By Jane Bartnett Florida Highway Patrol reported that a 74-year-old bicyclist identified as a Sarasota man was killed when he turned directly in front of a southbound Siesta Key Breeze Trolley. The incident occurred on Monday, Feb. 8 at 1:30 Read More
By Rachel Brown Hackney SarasotaNewsLeader.com Having taken into account the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on traffic counts, and having analyzed vehicle patterns for safety purposes, the Kimley-Horn consulting firm has made recommendations to Sarasota County staff related to the Read More
By Jane Bartnett Siesta Key was a very different place in 1948. In September of that year, three years after the end of World War II, the now 87-year-old Siesta Key resident Cope Garrett and his family left their comfortable Read More
By Rachel Brown Hackney SarasotaNewsLeader.com Close to the end of a nearly two-and-a-half-hour Neighborhood Workshop on a proposed 170-room hotel on the edge of Siesta Village, the president of the Sarasota County Council of Neighborhood Associations (CONA) summed up the Read More
By Rachel Brown Hackney SarasotaNewsLeader.com It was not until a December 8th, 2020 deadline that representatives of several Sarasota County divisions that handle land-development issues provided comments on a preliminary application submitted in May for a seven-story, 120-room hotel and Read More
By Rachel Brown Hackney SarasotaNewsLeader.com An annual update to inform Siesta Key Condominium Council (SKCC) members about changes in association laws took a different tack this year. Sarasota attorney Dan Lobeck opened his January 12th program with a focus on Read More
By Rachel Brown Hackney SarasotaNewsLeader.com Saba Sands LLC has filed a Request for Relief through the Florida Land Use and Environmental Dispute Resolution Act (FLUEDRA), arguing that the Sarasota County Commission’s August 2020 denial of its plans for a six-unit Read More
By Rachel Brown Hackney SarasotaNewsLeader.com Citing the dynamic shoreline and the impact the proposal would have on the dune system, the Sarasota County Commission unanimously denied a request by Siesta Key property owner Michael Holderness to construct a two-story-over-parking, single-family Read More
Illegal private home rentals decried once again A topic that arose during the January 7th Siesta Key Association (SKA) meeting was the rentals of island homes that can sleep more than 20 people. Maribel Figueredo, who lives in the Siesta Read More
Snowy Egret Egretta thula These graceful and delicate wading birds are smaller cousins to the Great Egret. In the late 1800s, the snowy egret was nearly hunted to extinction for its striking plumage. While their numbers rebounded following protective legislation Read More
