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Year in Review: Tourism
Awards, Awards 2016, Business, Special Sections, Third Place, Tourism

Tourism slogans, logos evolving

Mar 9, 2016 – Cindy Lane
October 14, 2015
By Joe Hendricks
Twister at Sunshine Skyway

Twister hits skyway bridge

TAMPA BAY – Sunday morning, Jeannie Bystrom, Ally Titsworth, Matt Dwyer and Ben Stasurak left Holmes Beach by boat, planning on spending the day rescuing pelicans. In a strange turn of events, the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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December 30, 2014
By Cindy Lane

Live Like a Local – Respect Wildlife

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

Robert J. Ellison Award

            Third Place Portfolio Photography (The Robert J. Ellison Award) 2014  
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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…
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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…
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Upcoming Events

April 9, 2025
11:45 am

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