John “Redbeard” Swager and Patti Lamoreux held the ceremonial pistol, and together they fired into the air. It sounded like the “pop” of a firecracker. “That was Jim, by the way,” announced Swager, ...

St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church is celebrating 50 years on Anna Maria Island, with a parishioners’ festival planned for the weekend. The Very Rev. Msgr. Edward Moretti, pastor of Sts. Peter And Paul ...

Unsecured creditors of bankrupt GSR Development LLC might be feeling a bit more "unsecure" these days about ever collecting anything near the $8 million they're owed by the failed Island real estate ...

Ed Morris of Kentucky with a nice 32-inch redfish he caught on a recent charter with Mark Howard of Sumotime Fishing Charters. Howard said they used big greenbacks netted early in the morning for bait ...

Nicholas LaFountain, 6, leads a game of tag on Coquina Beach on Easter weekend. The beach weekend brought rain and sun, crowds and celebration, as well as law enforcement on foot, in cruisers and on ...

Former Anna Maria City Commissioner Linda Cramer said she is prepared for the Aug. 10 trial of two men accused of home invasion, robbery and false imprisonment at her Anna Maria residence in April ...

The results are in from The islander’s unofficial Popcorn and Politics voter poll, held Oct. 19 at the newspaper’s meet-the-candidates forum. In Anna Maria, where five candidates are seeking three ...

Ed Chiles, left, and Martha Wright and Steve Ananicz of the Chiles Group of restaurants, work feverishly (in scalding heat) to set up a buffet for volunteers and victims of Hurricane Charley in ...

Members played a nine-hole scramble May 22. The team of Janelle Clements, Ron Huibers, Tom Solosky and Bill Sweeney combined ...

Holes on the beach can be dangerous. So how about banning tools used to dig them? Charlie Hunsicker, director of Manatee ...

Construction on a new subaqueous intracoastal water main to Anna Maria Island is on — or under — the near horizon. Manatee ...

Anna Maria Mayor Mark Short emailed The Islander May 23 noting that key city staff attended the county’s hurricane ...