Lakewood Ranch News

Getting an early start on the Fourth of July holiday, the Pelican Palooza party and Music on Main offered up plenty of relaxation, music and food Friday.

Mother Nature was the likely cause of a house fire in Country Club that left a family shaken, but unhurt, earlier this week.

The Polo Grill's Fete Ballroom looked like a scene from the Food Network last Friday night.

A lightning strike led to a fire in the attic at a $1.5 million home in the Lakewood Ranch Country Club on Wednesday, East Manatee Fire District officials said.

Firefighters believe a lightning strike may be the cause of a house fire Wednesday evening that caused significant damage to a home valued at nearly $1.5 million.

The three finalists for the Lakewood Ranch High School Principal position possibly met their toughest critics during a community forum June 30 at Lakewood Ranch High School.

Manatee Community College today is officially changing its name to State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota. The day is a historic one for the college, chartered in 1957 as Manatee Junior College.

Chabad of Bradenton will host an observance of the 15th anniversary of the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, obm, this week.

The new principal of Lakewood Ranch High School is expected to emerge from a field of eight candidates identified by the Manatee School District.

As Thomas Fast prepares to fight for his life at trial in a little more than a week, he spoke publicly for the first time in court Friday about the charge that he killed and dismembered his stepmother.

Tammy Kovar is a Lakewood Ranch resident. Lakewood Ranch-based Biological Tree Services was awarded the Sustainable Florida Small Business Best Practice Award at the Sustainable Florida 11th Annual ceremony on June 9 in Orlando.

In just one day last week, Ryan Heise's office fielded four phone calls about sprinklers running off-hours at the intersection of The Masters Avenue and Legacy Boulevard.

The internationally themed restaurants along Lakewood Ranch Main Street are going to try their hands at barbecue, a venerable American culinary art form.

LAKEWO0D RANCH - Oaks resident Vicky Horswood, a board member of the Summerfield-Riverwalk Homeowners Association, worries that someone speeding down Lakewood Ranch Boulevard will one day seriously injure a child on a bicycle.

One Manatee County public high school - Lakewood Ranch - received an "A" for the 2008-09 school year, according to ratings released Thursday by the Florida Department of Education.

Meals on Wheels Plus of Manatee is hoping someone would like to donate an existing site for the organization's first Friendship Dining Center for Lakewood Ranch seniors.

Jun. 16--EAST MANATEE -- As recently as six months ago, the busy intersection of Interstate 75 and State Road 70 lacked a single hotel.

A Lakewood Ranch homeowner's lawsuit over Chinese drywall and nine other similar class-action lawsuits filed elsewhere will be consolidated into one case in Louisiana, a panel of federal judges ruled Monday.

Lakewood Ranch was the first and only school at which Mike Wilder served as principal.

One of the strengths of Lakewood Ranch government as it exists now is that district supervisors live in the communities they represent and know the issues first hand.