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Cindy Lane

Cindy Lane

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May 17, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Piney Point pollution spreading, affecting dolphins

Piney Point pollution spreading, affecting dolphins

TAMPA BAY – The Sarasota Dolphin Research Program at Mote Marine is monitoring the dolphin community near Port Manatee for impacts from the April discharge of 215 million gallons of polluted water fr…
May 9, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Lyngbya bloom clogging bays, ICW

Blue-green algae bloom clogging bays, ICW

Nutrients and warming temperatures are feeding a bloom of blue-green algae called Lyngbya in area waters, according to scientists with Manatee County. As has been the case over the last two years…
April 30, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Where's Bortie?

Where’s Bortie?

Loggerhead sea turtle Bortie is headed away from Anna Maria Island Gulf waters, where she was spotted on April 17. Turtle watchers thought she might nest again on AMI – she was satellite-tagged after…
April 26, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Piney Point wastewater spreading

Piney Point wastewater spreading

UPDATED April 26, 2021 at 3:52 p.m. – PALMETTO – About half the wastewater in a leaking retention pond built into a gyp stack at the closed Piney Point phosphate plant has been pumped into Tampa Bay…
April 25, 2021
By Cindy Lane

Red tide detected in Manatee County

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Red tide has been detected in Manatee County in low concentrations for the first time since the Piney Point disaster earlier this month. Red tide-related respiratory irritation…
April 19, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Turtle trackers predict Bortie’s return

Turtle trackers predict Bortie’s return

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Just in time for the May 1 start of sea turtle nesting season off AMI, Bortie may be coming home to nest. The female loggerhead sea turtle was satellite-tagged and released fro…
April 5, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Coast Lines: First, do no harm

Coast Lines: First, do no harm

A recent visit to the Mulberry Phosphate Museum was fascinating, with its finds of prehistoric giant ground sloths, mammoths, sharks, manatees and crocodiles, and even a 3000-year-old dugout canoe, a…
March 29, 2021
By Cindy Lane

Turtle released in bay

ANNA MARIA – A small crowd clapped and cheered as Mote Marine’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital staff released a loggerhead sea turtle, nicknamed “O-H,” into Tampa Bay from Bayfront Park on Wednes…
March 29, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Treehouse owners get harassing calls

Treehouse owners get harassing calls

HOLMES BEACH – Treehouse owner Huong Lynn Tran isn’t answering her phone much these days, afraid of more calls like the one she received earlier this month. “Everybody on this Island hates you and…
March 29, 2021
By Cindy Lane

LifeLines – be safe at the beach, on the water, on the Island

Have fun on Anna Maria Island, on its beach and in its waters! Here are some tips to keep you safe – and within the law – while diving, snorkeling, boating, Jet Skiing, fishing, swimming and beach…
March 29, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here

Things were different on Anna Maria (then pronounced Mar-EYE-ah) Island in the old days. Within the lifetimes of our eldest residents, there was no bridge leading to the Island, and people took a fer…
March 29, 2021
By Cindy Lane
March 1, 2021
By Cindy Lane

Legislature last resort for net camp

CORTEZ – Raymond Guthrie Jr. has 60 days to convince the Florida Legislature to save the net camp he built in Sarasota Bay off the commercial fishing village before a court order to demolish it takes…
February 8, 2021
By Cindy Lane

COVID-19 impact on 2020 visitation slight

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – COVID-19 had little impact on tourism to the Island, where one of its three cities enjoyed an increase in visitors, according to tourist tax collections records. The coronaviru…
January 11, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Manatee count delayed by COVID-19

Manatee count delayed by COVID-19

Florida’s manatees won’t be counted this winter due to COVID-19, with the next count slated for December 2021, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). Synoptic su…

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