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Venice, Florida is located in Sarasota County. Zip codes in Venice, FL include 34293, 34292, and 34285. The median home price in Venice is $200,000 which is roughly $107/per square foot. More Venice information.

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23 hrs ago | North Port Sun

Indians advance to 7A finale

SUN PHOTO BY ROB SMITH Tyson Albert threw a complete game two-hitter as Venice defeated Chiles, 4-0, to advance to Saturday's 7A championship.

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Yesterday | Englewood Review

Venice Theatre Summer Camps start soon

This summer, campers will audition, rehearse and perform a full-scale musical production during Venice Theatre's 6-week Summer Theatre Camp.

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Sat May 18, 2013

Bradenton.com

Girl power in full force at Usf Stem summit

There were girls flying paper airplanes in the hallways, sending marbles down roller-coaster tracks they built and controlling a humongous robot while having fun all day Saturday.

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Honoring 'Monty'

FILE PHOTO Monty Andrews addresses a crowd at the Historic Train Depot celebrating the city's Bike Friendly Community status last year.

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Fri May 17, 2013

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Groups gather in Venice to help veterans

Groups that help area veterans gathered Tuesday in a roundtable meeting to learn more about what each does, and to discuss ways to better help those they serve.

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Venice gets - chalked' with colorful artwork

SUN PHOTO BY JUSTIN FENNELL Gary Maria, a professional chalk artist and 2-time winner of previous chalk festivals puts the finishing touches on his sidewalk rendition of a Star Trek mural.

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Wed May 15, 2013

Business Journal

Sharky's voted best Florida beach bar

Sharky's on The Pier in Venice was voted the 2013 Best Florida Beach Bar, with Jimmy B's on St.

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City offering hurricane seminar Friday

Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dorian, Erin, Fernand, Gabrielle, and Humberto are just some of the names designated for the 2013 hurricane season, which begins in June and runs through November.

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Beach improvements scaled back in Venice

Plans by the city of Venice to clean up Flamingo Ditch and Deertown Gully, which offers drainage into the Gulf for roughly 100 acres on the island, were scaled back this week after city engineers learned project costs have nearly tripled.

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Tiny telescope helps treat Venice woman

PHOTO COURTESY OF SARASOTA RETINA INSTITUTE Dr. Marc Levy performs eye surgery at Cape Surgery Center at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.

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Sunshine State News

Republican Hopeful Julio Gonzalez Has Good Head Start to Replace Doug Holder

With state Rep. Doug Holder, R-Venice, facing term limits next year, Dr. Julio Gonzalez, an orthopedic surgeon from Venice, is off to an impressive head start as he looks to represent parts of Sarasota County.

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Tue May 14, 2013

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Dorothy A. Flynn

Dorothy A. Flynn, originally from the Chicago, Southshore and Beverly, Ill., areas, passed away Friday, May 10, 2013.

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Mon May 13, 2013

Patch.com

One of Florida's 'Best Beach Bars' is on Clearwater Beach

Clearwater Beach is home to one of the state's best beach bars. That's according to voters on FloridaBeachBar.com , which on Monday released the results of its annual "best beach bar" contest .

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Teen actor funding dream of acting camp

If 14-year-old budding actor Justin "Jay" Harrington wants to go to the New York Film Academy Acting Camp in Orlando next month, he's got to sell a lot of Origami Owl jewelry.

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Sat May 11, 2013

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Tale of Matthew, bankers and a plumber

PHOTO COURTESY OF TANYA MORRIS Matthew Dupree, a plumber with Michael Douglass Plumbing, holds a 5-week-old kitten he pulled Monday from a pipe beneath the parking lot at Florida Shores Bank in Venice.

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Mission team visits Bahamas

Nine men from Venice Presbyterian Church traveled to Eleuthera in the Bahamas recently to meet with the island's "Men of Faith" team to work together on projects to benefit the Christian community there.

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Fri May 10, 2013

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SUN PHOTO BY KIM COOL Shannon Gerace has the same b irthday as her husband, Butch Gerace.

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Mom, son honored for mental health work

Florida ranks low in the services it provides to people with mental illness, but one Venice family has been celebrated for doing more than its share to help them.

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Classic cars, beautiful day, intracoastal mark show

Thirty cars were featured at the Senior Friendship Center's First Classic and Antique Car Show held recently.

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Unity welcomes mother-daughter ministry

When the Rev. Patricia Reiter, senior minister at Unity Church of Venice, got a call from her daughter, the Rev.

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