Bee Ridge News

OSPREY a ' A Family Music Fest will be held at Oscar Scherer State Park from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

SARASOTA, FL, October 30, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Lucinda Streiker-Schmidt, who left the close-knit Amish community of rural Indiana to start a new life, will sign her novel, A Separate God-Journal of an Amish Girl, at: Starbucks Saturday, November 7th / 10AM-2PM Bee Ridge & Beneva Sarasota, FL 941-924-7200 Circle Books Sunday, November 8th / ...

Every three minutes an overhead page would sound with a message for doctors and nurses saying a patient needed medication, or had a fall or needed a bath.

Published: Monday, October 19, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 19, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. SARASOTA - A stained glass window in St.

Supers, short for supernumeraries, are the nonsinging extras that Sarasota Opera uses in its opera productions.

Published: Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 8:47 p.m. SARASOTA COUNTY - Like many dog owners, Ila Abis views her dogs as "her children." Abis' shrine to Yogi is seen in September in her Sarasota home.

Sarasota County Master Gardeners' 5th annual plant sale, Oct. 10, 8 a.m.2 p.m., at Bee Ridge Park, 4430 S. Lockwood Ridge Rd., corner of Wilkinson Rd.

Published: Friday, September 18, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 8:34 p.m. Today's ceremonial groundbreaking for the construction of a section of Honore Avenue shows how far road planning has advanced in Sarasota County.

Sept. 4 may have represented a watershed moment for Sarasota County, the day the county stopped being reactive to site-specific land-use planning.

In the past seven years, 38-year-old Kevin Liu has opened three restaurants in Sarasota.

Published: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 9:40 a.m. Although the population in Sarasota has crept steadily eastward, and along with it a variety of business enterprises, restaurants have been slower to head out that way.

Published: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, August 31, 2009 at 8:24 p.m. Overdevelopment has harmed our economy, as the market is flooded with vacant houses, condos, offices and stores.

This past Saturday we had a Free Back to School Carnival at our church. It was a big success as we gave 50 filled back packs, furnished hot dogs, drinks, chips and cup cakes.

This past Saturday we had a Free Back to School Carnival at our church. It was a big success as we gave 50 filled back packs, furnished hot dogs, drinks, chips and cup cakes.

In recent discussions about the future of Sarasota's wastewater plans, it was revealed that the old Siesta Key Utilities Authority plant would be torn down in 2015.

To better serve Florida motorists, AAA Auto Club South has teamed up with the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to offer Floridians the ability to easily renew a driver license, obtain a duplicate driver license, change a name or address on a driver license, get an identification card, and register to vote-all at no costs to ...

It was a deadly pile-up on I-75 in 2007 that sent 10 people to the hospital and cost two others their life, including James Brashear of Sarasota.