Anna Maria Islander - The Islander Newspaper - "The Award …
WEBThis week on Anna Maria Island: Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024. An overhead view of a three-dimensional conceptual plan for a mini-golf course, restaurant, bar, retail and candy stores, ice cream shop and arcade at the intersection of Gulf and Marina drives in Holmes Beach, where the original Island Bank stood.
The Islander - About Us - Anna Maria Islander
WEBThe Islander – About Us. We offer this history of The Islander and past Island newspapers beginning in 1947. On Nov. 25, 1992, we published our first edition as The Islander Bystander. Island news — since 1947. Anna Maria Island’s first newspaper was not a newspaper — at least according to the newspaper. The Bradenton Beachcomber ...
The Islander Newspaper E-Edition: Wednesday, April. 17, 2024
WEBApr 17, 2024 · The e-Edition, the flip-page view of the weekly news is now limited to paid subscribers. For $36 a year, you can view all the news, photos, opinions, columns and community announcements — page by page — in the e-Edition. And your news arrives promptly as The islander is hitting the streets and newsracks on the island. Don't miss a …
Anna Maria City Pier opens quietly amid patron enthusiasm
WEBThe total cost is estimated at $6.8 million, according to Mayor Dan Murphy, who declined to provide a breakdown. Islander Photo: Bonner Joy. Joseph Dolan, 13, of Palmetto, was among the first to arrive to the Anna Maria City Pier on opening day June 19, and also the first to reel up a fish — a small snapper — at the T-end of the new pier ...
Red Tide Updates - Anna Maria Islander
WEBA red tide is a higher-than-normal concentration of a microscopic alga (plant-like organisms). In Florida, the species that causes most red tides is Karenia brevis. This organism produces a toxin that can affect the central nervous system of fish. At high concentrations (called a bloom), the organisms may discolor the water.
Debby delivers heavy rain, causes flooding - Anna Maria Islander
WEBAbout 9 a.m. Aug. 5, Manatee County reported “widespread flooding” associated with Debby, which delivered 12-14 inches of rain over 24 hours. “We are urging everyone to stay off the roads unless travel is absolutely necessary,” county public safety director Jodie Fiske said Aug. 5 in a news release. “We do not need disaster tourists.”.
Hey, hatchlings! - Anna Maria Islander
WEBAnna Maria Island Turtle Watch volunteer Pete Gross described what the hatching process looks like — for turtles and volunteers — via a phone interview on July 21. Nesting season runs May 1-Oct. 31. Female turtles lay eggs May-August and hatchlings emerge July-October. As of July 21, eight sea turtle nests on the island hatched, with the ...
Tale of three fish winds up in high court - Anna Maria Islander
WEBNov 11, 2014 · According to John and Sandy Yates, it was then federal enforcers started to contrive a case that Yates ordered his crew to throw the 72 crated fish overboard, replacing them with 69 different fish. To this day, Sandy and John Yates deny the insinuation, dispute the agents’ measurements and disavow the crew member’s testimony that built the ...
2 incumbents, 1 former commissioner top HB vote
WEBNov 9, 2021 · Morton, a former commissioner, won another term as commissioner with 20.96% of the vote between five candidates. Holmes Beach resident Larry Zahner talks with poll workers Janet Schmoll and Robert Philpott Nov. 2 while waiting for the polling site at St. Bernard Catholic Church to open for Election Day. Islander Photos: Ryan Paice.
Streetlife - 09-18-2024 - Anna Maria Islander
WEB4 days ago · Sept. 5, 400 block of 71st Street, marijuana. An officer saw a motorist and their passenger without seatbelts in a vehicle with a broken brake light. The officer conducted a traffic stop and spoke to the vehicle occupants, a man and a woman with a child in the back seat. The officer smelled marijuana. He handcuffed the man and searched the ...