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Reel Time: Rebuilding oyster habitat

Dec 22, 2025 – Rusty Chinnis
November 25, 2025
By Cindy Lane

Help protect our waters on Giving Tuesday

Suncoast Waterkeeper is calling all residents to stand up for clean water. In just two weeks, communities everywhere will unite for Giving Tuesday, a day built on gratitude, generosity and collective…
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November 18, 2025
By Rusty Chinnis

Reel Time: Fall is in the air

Fall is in the air. Most of our windows and doors are open and we’ve turned off the A/C, the time change has turned the lights on earlier and made the afternoon light fade all too soon. The changes u…
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November 11, 2025
By Rusty Chinnis

Reel Time: Partners grants good for bay

Sarasota Bay Partners grants are competitive awards for projects in the Sarasota Bay watershed that promote habitat and water quality restoration, environmental education, community involvement and s…
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November 4, 2025
By Rusty Chinnis
seagrass

Reel Time: The importance of seagrass

The seagrass beds that carpet Sarasota Bay harbor a tremendous array of life, a critical and diverse ecosystem that is out of sight to most except on lunar low tides. Seagrasses are actually underwa…
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July 1, 2025
By Rusty Chinnis
Tarpon season winds down

Tarpon season winds down

For many anglers, the final days of June traditionally mark the beginning of the end of the tarpon fishing season. This is the time that big spawning pods break up into small groups and singles. Whil…
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May 6, 2025
By Rusty Chinnis

Get involved this summer

With summer fast approaching, there’s time on the horizon when we have the freedom from school schedules, extracurricular activities and many of our daily routines and have the time to fish more and…
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Upcoming Events

April 9, 2025
11:45 am

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