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Jul 7, 2017 – Cindy Lane
May 10, 2017
By Cindy Lane
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Natives in Bloom – Mangroves

Mangroves, protected by state law, are a haven for juvenile fish, shorebirds and butterflies. This time of year, they produce flowers and seedlings.  
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April 27, 2017
By Cindy Lane
Loggerhead hatchling

Turtle Watch preps volunteers in spring training

HOLMES BEACH – Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring is starting earlier and doing things differently this sea turtle season to safeguard sea turtles better than ever. Volunteer…
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April 27, 2017
By Cindy Lane
Turtle nest

Longboat Key goes darker for turtles

LONGBOAT KEY – Turtles will not see as much light on Longboat Key when the town begins enforcing its new turtle lighting ordinance beginning May 1. Like the three Anna Maria Island cities that hav…
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April 26, 2017
By Cindy Lane
Aqua by the Bay map

Cortez rises again against Beruff

CORTEZ – The last time Cortezians took on Carlos Beruff, they lined up a 90-year-old woman, several seniors in wheelchairs, grandchildren, babes in their mothers’ arms and a disabled commercial fishe…
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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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April 10, 2017
By Cindy Lane
sea turtle release

Sea turtle release sets Mike free

Mike the sea turtle is on her way to the wild blue after her Monday release from Bayfront Park in Anna Maria. The female loggerhead sea turtle clumsily lumbered across the sand into the shallows o…
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March 21, 2017
By Cindy Lane
snowy plover

Snowy plovers start bird nesting season

HOLMES BEACH – It’s officially bird nesting season – the first snowy plovers, a threatened species in Florida, have made a nest on Anna Maria Island. The nest is also the first snowy plover nest o…
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March 9, 2017
By Cindy Lane
AMI reef

Artificial reef to be built off Anna Maria Island

Manatee County commissioners will spend $60,000 to construct an artificial reef, Borden Reef, about 7 nautical miles southwest of Longboat Pass in the Gulf of Mexico, to be completed by Aug. 10…
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February 7, 2017
By Cindy Lane
Loggerhead hatchling

Balloon release harmful to marine wildlife

Balloon release concerns Turtle Watch BRADENTON BEACH – Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring was notified through an anonymous tip that on Friday, Feb. 10, at sunset, about 50 p…
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February 1, 2017
By Cindy Lane
Manatee

Manatee deaths up in Manatee County, state

About 9 percent of the state’s 6,250 manatees counted in the 2016 survey died last year, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). Statewide, 509 manatees died, up…
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April 9, 2025
11:45 am

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