Sun staff writer/photographer covering the environment, tourism and Cortez.

Cortez fishing village gallery

Cindy Lane - January 1, 2024

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Film celebrates Nyad’s historic swim from Cuba to Key West

Cindy Lane - November 3, 2023

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Onward! That’s the motto that long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad had imprinted on her teammates’ T-shirts, and on her soul, as she...

Proposed bill threatens freedom of speech

Cindy Lane - March 7, 2023

TALLAHASSEE – As the Florida legislative session opens this week, lawmakers have two companion bills to consider that critics say would remove longstanding constitutional...

Mary Green: The villager who could, and did

Cindy Lane - June 11, 2022

CORTEZ – Residents of the last commercial fishing village in Florida will miss the “matriarch of Cortez,” Dr. Mary Frances Fulford Green, but those...

Piney Point closure date set

Cindy Lane - April 4, 2022

PALMETTO – The environmentally unstable Piney Point site will be closed by December 2024, according to a plan approved by the Florida Department of...