3+ hour, 24+ min ago  (569+ words) The pool at Springlake in The Meadows has gotten several new decorations over the past few weeks " an owl statue, CDs hung from strings, a flamingo float, several inflatable snakes and one inflatable alligator. It takes a lot of effort…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago  (598+ words) As the Bird Key Yacht Club continues to navigate programming without a clubhouse, the Seafarers Speaker Series has brought something special to join members together. This season, the series featured speakers including Audible founder Don Katz, Atlantic Records CEO Val…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (513+ words) When the local animal services picked up Magpie, they thought the pup would be difficult to place with a family, due to her exuberance." That was how she ended up at Satchel's Last Resort, a no-kill shelter intended for animals…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (346+ words) With sports on everyone's mind last week, Save Our Seabirds took the opportunity to enlist community members to help decide which of its resident owls would be the 2026 MVP " Most Valuable Predator, that is. On Facebook, the City Island-based bird…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (554+ words) Gilbert Daigneau, who has raised butterflies for 60 years, calls them "the ambassadors of the natural world." "If you don't see butterflies in an area, it's probably because there are a lot of pesticides in that area or there's not enough…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1414+ words) Over the past two years, Manatee County has purchased approximately 309 acres of environmentally valuable land to conserve in perpetuity." The funding came after 71% of voters chose to increase their ad valorem tax by 0. 15 mills and allow the county to bond…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (834+ words) It was a small bird, the kind you hardly notice if you are taking a walk around Lake Patton in Lakewood Ranch. That's unless you are walking with Aaron Virgin. "That's a loggerhead shrike," Virgin said, after taking a quick…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (837+ words) Come November, voters could be faced with another decision regarding how much they want to spend to conserve land in Manatee County." In 2020, residents overwhelmingly passed the Conservation and Parks Referendum with 71% of voters in favor of being taxed an…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (567+ words) When Ed Van Stedum showed up to this year's Youth and Teen Fishing Tournament on Lake Uihlein at 6: 30 a. m. , he was sure he would be the first to arrive, but he was wrong." Keith Pandeloglou, Paige Venuto and Danielle Bugel already…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (347+ words) It wasn't the first time that kids in Sarasota County 4-H have undertaken projects at The Farm, the agricultural facility at Mc Intosh Middle School, now in its second phase of construction. Yet Megan O'Mahony, leader of 4-H Livestock Club,…...