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Sep 23, 2024 – Joe Hendricks
September 9, 2024
By Joe Hendricks
Water Quality Concerns

Water quality concerns persist

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Water quality concerns persist as the city of Bradenton continues to discharge partially-treated sewage into the Manatee River. During and immediately after Tropical Storm Debb…
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September 3, 2024
By Rusty Chinnis
Voters speak out for water

Voters speak out for water

I knew that the citizens of Manatee County cared about water quality and preserving the coastal ecosystem. That was apparent when they voted to tax themselves for the Vote Water and Land Referendum i…
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September 2, 2024
By Leslie Lake
Despite tropical storm, Turtle Watch reports successful year

Despite tropical storm, Turtle Watch reports successful year

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Despite the loss of 200 loggerhead sea turtle nests due to flooding caused by Debby, which passed by Anna Maria Island as a tropical storm on Aug. 4-5, it has been a successful ne…
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September 2, 2024
By Joe Hendricks
Sewage discharge continues

Sewage discharge continues

BRADENTON – The Suncoast Waterkeeper organization continues to monitor ongoing sewage discharges and spills that have taken place in Bradenton since Tropical Storm Debby passed through the area in ea…
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August 27, 2024
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time: On the road

Reel Time: On the road

When my wife, Christine, and I got an invitation to fish a part of Colorado we had never visited, we jumped at the chance. Our good friend, Jimmy Harris, owner of Unicoi Outfitters in Helen, Georgia…
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August 26, 2024
By Leslie Lake
Loggerhead killed by car leaves behind 84 hatchlings

Loggerhead killed by car leaves behind 84 hatchlings

BRADENTON BEACH – The nest laid by a loggerhead sea turtle that was struck and killed by a car on Gulf Drive in June hatched earlier this week, producing 84 hatchlings. “When we conducted the nest e…
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August 20, 2024
By Rusty Chinnis

New weather reality threatens local waters

Reel Time was conceived as a fishing column, a way to spread information on a passion that you and I as anglers and environmentalists share. I include environmentalists because with time, you begin t…
August 20, 2024
By Leslie Lake
Turtle Watch completes post-storm assessment

Turtle Watch completes post-storm assessment

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring has completed a post-storm assessment of the turtle nests remaining on the beach after what was then Tropical Storm Debby p…
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August 19, 2024
By Leslie Lake
Piney Point 2024

Piney Point withstands Debby

PALMETTO – Severe weather associated with then-Tropical Storm Debby passed over the Piney Point site on Aug. 4-5, producing high winds and more than 9 inches of rain, according to the Florida Departm…
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August 19, 2024
By Joe Hendricks
43 million gallons of sewage discharged during Debby

43 million gallons of sewage discharged during Debby

BRADENTON – During and after what was then Tropical Storm Debby, the city’s water reclama­tion facility discharged an estimated 25 million gallons of raw and partially treated sewage into the Manatee…
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Upcoming Events

April 9, 2025
11:45 am

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