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Bottle boats do battle

Apr 10, 2019 – Tom Vaught
March 26, 2019
By SUN contributor
AMI Garden Club goes Hollywood

AMI Garden Club goes Hollywood

ANNA MARIA – The Anna Maria Island Garden Club pulled out all of its members’ showstopper designs for this year’s flower show. The show featured a Hollywood film theme and was held March 20 at Roser…
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March 26, 2019
By Cindy Lane
Museum spotlights Coast Guard

Museum spotlights Coast Guard

CORTEZ – Members of the crew of Coast Guard Station Cortez gave Florida Maritime Museum visitors an overview last week of the history and mission of the service and what they and their shipmates do e…
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March 22, 2019
By Tom Vaught

Clydesdales visit the Island

Budweiser Brewery’s signature advertising logo – a bright red wagon with brass accessories pulled by a team of husky Clydesdale horses – visited Anna Maria Island this afternoon at the invitation of…
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March 22, 2019
By Tom Vaught

BJ Thomas at The Center

BJ Thomas performed at The Center of Anna Maria Island on Thursday night, including his hits, “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “Mighty Clouds of Joy” and…
March 20, 2019
By SUN contributor

AMI goes green for St. Paddy parade

HOLMES BEACH – If you were green with envy on St. Patrick’s Day, it’s only because you weren’t at the Island’s annual Beach Bistro St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The parade stretched from the intersect…
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March 19, 2019
By SUN contributor
Tour of Homes wows attendees

Tour of Homes wows attendees

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – The 26th Annual Tour of Homes was so popular that attendees sometimes found themselves waiting for up to 10 minutes to enter one of the four beautiful Island homes featured on thi…
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March 17, 2019
By Cindy Lane

Nina and Pinta off Anna Maria

Two 15th-century wooden sailing ship replicas passed Anna Maria Island today in the Gulf of Mexico. The Nina and the Pinta left Regatta Pointe Marina in Palmetto this morning for their next port o…
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March 16, 2019
By Cindy Lane

Cortez celebrates Heritage Day

CORTEZ – Cortez may be the last fishing village in the state, and was certainly one of the first, settled in the 1880s by fishermen from Carteret County, North Carolina, Cortez native Allen Garner to…
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March 13, 2019
By Sun staff
Lovely weather blesses Springfest

Lovely weather blesses Springfest

Art lovers, residents and vacationers all basked in the spring-like weather at the 31st Annual Springfest Fine Art and Craft juried art show presented by the Anna Maria Island Art League and held in…
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March 12, 2019
By Tom Vaught
‘Flea’ a funny, French farce

‘Flea’ a funny, French farce

ANNA MARIA – “A Flea in Her Ear” is a funny story written in 1907 by Frenchman Georges Feydeau and adapted by David Ives. There’s a bevy of funny situations as Raymonde, played by Nancy Denton, belie…
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