Parrish News

Neighbors who disliked plans for a housing development in their quiet neighborhood near Parrish were celebrating last week after the Manatee County Commission voted 4-3 to halve the number of homes that it would allow on the property.

The new Film Fridays series will run through March 16. Tonight Marlon Brando is featured as an ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman who struggles to stand up to corrupt union bosses.

Daniel Burt Stickle, 62, of Mexico Beach, passed away suddenly at his home on Monday, Dec.

John Murse, co-owner of Sarasota area rug emporium Rugs as Art, accepted a Retailer of the Year Award presented by AmericasMart and the Oriental Rug Importers Association during the recent International Rug Market in Atlanta.

A brush fire that sparked late this afternoon on the east side of Fort Hamer Park in Parrish has proved stubborn enough to require the attention of three fire departments.

PARRISH, Fla. - Viewer Michael Simpson shared these photos of a brush fire that burned in Parrish Thursday afternoon.

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN SUN CITY CENTER - The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 75 from Ruskin held their annual change of watch ceremony on Jan.

This weekend prepare for intellectual and cultural indulgence. Your taste buds will sing at the food and wine tasting events and an award winning writer will entertain you, while signing books of course.

A 27-year-old Parrish man suffered serious injuries about 5:03 p.m. Tuesday when he drove off a dirt road on private property in the 37300 block of State Road 62, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

Many of the county's best and brightest employees are leaving government to take higher-paying private sector jobs, since they have not gotten raises over four years' time, County Administrator Ed Hunzeker said Tuesday.

A Sarasota County Area Transit bus hit two other cars pushing one into a building while trying to avoid an accident on U.S. 41 today.

A man jogging in the 8000 block of Bunker Hill Road in Parrish at 10:04 p.m. Thursday heard two gunshots.

For the past 35 years, the 1925 Pullman sleeper car was part of Church Street Station, a train-themed downtown Orlando dining and entertainment district.

Downtown Orlando's historic Church Street train, The Orange Blossom Special, will begin making its final move Wednesday as crews work to remove it one car at a time to make way for a SunRail stop.

Little remains of Harrison Ranch's history as a working cattle ranch except the name, and a 1915 cowboy bunkhouse that was transferred to Manatee Historical Village a few years ago.