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Mayor unveils new Holmes Beach city flag

Apr 14, 2025 – Joe Hendricks
April 8, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Treasured architectural designer passes away

Treasured architectural designer passes away

BRADENTON BEACH – Emily Anne Smith, the architectural designer who helped transform Bridge Street into what it is today, has passed away. According to close friend and longtime office administrator…
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April 8, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Above-average hurricane season predicted

Above-average hurricane season predicted

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – As residents continue to recover from 2024 Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Colorado State University (CSU) hurricane researchers are predicting an above-average 2025 Atlantic hurric…
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April 7, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Holmes Beach ferry stops explored

Holmes Beach ferry stops explored

HOLMES BEACH – City and county officials hoped to use businessman Jake Spooner’s boat slip in the Wa­terline resort marina as a Gulf Islands Ferry stop, but the current county-owned pontoon boats are…
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April 1, 2025
By Leslie Lake
County sends Annie’s owners packing

County sends Annie’s owners packing

CORTEZ – While Manatee County commissioners have not set a demolition date for Annie’s Bait and Tackle Shop, they gave Annie’s former owners an April 7 deadline to remove their personal items from th…
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April 1, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Man arrested after driving Jeep into water

Man arrested after driving Jeep into water

HOLMES BEACH – Sarasota resident James Mikluscak was arrested on multiple charges after allegedly driving another man’s Jeep into the water near the Anna Maria Island Bridge on Manatee Avenue. Accor…
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April 1, 2025
By Leslie Lake
County sends Annie’s owners packing

County sends Annie’s owners packing

CORTEZ – While Manatee County commissioners have not set a demolition date for Annie’s Bait and Tackle Shop, they gave Annie’s former owners an April 7 deadline to remove their personal items from th…
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March 25, 2025
By Leslie Lake
Commissioners consider temporary shelter ordinance

Commissioners consider temporary shelter ordinance

BRADENTON BEACH – At the March 20 commission meeting, commissioners considered Ordi­nance 25-563, which would allow hurricane-impacted homeowners to place a temporary shelter – an RV or trailer – on…
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March 24, 2025
By Leslie Lake
Pines residents question seawall cap permitting

Pines residents question seawall cap permitting

BRADENTON BEACH – Some Pines Trailer Park residents are questioning whether permits exist for a seawall cap built in 2024 at the park that they say may have acted as a dam during the 2024 hurricanes…
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March 24, 2025
By Leslie Lake
Drift-In owners granted temporary use permit to reopen

Drift-In owners granted temporary use permit to reopen

BRADENTON BEACH – Six months after Hurricane Helene and subsequent permitting obstacles shuttered the doors to the Drift-In, the Bridge Street bar will reopen, at least temporarily pending city revie…
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March 24, 2025
By Joe Hendricks
Heritage Day celebrates historical museum’s recovery

Heritage Day celebrates historical museum’s recovery

ANNA MARIA – The annual Heritage Day Festival took on even greater significance this year because of the storm surge damage that the Anna Maria Island Historical Museum suffered during Hurricane Hele…
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Upcoming Events

April 9, 2025
11:45 am

The Off-Stage Ladies of the Island Players, April luncheon meeting