Manasota Key News

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, ...

Both north and south of the Sarasota-Charlotte county line, volunteer monitors are preparing for the start of the annual sea turtle nesting season.

The Lemon Bay watershed is under siege. But, Sarasota County officials said, it doesn't have to stay that way.

Stump Pass will be dredged at the end of this year. Coastal Engineering consultant Michael Poff presented Charlotte County commissioners Tuesday an overview of the Stump Pass maintenance program and told them ...

Published: Friday, February 13, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 6:51 p.m. Nancy Wille remembers the first traffic light in Englewood.

The Punta Gorda Police Department, in conjunction with the Defenders Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club, is sponsoring a motorcycle Poker Run to benefit the American Cancer Society's "Relay for Life" fundraising ...

The Tom Dignam Beach Cottage will be dedicated from 3 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, with a ribbon cutting, open studios and a beach reading.

Published: Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 6:20 p.m. An experiment that never quite worked as advertised, the last of the geotextile tubes on Manasota Key ...

With one house already claimed by the Gulf of Mexico and a virtual ban on new seawalls in Sarasota County, the best and perhaps last hope for homeowners along an eroding stretch of the key was beach ...