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Florida's unemployment rate in December held steady at 4.9 percent, unchanged from November, according to figures released last Friday by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.
Representatives from Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves will attend the next Sarasota County Commission meeting to 'publicly introduce themselves and express their desire to relocate spring training operations to Sarasota County.'
North Venice's PGT, a manufacturer and supplier of residential impact-resistant windows and doors, is holding a hiring event for more than 100 positions.
Giovanni Migliorini, Carlo Piras and Maurice Connaughton recently purchased a unit at the entry of the Bay Street Town Center, 3976 Destination Drive, Osprey, for $310,000.
Presidential Medal of Freedom-winning historian David McCullough will be the featured guest at the Gulf Coast Community Foundation’s 2017 Better Together luncheon.
Jane Bennett, Karin Silver and Pearl DeBrular recently teamed to launch Beyond the Bluprint, a new company that provides strategies for new development.
The London-born chef James Arnsby recently launched a new program in which he offers international cooking demonstrations at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee's Culinary Innovation Lab.
The Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance will welcome its 2017 Board of Directors at its Annual Membership Luncheon, which runs 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25.
Visit Sarasota County earlier this month announced a new partnership between the organization's Sarasota County Sports Commission and the Sarasota Memorial Health Care System.
The North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton region was recently ranked as the No. 10 'hottest' real estate market of 2017 by the real estate research website Trulia.
Grapevine Communications—a Sarasota advertising, marketing and public relations agency—recently named director of communications John Butzko as the company's 2016 employee of the year.
Jacqui Kapinowski, an American Paralympian who competed in wheelchair curling at the 2010 Paralympics and in rowing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, will be the featured speaker at our 2017 Unity Awards.
The commercial construction company Halfacre Construction Company recently broke ground on a new 7,200-square-foot building for the Manatee County Utilities Department.