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Mar 27, 2023 – Joe Hendricks
March 20, 2023
By Joe Hendricks
Anna Maria officials oppose rental bill

Anna Maria officials oppose rental bill

ANNA MARIA – Anna Maria Mayor Dan Murphy traveled to Tallahassee last week to express the city’s opposition to Senate Bill 714. SB 714 is the Florida Legislature’s most recent move to further limi…
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March 20, 2023
By SUN contributor

Holmes Beach opposes vacation rental bill

HOLMES BEACH – Another bill in the Florida House of Representatives is proposed to undo local vacation rental regulations, pushing control to the state. House Bill 105 is designed to preempt local…
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March 16, 2023
By Joe Hendricks
Mote receives another extension for pier facility

Mote receives another extension for pier facility

ANNA MARIA – Mote Marine Laboratory was given an additional two weeks to obtain a city-issued certificate of occupancy for the education outreach center being installed on the City Pier. On March…
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March 13, 2023
By Jason Schaffer
Multiple departments fight Bradenton Beach fire

Multiple departments fight Bradenton Beach fire

BRADENTON BEACH – Black smoke could be seen rising high into the air after a fire started on March 8 at 403 Gulf Drive S., Unit D in a four-unit condo building known as Birds Nest. Bradenton Beach…
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March 13, 2023
By Jason Schaffer
Spring break in full swing on AMI

Spring break in full swing on AMI

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Thousands of students, many with their families, have flocked to AMI to escape the still-freezing temperatures farther north, trading quizzes and tests for beach volleyball and fu…
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March 13, 2023
By Joe Hendricks
Water taxi agreement revisions continue

Water taxi agreement revisions continue

ANNA MARIA – City and county officials continue to work on an interlocal agreement that would allow the Anna Maria City Pier to be used as a landing area for Manatee County’s pending water taxi servi…
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March 13, 2023
By Leslie Lake
Local crews keeping beaches clean

Local crews keeping beaches clean

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – After more than three weeks of west winds pushing red tide and subsequent dead fish toward local Gulf of Mexico beaches, an easterly wind shift on Thursday gave some beachgoers a…
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March 13, 2023
By Joe Hendricks
Hunters Point prevails in dock permit challenge

Hunters Point prevails in dock permit challenge

CORTEZ – Administrative Law Judge Bruce Culpepper issued a recommended order supporting the Southwest Florida Water Management District’s issuance of a permit for the construction of 49 canal-side do…
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March 7, 2023
By Cindy Lane
Flag at Veterans Park, Bradenton

Proposed bill threatens freedom of speech

TALLAHASSEE – As the Florida legislative session opens this week, lawmakers have two companion bills to consider that critics say would remove longstanding constitutional and judicial protect…
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March 7, 2023
By Joe Hendricks
Residents considering Pines Trailer Park purchase

Residents considering Pines Trailer Park purchase

BRADENTON BEACH – Residents of the Pines Trailer Park must soon decide if they have the desire and the means to collectively purchase for $16 million the 2.78-acre waterfront property their mobile ho…
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April 9, 2025
11:45 am

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