Sarasota FL

Sarasota has confirmed the hiring of its first female city manager after the commission approved the contract of Karie Friling. Friling will begin on May 29 — about 21 months since Sarasota last had a permanent city manager. The city will pay her a $279,500 annual salary, with a 2% annual cost-of-living increase. She...

NOKOMIS — If you're feeling the pain of higher gas prices, imagine you're in Sarasota County Sheriff Kurt Hoffman's shoes: His patrol vehicles log nearly 7 million miles a year, he said at Monday's Nokomis Area Civic Association meeting.

With double the responsibilities or more of her department head and/or constitutional officer colleagues from Clearwater to Naples, it might stand to reason that the Sarasota City Auditor and Clerk Shayla Griggs would earn twice the salary. Or, at the very least, should be slotted in a higher pay scale...

As Sarasota continues to grapple with a reasonable and enforceable sound ordinance that balances the vibrancy the city needs with the rights of enjoyment of residents in their homes, the city has solicited the assistance of Gainesville-based Siebein Acoustic. The firm is tasked to provide a technical evaluation that...

Visitors to downtown Sarasota and St. Armands Circle won’t be paying more to park in paid on-street and garage spaces, but hours will be extended and citation fees increased as the city’s Parking Division seeks to achieve operational solvency. As an enterprise fund, the Parking Division, under the...

VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) - Two sides in an ongoing battle over the proposed Manasota Beach Road extension met face-to-face for the first time at the Sarasota County Commission chambers. The extension was unanimously approved last August. The project has been on the county plan for more than 30 years. Developer...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Florida gas prices edged lower Thursday, including in the Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro areas, even as fighting involving Iran raised new concerns about global oil supplies, according to AAA. The statewide average for regular unleaded was $3.879 a gallon,...

Manatee County officials will cement the legacy of two long-time Palmetto community advocates with a new center coming to Washington Park. On Tuesday, Manatee County Commissioners unanimously approved naming the community center coming this year to Washington Park as the “Lawrence C. and Clifford B. Livingston...

You think you are just going out to eat. Then the plates start filling up, the smells hit all at once, and suddenly this is not just a meal anymore. In Sarasota, Florida, there is a place where comfort food feels like it came straight from someone’s home, not a kitchen trying to impress you. The kind of place where...

Inside one of Bradenton’s newest restaurants, guests have the option to remove their shoes and take a seat on a pillow at a low table for a traditional Korean dining experience. Sunny Seoul Korean Kitchen, 9750 State Road 64, Bradenton, is the brainchild of sisters Katherine Kim and Mary Pierson. Mary’s husband...