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Free. Events are 11 a.m.-noon Nov. 21; Dec. 5, 19. n SCF book, author series: The State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota Library will begin a new book and author series featuring SCF faculty and local authors 5-7 p.m. Dec.

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 10:16 p.m. SARASOTA Harold Wilen has been the director and trainer for the Sarasota Boxing Club since starting it in 1985.

Chaslee Isterling is a girl of few words, but when it comes to art, she expresses herself boldly and directly in colors.

Published: Friday, October 30, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 10:14 p.m. Princesses, pirates, superheroes and ninjas all paraded around the hallways of Fruitville Elementary on Thursday morning.

Some Fruitville Elementary students collected their pennies for animals in need.

Money for special classroom projects is especially tough to come by this year, after budget problems forced the school district to cut millions of dollars from its budget.

Published: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 11:14 a.m. Star Thai & Sushi opened recently in Sarasota Commons, off North Beneva between Fruitville and 12th Street.

The mission: to determine whether soap and water or hand sanitizer is best for germ-fighting. The scientists: 18 third-graders at Fruitville Elementary.

Little did Chloe Ewing, Zachary Smith and Seran Dillard know that by sitting in the row, they were bound to get a oegermsa squirted on them.

Published: Monday, October 12, 2009 at 8:47 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 12, 2009 at 8:47 a.m. The Florida Highway Patrol is asking for the public's help in finding two area drivers who caused accidents over the weekend and then fled the scene.

Published: Monday, October 12, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 7:26 p.m. State Sen.

Both county commissioners up for re-election in 2010 have filed to run again. That means for the first time since 2004, there will be no open-seat battles for the county commission in Sarasota.

Published: Monday, September 21, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 6:28 p.m. SALES KIN Properties Inc.

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.

A 20-year-old Sarasota man with critical injuries was flown to a trauma unit after a 3 p.m. car crash Wednesday afternoon in eastern Sarasota County.

Fruitville Elementary School first-grade teacher Ginny Rattigan sorts books in her classroom.

Traffic signal work and sidewalk ramp improvements are being done by contractor AJAX Paving Industries of Florida.

In May, the Pelican Press reported on a quarter-billion dollar shortfall in estimated receipts of the voter-approved Local Option Sales Tax .

A 34-year-old woman was taken into custody after she stripped off her clothes and walked along Fruitville Road in her underwear Monday.

TRA'shion Fashion and Art Show 2009 July 12, 2009 at 10:55 pm by Chip Weiner The 2009 TRA'shion Fashion and Art Show was a big hit againA this year.