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Person of the Year: Kathy Smart
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Kathy Smart shares Sun Person of the Year honors

Dec 29, 2020 – SUN contributor
December 21, 2020
By Sun staff

Four Sun staffers win 12 state awards

Four Anna Maria Island Sun staff members have won 12 awards in the Florida Press Club’s 2019 Excellence in Journalism Competition. Political cartoonist Steve Borggren swept the Editorial Cartoonin…
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December 21, 2020
By Joe Hendricks
Bright Holiday Lights contest winners celebrated

Bright Holiday Lights contest winners celebrated

ANNA MARIA – The city of Anna Maria has named four winners in this year’s Bright Holiday Lights decorating contest. On Friday, two winners were announced in the residential category and two winner…
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December 21, 2020
By Joe Hendricks
Moose Lodge hosts drive-thru Christmas party

Moose Lodge hosts drive-thru Christmas party

BRADENTON BEACH – Santa, Rudolph the female reindeer and Tommy the Moose were on hand for the Anna Maria Island Moose Lodge’s drive-thru Christmas party. From 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Saturday morn…
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December 20, 2020
By Joe Hendricks
Anna Maria resident provides Christmas bikes

Anna Maria resident provides Christmas bikes

ANNA MARIA – Carl Augostini thinks every kid should have a bike, and he spends his own time and money trying to make that happen. Each year, Augostini and Charles Wade team up to provide bikes to…
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December 14, 2020
By Joe Hendricks
City Pier Grill & Bait Shop celebrates opening

City Pier Grill & Bait Shop celebrates opening

ANNA MARIA – The City Pier Grill & Bait Shop is open. Operating at the T-end of the new Anna Maria City Pier, in space leased from the city of Anna Maria, the new grill and bait shop opened at…
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December 13, 2020
By Joe Hendricks
Coryea notes and Van Ostenbridge texts shed light on termination efforts

Notes and texts shed light on Coryea termination efforts

MANATEE COUNTY – Private meeting notes and text messages disclosed in a public records request reveal more about County Commissioner Kevin Van Ostenbridge’s failed efforts to terminate County Adminis…
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December 11, 2020
By Joe Hendricks
Commission abandons Coryea termination efforts

Commission abandons Coryea termination efforts

MANATEE COUNTY – Led by County Commissioner George Kruse, the Manatee County Commission has ended its efforts to potentially terminate County Administrator Cheri Coryea. On Nov. 19, Kruse joined c…
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December 9, 2020
By Joe Hendricks
Great blue herons’ nest in jeopardy

Great blue herons’ nest in jeopardy

ANNA MARIA – Seana and Jeff Long are concerned about a great blue herons’ nest located in one of several backyard Australian pine trees at 315 Iris St., across the canal from their family home. As…
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December 9, 2020
By Joe Hendricks
Kruse call log reveals private conversations between commissioners

Call log reveals private conversations among county commissioners

MANATEE COUNTY – County Commissioner George Kruse’s personal call log indicates he has had numerous private phone conversations with commissioners Vanessa Baugh, James Satcher and Kevin Van Ostenbrid…
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December 7, 2020
By Joe Hendricks
Satcher named first in Barfield court filings

Satcher named as defendant in public records action

MANATEE COUNTY – County Commissioner James Satcher is named as the sole defendant in a public records complaint filed today by paralegal Michael Barfield. Barfield, a Sunshine Law expert, filed th…
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