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American Higher Education Development

American Higher Education Development Corporation (AHED) is an owner of post-secondary educational institutions including East West College of Natural Medicine in Sarasota, Florida; Madison Media Institute in Madison, Wisconsin; Minneapolis Media Institute in Edina, Minnesota; Rockford Career College in Rockford, Illinois; Stautzenberger College in Maumee, Ohio and Brecksville, Ohio; and The Stautzenberger Institute in Allen Park, Michigan.

Bluffton, Ohio

On March 2, 2007, five Bluffton University baseball players, as well as their bus driver and his wife, were killed in a chartered motorcoach crash on Interstate 75 near downtown Atlanta, Georgia while en route to a tournament in Sarasota, Florida.

Bobby Seay

Seay is a graduate of Sarasota High School in Sarasota, Florida, where he compiled a 30–4 record in three years (1994–1996) with a 0.79 earned run average (ERA) and 362 strikeouts in 221⅓ innings pitched.

Chidsey Library

Located at 701 North Tamiami Trail, it was Sarasota's first building constructed to house a public library (the library was previously housed in donated spaces within buildings) and the second significant building in the WPA development of Bayfront Park (Sarasota, Florida).

Christine Chubbuck

The restaurant was the Beef and Bottle Restaurant at the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport on U.S. 41.

Corrigan

Corrigan House, a home in Sarasota, Florida which is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places

Deborah Coleman

She has played at the top music venues such as North Atlantic Blues Festival (2007), Waterfront Blues Festival (2002), the Monterey Jazz Festival (2001), Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival (2000), Sarasota Blues Festival (1999), the San Francisco Blues Festival (1999) and the Fountain Blues Festival (1998).

Douglas Metcalf

He toured the United States as the principal clarinettist of the American Wind Symphony Orchestra and has performed in the Aspen, Sarasota, Zermatt (Switzerland), Opera Barga (Italy), Texas (Houston) Music Festivals and the Altmärkisches Musikfest in Germany as well as being a regular guest of the Worcester Chamber Music Society.

East West College of Natural Medicine

East West College of Natural Medicine (EWCNM) is an acupuncture, Chinese medicine, Complimentary and Alternative Medicine, and massage school in Sarasota, Florida.

Florida's 13th congressional district

The primary controversy in this race was that over 18,000 ballots (or roughly one in six) cast in Sarasota County apparently did not register a vote for this race, far higher than in the two previous elections involving Jan Schneider, but lower than the undervote in 2000.

Fredericktown, Maryland

Owen Burns, an entrepreneur, banker, builder, and land developer who at one time owned the majority of Sarasota, Florida, was born in Fredericktown.

George K. James

George Kepford 'Lefty' James (Lower Allen, Penn., Apr. 12, 1905 - Sarasota, Fla., Jan. 9, 1994) was an American football head coach at Cornell University from 1947 to 1960.

Gilchrist House

Stevens-Gilchrist House, Sarasota, Florida, listed on the NRHP in Florida

Gimmee Jimmy's Cookies

In 2009, Gimmee Jimmy's Cookies was revived when it was purchased by a group based in Sarasota, Florida, which intends to grow Gimmee Jimmy's Cookies into a nationally recognized brand.

Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer

Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer (born November 18, 1886 Manchester, Connecticut - 1948 Sarasota, Florida) was an American poet and magazine editor.

J. Regina Hyland

In 1995, she founded Viatoris Ministries, a pro-animal vegetarian Christian parachurch resource ministry in Sarasota, Florida.

Jeep Wrangler

As of May 17, 2013, Chrysler Group's Toledo (Ohio) Assembly Complex produced its one-millionth JK model, a 2013 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 10th Anniversary Edition, to be delivered to a customer in Sarasota, Florida.

Jessica Rush

She is perhaps best known for creating the role of Lucie Mannette in the 2007 world premiere of the Broadway-bound A Tale of Two Cities, by Jill Santoriello, opposite James Barbour and Derek Keeling in Sarasota, FL.

Katherine Carson

Katherine Carson (born 1981) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Sarasota, Florida who was named Miss Florida 2002.

LHPS Highlanders

Other annual opponents include Avon Park, Cardinal Mooney, Jones, Mount Dora, Mulberry, Pine Castle Christian, Tampa Catholic, and TFA.

Manasota Key, Florida

Bobby Vinton - Pop Singer; has an estate on the Sarasota County portion of Manasota Key.

Margaret D. Lowman

In 1999 Dr. Lowman became the Executive Director of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida where she helped raise donations over 100 percent and increased membership by "friend-raising".

Rick Doblin

In the early 1980s, Doblin owned and operated a company called Abraxas Construction, located in the Sarasota, Florida area, which specialized in relocating houses.

Sarasota Music Festival

Like the Aspen Music Festival and School and the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival not only presents concerts by established artists but also consists of a summer music academy in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances, master classes and workshops designed to provide an intense training and networking experience.

Sarasota Music Festival is an American classical music festival held annually during the month of June in Sarasota, Florida under the sponsorship of the Sarasota Orchestra.

Sarasota Opera

Sarasota Opera presented Little Nemo in Slumberland, an opera with music by Daron Hagen and words by J.D. McClatchy, in November 2012.

Seven Years Past

Seven Years Past is a hard rock band out of Sarasota, Florida consisting of Lisa Larkin (Vocals/Guitar), Mark Medeiros (Guitar/Vocals), Stephan Rosser (Bass/Keys) and Brett Jones (Guitars/Vocals) and Allen Pryor (Drums/percussion/vocals).

SNN Local News

SNN Local News (formerly known as SNN Local News 6, SNN News 6, and Six News Now; which were often used interchangeably) is a 24-hour cable news television station operating in Sarasota, Florida.

Stan Drake

He was a prolific painter and created portraits of more than 40 cartoonists, work displayed at the Comic Artist's Museum in Sarasota, Florida.

Stephen Scott Young

After graduating from high school, Young attended the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, where he was introduced to etchings and began to paint with watercolor.

Tyler Turkle

Turkle was selected for the 41st and 44th Biennial Exhibitions of Contemporary American Painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, as well as exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; the Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden; and the New Orleans Museum of Art.


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