Myakka City News

Thanks to a check from a Tampa life insurance company and a group of adopters, Keith Wandell says the dogs at his rescue operation won't have to be euthanized.

Maria Charlton took a drag on a Kool cigarette Tuesday just outside the Broward County Courthouse, savoring one of her last smokes ever.

The former Our Daily Bread soup kitchen will be demolished this morning. The Downtown Development Authority acquired the property, 1424 14th St.

This year, it will be a memorial. The 18th annual St. Jude's Children's Hospital Horseback Benefit will be held 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Myakka City, but for the first time, Doug Jones won't be there.

With the economy struggling, unwanted horses are sometimes innocent victims. "Horses are simply left in barns or barren pastures without food, water and medical care, condemned to starve and suffer," said Robin Cain of Sixteen Hands Horse Sanctuary in Myakka City.

This is for the dad who catches fastballs from his son, crouching in the driveway every night after work, making believe it's a big league bullpen.

Relief swept over workers at the Myakka City Community Center at the news an arrest had been made in a burglary of the non-profit's headquarters.

Summer camp workers and the kids they care for did not mince words as to how they feel about whoever broke into their headquarters overnight Tuesday and stole $1,200 worth of video game systems.

What: Myakka City bull riding. Where: Circle S Rodeo Arena is off Clay Gully Road, 3.2 miles east of the north entrance of Myakka River State Park.

Every few minutes somebody drove along Clay Gully Road, tapped the horn and Victor Scarbrough waved back.

Early morning storms didn't stop Myakka City residents from preparing frog legs, chicken gizzards and swamp cabbage for the second annual Taste of Myakka on Saturday afternoon at the Myakka Family Worship Center on Singletary Road.

After the swamp cabbage boils for almost five hours, tenderizing and extracting juices, Ella Kersey seasons it with salt, pepper and bacon.

Ron Allen, who made his fortune investing in real estate, is set to snap up the last two undeveloped beachfront lots on Siesta Key today.

Four people were injured by lightning in two separate strikes in Manatee County over the Memorial Day weekend, an EMS official said Tuesday.

A Manatee County woman was injured by lightning Monday afternoon at Falkner Farms in the Myakka City area.

Four people have been hit by lightning in the Bay area in the past few days. On Memorial Day, a migrant worker who was out picking crops in Myakka City was reportedly injured after being hit.

A police Memorial Day service will be held Thursday to honor law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty in Manatee County.

County Commissioner Larry Bustle is slated Monday to discuss how officials are trying to stimulate the local economy.

Early one morning this week, a refrigerated food truck from a Tampa restaurant arrived at King Farm Myakka to collect a load of squash blossoms, as Ben and Shelby King inspected their sweet corn and communicated by walkie-talkie phone with some of their farmworkers.

Manatee County currently is accepting applications for two seats on the Myakka City Fire Control Board of Commissioners.