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The newly constructed Steinwachs Family Plant Research Center houses the world’s second largest collection of preserved flowers, a research library with rare books dating back to the late 1700s and an extensive herbarium.

The marker will recognize John Hamilton Gillespie, the mayor of Sarasota when the city was first incorporated in 1902, and Owen Burns, the developer that donated the 10-acre parcel of land for the park in honor of Gillespie, who had originally sold his holdings to Burns and kick-started Burns’ business.

Sarasota-based Rocket Phonics works with kids in Newtown to improve reading scores.

Canal 1A's reopening also adds loads of sand to nearby gulf-facing beaches.

The $1.8 million structure, paid for with extra sales-tax percentage, spans Phillippi Creek.

A grant and private donations have paved the way for the first stretch of a divided path, one side for cyclists, the other for those running or walking.

St. Petersburg woman sets up shop in Sarasota with a selection of “anything that they don't want you to read in school."

The city envisions linking Legacy Trail to neighborhoods west of U.S. 301 via a pathway across the southern edge of Payne Park.

Cat Depot is teaming up with national organization Seniors to Seniors.

Shelters largely served those still dealing with 2022 damage from Hurricane Ian.

Storm repairs and expansion plans were designed to help Sarasota and DeSoto better serve their communities.

A college in Massachusetts offers a price break to allow transfers to ‘pick up wherever they were at the end of last semester.’