Top Stories this week on Anna Maria Island: Wednesday, Jan 25, 2012
Island youth rocks county fair concert
The star of local music sensation Jake Castro, 10, of Anna Maria Island, shines Jan. 13 with the Allstar Goodtime Band, including Jeff Cook, a founding member of superband Alabama. The band performed with Castro to standing ovations at the Manatee County Fair Jan. 13. Islander Photo: Courtesy Richie Castro “Click here” for more photos.
This week on Anna Maria Island:
Bradenton Beach celebrates Florida Arbor Day
By Mark Young, Islander Reporter
Arbor Day will be 140 years old when it is celebrated nationally April 27, but communities across the country celebrate the day at different times of the year. Jan. 20 was Florida Arbor Day and Anna Maria Island communities celebrated …
Gatehouse gets BB Ward 3 seat
By Mark Young, Islander Reporter
The Bradenton Beach commission is now a full, five-member board, following a 3-1 vote to appoint Richard Gatehouse as the Ward 3 commissioner at the Jan. 19 city commission meeting. Gatehouse’s nomination stalled at the Jan. 12 commission meeting when …
City hears bark, bark, bark of dog owners
By Kathy Prucnell, Islander Reporter
He claimed he was a lawyer from Illinois, and he had come to practice baseball with his son. He told some 30 people with animals at the field to leave. And they left. Holmes Beach resident and dog park user …
HB fisher serves jail time, appeals conviction
By Kathy Prucnell, Islander Reporter
John L. Yates, 60, a Holmes Beach commercial fisherman working out of Cortez, was released from jail Jan. 4. Yates served 30 days following a federal jury trial, judgment and sentencing on charges that he destroyed fish in an effort …
BSM agrees to sponsor HB concert — after the fact
By Kathy Prucnell, Islander Reporter
The first in what is planned as monthly festivals at the Holmes Beach city field will likely be sponsored by a Bradenton Beach merchants group after all. As of press time, the Jan. 27 event is pending a state liquor …
Island roadwatch, Jan. 25-Feb. 1
A Florida Department of Transportation restriction on over-size vehicles using the Longboat Pass Bridge/State Road 789 remains. DOT officials expect the ban to last for several months. Due to construction on the bridge, the contractor reduced the width of the …
Landmark Island ‘anvil’ to close May 1
By Rick Catlin, Islander Reporter
The Sterling Anvil jewelry store at 5508 Marina Drive in Holmes Beach is probably the Island’s oldest jewelry store, having opened its doors in 1971. It’s also quite likely that during the past 40 years, owners Mary Norman and Roxanne …
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