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FDEP inspects Aqua’s mangrove trimming

May 2, 2022 – Joe Hendricks
April 18, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
City asks governor to veto proposed legislation

City asks governor to veto proposed legislation

ANNA MARIA – The mayor and city commission are asking Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto Senate Bill 620, also referred to as the Local Business Protection Act. The commission took this action when adoptin…
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April 18, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
Speed bumps being added to humpback bridges

Speed bumps to be added at humpback bridges

ANNA MARIA – Speed bumps will soon be installed at the humpback bridges on Crescent Drive and North Bay Boulevard. The speed bumps will be placed at both ends of each bridge and be accompanied by…
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April 18, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
Anna Maria requiring pool alarms at rental properties

Anna Maria to require pool alarms at rental properties

ANNA MARIA – The city is in the process of adopting a new pool safety ordinance that will require pool alarms at all residential rental properties. “We’ve had some near tragedies with regard to po…
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April 17, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
Jack Dietrich reflects on a life well-lived

Jack Dietrich reflects on a well-lived life

ANNA MARIA – Former Anna Maria Elementary Principal Jack Dietrich, 92, is living out his golden years surrounded by family members and friends at his Anna Maria home. These days, Jack can be found…
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April 17, 2022
By SUN contributor

Commissioners reconsider golf cart restrictions

HOLMES BEACH – It looks like residents’ golf cart driving days aren’t numbered after all. At the first reading of a new golf cart ordinance on April 12, commissioners made a few eleventh hour chan…
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April 17, 2022
By Jason Schaffer
Egg hunt brings hundreds to Anna Maria

Egg hunt brings hundreds to Anna Maria

ANNA MARIA – The 34th Annual Easter Egg Hunt at the Sandbar Restaurant drew hundreds of children and their excited parents to the white sands of Anna Maria Island on April 16. This annual even…
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April 17, 2022
By Jason Schaffer
Third suspect arrested in Holmes Beach attack

Third suspect arrested in Holmes Beach attack

HOLMES BEACH – A third suspect in the violent beating of a 40-year-old man has been arrested.  Cameron Evans, 18, of Sarasota was located and arrested by the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office on Ap…
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April 17, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
Murphy to Mote: Fish or cut bait

Murphy to Mote: Fish or cut bait

ANNA MARIA – Dr. Michael Crosby and his Mote Marine Laboratory associates have until Friday to present the final conceptual plans for an educational outreach center on the City Pier. Mote’s latest…
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April 13, 2022
By Joe Hendricks
Tram operator asked to focus on beach parking spaces

Tram operator asked to focus on beach parking spaces

BRADENTON BEACH – The Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) members want the CRA-funded Old Town Trams to serve more people who park in the Manatee County-owned parking spaces at Cortez Beach and Coqu…
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April 11, 2022
By SUN contributor
Suspect enters not guilty plea in fatal hit and run

Defendant pleads no contest in hit-and-run case

MANATEE COUNTY – Cierra Shannon, 28, of Holmes Beach, pled no contest today to a first-degree felony charge of leaving the scene of a crash with a death. Shannon appeared before Manatee County Jud…
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April 9, 2025
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The Off-Stage Ladies of the Island Players, April luncheon meeting