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Ahead of the curve

Jun 4, 2019 – Sun staff
February 26, 2019
By SUN contributor

Letters to the Editor: Where did you go, “Island time?”

The Holmes Beach City Commission appears to want to “speed up” Island traffic by adopting regulations designed to effectively eliminate golf carts. These regulations are presented in the name of safe…
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February 21, 2019
By Tom Vaught
Beer Can Island

Grilled chicken in paradise

After many years of enjoying Florida’s cuisine – seafood, shellfish and other treats – I was diverted by a Jimmy Buffett song to that ground beef and cheddar cheese sandwich known as the cheeseburger…
January 1, 2019
By Joe Hendricks
Sun Person Murphy

Dan Murphy is Sun’s Person of the Year

ANNA MARIA – Anna Maria Mayor Dan Murphy is The Sun’s 2018 Person of the Year. Working with the city commission, city staff and outside contractors, Murphy spent much of 2018 working on getting a…
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December 4, 2018
By Sun staff

Fair or foul?

Part of a true sportsman’s enjoyment of any sport is knowing you have won or lost while playing by the rules. Florida’s duck hunting rules say that you can shoot at a duck on the wing during seaso…
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November 6, 2018
By Sun staff
Awards

Sun earns nine statewide awards

The Anna Maria Island Sun was recognized with nine awards in the 2018 Florida Press Club Excellence in Journalism Competition at a ceremony in Mt. Dora on Saturday. The Sun’s online edition, amisu…
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October 30, 2018
By Sun staff
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The Sun election recommendations

Bradenton Beach City Commission Ralph Cole Marilyn Maro Holmes Beach City Commission Pat Morton Holmes Beach Mayor Judy Holmes Titsworth Holmes Beach Charter Review Commission (vote for up…
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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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September 4, 2018
By Sun staff

The Russians are coming

Remember that movie where the Russians overrun a little beach community? Well, it happened last week. It’s hard to believe that a weekly newspaper in paradise like The Anna Maria Island Sun cou…
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August 29, 2018
By SUN contributor
manatees

Red tides, lost summers

By Katie Tripp, Ph.D. Director of Science & Conservation, Save the Manatee Club Martin County, located along Florida’s southeast coast, adopted the term “Lost Summer” in 2013 to describe th…
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July 24, 2018
By Sun staff

Valuing civility

Election season is upon us, and already the gloves are coming off between candidates and between some candidates and the public. The first ballot is months away from being cast, but the first punches…
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