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RPP creates pandemonium: A COVID cabaret
BY ERICA RESS MARTIN – What a strange year it has been. RPP’s big musical “Nunsense” was shut down in the middle of the ru…
Free marine pollution educational symposium by top local experts
The Barrier Island Parks Society and Mote Marine Laboratory will host a virtual series on Zoom on March 23 and 30 at 4 p.m…
One of the newest members of the flock … meet Ethan Williams
BY SUSAN HANAFEE – Having hundreds of “aunts” and “grandmothers” eager to share in the excitement of your first baby is pr…
Spring Break keeps local fire, EMS busy on land and on the water
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – It’s been a busy week of ambulance calls, alarm…
Boots Tolsdorf looks back at 20 years of RPP performances
BY BOOTS TOLSDORF – With no lines to memorize this year for RPP, (y…
A history of Plein Air painting on Gasparilla Island
BY TONYA BRAMLAGE – Although one can never fully know the daily sights that will be seen while spending a day outdoors her…
OBITUARY: Barbara Leiter
Barbara Ketcham Leiter, age 76, passed from this life March 4, 2021 at the Venice Florida Regional Bayfront Hospital in th…
PROFILE: Patricia Christakos
BY T MICHELE WALKER – When COVID-19 struck our world last year and we were all forced into lockdown, the reactions were as…
Donate, don’t waste when you head north: Lee County third annual food rescue campaign begins
To the Editor, Lee County Solid Waste’s third annual “Donated not Wasted” food rescue campaign encourages seasonal residen…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: New info on FPL numbers to call for surges
To the Editor: Well, hello again to the residents of Boca Grande. We had another power surge/outage on Sunday night at 11 …