Another topic during the December 9th Siesta Key Association meeting was the status of the Grand Canal Regeneration Project, which was unveiled during the SKA’s November session. Phil Chiocchio, a member of the Sarasota Bay Fisheries Forum, and SKA Director Read More
By Jane Bartnett The waters that flow through Siesta Key’s Grand Canal may have a new lease on life thanks to a pilot “mini reef” project that the Siesta Key Association (SKA) has undertaken with a Florida based oceanographic non-profit Read More
By Rachel Brown HackneySarasotaNewsLeader.com During the November Siesta Key Association (SKA) meeting, Director Robert Luckner reminded regular attendees — and updated snowbirds back for season — that, in mid-December, the nonprofit will file its appeal of the Circuit Court decision Read More
By Rachel Brown HackneySarasotaNewsLeader.com Unlike some plaintiffs who appeal decisions of the 12th Judicial Circuit Court, the Siesta Key Association (SKA) has been notified of a bill of several hundred dollars, instead of several thousand dollars, SNL learned by checking Read More
By Rachel Brown HackneySarasotaNewsLeader.com In an average year, Sarasota County gets about 53 inches of rain, and on occasion, it all seems to fall “at one time,” the coordinator of Sarasota County’s Neighborhood Environmental Stewardship Team (NEST) told members of Read More
By Rachel Brown HackneySarasotaNewsLeader.com In preparation for a day-long Circuit Court hearing set to begin at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, July 19, the Siesta Key Association (SKA) has sent a letter and a legal notice to the City of Sarasota, Read More
By Rachel Brown HackneySarasotaNewsLeader.com Once again, a 12th Judicial Circuit Court judge has ruled in favor of the Siesta Key Association as the nonprofit endeavors to prevent the dredging of sand from Big Sarasota Pass. In an April 18 order, Read More
By Rachel Brown HackneySarasotaNewsLeader.com In his final remarks as president of the Siesta Key Association (SKA), Gene Kusekoski offered a deadpan opening as he looked out at the approximately 120 people assembled in the Community Center of St. Boniface Episcopal Read More
By Rachel Brown HackneySarasotaNewsLeader.com For the Siesta Key Association (SKA), the third time — as the saying goes — was the charm. After ruling twice in recent months against the nonprofit, Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Andrea McHugh issued an Read More
By Rachel Brown Hackney SarasotaNewsLeader.com As this issue of Siesta Sand was being published, the engineer for the City of Sarasota was expecting the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) to issue its formal Notice to Proceed at any time Read More
