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What started as an idea inked on a napkin in Nashville opens this weekend as a $130-plus million Major League Baseball training facility in North Port’s West Villages.
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Lately, the price of gas just keeps rising.
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Some local students ages 12-17 are so addicted to vaping — using electronic smoking devices — that they use their JUUL (pronounced “jewel”) pens between classes, in the bathroom — even inside the classroom.
From beach cleanups to solving a cold case, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office highlighted numerous achievements in its 2018 crime report.
Jackie LeClair, dubbed The Children’s Clown by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, died Sunday at the nursing facility at Bay Village, Sarasota.
A study released Tuesday ranks counties throughout the nation on how healthy they are.
CLARIFICATION: A March 20 story on the settlement of a lawsuit brought by the state against Bellagio on Venice Island HOA Inc. and two directors said resident Tom Gavlick was a named defendant in the lawsuit. Gavlick was named throughout the complaint and signed the settlement agreement with…
A proposed settlement in the city’s lawsuit with Neal Communities calls for Venice to repay the company roughly $1 million.
According to the old saying, March “comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.”
The city of Venice issued its first Fact Sheet on critical issues earlier this month.
It was a total team effort March 16 when members of Lemon Bay Sunrise Rotary, Boy Scout Troop 36, the Lemon Bay High School Manta Rays football team, the Englewood Cats and others converged on historic Lemon Bay Cemetery.
OneBlood is holding a blood drive on Wednesday, March 27, outside Venice City Hall, 401 W. Venice Ave., from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
A motorcyclist was hospitalized after crashing into a garbage truck that was stopped in traffic on U.S. 41.
A police aide with the city for only 16 months has already helped save two lives.
The Lemon Bay Conservancy thinks people need a better understanding of water quality.
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Your congressmen have sponsored a combined 61 bills so far this session.
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Local developer Mike Miller received a unanimous thumbs up from the Venice Planning Commission for a preliminary plat petition to build 20 townhouses along the south side of East Venice Avenue between County Club Way and Home Park Road.
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An early evening house fire caused extensive damage but no injuries, according to the Venice Fire Department.
Proposed legislation to be heard by a Senate committee next week would require older high-rise condominiums in Florida to have sprinkler systems by January 2023.
A Venice man previously evicted from a Sarasota apartment tried to illegally rent out his former unit.
CLARIFICATION: A March 20 story on the settlement of a lawsuit brought by the state against Bellagio on Venice Island HOA Inc. and two directors said resident Tom Gavlick was a named defendant in the lawsuit. Gavlick was named throughout the complaint and signed the settlement agreement with…
A proposed settlement in the city’s lawsuit with Neal Communities calls for Venice to repay the company roughly $1 million.
According to the old saying, March “comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.”
The city of Venice issued its first Fact Sheet on critical issues earlier this month.
It was a total team effort March 16 when members of Lemon Bay Sunrise Rotary, Boy Scout Troop 36, the Lemon Bay High School Manta Rays football team, the Englewood Cats and others converged on historic Lemon Bay Cemetery.
OneBlood is holding a blood drive on Wednesday, March 27, outside Venice City Hall, 401 W. Venice Ave., from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
A motorcyclist was hospitalized after crashing into a garbage truck that was stopped in traffic on U.S. 41.
A police aide with the city for only 16 months has already helped save two lives.
The Lemon Bay Conservancy thinks people need a better understanding of water quality.
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Your congressmen have sponsored a combined 61 bills so far this session.
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Local developer Mike Miller received a unanimous thumbs up from the Venice Planning Commission for a preliminary plat petition to build 20 townhouses along the south side of East Venice Avenue between County Club Way and Home Park Road.
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An early evening house fire caused extensive damage but no injuries, according to the Venice Fire Department.
Proposed legislation to be heard by a Senate committee next week would require older high-rise condominiums in Florida to have sprinkler systems by January 2023.
A Venice man previously evicted from a Sarasota apartment tried to illegally rent out his former unit.
A lawsuit brought by former State Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Office over a dispute among members of a Venice homeowners association has been settled.
If you didn’t get tickets to Sunday’s Atlanta Braves spring training game at new CoolToday Park, console yourself with a free tour of the stadium Saturday.
NORTH PORT — A man and a woman from Iowa died Friday after their motorcycle crashed into a tree off Interstate 75, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.
More than 150 people turned out for a neighborhood workshop Monday evening to learn more about a proposed 347-unit apartment complex in Venice.
Continuing their efforts to diversify the housing stock and promote affordability, Sarasota County commissioners unanimously approved a measure Wednesday allowing for the development of so-called tiny houses.
Charlotte County is ready to build nearly two miles of a walk and bike path around Punta Gorda’s South County Regional Park.
