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Pastor, Gans win Longboat Key election
Newly elected Irwin Pastor toasts his victory and supporters after learning of the results. Victor Terry Gans, left, is congratulated by Mayor Jim Brown. Longboat Key elected one new Commissioner in...
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Who will be chosen as Longboat Key’s Mayor in 2014?
STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com Mayor Jim Brown holds the reins on this one. If Brown wishes to continue in the role he will be a Mayor for a fourth term. It is clear behind the...
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Brown named Mayor, Duncan Vice Mayor for Longboat Key
Mayor Jim Brown and Vice-Mayor Jack Duncan STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com Jim Brown was chosen by his fellow Commissioners on Monday evening to serve as the Mayor of Longboat Key...
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Longboat Town Attorney resigns
STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com Longboat Key Town Attorney Maggie Mooney-Portale announced her resignation to the Commission at the end of Monday’s Workshop meeting. Portale, who...
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Amid support, LBK Attorney decides to stay
STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com Longboat Key Town Attorney Maggie Mooney-Portale will continue as town attorney for Longboat Key. Following a tumultuous month in which...
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Longboat Commissioner Gans finds Soviet connection
Some readers of the Washington Post continues to insist that Nikita Khrushchev visited a Washington-area Giant food store during his 1959 U.S. visit. He didn’t. But through the research of Longboat Key...
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Longboat planning progress frustrates Longboat leaders
STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com Intense frustration would be a kind way to describe what Longboat Key Town Commissioners expressed at last Monday’s workshop meeting when Town...
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Islandside must weather receding beach
STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com In the face of Islandside condominium owners who have expressed “extreme concern” over the state of their “nonexistent beach,” the Longboat Key town...
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Town puts power line burial plan, vote of residents, on hold
STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com In the face of criticism and debate the Town Commission decided not to move forward with a public vote in March 2015 on whether to bury power lines...
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Demand for traffic solutions gaining ground
STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com Everyone knows the ride from Longboat Key to Sarasota during the busy season is more stop than go. That fact drove Longboat Key Commissioner Terry...
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