrandt etchings. Those were all sold to a private investor, and Greenberg began to diversify.

He didn’t just want to sell masters on paper. He also wanted to represent some local artists.

This wasn’t Greenberg’s first time running a gallery.

He had opened his own shortlived art space in a Detroit suburb in 1990, but he quickly learned that it could be a tough business.

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But now, in his second attempt at running his own gallery, he approaches it with new tools and experience.

Greenberg, who holds a bachelor’s degree in fine art and a master’s in architecture, went back to school and became an appraiser in the hope of better understanding which kinds of art will sell.

He says that most of the art in his shop is there on consignment.

The artists — or the people who own the pieces — have left them in the hope he can sell them, and Greenberg says he relishes making connections in the community.

“Mostly, we get serious art collectors,” he says. “I also get a lot of estates. Kids come in and say, ‘My grandpa died and we don’t want the art. What can you do with our Rembrandts? What can you do with our Picassos?’ And that’s what I do. I sell them for them.”

THE MASTERS

Greenberg says that at one point, the art on his gallery walls represented a sweep of about 500 years. But now it’s only about four centuries’ worth of artistic achievement.

He gestures around at the walls, pointing out a couple limited edition Picassos and a Toulouse-Lautrec.

“There’s only 100 of these,” he says of the Toulouse-Lautrec. “This is what makes my gallery different. I’ve tried to bring in originals and different things that nobody else carries.”

Greenberg says he had a ToulouseLautrec in the same series that sold for $42,000. The one he’s selling now is marked for $38,000 because the stamp on it has faded a little.

But it’s the stories behind the work, and the rarity that makes it worth owning for a collector.

“There’s something about the subject matter and the exuberance of the art,” says Greenberg. “He’s a master. He didn’t flood the market.

“He was very picky about what he did and who he did it for. He didn’t need the money. He did it for the art.”

Greenberg recently began selling the work of Otto Neumann, a famed German painter who died in 1975.

Greenberg says Neumann donated much of his work to the Rothschild Collection, and now Stakenborg Greenberg is one of a few galleries in the United States that has Neumann

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works to sell to the public.

There are 10 Neumann pieces in the Stakenborg Greenberg gallery, and that number will eventually jump to 24. Greenberg expects to stage a Neumann show later this year, and he says there’s a lot of interest in seeing the works. The show, he says, will include one-of-a-kind monotypes created by the artist.

“A monotype is a one-time piece,” says Greenberg. “He does the art on glass, then he presses the paper down. He pulls it up, does more color, presses the paper down and pulls it up. That’s it.”

AMERICANA

Greenberg gestures to a piece in the back room of his gallery, which is a long, narrow storefront packed with art from floor to ceiling.

It’s a LeRoy Nieman painting of an event at Madison Square Garden honoring great boxing champion Joe Louis. It’s like the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in that you can stare at it forever.

Greenberg points out Frank Sinatra and Jerry Lewis, Billy Cosby and Henry Kissinger, even Ladybird and Lyndon Baines Johnson.

There’s also a wall of rock-and-roll memorabilia, including a painting of John Lennon and prints of original artworks made by roots rocker John Cougar Mellencamp.

The back room boasts a collection of numbered and signed photos from Rob Shanahan, personal photographer for Ringo Starr and author of “Volume 1: Through the Lens of Music Photographer Rob Shanahan.”

A few steps away, back in the main room of the gallery, there’s a collection of four Norman Rockwell prints signed by the artist himself.

Rockwell has an All-American enduring appeal, says Greenberg, both because of the prolific nature

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of his work but also because of its familiar and dated aesthetic.

“This is a great story here,” he says of the Rockwell pieces. “These were brought in by the daughter of a teacher who was his neighbor on the East Coast. He would show up and lecture her students, who were in elementary school. Every time he came in, he’d bring them a poster.

“This is a print, a high-end print, but he’s hand-signed it. That’s the value on this. There’s four of them.”

KEEPING IT LOCAL

Greenberg wanted to have a personal touch in his gallery, so he’s begun representing a select group of local artists and trying to sell their work.

Slowly but surely, he’s carved out space in his gallery for them to hang in a prominent place.

Right when you walk into the art space, you’ll see the highly distinctive figures painted by KD Tobin, a fine artist based in Sarasota since 2004. Tobin’s abstract figures resemble ancient murals in their conception and their delivery.

You’ll also find the evocative nature photography of Wayne Eastep, who says that he uses the medium as “visual poetry.”

Greenberg’s gallery houses the sculpted figures of Saul Rubenstein,

“I think I represent six local artists. And also American artists who come through here. The rest is all masters.

Dead masters.”

Cary Greenberg has made a home for Rembrandts and Picassos — and also local artists like Nikitas Kavouklēs — in his gallery.

— Cary Greenberg

a former optical surgeon who now splits his time between Michigan and Sarasota.

Another local artist, Nikitas Kavouklēs, was part of Leger de Main, an arts consortium in Manhattan prior to relocating to Sarasota more than two decades ago.

Greenberg has multiple pieces by Kavouklēs, who works in a variety of mediums including oil painting and monotypes. And it’s his hope that they’ll sell just like the masters arrayed on the wall around them.

“I think I represent six local artists,” says Greenberg. “And also American artists who come through here. The rest is all masters. Dead masters. Nick always wanted to hang with Rembrandt. So here he is with his etchings on top of Rembrandt.”

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Homegrown Homebound When The Players sold its longtime home on Tamiami Trail, it did so with the goal of positioning itself not only for its centennial and beyond, but with the lofty ambition of expanding its impact as a core piece of Sarasota’s arts community.

The organization traces its history back 92 years to the city’s birth as an arts capital of the region, and it has worked dutifully during those nine decades to fulfill its unique promise as a community-based arts organization. “Alongside our commitment to providing high-quality and affordable theatre, our organization has also established itself as a service provider for the arts community over its history,” says The Players’ CEO, William Skaggs. Those services include adult and children’s theatre education, a safe space for the city’s diverse public and a conduit for volunteerism.

WHAT’S THE DISH: Sometimes you like a sandwich so much that you buy the restaurant. At least that’s what happened to Jim Abrams.

Abrams, a former energy executive, walked into Duval’s more than a decade ago and he tried the shrimp po’boy sandwich and suddenly, he was in the restaurant business.

Eleven years later, his son Sean continues the mission of feeding crowds on Sarasota’s Main Street.

And the one thing tying everything together is the po’boy on the menu.

“It’s our staple sandwich,” says Kelly Dungan, marketing director for Duval’s. “We have people who come in specifically for that po’ boy.

It’s the talk of the town sometimes.”

Today, The Players finds itself in a unique position for a nonprofit organization, particularly one that straddles the seemingly disparate pursuits of generating revenue and providing services to the community. With a robust capital commitment, the performing arts organization has an opportunity to put a stake in the ground on a venue that shares a similarly long history—The Municipal Auditorium.

TASTES AND TEXTURES: You can get the po’boy with your choice of oysters, shrimp or chicken, and all three are served on a baguette with napa cabbage, tomato and chipotle remoulade.

The shrimp, chicken and oysters are breaded and fried, but Dungan says you could order them grilled if

Built in 1938, this landmark on Tamiami Trail has served the community by hosting myriad events, from socials and stamp shows to theater productions and galas.

Now, The Players has proposed an agreement that will see the space taken to new heights in symbiosis with other organizations while honoring the venue’s history as a community gathering space. “We think it’s an unprecedented and mutually beneficial proposal for us, the city and the region’s arts community,” says Skaggs.

The proposal would see The Players manage and utilize the production space from September through April, with administrative offices being utilized yearround. The Bay Park Conservancy would schedule the production space May through August. Even with the shared approach, The Players would still invest as much as $6 million to upgrade the facility, including collapsible, modular theatre seating, new lighting and sound capabilities, upgrades to mechanical equipment, the addition of multi-use office space and IT enhancements, all without tarnishing historic architectural features. During the summer months, The Players would use the Payne Park Auditorium for its smaller-scaled programming.

you wanted.

“It’s a classic Southern-style sandwich,” says Dungan. “The baguette is crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. The chipotle remoulade gives it a bit of a spicy kick. But not too much.

“You get the crispy shrimp and the crunch of the cabbage, so you have a nice balance of textures and flavors.”

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE: The shrimp is the original and the most frequently ordered of the po’boys, but Dungan says Duval’s branched out in the interest of giving customers a chance to try different types of flavors.

Sometimes, she says, people even order off the menu and ask for a scallop po’boy, and the chef is happy to accommodate.

Oysters may not be a typical sandwich item, but Dungan says that the menu choice gives an entry point to eaters who may not want to slurp them raw from the shell.

“It’s a little bit less intimidating to try an oyster that way,” she says. “A

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The capital improvements in this proposal would enable The Players to elevate the quality of its productions, expand the impact of its services and give the city a much needed, modernized community venue that can be used by other arts organizations, businesses and events. “I think it’s telling that we have enthusiastic support from a dozen other arts organizations that can’t wait to utilize the updated space for their productions,” Skaggs says.

Ultimately, The Players has a strong business case for its proposal that works in tandem with its service proposal. On the business side, the initial investment upgrades the facility, alleviates over $200k in operating costs from the city’s annual budget, provides economic activation by way of more secure fulltime jobs and by attracting new stakeholders to the space as visitors and rental partners. On the service side, the Municipal Auditorium would see greater traffic by way of educational programming, expanded volunteer opportunities, productions from other arts organizations, expos, fundraisers, galas, and banquets, not to mention utilization by The Bay during the summer for its own initiatives.

With so much history at stake and so much enriching activation, the city has a tough decision to make. Will it honor, celebrate and preserve an historic structure by letting an historic organization invest in and assume a lease at the Municipal Auditorium, or will it let the space often sit empty, unappreciated and underutilized?

“Our proposal is a win on top of a win on top of win for everyone,” says Skaggs. What does the city have to lose?

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SOMETHING DIFFERENT: Dungan says she would normally recommend pairing a local beer with the po’boy, but if a customer wants to try something unique, she’d steer them toward the bacon bourbon old fashioned cocktail.

“That’s probably our most wellknown cocktail,” she says. “It has candied pepper bacon.”

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JUST A TASTE: You don’t have to go for the whole sandwich if you’re not hungry for it; Duval’s also offers the po’boy as part of a soup-andsandwich combo. You can get a half-sandwich and combine it with a soup or a cup of New England clam chowder for $12.75, and for an additional $5, you can upgrade from the chowder to the lobster bisque.

“It’s also on our happy hour menu,” says Dungan. “We like to serve it in as many ways as we can think of.”

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“Giving the option of having a fried oyster on there gives you something familiar with something maybe a little bit new and different.”

DECORUM: This sandwich is thick and surely not everyone can get their mouth around it. Do some people eat it with a fork and knife?

“Some people take the top of the bread off and just use the bottom of the bread,” says Dungan. “There’s definitely people who use the fork and knife. And then there’s people who just kind of sandwich it into their face and get in there.”

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THIS WEEK ‘SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM’ 7:30 p.m. at Studio 1130, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail $30, students $13 Visit ThePlayers.org.

It’s a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s work that takes on new meaning in the wake of his passing. You’ll hear songs from “Gypsy,” “West Side Story” and “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” in this revue, which made its Broadway debut all the way back in 1977. The Players will be singing Sondheim through Sept. 18.

JAZZ THURSDAY AT THE SAM: SARASOTA JAZZ PROJECT 5:30 p.m. at Sarasota Art Museum, 1001 S. Tamiami Trail Free for museum members, $20 for non-members Visit JazzClubSarasota.org.

‘STAR TREK III: WRATH OF KHAN’ 7 p.m. at Regal Hollywood Cinemas, 1993 Main Street $13 Visit RegMovies.com.

KHAN!!!!!!! It’s the 40th anniversary of this classic that pits William Shatner’s James T. Kirk against his most implacable foe: Ricardo Montalbán in a scenery-chewing role as intergalactic megalomaniac Khan Noonien Singh. Guard your ears and watch what sci-fi looked like in the ’80’s before everything became computer-generated imagery.

There’s a whole bunch of activities going on at the Sarasota Art Museum on Thursday. Outside, there will be the jazz party in the Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza. And inside, there will be a talk at 6 p.m. with Alejo Benedetti, the associate curator of Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.

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IN AND OUT OF TIME: CORA MARSHALL 3 p.m. at Arts Advocates Gallery, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail Free Visit ArtsAdvocates.org.

TWO STREAMS OF POETRY IN THE VIETNAMESE TRADITION 11 a.m. at Elling Eide Center, 8000 S. Tamiami Trail $20 Visit EllingOEide.org

It’s the opening reception for an exhibit of the work by Cora Marshall, a painter and longtime arts educator. Michele Redwine, founder of the Suncoast Black Arts Collaborative, will deliver remarks about Marshall and her work.

Award-winning poet John Balaban will speak about how oral and written poetry have influenced Vietnamese culture over the centuries.

The lecture will also be available via Zoom if you’re unable to make it out to the Elling Eide Center.

‘THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND’ 7:30 p.m. at Bownes Lab, 1265 First St. Free Visit FloridaStudioTheatre.org.

MARTHA LOPEZ – MUSICAL JOURNEYS 7 p.m. at Studio for the Performing Arts Recital Hall, 5840 26th St. W., Bradenton, $15 Visit SCF.edu Soprano Martha Lopez is a member of the faculty at State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota, and she’ll sing on compositions from Bach, Rossini, Poulenc and more. Lopez, who holds a master’s in vocal performance from the University of South Florida, will be supported by Lurray Myers on piano and Sean O’Neil on violin.

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Celebrate the art of the sitcom with the cast of Florida Studio Theatre’s Improv troupe, who will create and act out a brand new two-act show complete with theme song and commercials right in front of your eyes. This time, you won’t be on your couch as you laugh along at plots you may have seen across genres and across networks over the decades.

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This isn’t just a cooking class. This is a life skill academy. Who doesn’t sometimes crave pancakes for dinner? If you take this parent-andchild cooking class, you’ll never head to IHOP again. The instructors at Aprons will teach you how to make pancakes, biscuits with sausage gravy, breakfast pizza and scones.

And after you learn to cook it? You’ll either eat it or you’ll take it home.

HD AT THE OPERA HOUSE: ‘RIGOLETTO’ 1:30 p.m. at Sarasota Opera House, 61 N. Pineapple Ave. $22 Visit SarasotaOpera.org.

Here’s your chance to hear some Verdi before the Sarasota Opera performs “Ernani” in March. This production was broadcast live by the Royal Opera in London in March, and director Oliver Mears attempts to bring Verdi’s 1871 opera into the modern world. Come for the arias and impeccable musicianship conducted by Antonio Pappano.

WEDNESDAY MONTY FRANKLIN 7 p.m. at McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre, 1923 Ringling Blvd. $25 Visit McCurdysComedy.com.

FLORA IMAGINARIA It feels like Flora Imaginaria was just installed, but there’s some bad news: It’s about to be disassembled. The exhibit, curated by photography historian William A. Ewing, attempts to tell the story of the history of flowers in photography. Ewing says that photos of flowers have existed pretty much since cameras were invented, and he wrote the book to prove it. Now, with the assistance of curator Danae Panchaud, he’s revisited the topic.

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IF YOU GO When: Runs through Sept. 25 Where: Selby Gardens, 1534 Mound St. Tickets: Free with admission Info: Selby.org.

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It’s a show that became a phenomenon and only seems to gather more steam with age. The late Jonathan Larson won the Pulitzer Prize for “Rent,” and the cast at Manatee Performing Arts Center is ready to bring the East Village to Bradenton. Rent runs through Oct 2.

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Around 200 sailors turned out for the annual competition.

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That can be exciting and exhausting in equal measure, but Hillmyer knows exactly what makes it worth it every year.

“Every time I see sailing clubs (and families) arriving with their cars and boats, I get so excited,” Hillmyer said.

Around 200 sailors and families again made the journey to Ken Thompson Park for the 74th annual Labor Day Regatta on Sept. 3. The annual race brings hundreds of sailors of various ages to Sarasota’s shores for a day of sailing races. Families arrived early Saturday morning to set up their boats and prepare for the activities to come.

Hillmyer and other staff hosted a meeting for racers before it was time for the competitions to start.

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Questar Lane Patrick and Brenda Smith, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1726 Questar Lane to Gary Kompothecras, trustee, of Sarasota, for $5.5 million. Built in 2004, it has five bedrooms, six-and-a-half baths, a pool and 6,718 square feet of living area. It sold for $4.8 million in 2020.

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HIGH POINT CIRCLE Anthony and Rebekah Mullet, of Sarasota, sold their home at 1898 High Point Drive to Ryan and Joanna Rosenthal, of Deerfield, Illinois, for $4.1 million. Built in 2020, it has six bedrooms, six-and-a-half baths, a pool and 4,102 square feet of living area.

SAN REMO ESTATES John and Barbara Rade, of Sarasota, sold their home at 3545 San Remo Terrace to Anthony and Dianna Pesavento, of Sarasota, for $2.95 million. Built in 1956, it has three bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 3,052 square feet of living area. It sold for $1,238,000 in 2001.

SOUTH GATE Patrick and Meka Schurr, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2615 Rose St. to Maxwell Taylor, of Sarasota, for $875,000. Built in 1961, it has four bedrooms, two baths and 2,468 square feet of living area.

RENAISSANCE Yvonne Prodger, of Barrington, Rhode Island, sold her Unit 1417 condominium at 750 N. Tamiami Trail to Katherine Lee, of Sarasota, for $810,000. Built in 2001, it has three bedrooms, two baths and 1,460 square feet of living area. It sold for $610,000 in 2004.

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Cheskin Park, of Paramus, New Jersey, sold the home at 2234 Arlington St. to Hans Schmeits and Kimberly Royster Schmeits, of Sarasota, for $675,000. Built in 2007, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 2,484 square feet of living area.

It sold for $423,000 in 2019.

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The home at 1321 Point Crisp Road was built in 2001. It has five bedrooms, six-and-a-half baths, a pool and 6,572 square feet of living area.

RIVO AT RINGLING

Anita Rambo Dunlap, trustee, of Sarasota, sold the Unit 1003 condominium at 1771 Ringling Blvd. to Lone Pine Investments LLC for $670,600. Built in 2006, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,440 square feet of living area. It sold for $508,400 in 2006.

SIESTA POINTE

Bret and Beth Lewis, of Clinton, Pennsylvania, sold their Unit B15 condominium at 8920 Duval Lane to Jeffrey Manga, of Arlington Heights, Illinois, for $620,000.

Built in 2007, it has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and 1,983 square feet of living area. It sold for $315,000 in 2019.

baths and 1,629 square feet of living area. It sold for $345,000 in April.

RIVERWOOD PINES

Viviana Romero, Javier Martin Rodriguez and Ricardo Martin, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2327 Riverwood Pines Drive to Sky Land Trust, trustee, for $505,000. Built in 1972, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,542 square feet of living area. It sold for $150,000 in 2012.

Legacy Estates on Palmer Ranch Philip Bradford Vaughan and Rebecca Julian Vaughan, of Sarasota, sold their home at 5336 Greenbrook Drive to Todd John Peplinski and Sheli Lee Poplinski, of Sarasota, for $1.8 million. Built in 2018, it has three bedrooms, three-anda-half baths, a pool and 3,639 square feet of living area. It sold for $989,600 in 2019.

GULF GATE EAST

Norma Howlett sold the home at 3811 Easton St. to Anthony and Sharon Fudoli, of Sarasota, for

GULF GATE WOODS

James Champine and Maria Champine, trustees, of Sarasota, sold the home at 7428 Biltmore Drive to Frank Galdieri, of Sarasota, for $615,000. Built in 1973, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 1,828 square feet of living area.

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Bonnie McAuliffe and Jorge Castillo, of Sarasota, sold their home at 2340 Grove St. to Theresa Sarro, of Forest Hills, New York, for $545,000. Built in 1959, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 1,824 square feet of living area. It sold for $195,000 in 2018.

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Gary and Pamela Minnich, of Leesburg, Indiana, sold their home at 5551 Contento Drive to Larry and Yessenia Kershner, of Hagerstown, Maryland, for $1.85 million. Built in 1970, it has three bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,287 square feet of living area. It sold for $1.08 million in 2019.

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Kelvin and Marjorie Cooper sold their Unit 205 condominium at 1157 Coquille St. to Eric and Christine Austvold, of Sarasota, for $1,125,000. Built in 1983, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,760 square feet of living area. It sold for $725,000 in 2018.

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Robert and Aileen White, of Brentwood, Tennessee, sold their Unit 408 condominium at 925 Beach Road to Debra Hering, trustee, of Sarasota, for $625,000. Built in 1972, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 753 square feet of living area. It sold for $351,000 in 2015.

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Ya Jia and Junhai Liang, of Sarasota, sold their home at 5781 Valente Place to Alexander Hotye and Daisy Otilia Hotye, of Sarasota, for $775,000. Built in 2005, it has four bedrooms, three baths, a pool and 2,521 square feet of living area. It sold for $559,900 in 2021.

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Joseph Adam Tami and Lindsay Marie Tami, of Sarasota, sold their home at 8677 Palmer Park Circle to SN Florida II LLC for $500,000.

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It sold for $530,000 in 2021.

Joanne Reeder, trustee, of Geneva, Illinois, sold the Unit 706 condominium at 6415 Midnight Pass Road to Molham Abdel Meguid and Maggy Youssef, of Ontario, Canada, for $700,000. Built in 1975, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,287

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Team USA is scheduled for two games at Ed Smith during the event’s opening round, at 7 p.m Sept. 10 against Korea and at 7 p.m. Sept. 12 against Canada.

After the opening round, schedules are still TBD, but the event’s gold- and bronze-medal games will be held at Ed Smith on Sept. 18. If Team USA makes it that far, it will be a cool finish.

Tickets for the event can be purchased at sarasotabradenton2021.com. … Former Sarasota High outfielder Vaun Brown continues his lightning-quick ascent in the San Francisco Giants organization. Brown started the season with the A-level San Jose Giants before being promoted to the High-A Eugene Emeralds. On Aug. 25, he moved up again, this time to the AA-level Richmond Flying Squirrels.

Brown is hitting .348 with a 1.066 OPS, 25 home runs and 89 RBI. He’s had one game with his new team. He went 0-2. … This isn’t strictly local news, but it is news you can use: JustWatch, an app and website that help you look up where your favorite movies are streaming, had added a sports section to its site, tennis, soccer and Formula 1 streaming schedules, with more sports like baseball and basketball coming in the next few weeks.

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SSSA player Lenny LoCastro said the league is a great place to find new talent and make friends.

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the dugout. The players rag on themselves as much as they do players on the opposing team — which is often, but always in a charming, sarcastic way. The level of play is high in the SSSA, but as any of the league’s more than 350 players will be happy to tell, it is the players and mix of personalities that make the league worth playing in year after year.

“It’s a good group of guys enjoying themselves,” Dan Martin, 73, said. “Occasionally you will see guys arguing and you’re like, ‘Hey, come on. Why?’ We’re out here to have fun. There’s no reason to argue or get on a teammate. And mostly it’s great. It makes it worth coming back, as much as playing game itself.”

Jay Wolfinger, 74, was not playing Wednesday, but was in attendance cheering on, well, everyone. Wolfinger plays in the association’s Monday ‘B’ League, which is a step down in competition from the ‘A’ League.

It’s not necessarily by choice; the league selects teams for each season by holding a draft. If a player is not selected for the ‘A’ League, he will fall to the ‘B’ league, and so on. Wolfinger does not take it as a slight. In fact, he loves the system. Wolfinger said it is great for players who either don’t want to face elite competition or were once elite but are no longer.

A player may be upset about the situation at first, but players often find that the more appropriate level of play makes for more fun games.

The Blue and White teams in Wednesday’s game certainly seemed

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even. Pitchers threw underhand from behind a screen, which was not placed simply out of precaution.

The seniors were hitting rockets all over the field. No one hit a home run, but a few players came close.

Lenny LoCastro, the Blue team’s third baseman, always got down into a ‘ready’ stance before each pitch in case a liner came smashing toward him. It’s the kind of thing that players are taught in youth ball, then take for granted as their reaction skills improve. But players can’t take it for granted in senior softball. LoCastro, who has 20 years of travel softball experience with the Florida Hitmen, would know.

“This league is like fun practice for travel ball,” LoCastro said. “It’s also great for recruiting new players (to travel ball). I’ll watch them a bit and invite them to a batting practice session. I try to get more than one look at them because anyone can have one good day, you know? But it’s great for making friends and since we change teams every season, it keeps it balanced and fair. I end up rooting for people on the other teams to do well.”

After a few minutes postgame to recharge and get a drink of water, the players went back on the field.

Yes, the ‘A’ League plays doubleheaders. By the end of game two, the players will be exhausted. But they’ll be smiling, too. When looking for a sport — a community — to fill your week, that counts for a lot.

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It was not a typical ring.

Somewhere in the string of athletic bags that lined the fence at 17th Street Park softball field No. 2 on Wednesday morning, muffled by material, blared an orchestral song, with swooning strings and rising tension.

Yet it also served as the perfect score for the moment at hand: a tie game, 12-12, between the Sarasota Senior Softball Association’s Blue and White teams in the association’s ‘A’ League, the top league for talent.

It was the bottom of the seventh, the final inning in SSSA games. The Blue team was at-bat. A run would win the game.

It wasn’t quite movie magic: the phone stopped ringing while the inning was still being played. But the Blue team did score, making league president Ken Shepard and his Blue teammates quite happy.

Shepard’s Blue team is tops in the league currently, but you wouldn’t know it by the way the team talks in

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wo weeks in, and the hopes of Sarasota-area high school football teams for a perfect season are already dead.

Yes, each squad has already lost at least once. While no team wants to lose at all, losing early means there is time to fix the problems that plague them and still have a successful season. Here, I’ve put together the one big question I have about each program and looked at how those questions might be answered in week three and beyond.

I can’t answer these outright, because the real answers will only be found on the field. That’s why we watch, after all.

RIVERVIEW HIGH

How much of the Rams’ 0-2 start is because of its opponents?

The Rams lost 48-0 to Sanford Seminole High in week one and 45-6 to Gainesville Buchholz High in week two. On paper, those scores look bad. But there’s a few things to consider here. One, both Seminole and Buchholz are legitimate state contenders; Seminole reached the Class 8A regional finals last season while Buchholz reached the Class 7A state semifinals. Two, the Rams tend to start slowly; they lost to the same Seminole program 35-6 in 2021’s opening week before winning seven straight games.

So the two losses are not the end of the world. The Rams can still make the postseason. But the losing streak can’t get extended. Riverview plays on the road at Palmetto High (1-1) on Friday.

The Tigers are coming off a crushing overtime loss to Braden River High and will be out for revenge against Riverview for a 22-16 Rams win last season. The Rams need to be prepared and play much better.

If they don’t, a good Tigers teams will put them in an even larger hole.

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SARASOTA HIGH

Which Sailors performance is closer to reality?

Sarasota crushed Bayshore High 56-8 in week one and lost 42-20 to Manatee High in week two. My guess is that the Sailors are closer to their first performance; against Manatee, the Sailors put up a fight, cutting the score to 21-20, before Manatee scored 21 straight points to end the game. Sarasota had its chances but failed to execute well enough. That will happen with underclassmen in key positions.

The good news is these underclassmen will learn with experience and, Sailors fans can hope, get better. Junior Jaden Judge, a running back, has done a lot of good things.

He has three rushing touchdowns and a receiving touchdown. If more young Sailors follow his trajectory,

They certainly solved their problems with scoring, though I don’t think scoring on Southeast is going to be the toughest of challenges this season — it gave up 50 points to Coconut Creek High in week one. Doing it against Sarasota on Friday will be a sign that Booker has turned an offensive corner. But the Tornadoes will have to do it while not allowing the Sailors to score on them.

If I was a Sarasota-area fan deciding which game to attend this week, I’d go to that one, because I have no idea it will turn out. No matter how it does, it will answer some questions.

the program will have something.

A game against a Booker High program in a similar spot on Friday night should be a good test to this end.

BOOKER HIGH

Can the Tornadoes continue not to beat themselves?

After Booker’s week one loss to Cardinal Mooney High, 10-9, firstyear coach Scottie Littles expressed disappointment in his team’s discipline. Booker had plenty of chances to score a touchdown but failed, to go along with some untimely penalties and a few low snaps which cost the team yardage (and handed the Cougars two crucial points on a safety.)

In week two, Booker remedied some of these issues. The Tornadoes beat Southeast High 31-17.

It’s early, but further success for Sarasota-area teams likely depends on how they solve initial issues. specifically for the Mooney defense, which allowed zero offensive touchdowns in its 10-9 week one win over Booker, then allowed seven of them in a 51-23 loss to Lakewood Ranch High in week two. It’s true that Booker had a few opportunities to score in week one, so that zero is a bit misleading, but the Mooney defense deserves credit for locking those opportunities down. Conversely, Mooney could not stop Lakewood Ranch quarterback Clayton Dees at all; he threw for three touchdowns and ran for three more, accounting for 424 total yards. The game was Dees’ first as the Mustangs quarterback — Lakewood Ranch had its week one game against Lemon Bay High canceled in the first quarter— so perhaps the lack of video on him was a factor.

Either way, the Cougars won’t win many games if they routinely allow opponents to score that many points. That’s not exactly string theory to understand. Before the season I praised the Cougars defense on its potential. I still believe it and the team as a whole can be quite successful, but they have to prove it. It will also need some assistance from its offense: while the defense definitely allowed too many yards, the offense turned the ball over five times.

This Friday’s road game against First Baptist Academy, which reached the Class 2A state semifinals in 2021, won’t get easier, so things have to improve fast.

CARDINAL MOONEY HIGH

Which Cougars defense is for real?

Similar to Sarasota’s question, but

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It’s just enjoyable to play. I used to play golf a lot more when I first started back up, but golf turned out to be more frustrating.

What is your best skill?

Well, even though I somehow managed to get on base four times today, my value is in my defense.

My team, we’re in first place, and I believe that is because we play the best defense. It’s the same on my

What is your preferred position?

I used to play the outfield all the time. But about three years ago I started having trouble seeing the ball. I needed cataract surgery.

They moved me to the infield in the meantime and I adapted pretty well to that. Now that I have had the surgery, I feel like I can play anywhere.

What is your favorite softball memory?

Playing tournament ball was always a blast. I traveled the state on the weekends playing in what is called Half Century Softball. I played a lot of good teams and met a lot of people. The quality of the games is good, with teams from Miami and Orlando and Tampa.

What are your hobbies?

I golf some, like I said. I watch the Red Sox. I even wake up in the morning and look at the box scores of Boston’s affiliate teams to see how they did the night before. I keep track of the stats of their top prospects. I also play a lot of cards.

What is the best advice you could give to a prospective player?

Come in and have fun. That, and stretch. I spend a lot of time before games stretching. If you ever watched Ichiro (Suzuki) when he played, he was always stretching in the outfield, and he rarely got injured. I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

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jobs

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3687676-01

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373-9299

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724-2945

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Joe Murray, Owner

5

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387262

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25

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INCLUDING SCREENS, TRACKS, MIRRORS & FANS

38 Years Experience

Dustyn McCauley

Form Serving Longboat Key Since 2005

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Windows

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Plumbing

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386866

Eldridge Re-Screen

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THE ACKERMAN GROUP 941.387.1820 TOP PRODUCING SMALL TEAM IN SARASOTA COUNTY RYAN ACKERMAN

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RECORD SALE

RECORD SALE

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GRAND BAY - 3010 GRAND BAY BLVD. #433 SOLD $815,000 OVER LIST PRICE SOLD! $2,700,000

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OVER $90 MILLION PENDING AND SOLD IN 2022

HARBOR ACRES

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500 S. PALM AVE., #52

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NOW PENDING! $17,250,000

ALTA MER - GOLDEN GATE POINT 360 GOLDEN GATE PT. #4

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PENDING! $6,700,000

ARTISTRY

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PENDING! $567,990

387703-1

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