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The EcoRover debuted Thursday at Lido Beach in Sarasota County.
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The new FAFSA was supposed to make filling out the federal aid form easier, but issues with the rollout had the opposite effect. Fewer students have filled out the FAFSA, so efforts are underway to close that gap.
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Iain Webb has served as director of Sarasota Ballet since 2007. His wife, Margaret Barbieri, is associate director and together they have championed the works of Sir Frederick Ashton.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis' vetoes cut millions of dollars in funds for more than 600 organizations in Florida, including in the greater Tampa Bay region.
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Portions of Sarasota received an estimated 8 inches of rain in a three-hour period from an area of tropical moisture that produced powerful storms across Southwest Florida, flooding streets and inundating the county's drainage system.
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States like Florida and Texas have long borne the brunt of the pig problem and struggled to manage it as the situation grows more dire nationally. Officials have incentivized hunters by instituting few restrictions. But some people, including hunters themselves, question whether the approach is overkill.
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Dozens of young musicians and faculty artists are in town for the three-week festival, which gets underway June 2.
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The final implementation of the interchange requires closing all interchange ramps and Clark Road between Catamaran Drive and Queensbury Boulevard to motorists, pedestrians, and cyclists, from 7 p.m. Saturday, June 1 to 1 p.m. Sunday, June 2.
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Work is ongoing to save the shuttered Colson Hotel, important to the early Black history of SarasotaDeveloper Maximillian Vollmer of JDMAX Developments in Tampa recently purchased Sarasota’s first Black hotel, built in 1926. Now he wants to tear it down and build new townhomes. Sarasota’s Historic Preservation Board denied the request for demolition. The developer has appealed the decision.
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Wildlife officials said after more than three weeks of care at Mote Marine Lab in Sarasota, the sawfish — brought in after first-of-its kind rescue — was euthanized as its condition deteriorated.
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A state task force narrowed the locations to four, including Sarasota.
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With the cause of the deaths still unknown, officials say over 50 species have been affected. Meantime, a sawfish pulled from waters off Cudjoe Key this month is recovering at a Mote Marine facility.