A scent of fall in the air calls familiar species to the hook - Read this weeks Fishing News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

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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Another phase of the island’s storm recovery is taking shape along its shoreline. Crews began dredging Sept. 9 for Manatee County’s 2026 Coquina Beach Hurricane Idalia storm damage repair project, ...

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

Bradenton Beach is moving toward rules governing how city employees communicate with the news media and use social media for municipal matters. City commissioners reviewed a proposed 13-page media ...

Judy A. Carlson, 71, of Peotone, Illinois, and formerly of Anna Maria Island, died Sept. 11. She was born April 18, 1955, in Chicago, to William and Annette Lestinsky Paprocki. She taught special ...

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 ...

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

Rain put a damper on the start of the fall soccer season for the youth leagues while the adult league managed to get their first games in at the Center of Anna Maria Island. From the first round adult ...

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

The voter registration window for the Nov. 3 general election closes Monday, Oct. 5. Manatee County residents who are eligible can register online at votemanatee.gov or by mail by downloading an ...