A future ferry landing in Anna Maria may be coming into focus. Mayor Mark Short reported his recent conversations with ...

The Anna Maria Post Office is back in action. Interim postmaster Kristen Gray told The Islander Oct. 7 that the office’s 101B ...

Soccer takes center pitch, golfers celebrate Oktoberfest - Read this weeks Sprts News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

October, the Florida Institute for Saltwater Heritage was hurrying to put the finishing touches on grant-funded ...

Bradenton Beach is courting new legal counsel. City commissioners on Oct. 7 interviewed attorneys Erica Augello and Robert ...

Onlookers gather Oct. 8 outside Island Grub Restaurant as a 1920 cottage that had been at 106 Willow Ave. rolls along on Pine ...

The ownership of the Luana Isles canals and yacht basin in Anna Maria will be determined in court. City attorney Becky Vose ...

A crowd fills Bridge Street in front of the Drift-In AMI during the Sundown Get Down “Rock the Block” festival Oct. 11 in Bradenton Beach. The Bridge Street Merchants Association event featured live ...

Manatee County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Russell Schnering, a former marine and the supervisor of mCSO’s marine unit, steers a boat Oct. 9 into the water from the Coquina Beach South Boat ramp. Schnering ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission the week ending Oct. 12 reported the red tide organism, Karenia brevis, at background concentrations in Manatee County. For more information, go ...

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Drift-In AMI owners Derek and Helena Williams stand with a statue of baseball legend Babe Ruth — a onetime owner of the Bridge Street bar — Oct. 11 during the 100-year celebration. A game bat that ...