Bradenton, FL (May 15, 2012) - The Manatee County Government Parks and Recreation Department announces the formation of the Summer Adult 5-on-5 Flag Football League. Games will be played at G.T. Bray on Wednesday evenings. Season will begin on June 6, 2012 and run through August. Teams will play eight season games and participate in a [...]
Come to De Soto National Memorial on Thursday, May 17th from 6-8pm for the opening of Hermann Trappman’s new show Obscured by Time, which will include the new painting Ponce de Leon: The Discovery of America. The show will reside in De Soto’s museum until September 1st, when parts of it will travel to [...]
County will continue to look for solutions to help Palmetto little leaguers MANATEE COUNTY, FL (May 15, 2012) – Unfavorable land conditions and the expense to remediate them have caused Manatee County officials to recommend halting plans to build new baseball fields for Palmetto’s North River Little League just east of Blackstone Park, as originally [...]
The Sarasota Bay Estuary Program (SBEP) and Tampa Bay Estuary Program (TBEP) are offering cash prizes for the best photos showing the low tide and high tide at the same location during King Tide. This summer’s King Tide is in early June and the highest predicted tide in Sarasota Bay is 2.7 feet. The cash [...]
LAKELAND, Fla. (May 2012) – The country’s largest citrus grower organization has filed a summons with the U.S. Court of International Trade initiating an appeal of the International Trade Commission (ITC) decision to revoke the anti-dumping order against Brazilian orange juice processors. “We continue to believe that the ITC made the wrong decision in [...]
Volunteers with the SBEP Bay Guardians completed a project May 12 at Emerson Point Preserve located at the mouth of the Manatee River. The group of 39 adults and students worked with professional staff from Manatee County Natural Resources and guides with Around the Bend Nature Tours to plant native Florida plants, remove invasive plants [...]
LAKELAND, Fla. (May 2012) –The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) increased its orange crop forecast for the 2011-2012 season by 200,000 boxes Tuesday, estimating Florida will now produce 145.2 million boxes. Visit www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Florida/Publications/Citrus/cpfp.htm for the complete USDA estimate. The USDA makes its initial forecast in October and then revises it monthly until the end of [...]
Come to De Soto National Memorial on Thursday, May 17th from 6-8pm for the opening of Hermann Trappman’s new show Obscured by Time, which will include the new painting Ponce de Leon: The Discovery of America. The show will reside in De Soto’s museum until September 1st, when parts of it will travel to the [...]
Representatives of the European Solar Projects Group, a consortium of companies and investors involved in solar manufacturing and other alternative energy projects, are in town following up and touring local solar projects. The group will be visiting one of St. Petersburg’s premier Platinum LEED Certified multi-purpose developments at 1950 Central Avenue, 10 a.m. on Friday [...]
The solar industry is alive and growing in St. Petersburg. Uwe Sterling, one of the principals in a consortium of European companies that visited here last year, has returned to pursue his goals of locating solar manufacturing in St. Petersburg and developing additional projects throughout the area. The solar manufacturing plant is expected to bring [...]
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