SARASOTA
Observer YOU. YOUR NEIGHBORS. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
VOLUME 14, NO. 44
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Celebrating the beauty of 100 years. PAGE 21
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
All good in the ’hood Officials offer thoughts on city-neighborhood relations. SEE PAGE 3
Shane Donglasan
Dick and Lorraine Vitale present a scholarship check to Rickey Tedesco.
Ball’s in their court Sports personality Dick Vitale took over the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota County Lee Wetherington Club with his energy and enthusiasm for learning Sept. 29 to award five college-bound students with $1,000 scholarships each. Vitale passed out signed basketballs and spoke to younger students about the importance of education. For the past two decades, Vitale has awarded 105 Boys & Girls Clubs members with scholarships totaling $105,000. “Many of these kids come from tough situations financially, but they have goals, and we want to motivate them to chase those dreams,” Vitale said.
Restart your engine Replica of historic motorboat creates magic on the bay. SEE PAGE 13
Pop-up poetry The young poets of Booker Middle School spent a week at downtown Sarasota’s Art Ovation Hotel sharing their creativity with anyone who walked by. Wearing their berets and fingers poised over vintage manual typewriters, the students of the Dragonfly Cafe asked passers-by to select strips of paper from a jar each printed with a word. The poets then turned the chosen words into a personal poem on the spot.
Shane Donglasan
Captain Gordon Bloom takes visitors through Little Sarasota Bay on the Magic.
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Form-based code passes to city staff
Turtle Tracks AS OF SEPT. 22 TOTAL NESTS: 2018 2017 Lido Beach 123 186 Siesta Key 361 638 Casey Key 1,186 1,853 TOTAL FALSE CRAWLS: 2018 2017 Lido Beach 144 209 Siesta Key 327 665 Casey Key 1,433 2,115 Source: Mote Marine Laboratory
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Karin Murphy, director of Urban Design Studio, has spearheaded drafting the new development rules for the city.
After more than five years of work, the new regulations head to the city for implementation. SEE PAGE 5
Can’t-miss theater this season. INSIDE