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Museum to host Coastal Community Celebration

May 22, 2018 – Joe Hendricks
March 14, 2018
By Cindy Lane
Mark Coarsey

Fishermen ask Floridians to cast vote against net ban

Updated March 27, 2018 The CRC did not select the net ban proposal in its last cut for the November ballot. CORTEZ – Nearly 25 years after Floridians voted to ban gill nets, commercial fisherme…
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February 27, 2018
By Cindy Lane
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Fishermen to cast vote against net ban

CORTEZ – Local commercial fishermen plan to petition Florida’s Constitution Revision Commission (CRC) next month to place an amendment on the November ballot reversing the gill net ban. Mark Coars…
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December 5, 2017
By Joe Hendricks

Body identified not missing fisherman

Updated Dec. 5, 2017 CORTEZ – The Manatee County Coroner’ Office has identified a body found near Egmont Key last weekend, but it is not that of Fraser Horne, a Canadian who winters in Cortez…
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November 19, 2017
By Cindy Lane
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Guthrie ordered to remove building in bay

CORTEZ – Raymond “Junior” Guthrie Jr. plans to contest the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)’s final order issued on Friday, Nov. 17 requiring him to remove the unpermitted structu…
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November 11, 2017
By Cindy Lane

Veterans Day in Cortez

The Cortez Cultural Center celebrated Veterans Day on Saturday with a flag-raising ceremony, a prayer for all veterans, living and dead, and an all-American picnic with hot dogs and hamburgers. Invit…
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October 13, 2017
By Tom Vaught

Cortez Road improvements to begin

CORTEZ – The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will construct interim intersection improvements at State Road 684/Cortez Road and 119th Street West this month. This project was chosen ea…
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September 6, 2017
By Tom Vaught
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Crowd tells FDOT what kind of Cortez Bridge it wants

BRADENTON – The meeting hall at Kirkwood Presbyterian Church was packed with approximately 170 people Thursday night as the public got its final say on the future of the Cortez Bridge. The current…
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June 14, 2017
By Cindy Lane
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State investigates construction in bay

CORTEZ – An historic net camp in Sarasota Bay off the Cortez commercial fishing village could be the next offshore structure scrutinized by the state, some Cortezians fear. The Florida Department…
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May 3, 2017
By SUN contributor

FDOT changes 119th Street plans

BRADENTON — Residents of the Village of Cortez can breathe a little easier now that the Florida Department of Transportation is changing its plan for 119th Street access. Concern mounted after FDO…
April 26, 2017
By Cindy Lane
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Cortez rises again against Beruff

CORTEZ – The last time Cortezians took on Carlos Beruff, they lined up a 90-year-old woman, several seniors in wheelchairs, grandchildren, babes in their mothers’ arms and a disabled commercial fishe…
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April 9, 2025
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