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City attorney: Hotel project will begin construction this year

Jan 18, 2025 – Leslie Lake
January 8, 2025
By Louise Bolger

Mortgage interest rate future ‘uncertain’

Happy New Year, although this year may not be so happy for homeowners and worse for potential homeowners. Both groups are getting hit with increasing costs they never assumed would come. More next we…
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January 8, 2025
By Leslie Lake
Shamrock Shiver moves from beach to bar

Shamrock Shiver moves from beach to bar

CORTEZ – The annual Clancy’s New Year’s Day Shamrock Shiver charity event looked a little different from prior years, but the goal was still the same – to raise money for local charities. In previou…
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January 5, 2025
By Leslie Lake

Owner closes Pines Trailer Park

BRADENTON BEACH –  Pines Trailer Park residents who recently received city approval to repair their hurricane-damaged mobile homes received a letter on Jan. 4 from Pines Park Investors LLC stating th…
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January 4, 2025
By Leslie Lake
Commission receives Seafood Shack purchase update

Commission receives Seafood Shack purchase update

CORTEZ – The Manatee County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) will receive an update at its Jan. 8 meeting on the stalled Seafood Shack and Marina acquisition. Property Acquisition Division Mana…
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January 1, 2025
By Louise Bolger

All real estate is local

If you want to know the value of your property, just go around the corner and see what recently sold. This was one of the first tenets of determining real estate value I learned more years ago than I…
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December 31, 2024
By SUN contributor

SBA loans offer recovery relief

HOLMES BEACH – A new financial option may be available to residents and business owners affected by recent hurricanes. Anna Nunez appeared before commissioners on Dec. 17 to discuss the U.S. Small B…
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December 24, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Did FEMA leave a gift under the tree?

It’s Christmas, and I hope you and your loved ones are enjoying some peace of the season after the harrowing few months we all have experienced. Unfortunately, for many, we’re not done with the resto…
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December 23, 2024
By Joe Hendricks
Ginny’s and Jane E’s reopens

Ginny’s and Jane E’s reopens

ANNA MARIA – Ginny’s and Jane E’s Café reopened on Dec. 18 at 7 a.m. The café and retail business had been closed since the pre-Hurricane Helene evacuations took place in late September. Paul and…
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December 9, 2024
By Louise Bolger

New flood disclosure requirements in effect

Just what everyone wants right now is a new flood disclosure requirement when selling property. It’s not as if we aren’t aware that Anna Maria Island and the coastal areas of Manatee County could flo…
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December 2, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Home sales in the time of storms

There is nothing normal about Manatee County’s sales statistics for September and October. The sales reporting, of course, includes Anna Maria Island, the coastal communities and even homes and commu…
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April 9, 2025
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