Holmes Beach News

Heavy rainfall this week pushed the Manatee River to flood stage and, coupled with release of water from Lake Manatee, caused several homeowners on Woodstock Road near Rye Road Bridge to evacuate.

A lightning strike knocked out power for about 3,800 customers on Anna Maria Island this morning.

Longboat Key Building Official Randy Fowler resigned Thursday, June 18, citing frustration over recent layoffs and how the building department's finances were handled in recent years.

At the Holiday Inn Express & Suites, general manager Randy Paradine says he's cutting costs by cutting water usage.

Holmes Beach police arrested a California man on a charge he molested a girl younger than 16, according to a police department report.

A Holmes Beach man has been arrested on a charge of sexual battery against a child, according to a Holmes Beach Police Department report.

An Island-based effort to keep the trolley operating fare-free is getting a test drive with Manatee County officials.

Should rides on the Anna Maria Island trolley, free for seven years running, start costing passengers? That question continues to come up.

Trolley rides on Anna Maria Island will continue to be free, at least for a while.

A plan for a proposed cell tower near the Bradenton Beach Police Department. A rendering of what a proposed unipole near the Bradenton Beach Police Department might look like to someone standing at Bridge Street and Church Avenue.

Holmes Beach police investigated curbside trash on 61st Street after learning that the discarded items included photographs of missing motel-owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. The investigation took place at about 8 p.m. June 8 in the 300 block of 61st St., according to a Holmes Beach Police Department incident report.

Islanders preview the Manatee County Area Transits new Island trolley at Holmes Beach City Hall in March 2002.

Developers say attempts to breathe new life into blighted areas like U.S. 41 north of the airport are hampered by codes and zoning that make getting a major project approved almost a nightmare.

A historic rewrite of Florida's growth-management law will have an unequal impact on Manatee County, with the new law covering some areas, but not others.

Holmes Beach Police Chief Jay Romine recently was re-elected to chair the Florida Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission.

Two convicted sex offenders have moved from the Cortez area in the past three months, leaving two known convicted offenders living in that area.

Holmes Beach city commissioners chewed on concerns with the city's relatively new outdoor dining ordinance May 12, but did not vote to take any action to change the measure.

After she was diagnosed with cancer in her brain, lung and kidney this spring, Rhea, 78, underwent a state-of-the-art neurosurgery at the University of Florida.

Crews work on the parking lot for a new boat ramp, already installed, on the south end of the Palma Sola Causeway.

Two teenagers have been arrested on a burglary charge after a deputy caught them this morning in the act of breaking into the Waterfront Restaurant in Anna Maria, according to Manatee County Sheriff's Office reports.