April 2016
By EVAN GUIDO Parrish resident; Financial Advisor at Baird Wealth Management Generally, your mortgage lender can require you to have an escrow account if you borrowed more than 80 percent…
By ROSIE KORFANT Parrish resident; Activities Coordinator JSA Medical Group, a Division of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. Why do waterfalls make us feel good? Maybe there’s some truth to the…
By CARL MARIO NUDI When raising livestock for show, the young members of Future Farmers of America can learn responsibility, the benefits of hard work, and many other skills they…
The 35th annual Bottle Boat Regatta was held Saturday, April 16, on the south side of the Palma Sola Causeway. Sponsored by the Hernando De Soto Historical Society Inc., the…
By PENNY FLETCHER There are approximately 85,000 homeless people in Florida on any given night. Manatee County has about 3,500 of them, and many are young children. That’s where Feeding…
By CARL MARIO NUDI Evidence of the construction progress on the Fort Hamer Bridge was visibly rising from the bed of the Manatee River. Workers have finished about 25 percent…
The Pelican Players presented Enchanted April, at four performances April 7 – 9 in Veterans Theater in Kings Point. This touching comedy about two taken-for-granted British housewives pairs them with…
By LISA STARK Alla Levin calls herself a “Sugar Artist,” and when you see the spectacular works of art she creates using that medium, you’ll be truly astonished. “I’m often…
By LISA STARK Part 1 of 2 Her name was Rachel, and she was, by all accounts, an average American teenager attending an ordinary suburban high school in Littleton, Colo.,…