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Cindy Lane

Cindy Lane

September 15, 2015
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February 4, 2015
By Cindy Lane
Egmont Key cemetery

Under Egmont 2: Unearthing Egmont Key’s mysteries

EGMONT KEY – Underneath Egmont Key, there’s even more history than its century-and-a-half-old lighthouse, the ruins of its Spanish-American War fort and its 1905 red brick road, now used mostly by go…
January 30, 2015
By Cindy Lane
Narcissus anchor

Under Egmont 1: History’s mysteries persist at Egmont Key

EGMONT KEY – Underwater and underground at Egmont Key, mystery and history have intertwined since the mid-1800s. Just off the northern tip of Anna Maria Island, which has bathed in its lighthouse…
December 31, 2014
By Cindy Lane

Beach renourishment

        First Place News Photo 2014
December 30, 2014
By Cindy Lane

Live Like a Local – Respect Wildlife

        Second Place Photo Illustration 2014  
December 30, 2014
By Cindy Lane

Robert J. Ellison Award

            Third Place Portfolio Photography (The Robert J. Ellison Award) 2014  
December 10, 2014
By Cindy Lane

County cracking down on resort tax evaders

The Manatee County Commission has toughened an ordinance targeting resort tax evaders. Under its provisions, a property owner who fails to pay resort taxes on a short-term vacation rental may now…
November 12, 2014
By Cindy Lane

Support wanes for returning tourist tax to AMI

SARASOTA – Amending the tourism development tax law to allow one cent of the five cents-per-dollar tax revenues to be repaid to the municipalities that generated them will not be a 2015 legislative p…
November 12, 2014
By Cindy Lane
John Yates

U.S. Supreme Court considers fish case

WASHINGTON – Some U.S. Supreme Court justices question whether a law designed to prevent documentary evidence destruction passed in the wake of the Enron scandal should have been used to convict and…
November 7, 2014
By Cindy Lane
Coast Lines: Save the refuge for the birds

Army exploring for explosives

PASSAGE KEY – Now a peaceful bird sanctuary, Passage Key was a bombing and aerial gunnery range during World War II, and the military plans to explore it for unexploded munitions within the next year…
October 22, 2014
By Cindy Lane
Beach rafts

BIEO confronts online vacation rentals

ANNA MARIA – The vacation rental issue has sprouted new branches, but new state legislation may be necessary next session to keep them trimmed, according to local officials. Online vacation re…
October 14, 2014
By Cindy Lane

Blessing all creatures great and small

Third Place Spot News Photo 2014
July 16, 2014
By Cindy Lane

Whitmore working to save pelicans

In an effort to save pelicans from fishing hooks, Manatee County Commissioner Carol Whitmore is asking local government officials to consider passing an ordinance similar to one used in Naples, publi…
May 14, 2014
By Cindy Lane
White and brown pelicans

Law needed to help pelicans, turtles

HOLMES BEACH – After a year of trying to educate fishermen not to cut fishing lines that entangle pelicans and other wildlife, Jeannie Bystrom wants Island officials to emulate Naples and pass ordina…
May 7, 2014
By Cindy Lane
Shark fishing

If it’s Monday, that must be a mako

  Third Place Feature Writing 2014
May 7, 2014
By Cindy Lane
Black skimmers

Flippers and Feathers

Turn off outdoor lights visible from the beach from sundown to sunrise, and close drapes and blinds; lights can fatally disorient nesting and hatching sea turtles. Do not aim camera flashes…