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Turtle Watch Wednesday a big success
Outdoors, Sea turtles

Turtle Watch Wednesday raises funds, spirits

Oct 3, 2021 – Jason Schaffer
September 20, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis

Reel Time: Pick up some trash, win some cash

PALMETTO – Suncoast Aqua Ventures will hold its 5th Annual Reef and Beach Cleanup the weekend of Oct. 2-3 at the Bradenton Yacht Club, 4307 13th St. W. Suncoast Aqua Ventures was formed in 201…
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September 19, 2021
By Cindy Lane

Red tide returns in low concentrations

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Red tide has returned to local waters after a two-week respite, according to Friday’s Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission weekly report. The toxic algae began app…
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September 13, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis

Reel Time: Vote water

Readers of this column are well aware of the critical state of our coastal waters in Manatee County and beyond. The recent 2020 and 2021 lyngbya blooms brought the issue front and center as the harmf…
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September 6, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time: The Mayfly Project

Reel Time: The Mayfly Project

I discovered The Mayfly Project when a child therapist reached out to me to find a mentor for a young man in St. Petersburg. Like so many young men and women, he loves to fish but has no one to coach…
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September 4, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Rainfall threatens to overfill Piney Point ponds

Piney Point deep water injection well draft permit issued

PALMETTO – The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) has issued a draft permit for Manatee County to build and test an underground injection well to store contaminated water from Pine…
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September 4, 2021
By Cindy Lane

No red tide detected

UPDATED SEPT. 12, 2021 – ANNA MARIA ISLAND – For the second week in a row, no red tide was detected in any water samples tested in Manatee County last week, according to Friday’s Florida Fish and Wil…
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August 30, 2021
By Cindy Lane

Piney Point under new management

UPDATED AUG. 30, 2021 at 7:15 P.M. – PALMETTO – Piney Point is now under the management of an independent third-party receiver who will oversee the closure of the former phosphate plant, which has po…
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August 30, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis

Reel Time: The lure of reds

Redfish are a favorite target for local anglers and late summer and early fall is a great time to target this versatile gamefish. Redfish are a sort of everyman’s fish in the sense that they take rea…
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August 23, 2021
By SUN contributor

Shorebird season scant on AMI

Shorebird nesting season on Anna Maria Island ends this month with only two least tern chicks surviving out of 30 – cats preyed on the rest, according to photographer Kathy Doddridge, a volunteer wit…
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August 23, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Rainfall threatens to overfill Piney Point ponds

Rainfall could prompt second discharge at Piney Point

PALMETTO – As summer rainfall fills a near-capacity pond of contaminated water at Piney Point, state environmental officials are sounding the alarm about a possible second discharge into Tampa Bay…
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