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VENICE — Change is coming to Venice-based Island Village Montessori School and, more significantly, to its Sarasota campus, which will close at the end of the school year.
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SARASOTA — The Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation announced today the election of Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight to serve as a special adviser to its Board of Directors.
VENICE - Venice city officials announced that today and Thursday, the bond resurfacing projects will be milling and resurfacing San Marco Drive from The Rialto to Harbor Drive.
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SARASOTA - The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office reports Robert Maley, 67, has registered as a sexual offender temporarily living in Englewood.
The Venice Police Department reported the following arrests:
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VENICE — They may need a year to recover from all the fun.
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VENICE — A former Venice school teacher, arrested after sex crimes with two of his students, was sentenced on Friday to 30 years in jail and a lifetime of probation.
ENGLEWOOD — Two Englewood schools were locked down for more than an hour Tuesday after someone reported seeing a man with a rifle near the school.
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VENICE — The fates of two local Lucky’s Market locations under construction remain unknown.
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VENICE — Venice is home to a group dedicating their time to making a difference in the future of women.
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SARASOTA — An 18-year-old man has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a robbery that occurred in a Starbucks parking lot in Sarasota — as well as an armed burglary that took place in Venice.
VENICE — The parties whose efforts last year to rezone hundreds of acres in North Venice were rejected will learn Tuesday whether the third time is the charm.
ENGLEWOOD — Cecile Harrington paced in her driveway. Her husband Kevin was gone too long. Then she heard the sirens and helicopter and knew something was wrong.
Before you read the rest of this column, turn off the TV, put down your phone (not if you are reading this on your mobile device), close your eyes and for about 20 seconds ask yourself if you consider yourself a rude person.
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SARASOTA — A special public hearing by Region 4 of the EPA on a proposed fish farm takes place Tuesday.
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SARASOTA — The New Year has brought a refreshed and amicable partnership to the Sarasota County School District’s relationship with the Sarasota Classified Teachers Association.
The Venice Police Department reported the following arrest:
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LAUREL — A teenager who went on a shooting rampage the day after Christmas is behind bars, authorities said.
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SARASOTA — Attorneys for Sarasota County and three county commissioners responded Wednesday evening to a federally filed lawsuit claiming racially based discrimination in the county’s decision last year to change the boundaries of commission districts.