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Cindy Lane

Cindy Lane

September 15, 2015
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March 1, 2017
By Cindy Lane

Try local honey for allergies

  Are you dreading pollen season because of your allergies? Eating honey produced by bees that visit local plants may help, according to local beekeeper Alex Ionita, of Pure Florida Ap…
February 24, 2017
By Cindy Lane

Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival celebrates 35

CORTEZ – At the edge of the main parking lot at the Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival is a fringe of green, the edge of the 95-acre FISH Preserve, made possible by the modest admission price paid by…
February 7, 2017
By Cindy Lane
Loggerhead hatchling

Balloon release harmful to marine wildlife

Balloon release concerns Turtle Watch BRADENTON BEACH – Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring was notified through an anonymous tip that on Friday, Feb. 10, at sunset, about 50 p…
February 6, 2017
By Cindy Lane
Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival food

Seafood fans prepare to feast at Cortez festival

CORTEZ – It’s almost time for February’s most salty and delicious local event – the 35th Annual Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival, set for the weekend of Feb. 18 and 19 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Cel…
February 1, 2017
By Cindy Lane
Manatee

Manatee deaths up in Manatee County, state

About 9 percent of the state’s 6,250 manatees counted in the 2016 survey died last year, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). Statewide, 509 manatees died, up…
July 13, 2016
By Cindy Lane
Year in review: Environment

Of tourists and turtles

In a vacation resort like Anna Maria Island, it’s tough to educate people about sea turtles because the audience is a moving target. Visitors who have learned something about vacationing on a turt…
June 1, 2016
By Cindy Lane

Eat more octopus

There is hope on the horizon for stone crabbers who are fed up with octopus eating the stone crabs right out of their traps. When he’s not busy developing algorithms for predicting the camouflage…
April 27, 2016
By Cindy Lane
Hammerhead shark

Legendary hammerhead immortalized

“My big fish must be somewhere.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea CORTEZ – “Go big,” Eric Grimes likes to say. So why not commission a life-size replica of the biggest, baddest, meaner…
March 9, 2016
By Cindy Lane
Year in Review: Tourism

Tourism slogans, logos evolving

How many ways can you say “Come visit” over 35 years? Turns out, quite a few. Third Place Community History 2016 Tourism slogans, logos evolving 030916 Manatee County tourism officials have…
March 2, 2016
By Cindy Lane

Saving seashells on the seashore

    Third Place Outdoor and Recreation 2016
February 23, 2016
By Cindy Lane
Izzi Gomez

Izzi Gomez wins second world stand up paddleboarding title

Izzi Gomez, formerly of Anna Maria Island, won the women’s 2015 World Title in the Stand Up Paddling World Tour at Huntington Beach, Cal., beating Mariko Strickland in the final and impressing the ju…
December 30, 2015
By Cindy Lane
St. Augustine National Cemetery

Under Egmont 4: Egmont cemetery mysteries put to rest

BRADENTON – Mark Green stands at a grave marker at the Fogartyville cemetery, refers to an old, hand-drawn map and walks a few paces, ducks under a moss-draped tree, passes a bench and several headst…
April 15, 2015
By Cindy Lane

Coast Lines: Holy maternity season, bat mom!

It’s shorebird nesting season on Anna Maria Island’s beaches, as everyone who doesn’t have their beak buried in the sand probably knows. But bet you didn’t know that it’s also bat season. Make…
March 4, 2015
By Cindy Lane
John Yates

Conviction tossed in fish-tossing case

CORTEZ – The U.S. Supreme Court decided 5-4 last week to overturn the 2011 conviction of former commercial fisherman John Yates for destroying undersized grouper in a federal fisheries investigation…
February 25, 2015
By Cindy Lane
Rob Whitehurst at St. Augustine National Cemetery

Under Egmont 3: Found

ST. AUGUSTINE – When Rob Whitehurst began looking for the grave of his great-great-grandfather, the Internet was new, with scant information, and research was challenging. When he learned that Joh…