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Island business community loses beloved ambassador
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Island business community loses beloved ambassador

Dec 17, 2025 – Joe Hendricks
November 25, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
The Rod & Reel restaurant sets sail

The Rod & Reel restaurant sets sail

HOLMES BEACH – The Rod & Reel restaurant is now open as a landlocked affiliate of the Rod & Reel Pier in Anna Maria that awaits replacement after its destruction by Hurricane Milton last year…
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November 25, 2025
By Louise Bolger

We all should be thankful

It’s Thanksgiving, and we in Florida have enjoyed a more than spectacular run of weather somewhere between good and fantastic. However, the most fantastic thing we have to be grateful for is no hurri…
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November 18, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Everything old is new again

How much faith do you have in the Federal Reserve continuing to cut rates? It’s not often we believe what our government tells us, but this time, there is a fair amount of faith among borrowers. In t…
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November 11, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Can you put yourself on the market?

If you lived in a waterfront condo and a developer offered you fair market value for your unit – and everyone else in the building – what would you do? There are condo owners who are being faced wit…
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November 4, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Let there be light

It doesn’t seem possible that we were blessed with a mild hurricane season and a drop in interest rates practically within the same month. But so far, home sales and a quiet hurricane season are both…
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November 2, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Are you planning on outliving your mortgage?

In the olden days right after World War II when houses were coming out of the ground like spring flowers, homebuyers were typically in their 20s and fully intended to pay off their mortgages. Now, ho…
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October 29, 2025
By Leslie Lake
Bridge Tender Inn hosts Halloween party

Bridge Tender Inn hosts Halloween party

BRADENTON BEACH – The 2024 hurricanes may have taken the animatronic figures, the bubble machine and the hearse that the Bridge Tender Inn was known for at Halloween, but the party will still go on t…
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October 27, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Cool market, maybe?

All national and local publications and real estate websites cover the real estate market. And as I’ve said many times, all real estate is local, so a small town on Big Sur in California will be wild…
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October 21, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Duncan Real Estate celebrates return to Pine Avenue

Duncan Real Estate celebrates return to Pine Avenue

ANNA MARIA – Duncan Real Estate celebrated the recent reopening of its hurricane-damaged Anna Maria office with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, a champagne toast, Chick-fil-A appetizers and the 7 Better D…
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October 21, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
The Feast approved for additional outdoor seating

The Feast approved for additional outdoor seating

HOLMES BEACH – City commis­sioners unanimously approved a request from The Feast restaurant owners to expand their outdoor seat­ing capacity from eight to 28 seats. City commissioners approved the r…
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