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Coast Lines: A Gulf by any other name

Jan 31, 2025 – Cindy Lane
July 1, 2019
By Cindy Lane
Florida flotsam washes up on European beaches

Florida flotsam washes up on European beaches

Updated July 5, 2019 – ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Visitors to this resort island say it all the time when meeting folks from far-flung hometowns – “Small world!” Second Place Humorous Column 2020 Ho…
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April 12, 2019
By Cindy Lane
Earthy ideas from The Sun

Earthy ideas from The Sun

Odette Katrak was sitting at her computer in Bengaluru, India Googling “Imagine There’s No Plastic,” a song based on John Lennon’s “Imagine” that she had recently recorded and posted on YouTube. W…
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October 31, 2017
By Cindy Lane
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It’s Manatee Awareness Month

November is Manatee Awareness Month, a time to appreciate our large, lumbering state marine mammals and learn how to co-exist with them when we’re boating in their habitat. In Manatee County, our…
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April 19, 2017
By Cindy Lane
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Earth Day cloudy, with silver lining

A few storm clouds are gathering over Earth Day this year, but there’s a silver lining. Manatees The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service downlisted manatees under the U.S. Endangered Species Act fro…
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June 1, 2016
By Cindy Lane

Eat more octopus

There is hope on the horizon for stone crabbers who are fed up with octopus eating the stone crabs right out of their traps. When he’s not busy developing algorithms for predicting the camouflage…
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March 2, 2016
By Cindy Lane
April 15, 2015
By Cindy Lane

Coast Lines: Holy maternity season, bat mom!

It’s shorebird nesting season on Anna Maria Island’s beaches, as everyone who doesn’t have their beak buried in the sand probably knows. But bet you didn’t know that it’s also bat season. Make…
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March 5, 2014
By Cindy Lane

Coast Lines: Respect the manatee’s river

There is a good reason for the Manatee River’s name – manatees live there. So do sea turtles – one laid a nest at DeSoto National Park recently. So do dolphins, and other animals that don’t ge…
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August 21, 2013
By Cindy Lane

Coast Lines: Bye bye, reef

Just for the record, there’s no question that we need the beach renourishment that’s planned to begin shortly to make room for the profusion of new visitors who daily discover Anna Maria Island. A…
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October 12, 2011
By Cindy Lane

Coast Lines: No bones about it; jellyfish bad news

They have no backbone, no brains and no heart, which is probably why a jellyfish can sting the living daylights out of you without missing a beat. It was a box jellyfish – not the sharks that she…
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April 9, 2025
11:45 am

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