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Egmont Key ruins in water
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Erosion lands Egmont Key on preservation list

May 24, 2017 – SUN contributor
April 26, 2017
By Cindy Lane
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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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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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April 9, 2025
11:45 am

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