Rye Ranch News Today

The future of a new high school in Lakewood Ranch is uncertain.

“When that dirt comes across the street, it doesn’t come as a little bit of light dust, it comes and settles as black soot,” one Parrish resident said.

Neighbors in a Parrish community are pleading for help, saying the view from their backyard looks like a sandstorm.

“If you can’t make a profit, you can’t farm.”

Several local companies own more than 5,000 acres of land in Manatee County, according to public records.

An elementary school, a K-8 school and a high school are planned to help alleviate over-capacity schools and address growth in eastern Manatee.