Dan Murphy is Sun’s Person of the Year
ANNA MARIA – Anna Maria Mayor Dan Murphy is The Sun’s 2018 Person of the Year.
Working with the city commission, city staff and outside...
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...
Sun earns nine statewide awards
The Anna Maria Island Sun was recognized with nine awards in the 2018 Florida Press Club Excellence in Journalism Competition at a ceremony in...
The Sun election recommendations
Bradenton Beach City Commission
Ralph Cole
Marilyn Maro
Holmes Beach City Commission
Pat Morton
Holmes Beach Mayor
Judy Holmes Titsworth
Holmes Beach Charter Review Commission
(vote for up to five)
Claudia Carlson
Nancy Deal
Thomas...
Police officers doing their job
By William L. Tokajer
Holmes Beach Chief of Police
As I watch this election season come upon us, I do so with disbelief as to the...
The Russians are coming
Remember that movie where the Russians overrun a little beach community?
Well, it happened last week.
It’s hard to believe that a weekly newspaper in paradise...
Red tides, lost summers
By Katie Tripp, Ph.D.
Director of Science & Conservation, Save the Manatee Club
Martin County, located along Florida's southeast coast, adopted the term "Lost Summer" in...
Valuing civility
Election season is upon us, and already the gloves are coming off between candidates and between some candidates and the public. The first ballot...
ManaSota-88’s 10 reasons not to drill for oil offshore of Florida
National Security
Americans consume 25 percent of the world's produced oil, but our nation holds less than 3 percent of the world's proven oil...
Good times
Congratulations to The Anna Maria Island Privateers for staging another great Fourth of July parade, bringing together neighbors and visitors for a wonderful day...
I am the media
The news media “is the enemy of the American people.”
President Donald J. Trump
Dear Mr. President:
I first read that quote last year when you sent...
Speaking for the silent
Lately it seems that a challenge is issued every few days against the media. Someone is always trying to silence our voices, the voices...
Slaying the messenger
For as many years as we have had a free press, journalists have been protected by an unwritten code that essentially says, “Don’t slay...
Part of the job
A long, long time ago at a newspaper not so far away, two Tampa Tribune reporters did their job and wrote some stories.
One was...