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Jun 25, 2024 – Joe Hendricks
June 11, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Reinsurance causing rate hikes

I know, not more talk about insurance, especially a week after the beginning of hurricane season. But if the Wall Street Journal can put it on their front page, I can report it. Reinsurance is appar…
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June 3, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Reverse mortgage loans explained

Anyone who considers themselves a senior, which I certainly do, at some point will probably have considered a reverse mortgage. It’s not a conventional mortgage designed for the majority of home purc…
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May 28, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Everyone’s talking about home prices

I challenge you to enter a room with at least four adult homeowners and not hear the conversation eventually gravitating to the price of homes. Some of the conversation centers on fear that what the…
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May 28, 2024
By SUN contributor
Local restaurant to close its doors

Local restaurant to close its doors

HOLMES BEACH – A local favorite for more than two decades, Peach’s Restaurant in the Anna Maria Island Shopping Center will close its doors for good on Sunday, June 16. The Father’s Day closure was…
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May 21, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Lower your mortgage rate – it’s possible

Last week the big news was the escalation of mortgage rates and the prediction by the mortgage “experts” that we’re not seeing them being lowered anytime soon. This week we’ll touch on ways to maybe…
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May 14, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Buyers losing hope

Tired of waiting for mortgage rates to come down? You’re not alone. Every potential buyer out there is waiting for the same thing, the problem is the Federal Reserve isn’t moving the needle, so it mi…
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May 13, 2024
By Jason Schaffer
March tourism numbers soar

March tourism numbers soar

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – March tourism numbers are up from last year in all three Island cities, significantly so in the City of Anna Maria. Each month, the Manatee County Tax Collector’s Office reports…
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May 7, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Boomers continue to boom

Just when you think they’re too old to influence the smart, better-educated and computer-savvy younger generations, they raise their grey and balding heads again to remind their kids and grandkids th…
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May 6, 2024
By Joe Hendricks
Ferry service to Longboat Key discussed

Ferry service to Longboat Key discussed

LONGBOAT KEY – Gulf Islands Ferry service may one day be expanded to the north end of Long­boat Key, but that isn’t expected to happen in the immediate future. Future ferry service was one of the…
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April 30, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Florida insurance ground zero

We are on the brink of hurricane season and this year promises to be an active one, so what goes hand in hand with hurricanes? Insurance. We’re talking here about homeowners’ insurance, although flo…
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April 9, 2025
11:45 am

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