By Diana Colson Guillermo Vidal fled Cuba as a boy. Born in 1951, he was to rise through the ranks of the Colorado Department of Transportation and become executive director and part of Governor Roy Romer’s cabinet. Following his stint Read More
By Rene Brooks Yes, that’s right! Long time Sarasota resident, Jayne Blair, born in 1913, turned 105 years young on December 11th, 2018. We wanted to follow up with Jayne since doing an article on her a few years back Read More
Staff Report On January 16 – 19, 2019, the Executive State Directors, the Chrisley Family, of the hit reality TV series on USA network, ‘Chrisley knows Best,’ will conduct the Sunshine State’s oldest and most celebrated Competition: the Miss Florida Read More
Wine bar now open in the Village Siesta Key Wine Bar has just opened after acquiring Siesta Key Tropical Wines at 5138c Ocean Blvd in Davidson’s Siesta Village Plaza. The location has been expanded and extensively remodeled and offers many Read More
By Debbie Flessner When Siesta Key architect Jim Holliday and his wife Scottie, and Presbyterian pastor Dr. James Blackwood and his wife Louise began looking around Siesta Key for a place to put their new church in 1970, they only Read More
Cosentino Charter amendments only a few signatures short Siesta Sand took the opportunity to check in with the Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections Office to find out the status of the Sarasota County Charter petition drive that Siesta resident Read More
By Rachel Brown Hackney SarasotaNewsLeader.com Two days after U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida toured severely eroded areas of South Lido Key Beach, Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Secretary Noah Valenstein granted the Joint Coastal Permit the City Read More
By Rachel Brown Hackney SarasotaNewsLeader.com Florida Power & Light Co. (FPL) plans to begin switching out high pressure sodium lights for LED fixtures on the 325 poles that it owns and maintains on the north and south ends of Read More
SNL/Siesta Sand heard a complaint the first week of June about the sand piled up on the vacated segment of North Beach Road. The 357-foot-long stretch clearly is marked by signage as “Public Access.” However, from the Beach Access Read More
By Rachel Brown Hackney SarasotaNewsLeader.com The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is seeking a number of clarifications from the consulting firm Kimley-Horn and Associates of Sarasota regarding its traffic studies for the proposed Siesta Promenade mixed-use project. In Read More
