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1 week ago Share Leaders of a grassroots effort called Save Siesta Key are conducting a feasibility study and starting to write a town charter. Welcome to the town of Siesta Key. The possibility of a sign greeting visitors and residents with that message on the island side of both causeways to the now-unincorporated community has a nice ring to it, say organizers of a new grassroots push steeped in history that goes back to the 1960s. At issue is self-rule and a dissatisfaction with county management of the island. Leading the charge is John Davidson, no stranger to the conce...

Before it was formed with dredge, the adjacent area to the north was known as Cedar Point and then called the more attractive sounding Sunset Point, a popular spot for locals and sweethearts to watch the multi-hued skies as the sun went down. According to Sarasota historian Karl Grismer, early on a short-lived business was started there by Eli Veruki and Andrew X. Alexaky who exported dried fish roe to European markets under the name Gotzago. There was the Roberts and Stanton boat house with an engine repair shop, and a sawmill was built at Cedar Point which provided lumber for the growth o...

City of Sarasota wins appeal of Lido Beach renourishment lawsuit SARASOTA – With work nearly complete on efforts to renourish Lido Key’s shoreline, the Second District Court of Appeals has shot down an appeal attempting to challenge the joint project between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the city of Sarasota.   The court issued the decision Wednesday against the Siesta Key Association and longtime resident Dave Patton. It joins a series of other failed procedural and legal efforts from Siesta Key residents who hoped to block the first-ever dredging of Big Pass.   “The latest...

FLORIDA BUILDINGS I LOVE: No. 72: Cocoon House, 1950, Siesta Key 3575 Bayou Louise Lane. Ralph Twitchell and Paul Rudolph, architects Harold Bubil Many an architect’s first house was for his or her mother. In Sarasota in the late 1940s, the new architectural partnership of Ralph Twitchell and Paul Rudolph was getting a lot of attention for their progressive, experimental house designs that took International School modernism and adapted it for Sarasota’s flat, waterfront landscape and subtropical climate. Some locals found their rectangular, flat-roofed, trim-free structures to be shockin...

SARASOTA – Three-time Sarasota Mayor Harry Higel was the toast of the town, a visionary developer whose personal steamship, gas-and-kerosene dealership and campaign to become independent from Manatee County were among the cornerstones of his efforts to bring a sleepy Florida village into the 20th century. He energized the local economy by luring wealthy snowbirds to Siesta Key with marketing slogans like “Think of it! Living on a tropical island on Sarasota Bay where one can bathe in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, hunt, fish motor and enjoy life the year around.” He opened his 15...