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On March 12, customers of the Longboat Key J. McLaughlin store stopped by to sip, shop and support local nature rescue organization Save Our Seabirds at the month s first Sip and Shop.
Store manager Melanie Dale tries to host a Sip and Shop event every weekend during the busy season. The organization of the week sets up a table to educate passers-by about their work, and 15% of the day s sales go to them, as well. The March events will follow the theme of Women s History Month, and Cyndi Seamon kicked it off by representing Save Our Seabirds. Instead of International Women s Day, as a company we re doing International Women s Month, Dale said. Pretty much what we re doing is celebrating strong women in the community and all the contributions they make.
New Beach Clean Up Program Comes To Longboat Key
Beach Clean Up Program By Justin Hobbs | January 28, 2021 at 12:20 AM EST - Updated January 28 at 12:20 AM
LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. (WWSB) - Tourist from all over the world and residents of the Suncoast flock to our local beaches to enjoy the white sands and the aqua green water. However, as more visitors come to our beaches, there has been an increase in garbage and debris left behind. Residents in the upper north end of Longboat Key have become quite disappointed in the lack of care for keeping the beaches clean. This led a group of those residents to create a pilot program where they plan to walk the shore and clean up left behind garbage and debris.
Jan. 23 dawned foggy and damp, but groups of volunteers with the Longboat Key Turtle Watch still searched for trash along the island s beaches as part of their monthly cleanups.
Because the cleanups are organized through Keep Manatee Beautiful, small groups met up at different locations in Manatee County and spread out across the beach from tide line to vegetation line. Trash often gets caught in the seaweed near the water as the tide goes in and out, but on Saturday, there wasn t much to be found compared to other cleanups. Bridgette Clark and daughter Giana usually walk down at the tide line and Giana went about a quarter mile without finding any trash at all.
3 months ago Share The town commission could have the first reading of a proposed ordinance as soon as Feb. 1, 2021.
The town of Longboat Key held a virtual workshop Thursday morning to discuss proposed changes to its sea turtle protection requirements.
Planning, Zoning and Building Director Allen Parsons led the meeting from the chambers inside Town Hall using Zoom. The meeting had as many as 26 people participate virtually.
Parsons’ presentation Thursday morning was similar to the one he had delivered Nov. 9 before the town commission. He said the town has worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, Sea Turtle Conservancy and Longboat Key Turtle Watch on the proposed recommendations.