Planning is going smoothly for the Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 16 and 17, the celebration’s organizing committee was assured at its meeting last week. Plenty of ...

Visitation for Holmes Beach Police Officer Pete Lannon, who died June 1, will be 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday, June 5, at Brown and Sons Funeral Home, 604 43rd St. W., Bradenton. A funeral Mass will be ...

To highlight the end the year at the Key Royale Club in Holmes Beach, member Jimmy Livanos notched a hole-in-one. He aced the ...

Christopher Tittel, communication director for the Florida Department of Health in Manatee County said Jan. 6 in an email to […] ...

Anna Maria Mayor Mark Short reached out to The Islander by email Jan. 5 to share information with the newspaper’s readers on ...

As the year came to an end, the Florida Bahamas Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, based in Chicago, assumed all ...

Boaters and water enthusiasts can rejoice as Manatee County has reopened the boat ramps that were impacted by recent storms.

A resolution was reached last November in a court case involving island developer Shawn Kaleta allegedly driving under the ...

Vegetative debris that was picked up from homes and businesses in Holmes Beach after a hit two hurricanes — Helene on Sept.

The Islander reached out in the past week to the three cities on Anna Maria Island for our city officials’ wishes for 2025, ...

Christopher Tittel, communication director for the Florida Department of Health in Manatee County said Jan. 6 in an email to The Islander that a local ...

Get out and fish before wind, drop in temps invade our area - Read this weeks Fishing News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...