Manasota Key News

Little more than a week after it was announced, a Charlotte County planning meeting to discuss Weston's Resort was abruptly canceled.

Weston's Resort, a source of contention on Manasota Key, will be the focus of a meeting for county planners and residents early next month.

A longstanding conflict over beach access in Manasota Key took a personal tone on Tuesday when several residents complained to Charlotte County commissioners.

View our gallery of photos sent in by readers and printed in the Orlando Sentinel.

Juanita Schultz has drawn a line in the sand -- literally -- to keep people off the beach in front of her Manasota Beach home.

Fire district commissioners looking to trim 10 percent of the Englewood Fire Department's $6 million budget are considering hiring freezes, tax increases, pension buyouts and elimination of "frills" such as paid cell phones for staff and a car for the new fire chief.

Fire district commissioners looking to trim 10 percent of the Englewood Fire Department's $6 million budget are considering hiring freezes, tax increases, pension buyouts and elimination of "frills" such as paid cell phones for staff and a car for the new fire chief.

Preserving the 'island feel' of Manasota Key architecture can be a tricky proposition when dealing with Charlotte County zoning codes.

Manasota Key residents and real estate professionals are complaining about zoning code conflicts they say prevent vacant-lot development and home improvements.

By NICK MILANO Sun Correspondent MANASOTA KEY a ' Beach residents discovered a cylindrical object Monday that fire department officials later identified as a U.S. Navy phosphorous marker.

Published: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 8:14 p.m. They have been compared to spaceships, Chinese hats and oversize pies.

MANASOTA KEY a ' More than 200 runners, walkers and strollers showed up at Englewood Beach early Saturday for the first "Angels in Blue" 5K Run/Walk, sponsored by the Denise Amber Lee Foundation.

For a trip back to a time before super-deluxe resort hotels and towering condominiums captured Florida's prime waterfront real estate, head for the Gulf Coast's Manasota Key, a 15-mile-long island near Englewood, south of Venice.

After 21 years overseeing sea turtle nesting on Knight and Don Pedro islands, Brenda Bossman expects dead, injured or sick sea turtles to be stranded along their beaches.

Sun photo by Dana Sanchez, dsanchez@sun-herald.com As homeowners insurance on barrier islands becomes more expensive and less available, buyers who pay cash for their residences are opting increasingly to self-insure, according to local agents.

Memorial Day weekend brings crowds to the beach. And that brings dread to some Englewood Shores subdivision residents.

"Petrified" is a collection of photos of shark's teeth. PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE HERMITAGE ARTIST RETREAT Published: Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 2:24 p.m. Photographs by Hermitage visiting artist Sonja Thomsen will be on display Saturday through June 1 at the Englewood Art Center, 350 S. McCall Road, ...