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Earth Day cloudy, with silver lining

Apr 19, 2017 – Cindy Lane
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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February 1, 2017
By Rusty Chinnis
Florida Everglades

“Now or Neverglades” campaign to save Everglades

The Everglades earned the nickname “river of grass” because of the shallow water that courses through the sawgrass marshes and hammocks from the Kissimmee River to Lake Okeechobee and south to Florid…
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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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April 27, 2016
By Cindy Lane
Hammerhead shark

Legendary hammerhead immortalized

“My big fish must be somewhere.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea CORTEZ – “Go big,” Eric Grimes likes to say. So why not commission a life-size replica of the biggest, baddest, meaner…
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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 4, 2015
By Cindy Lane
John Yates

Conviction tossed in fish-tossing case

CORTEZ – The U.S. Supreme Court decided 5-4 last week to overturn the 2011 conviction of former commercial fisherman John Yates for destroying undersized grouper in a federal fisheries investigation…
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December 30, 2014
By Cindy Lane

Live Like a Local – Respect Wildlife

        Second Place Photo Illustration 2014  
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November 12, 2014
By Cindy Lane
John Yates

U.S. Supreme Court considers fish case

WASHINGTON – Some U.S. Supreme Court justices question whether a law designed to prevent documentary evidence destruction passed in the wake of the Enron scandal should have been used to convict and…
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July 16, 2014
By Cindy Lane

Whitmore working to save pelicans

In an effort to save pelicans from fishing hooks, Manatee County Commissioner Carol Whitmore is asking local government officials to consider passing an ordinance similar to one used in Naples, publi…
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April 9, 2025
11:45 am

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