By Jane Bartnett The Siesta Sand Hotel, a new eight-story, 80-foot high, 170 room structure, designed to reflect the Sarasota School of Architecture’s “Sarasota Modern” style, may be the latest addition to the Village of Siesta Key. The Sarasota County Read More
By Rachel Brown Hackney SarasotaNewsLeader.com By June 4, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) had all the required pre-construction documents for the Lido Key Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction Project, the SNL learned. Therefore, department staff members figuratively “started Read More
By Jane Bartnett “Following the Covid 19 lockdown, so many more people brought their dogs to beach this year,” said the Audubon Society’s Kylie Wilson, speaking of early spring days when Siesta Key Beach re-opened. “We are not anti-dog,” she Read More
By Rachel Brown Hackney SarasotaNewsLeader.com If all goes as planned, in a little more than four years, residents on the southern portion of Siesta Key will be seeing trucks hauling sand to the shoreline to fill in areas eroded by Read More
By Rachel Brown Hackney SarasotaNewsLeader.com As Sarasota County Public Works Department staff labored in early June to repair a section of North Casey Key Road shattered by Tropical Storm Cristobal, County Engineer Spencer Anderson was considering another attempt to try Read More
by: rodger skidmore What you see is what you get The question is, what do you want to get and where can you see it. Southwest Florida is a big place which normally contains lots to see and do. Thankfully Read More
Snowy plovers still making nesting attempts on Siesta Key In her June 7 update about the snowy plovers on Siesta Key, Kylie Wilson, coordinator of Audubon Florida’s Bird Monitoring & Stewardship program in the county, wrote about stormy conditions on Read More
High Condo 4708 Ocean Boulevard, #E-3 $1,112,500 The views of the Gulf of Mexico and Big Pass take your breath away. Rarely available 3 bedrooms/3 baths, split plan with attached 2-car garage and interior laundry room. Windward Passage is one Read More
In Honor of Captain Ralph Styles (a Decorated WWII Submarine Captain in the Pacific Theater), who began this Tribute Ceremony about 30 years ago. Each Sunset, our community comes together with new friends from around the world, on Siesta Key Read More
Oh Snap…it’s Snapper!! July brings us one of the tastiest treats from the sea…Snapper!! There are 17 types of Snapper available off Florida’s Gulf and Atlantic Coasts. The two most common snappers in markets and restaurants are the Red Snapper Read More
