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Water pushed up from Hurricane Idalia flooded Anna Maria Island and brought damage.

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect Gov. Ron DeSantis’ order, issued late Tuesday. DeSantis contained the honor of lowering the American Flag to only the state Capitol and Rush Limbaugh’s hometown of Palm Beach. He previously indicated it would be done statewide. Those flags you’re seeing fly at half-staff across Sarasota and Manatee counties aren’t lowered to honor the divisive radio host Rush Limbaugh, who died last week.  Beginning on Monday, the flags atop buildings in Sarasota, Venice and North Port were lowered to mark the United States surpassing 500,00...

When the state finally went live on Friday with a website for Floridians to preregister to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, it didn’t give some local governments or health officials a headsup, catching many of them by surprise.   While Gov. Ron DeSantis and Jared Moskowitz, the state’s director of emergency management, teased to the new system for weeks, local officials, including those in Sarasota County, said they had no indication concerning when the state’s registration system would launch.   Local governments learned the same way everyone else did – in a news re...