ANNA MARIA ISLAND – An often-cited proverb says, “It takes a village to raise a child.”
In that same spirit, The Sun says, “It takes an entire Island to recover from back-to-back hurricanes.”
For that reason, The Sun names the entire extended Anna Maria Island community as its Persons of the Year for 2025. For an Island community that experienced such widespread damage and devastation, it would be impossible and unjust to honor a single individual or organization when so many did so much in 2025…