Fireworks safety foremost on 4th
The Fourth of July — it’s happily celebrated with bangs, booms and ahhhs across the nation on blankets, at beaches, […]
AMITW turtle makes her way back to the Gulf
Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring tagged a loggerhead sea turtle with a satellite-tracking device and sent her […]
Police search for shorebird, sea turtle vandals
Island law enforcement officers are looking for two people who June 27 vandalized a shorebird nesting area and five sea […]
Prospective concessionaires tour Bradenton Beach pier
Location. Location. Location. It’s one of the key ingredients to making a business successful. Some restaurateurs saw firsthand a prime […]
Contractor sentenced to jail, restitution hearing continued
A Bradenton contractor was sentenced to 364 days in jail — to be followed by 14 years probation — for […]
Art gallery window crasher gets off
A Bradenton man who drove an SUV through a Holmes Beach art gallery window will pay court costs for leaving […]
Man pleads to drug charges, sentenced to county jail
A Bradenton man originally charged with intent to sell marijuana pleaded no contest to the lesser charge of possession. Twelfth […]
Tree house owners pursue court opinion
The tree house in Holmes Beach lives for another day in the 2nd District Court of Appeal. A motion e-filed […]
Suspect in luring children re-arrested for drug possession
An Ellenton man arrested for attempting to lure children into his car in Holmes Beach was re-arrested June 18 while […]
Clerks clear up misunderstanding, commissioner apologizes
Bradenton Beach Commissioner Janie Robertson admits she erred last week when she made a claim that newly appointed Bradenton Beach […]