2025 Top Workplaces revealed: For the fourth year, Energage and the Herald-Tribune honor 33 companies selected by employee feedback on 25 factors—from pay and benefits to leadership and meaningfulness — find out who earned recognition.
Community Harvest turns 15: The nonprofit will mark its milestone with a Summer Garden Dinner Party at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens on August 23, featuring a Michael’s on East–prepared meal, a slideshow retrospective and stories from local growers — check out tickets and details.
Free hurricane spotter training: Sarasota County and the National Weather Service will host a free SKYWARN seminar on August 16, in-person at the Emergency Operations Center or online — find out how to register.
Downtown Sarasota road overhaul: The Florida Department of Transportation will resurface and rehabilitate the mile‐long U.S. 301 corridor from 10th Street to Mound Street in 2026 — find out what’s planned.
Sarasota’s immersive veiled labyrinth: Lillian Blades’ first solo museum show transforms the Sarasota Art Museum’s third-floor gallery into a towering Caribbean-colored maze of suspended Plexiglas, wood, family photos and mirrors, on display through October 25 — find out what lies beyond the veil.
Other Sarasota headlines this week
- Newtown Community Cleanup kicks off August 23
- Bradenton reignites pork roll, Taylor ham debate
- Allegiant launches Sarasota and St. Pete routes
- Ringling College launches new creative certificate programs
- 125-unit build-to-rent project planned near UTC mall
- Sarasota Memorial Hospital earned nation’s 5-star rating
