Top Stories this week: Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006
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Pumpkin walk
Sisters Piper, 4, and Maite Hansen, 1 1/2, walk through rows of pumpkins enjoying the splash of fall color at Harvest United Methodist Church in Lakewood Ranch. Islander Photo: Diana Bogan |
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Anna Maria mayor bows out of office
By Rick Catlin. Islander Reporter
Anna Maria Mayor SueLynn attended her last commission meeting Oct. 19, ending nearly five years of public service to the city. She is not seeking re-election in November.
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City orders Olesen wall torn down
By Rick Catlin. Islander Reporter
In an apparent clash of legal opinions, the Anna Maria City Commission wants a recently constructed wall at 504 S. Bay Blvd. torn down because it encroaches into a city-owned beach access.
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Remembering Gregg Allman on Anna Maria Island
The 16th Annual Carl Balck GMC Sarasota Blues Fest will be at the Ed Smith Stadium, 2700 12th St., Sarasota, Oct. 28.
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Store ready for move, county not
By Jim Hanson. Islander Reporter
The good news is that the historic Burton Store building in Cortez is ready for its move to a new site. The bad news is that Manatee County permits are not.
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Holmes Beach board acts against code violators
By Lisa Neff. Islander Reporter
The Holmes Beach Code Enforcement Board took action Oct. 19 seeking to correct electrical problems at one property and to further prevent an abandoned vehicle problem at another.
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Insurance: Candidates want you to know they care
By Molly McCartney. Islander Reporter
With early voting in the November mid-term election already under way, the state wind insurance crisis has become a burning issue as candidates focus their speeches, advertisements and Web sites on the insurance problem and make tough statements about what they would do to fix it.
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Twisted chain of events led to two men's arrest
By Diana Bogan. Islander Reporter
A twisted chain of events, beginning at the Manatee Public Beach, led to the arrest of two men for breaking into a doctor's office in Bradenton.
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Man injured diving from resort balcony
This past month the resort manager at Club Bamboo Resort requested a report be filed with the Bradenton Beach Police Department for an incident at the resort resulting in serious injury to a Parrish man.
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Red tide diminished further off Island
The Florida Marine Research Institute has announced that water samples taken last week indicate low to no trace of red tide off Manatee County.
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St. Joe slows, Seven Shores going forward
By Rick Catlin. Islander Reporter
Despite a slowdown in the Florida housing market that has prompted home building giant St. Joe Inc. of Jacksonville to announce plans to exit the homebuilding business in Florida, the company has no intention of halting its Seven Shores condominium project on Perico Island.
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