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Protecting paradise through partnership 

Jul 21, 2026 – Rodney Kwiatkowski
September 24, 2023
By SUN contributor

The importance of socializing your child early

By Pam Bertrand As the director at School For Constructive Play, my 30ish years in early childhood education have produced many parent questions. Some questions are asked in a panic, “She touched…
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October 26, 2020
By SUN contributor

Voters can make a big impact on clean water and flood protection

We are the last generation that can save Manatee County’s water and land. Truly, over the next 10 or 20 years, the remaining open spaces – be they farms, fields or forests, one acre or 1,000 acres –…
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October 2, 2018
By SUN contributor

Police officers doing their job

By William L. Tokajer Holmes Beach Chief of Police As I watch this election season come upon us, I do so with disbelief as to the way this city’s police and code officers are again the target f…
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June 19, 2018
By SUN contributor
Anna Maria City Pier demolition

A little history

I’m amazed at those who continue to cloak themselves in the Pollyanna notion that the Anna Maria City Pier should be repaired. A notion that last week was furthered by this newspaper in The Sun surve…
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May 15, 2018
By SUN contributor

Get in the game

By Jack Clarke Can you name your city commissioners? Have you made the effort to speak in person to any of them? Many of your elected officials are open to your ideas and thoughts, many less so…
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January 30, 2018
By SUN contributor
Cortez bridge looking east

A wake up call on the proposed Cortez Bridge

By Dr. Mary Fulford Green It is believed that if you do not know your history, you are apt to repeat it. I am one who is looking forward to the same outcome for the new Cortez Bridge as in 1995 –…
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December 5, 2017
By Joe Hendricks
Anna Maria City Pier closed

Grateful on Thanksgiving

I spent a couple of hours on Thanksgiving morning at Bayfront Park in Anna Maria with the former employees of the City Pier Restaurant and bait shop. The time provided me with a deeper understanding…
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April 13, 2017
By SUN contributor
Manatee

Controversial action puts manatees in harms’ way

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has issued its final rule to downgrade the status of the West Indian manatee from endangered to threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. The rul…
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February 6, 2017
By SUN contributor
Jean Peelen

Why I marched in the Women’s March

On Saturday, Jan. 21, I traveled to Washington, D.C., where I marched in the Women’s March along with one of my daughters, two of my granddaughters, two old friends (fellow authors of “Saving the Bes…
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