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Federal, state funds can help elevate ground-level homes

Jan 14, 2025 – Joe Hendricks
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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November 21, 2024
By Louise Bolger

A country of renters

The United States has been living the American dream of home ownership since roughly the end of World War II. Obviously, there were homeowners before then, but the end of the war brought a surge of h…
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November 5, 2024
By Rusty Chinnis

Island business owners rebuild, collaborate, rebound

Hurricanes Helene and Milton took a toll on Anna Maria Island businesses, which are showing their resilience in working together to rebuild and reopen to serve their clientele. AMI Outfitters and An…
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November 5, 2024
By Louise Bolger

One month and we’re still standing

It’s been a month since Milton disturbed our idyllic lifestyle. The hurricane came in as a strong Category 3 storm, fortunately weakening before making landfall due to an increasing wind shear as it…
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April 9, 2025
11:45 am

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