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Anna Maria: The Year in Review

Jan 4, 2022 – Joe Hendricks
May 10, 2021
By Sun staff
Where to get weather alerts

Where to get weather alerts

Here are several ways to receive up-to-date information about severe weather. Go online to the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) website. From there, Floridians can sign up for ele…
May 10, 2021
By Sun staff
Re-entry tags needed to return after storms

Re-entry tags needed to return after storms

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Residents need a valid re-entry tag to cross the Manatee Avenue bridge, the Cortez Road bridge or the Longboat Pass bridge to Anna Maria Island after a hurricane evacuation. Ta…
April 14, 2021
By Steve Borggren

Piney Point

        First Place Editorial Cartooning 2021
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December 30, 2020
By Cindy Lane

That is so AMI

Florida is portrayed in the news as an odd place, where a cigar-chomping man holds an alligator’s jaws open so his dog can break free and a developer relocates protected gopher tortoises in the middl…
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December 21, 2020
By Sun staff

Four Sun staffers win 12 state awards

Four Anna Maria Island Sun staff members have won 12 awards in the Florida Press Club’s 2019 Excellence in Journalism Competition. Political cartoonist Steve Borggren swept the Editorial Cartoonin…
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November 3, 2020
By SUN contributor

Wave wall

              Second Place Reader-Generated Photo Eric Nalpas 2021
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July 29, 2020
By Steve Borggren

Back to School

        Second Place Editorial Cartooning 2021
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June 21, 2020
By SUN contributor
Schoenfelder seeks $65,000 to terminate pier lease early

Busy Atlantic hurricane season predicted

The forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center are predicting a busier than average Atlantic hurricane season, with the possibility of 13 to 19 nam…
June 21, 2020
By SUN contributor

2020 Atlantic hurricane season names

Each year the World Meteorological Organization releases names for Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes. If this year’s names sound familiar, that’s because they were last used in 2014. This year’…
March 18, 2020
By Steve Borggren

I miss red tide

            First Place Original Local Editorial Cartoon 2021
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