Cortez News

The city pier project got a huge increase in funding Monday as the Metropolitan Planning Organization voted unanimously to approve more than a half-million dollars in additional funding.

The annual raffle at the Florida Maritime Museum is under way. This year, the prize is a 19-foot ComPac sloop built by the Hutchins Co.

Plying the waters Looking toward Bradenton Beach from their boat at the Seafood Shack marina near the Cortez Bridge, Barbara and husband Don Capron enjoyed a closeup view of the congregation of mullet fishers working their trade.

Curving metal framework from a Steinway Grand piano has been turned on end and set in the front yard as a landscape sculpture.

Area attractions run on a rotating basis as space allows. MANATEE Braden Castle Village: One Office Drive, 27th Street East and Manatee Avenue, Bradenton The castle was once the heart of a rambling sugar plantation built by Joseph Addison Braden and his brother Hector in the 1840s.

Fishermen are reeling in bigger and more mature red snapper - a sign that the overfished species is beginning to recover and tight regulations can be relaxed a bit, according to a new analysis.

Florida voters were clear in November 2008 when they overwhelmingly approved Amendment 6. Now, one month from when the tax break for working waterfront property is to be implemented, legislators and property appraisers are in the dark about how to assess such properties.

" With the streets of Anna Maria Island already getting fuller with seasonal residents, it was a perfect time for the Anna Maria Island Chamber of Commerce to swear in its leadership, remember the past year and prepare for the upcoming season.

Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 9:46 a.m. What's better than listening to folk music in Manatee County? Listening to folk music while eating fish at the last working fishing village on Florida's Suncoast.

At least two guns and other electronics were stolen during a rash of vehicle burglaries in Manatee overnight, according to a Manatee County Sheriff's Office report.

It is hard to tell that we are in the middle of fall with temperatures still in the 80s and 90s.

The Manatee County Commission Tuesday unanimously agreed to direct its staff to prepare a resolution stating it does not support oil or gas drilling in state waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

Area attractions run on a rotating basis as space allows. MANATEE Felts Audubon Preserve: 4600 24th Ave.

At the Cortez Fishing Village, fishermen like Capt. Wade Campbell are getting their crews, boats and crab traps ready to go as stone crab season nears.

Don't be surprised to see Kate Gosselin and her famous hairdo at a Halloween party near you.

Published: Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, September 11, 2009 at 6:12 p.m. After church Sunday, I drove out Cortez to the Mexicali Cafe to have my car washed at the fundraiser to help pay the funeral expenses of Jazmine Thompson, the 17-year- old Bayshore High cheerleader shot and killed Friday night.

The city is polling the public about whether it should create a Twitter account to make announcements.

A babysitter forgot that the child she was watching was in the back seat of her car when she went shopping, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said.

Sun and smokes Keep Manatee Beautiful volunteer Bob Goodwin talks with four men at Manatee Public Beach Aug.

Sun and smokes Keep Manatee Beautiful volunteer Bob Goodwin talks with four men at Manatee Public Beach Aug.