Work replacing a water main at the Marina Drive-56th Street intersection in Holmes Beach, shown above on Sept. 25, has closed ...

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Cornelia Zanetti, president for some 15 years of the organization known as All Island Denominations, an affiliation of the ...

Anna Maria Mayor Mark Short told The Islander Sept. 24 via email that the contractor engaged by the city to perform the ...

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Matt McDonough, Holmes Beach digital and media strategist, took on the assignment from Mayor Judy Titsworth of reporting city business for the week ending ...

Manatee County sheriff’s detectives were investigating a drowning Sept. 18 near Passage Key off the north end of Anna Maria Island. At about 4:30 p.m., the MCSO received a rescue call for a possible ...