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State investigates construction in bay

Jun 14, 2017 – Cindy Lane
August 31, 2016
By Monica Simpson

Redemption

        First Place Sports Action Photography 2017
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August 31, 2016
By Tom Vaught

Soggy Monday Blues

        First Place Breaking News Photography 2017
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July 20, 2016
By Steve Borggren
July 13, 2016
By Cindy Lane
Year in review: Environment

Of tourists and turtles

In a vacation resort like Anna Maria Island, it’s tough to educate people about sea turtles because the audience is a moving target. Visitors who have learned something about vacationing on a turt…
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June 29, 2016
By Sun staff

Silver Sunset

        First Place Feature Photograph Maggie Field 2017
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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 23, 2016
By Steve Borggren

No app for that

            First Place Editorial Cartoon 2016
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March 9, 2016
By Cindy Lane
Year in Review: Tourism

Tourism slogans, logos evolving

How many ways can you say “Come visit” over 35 years? Turns out, quite a few. Third Place Community History 2016 Tourism slogans, logos evolving 030916 Manatee County tourism officials have…
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March 2, 2016
By Cindy Lane

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