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After a month underwater, the water main that crashed into the bay from the underside of the Anna Maria Island Bridge has resurfaced. Bradenton-based Woodruff & Sons finished removing the fallen pipeline July 19 from Anna Maria Sound, according to Manatee County information outreach manager Bill Logan. About 1,000 feet of the 16 …The crash ejected Samuels from her vehicle, leaving her in critical condition. She remained in an intensive care unit at Blake Medical Center in Bradenton as of Dec. 9. Anna Maria City Commissioner Carol Carter asked people Dec. 9 to include Samuels in their thoughts and prayers. “She is recuperating very slowly, as I understand, in the ...Apr 19, 2022 · A three-car pile-up on Anna Maria Island Bridge last week has led to the death of a woman from Palmetto, Florida Highway Patrol said Tuesday. It happened around 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, on State ... A sentencing hearing now awaits a defendant in a crash that resulted in the death of a visitor to Anna Maria Island last year. Sarasota-based attorney Ronald Filipkowski filed a “no contest” plea April 11 on behalf of his client, Holmes Beach resident Cierra Shannon, 27, who was facing a first-degree felony charge for leaving the scene of a Feb. 10, 2021, deadly hit-and-run crash.Jan 30, 2024 · Morton. A Jan. 25 crash sent Holmes Beach City Commissioner Pat Morton to the HCA Florida Blake Hospital in Bradenton for medical treatment. Holmes Beach Police Chief Bill Tokajer told The Islander Jan. 29 that a motorist struck Morton while the commissioner was walking across a parking lot to Ace Hardware, 3352 E. Bay Drive, where he works. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Law Enforcement Division is investigating a Dec. 13 boat accident that led to the death of Bradenton resident Scott Harris, 57, in the Intracoastal Waterway near Key Royale in Holmes Beach. Harris and another Bradenton resident, Andrew Wilcznski, 60, were boating around 4:50 p.m. in a ...But the DOT’s planned repair and maintenance project on the Anna Maria Island Bridge isn’t expected to cause big slowdowns. The work will take place at night — 7 p.m.-6 a.m. on the Manatee Avenue/State Road 64 bridge spanning the Intracoastal Waterway. The project was to begin with staging July 24, as The Islander went to press, …Feb 11, 2021 · Police are looking for a hit-and-run driver they say killed an 83-year-old pedestrian in a crash on Anna Maria Island. The crash happened at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the 2700 block of Gulf Drive in ... Florida Fish and Wildlife said 11 people were involved in a boat crash on Sunday. Officials said two boats collided around near Key Royale Sandbar around 3 p...By Joe Hendricks. Jana Samuel’s golf cart was heavily damaged in the head-on crash. - Submitted. HOLMES BEACH – Anna Maria resident Jana Samuels was seriously injured late Monday morning in a head-on crash involving a car and the golf cart she was driving. The crash occurred on Monday, Nov. 29 at 11:47 a.m. in the 6800 block …After exploring all the attractions Anna Maria Island has to offer, you need a place to crash! Luckily, our Anna Maria Island cottage rentals offer everything you need to make the perfect home away from home. We have rental options for any size group, so whether you’re traveling with your sweetheart or the whole family, there’s plenty of ...The clock is ticking for a sailboat that washed ashore on Anna Maria Island. Michigan resident James Golembiewski, the boat’s owner, told The Islander Feb. 16 that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission gave him 21 days — until March 7 — to recover the 1981 Young Sun 35-foot sailboat named Lucky Us 2 from the shoreline in …By Jason Dill. August 10, 2023 11:29 AM. A New York man riding a bicycle died after an SUV crashed into him on the Anna Maria Island bridge at State Road 64, Florida …Jul 31, 2023 · FOX 13 News. ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. - The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission is investigating a boat crash that sent nine people to the hospital on Sunday. According to officials in Manatee County, a 50-foot racer-style boat with two people on board and a 24-foot bow runner boat with nine people, including five children, on board collided in ... Aug 10, 2023 · BRADENTON, Fla. (WFLA) — A bicyclist was killed after being hit by a car early Wednesday morning on the Anna Maria Island Bridge, according to Florida Highway Patrol. The 33-year-old... Often know as Florida's best kept secret, Anna Maria Island sits at the southern tip of Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico and is perched north of Longboat Key. Leave the car at home and travel the island by trolley bus. Cycle or walk to your favorite watering hole to enjoy the sunset. Stay at one of the Anna Maria Island hotels or vacation ...HOLMES BEACH – The driver of a truck who struck two women pedestrians at Gulf Drive and Marine Drive on May 12 while they crossed the street is contesting the traffic citation with a plea of not guilty. The crash led to the May 17 death of Miriam Trotter, 86, of Maryland. She was crossing Gulf Drive northbound in the marked crosswalk with her ...Apr 20, 2022 · A three-car crash in Manatee County on April 12 resulted in a fatality. According to a release from the Florida Highway Patrol, a car was stopped on the Anna Maria Bridge on State Road 64 due to ...

And a wreck in the left lane of Manatee Avenue near I-75 has eastbound traffic backed up. The FHP dashboard also shows there was a fatal crash that killed a bicyclist and closed the Anna Maria ...West Manatee Fire Rescue said a report of the shark attack came in around 3:40 p.m., but they were already at Kingfish Boat Ramp in Holmes Beach clearing the scene of an accident between a 50-foot ...Mar 5, 2024 · The intersection of Gulf and Marina drives in Holmes Beach is the site of sorrow and remembrance. And on Feb. 27, Deborah Trotter, the Holmes Beach woman who was injured and whose mother was struck by a vehicle and killed while they were in the crosswalk at the intersection, chose the site to announce a wrongful death suit intended to hold a driver and a construction company accountable. One dead, two injured in Holmes Beach crash. A 77-year-old Bradenton woman died last Thursday around 10:45 a.m. after the car she was driving was struck by a Suzuki sport utility vehicle, then a delivery truck at the Manatee Avenue-East Bay Drive intersection in Holmes Beach. According to Holmes Beach police, Mary Moore, 77, of the 6500 block ...Passenger in bridge crash drowned. By Lisa Neff. islander Reporter. The passenger killed in an accident on the Anna Maria Island Bridge drowned, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Authorities withheld the cause of death until a …

The bright, yellow suspension cables glint in the sun. On a clear day, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge can be seen from Anna Maria Island. Islanders also can see Egmont Key, off the northeast tip of Bean Point. Egmont is where Capt. John Lerro was sleeping in a beach cabin at the pilot station early May 8, 1980 — before his name would …Updated: 1:49 PM EST February 12, 2021. HOLMES BEACH, Fla. — A woman previously identified as a person-of-interest in a deadly Anna Maria Island hit-and-run crash turned herself in on Thursday ...…

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