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Awards, Awards 2018, Special Sections, Third Place

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Dec 30, 2017 – Cindy Lane
July 12, 2017
By Cindy Lane
Surf groms

Surf grom gallery

Who say you can’t surf Anna Maria Island? Not the kids from the West Coast Surf Shop Surf Camp and the Eternal Summer Surf Camp. Hang 10! Third Place Photo series in one issue 2018
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June 14, 2017
By Cindy Lane
Guthrie net camp

State investigates construction in bay

CORTEZ – An historic net camp in Sarasota Bay off the Cortez commercial fishing village could be the next offshore structure scrutinized by the state, some Cortezians fear. The Florida Department…
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May 3, 2017
By Steve Borggren

To die for

            Second Place Original Local Editorial Cartoon 2019
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February 3, 2017
By Steve Borggren

Brick road

Second Place Original Local Editorial Cartoon 2017
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January 31, 2017
By Mike Field

Red tide

Second Place Photo 2017
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December 31, 2016
By Sun staff

General Excellence

The Anna Maria Island Sun won the General Excellence award in the Florida Press Association’s 2016 Better Weekly Newspaper Contest, naming it the best weekly newspaper of its size in the state of Flo…
July 20, 2016
By Steve Borggren
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…
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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…
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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…
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April 9, 2025
11:45 am

The Off-Stage Ladies of the Island Players, April luncheon meeting