Christmas parade spreads joy
The 2018 Anna Maria Island Christmas parade spread peace, joy, friendship and fun all over the Island this morning!
After the parade, families followed Santa's sleigh to Coquina Beach for the annual Privateers after-party, where kids met the big man himself!
Red tide continues to fluctuate
Medium levels of red tide are predicted through at least Monday, Dec. 10 on Anna Maria Island, according to the University of South Florida/Florida...
Hunters have bird lovers crying ‘foul’ at Perico Preserve
PERICO PRESERVE – It’s a cool, sunny, Thanksgiving weekend day and you’re walking along the path at Perico Preserve looking at the butterflies and...
Community News
Buy a Christmas tree, support The Center
Merry Christmas Trees of Bradenton is teaming up with The Center of Anna Maria Island to help make the season brighter for the nonprofit.
Michigan...
Wash Family Construction reaches settlement with city
ANNA MARIA – Wash Family Construction owner Darrin Wash and the city of Anna Maria have agreed to a settlement that exceeds $56,000 for...
Entertainment
Holiday fun abounds at the Center’s Lester Day
ANNA MARIA – Despite the Florida heat, The Center of Anna Maria Island was transformed Dec. 1 into a winter wonderland for the 17th...
Bethlehem Walk draws a crowd
ANNA MARIA – The cool temperature Sunday evening was perfect for a walk around the block, and that’s what a group of worshippers did...
Last call for AMICCO Island concerts
The Anna Maria Island Concert Choir and Orchestra (AMICCO) gets in the holiday spirit with its second and last concert on the Island this...
Business
Tourist tax collections 2018
The local 5 percent tourist tax is collected from owners of accommodations rented for six months or less who charge the tax to their...
Tax overhaul saved one thing
It’s the holiday season and time to concentrate on family, friends and good cheer for all. There’s also one more thing that starts working...
Outdoors
Reel Time: Kids for Clean Water
All of us who live on the Gulf coast have been impacted by the recent red tide and the unprecedented death of dolphins, sea...
Mullet off to slow start
CORTEZ - It’s after Thanksgiving and a cold front has passed through, but what should be mullet season hasn’t really started yet, thanks to...
Sports
Adult co-ed soccer heats up in the night chill
The temperatures dropped while the competition on the Island pitch heated up Thursday night in the adult soccer league.
With one game left in the...
Top teams take the championship
Teams Planet Stone and Bins Be Clean win it all in The Center of Anna Maria Island's fall youth soccer league championship game.
The top...
Opinion
Fair or foul?
Part of a true sportsman’s enjoyment of any sport is knowing you have won or lost while playing by the rules.
Florida’s duck hunting rules...
Photo galleries | Sealife
Photo galleries
Photo galleries | Preserves
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SUN videos
Anna Maria Island Christmas parade
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Mangrove butterfly
00:47
Trunk or Treat
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Have you seen this man? Call Holmes Beach police at 941-708-5804.
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Longboat coyote
00:51
Holmes Beach mayoral forum
33:32
Keep the Gulf clean
00:21
Bye Bortie
00:54
More whale sharks spotted
00:46
Didgeridoo concert at Holmes Beach library
01:01
Green sea turtle release
00:55
Sandpiper sunset
01:23
Plane creates buzz over AMI
00:52
Olympic mullet jumping
01:08
Palm frond weaving
01:20
Royal tern rejection
00:27
Mullet roundup off Anna Maria Island
00:41
Turtle hatchling release
00:42
Eternal Summer Surf Camp
00:06
Pelicans feeding
00:21
Cortez stone crab trap making
01:31
TOM VETERANS DAY
02:58
Cortez docks
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