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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Attend the Resiliency Summit

Science, solutions, neighbors. Hurricane season in Southwest Florida is more than just a few names on a weather map. For…
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EcoWatch: Labor Day: A time for new policies – good and bad

“Accepting that one day your role might be handled by a robot is a hard pill to swallow. But if you can learn anything from…
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Sarasota Opera Awarded $60,000 Grant from Gulf Coast Community Foundation

Sarasota Opera has received a $60,000 Empowering Arts Grant from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation to support programming…

Charlotte County Offers Free Vegetable Gardening Workshops in September

UF/IFAS Extension Charlotte County will host a series of vegetable g…
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Lighthouses & Lullabies at Port Boca Grande Lighthouse

The Barrier Island Parks Society (BIPS) will host Lighthouses &…

Friends of Boca Grande Announces Rhythm & Boots Concert Lineup

Friends of Boca Grande will kick off its 2025/26 cultural season this fall with the return of Rhythm & Boots, a concert…
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Turtle patrollers find surprises in nests during inventories

BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY In last week’s article, we reviewed some of the data BGSTA turtle patrollers collect fo…

Looking Back: Waterspouts over island 25 years ago

FIVE YEARS AGO Charlotte County launched their County Records website allowing all county documents going back to 1921 b…

History: Happy 110 years Banyan Street

By KAREN GRACE In 1915, Peter Bradley of the American agricultural Chemical Company had 26 banyan trees planted on each…
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Bluebottle man-o-war stings mighty

BY DR. JOHN FLETEMEYER I’ve suffered the painful sting of a Portuguese man-of-war at least a dozen times. Consequently…