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Mar 25, 2025 – Louise Bolger
March 19, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Tax relief on the beach

It’s tax time again and tax time is never fun, but this year could be particularly not fun. In view of the 2024 storms, this tax filing season could be quite a bit different in addition to the normal…
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March 11, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Time for a kitchen redo

I don’t know about you, but I’m just now getting my condo back in pre-Milton shape. It took five months and there are still a few jobs to finish up, not to mention the dust that has settled in the cr…
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March 3, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Life-changing events can reset priorities

To say that a combination of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton less than two weeks apart changed the lives of everyone on Anna Maria Island and most of the coastal areas of Manatee County would b…
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February 26, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Vacation rental registration fees increased

Vacation rental registration fees increased

ANNA MARIA – The City Com­mission unanimously established the occupancy-based annual vacation rental registration fees that take effect on April 1 and remain in place through March 31, 2026. Adopted…
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February 26, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Everything is negotiable

About a month ago, we talked about being in uncharted territory as it relates to the real estate market. Not much has changed for the better in the last month and the statistics for January will conf…
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February 18, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Expenses increasing for homeowners

The day you close on your home, whether it’s your first or fifth, is always a happy day – almost as happy as the day your mortgage commitment is approved – but that’s just the beginning of homeowners…
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February 10, 2025
By Leslie Lake
Public speaks out in favor of Drift-In reopening

Public speaks out in favor of Drift-In reopening

BRADENTON BEACH – Despite approval for the tiki hut construction at the Drift-In by recently-terminated Building Official Darin Cushing, the city has put the project on hold and determined that a maj…
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February 4, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Lipstick on a pig

At the risk of having all of Anna Maria Island and most of Manatee County mad at me, it looks like our current housing market is a bit of a pig. Pigs can be adorable, or they can be nasty, so I hope…
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January 29, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
AMI Chamber awards trolley grants, businesses of the year

AMI Chamber awards trolley grants, businesses of the year

HOLMES BEACH – The Anna Maria Island Chamber of Commerce awarded trolley grants to 18 local organiza­tions and announced three business of the year award winners during a ceremony at the Key Royale G…
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January 29, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Diggins, DeRusso join Tourist Development Council

Diggins, DeRusso join Tourist Development Council

MANATEE COUNTY – Anna Maria Island once again has an elected city official serving on the Manatee County Tourist Development Council (TDC). The last elected Island official to sit on the TDC was for…
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Upcoming Events

April 9, 2025
11:45 am

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