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Dec 9, 2024 – Joe Hendricks
December 9, 2024
By Leslie Lake
Bradenton Beach celebrates recovery at Christmas on Bridge Street

Bradenton Beach celebrates recovery at Christmas on Bridge Street

BRADENTON BEACH – The city celebrated its hurricane recovery and the reopening of businesses following the hur­ricanes at Christmas on Bridge Street on Dec. 7. Bridge Street was closed to vehicula…
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December 5, 2024
By Leslie Lake
Mobile homes likely fall within repair guidelines

Mobile homes likely within repair guidelines

BRADENTON BEACH – Preliminary data from hurricane damage assessments may offer some hope to mobile homeowners at the Pines Trailer Park and Sandpiper Resort Co-op. At a Dec. 4 emergency city commi…
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December 3, 2024
By Leslie Lake
Tingley Library temporarily closed

Tingley Library temporarily closed

BRADENTON BEACH – The Tingley Memorial Library will be closed to the public until late January 2025 and will be used meanwhile for post-hurricane city meetings. “The building is being utilized rig…
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December 3, 2024
By Joe Hendricks
Island community gives thanks together

Island community gives thanks together

ANNA MARIA – Approximately 400 free Thanksgiving meals were served during the “Let’s Give Thanks Together” community gathering held at The Center of Anna Maria Island on Thanksgiving Day. Duncan R…
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December 2, 2024
By Leslie Lake
Damage assessments continue in Bradenton Beach

Damage assessments continue in Bradenton Beach

BRADENTON BEACH – The team of 20 state inspectors of hurricane-damaged properties is expected to be finished with their assessments this week, and the city’s inspector is asking for help replacing th…
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December 2, 2024
By Leslie Lake
Beach restoration planned for 2026

Beach restoration planned for 2026

BRADENTON BEACH – Beach renourishment after Hurricanes Helene and Milton is planned for 2026, city commissioners learned on Nov. 21. “We talked to (Manatee County Director of Natural Resources) Ch…
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December 2, 2024
By Joe Hendricks
Octogenarians survive Hurricane Helene ordeal

Octogenarians survive Hurricane Helene ordeal

BRADENTON BEACH – Ohio residents and childhood friends Dick Kuhlman and Nancy Schrier, both in their early 80s, are thankful they survived the Hurricane Helene storm surge that destroyed Kuhlman’s be…
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December 2, 2024
By Leslie Lake
Beach horse trailer involved in collision

 Beach horse trailer involved in collision

BRADENTON – A Nov. 29 collision involving a Florida Beach Horses trailer left two people and seven horses injured and one horse dead. Florida Beach Horses posted the fol­lowing on its Facebook pag…
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December 2, 2024
By Joe Hendricks
Stimart family launches Build Back the Beach project

Stimart family launches Build Back the Beach project

ANNA MARIA – Homeowners Cindy and Tryn Stimart are leading the Build Back the Beach community impact project that plans to replace the native beachfront plants and grasses destroyed by Hurricanes Hel…
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December 2, 2024
By Joe Hendricks
Sewage discharges continue in Bradenton

Sewage discharges continue in Bradenton

BRADENTON – At a time when red tide levels recently increased in Anna Maria Island waters and a Bradenton man recently lost his leg to flesh eating bacteria (vibrio vulnificus) after wade fishing in…
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