Lakewood Ranch News

After seven years of service, Carol Frankland is not going to run again for the Summerfield/Riverwalk Village Home- owner Association, leaving her seat open on the five-person board.

The Rotary Club of Lakewood Ranch will serve up bottles of fun at its Annual Suncoast Food & Wine Festival this weekend.

Tour guide maps are available at any of the Lakewood Ranch information centers. The 2009 Lakewood Ranch Tour of Homes will kick off to the public this Friday and run through Nov.

Published: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 8:40 p.m. Chef Eric Bein has opened Station 400 at 400 N. Lemon Ave., Sarasota.

Saturday night, Joe and Barbara Pfeiffer's home becomes the nightmare at 6902 River Birch Court.

Dr. Folkens' mission is to provide accessible and affordable medical treatment for anyone who needs it.

There were fossils millions of years old. Vertebra from ancient whales. Coral turned rock-hard. All from a sea that once covered what is now the peninsula of Florida.

The perpetrators in a fight at the Lakewood Ranch YMCA's Fifth Quarter event last month say the YouTube video of the skirmish does not tell the whole story.

There were tears, a fancy cake, speeches and laughter Wednesday during the dedication of a building in Venice in honor of State College of Florida President Emeritus Sarah H. Pappas.

Fred Stern will work with the Sarasota Volunteer Fire Department to pump water into the air to generate an artificial rainfall.

Published: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 10:48 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 10:48 a.m. The Marshalls at De Soto Junction is moving to Benderson Development Co.'s University Center at 8467 Cooper Creek Blvd.

Steve Harner, SCF board chairman, Dr. Bonnie Hesselberg, SCF Lakewood Ranch provost and dean of nursing, Dr.

Policing authorities may have put an end to a rash of vehicle burglaries in the Lakewood Ranch area thanks to the help of an eyewitness who reported the burglaries as they occurred.

Published: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 8:50 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 8:50 a.m. Vehicle break-ins have been a major problem for years in Manatee County, where sheriff's officials routinely report that unlocked vehicles are targeted by thieves who take items and run.

Five people were hospitalized, including one person in critical condition, after a Ford Explorer overturned late Tuesday afternoon northbound on I-75 in southern Manatee County.

Lake 209A near the corner of Lakewood Ranch Boulevard and Clubhouse Drive has had a long history of brown patches of algae sitting on the west end of its surface.

Terrie McNamara hadn't tried the chicken chili, cheese broccoli or butternut squash.

It's not in the tea leaves that they looked to foretell the future. It was in the pages and line items of the shrinking Manatee County School District budget.

LAKEWOOD RANCH, Fla.-Natural foods retailer Good Earth Natural Foods has opened a new store here, according to the Bradenton Herald.

ShelterBox USA, a nonprofit disaster relief organization, has delivered 624 of its relief boxes to earthquake victims in West Sumatra, Indonesia, and might be sending more.