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Jul 29, 2025 – Joe Hendricks
July 15, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Commission considering changes to trash collection schedule

Commission considering changes to trash collection schedule

ANNA MARIA – City commissioners want to see improvements to Waste Management’s current side-door trash and recycling collection services while still considering the company’s request to switch Anna M…
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July 8, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
AMI remembers Dale Woodland

AMI remembers Dale Woodland

ANNA MARIA – Former city commissioner and longtime Anna Maria resident Dale Woodland passed away on June 28 at the age of 76 due to complications caused by dementia. The family plans to host a memor…
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July 7, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
DeSantis approves state funds for City Pier replacement

DeSantis approves state funds for City Pier replacement

ANNA MARIA – The city will receive a $1.25 million state appropriation that will assist in the replacement of the Anna Maria City Pier walkway that sustained significant damage during Hurricane Milto…
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July 2, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Commission discusses pier lease, parking fines, Waste Management

Commission discusses pier lease, parking fines, Waste Management

ANNA MARIA – City Pier tenant requests, increased parking fines and ongoing service issues with Waste Management were among the topics discussed during the June 26 Anna Maria City Commission meeting…
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July 1, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Teenager ejected from golf cart, seriously injured

Teenager seriously injured in Anna Maria golf cart accident

ANNA MARIA – A 15-year-old golf cart passenger suffered traumatic head and chest injuries after being ejected from a golf cart at the intersection of North Shore Drive and Spring Avenue in Anna Maria…
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June 23, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
City, county officials discuss pier replacement, ferry landing

City, county officials discuss pier replacement, ferry landing

ANNA MARIA – City officials’ desire to rebuild the hurricane-damaged City Pier walkway and Manatee County officials’ desire to install a ferry landing at the pier are financially and philosophically…
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June 17, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Anna Maria adopting ordinance prohibiting beach holes

Anna Maria adopting ordinance prohibiting beach holes

ANNA MARIA – The city will soon have a “No Holes on Beach” ordinance in effect that prohibits using metal shovels and other gardening tools to dig holes in the beach sand. On June 12, Anna Maria com…
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June 17, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Mayor seeks TDC support for pier replacement project

Mayor seeks TDC support for pier replacement project

ANNA MARIA – The Manatee County Tourist Development Council (TDC) recommends that the county commission provide the city of Anna Maria with up to $2 million in tourist development tax revenues to hel…
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June 17, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
City Pier Grill operators hope to renegotiate lease

City Pier Grill operators hope to renegotiate lease

ANNA MARIA – The City Pier Grill & Bait Shop operators want to renegotiate their lease before com­mitting to another five years in the city-owned City Pier building that’s currently closed due to…
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June 3, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Boy Scouts replant City Pier shoreline

Boy Scouts replant City Pier shoreline

ANNA MARIA – On a rainy Friday morning, Anna Maria resident and Boy Scout William Pakbaz and the volunteers he recruited for his scouting project planted more than 150 native plants near the City Pie…
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