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Waste Management proposes mandatory side-door service

Jul 29, 2025 – Joe Hendricks
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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June 3, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Quality Marine to demolish City Pier walkway

Quality Marine to demolish City Pier walkway

ANNA MARIA – The city is entering into a $239,500 contract with Quality Marine Construc­tion to demolish and remove what remains of the hurricane-damaged City Pier walkway. The buildings at the T-en…
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June 3, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
City commission narrows ferry landing options

City commission narrows ferry landing options

ANNA MARIA – City com­missioners have eliminated the possibility of the county installing a stand-alone Gulf Islands Ferry landing structure near the Lake La Vista inlet and jetty. On May 27, with C…
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May 28, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
City block party celebrates community

City block party celebrates community

ANNA MARIA – The city of Anna Maria hosted a community block party at City Pier Park on May 24. Mayor Mark Short and City Commissioner Charlie Salem suggested the event as a way to bring the communi…
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