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EcoWatch: Good and bad news for Florida’s ecosystem

February 29, 2024
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist and author …

Letters: Appreciation for water quality editorial 

February 29, 2024
To the Editor:  Thank you for the great editorial in the paper this week. (See Lake Okeechobee’s overflowing, Feb. 16, 2023). We’re at the apex of a life-threatening water disaster here…

Redundant systems and Boca Grande’s Auxcomm 

February 29, 2024
In the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, communications for Cape Haze and Boca Grande went back to the pre-Flintstones era.  That might sound extreme. It is not, as Barney and Fred had dial phones wi…

Cape Haze at nexus of American sawfish revival

February 23, 2024
We reside in a sawfish aquarium, Charlotte Harbor. It’s Jurassic Park, and you don’t have to visit Universal Orlando. Last Thursday, sawfish expert Tonya Wiley delivered a talk in Cape Haze as …

Like looking into the sun with the Geographic

February 22, 2024
Sixty years ago, the National Geographic came to Florida. The magazine devoted over 50 pages to this state, in a major feature called “Florida Rides a Space Age Boom.” Some of us might admit to…

GUEST ESSAY: Memories of my first days in 1970s Boca Grande

February 22, 2024
BY K.Y. FUTCH When I first started my secretarial business, I had to use the typewriter at Capt. Charlie Wheeler’s home on Tarpon Street, where I and my husband, Mark, also lived. Charlie was q…

Lake Okeechobee’s waters will run beginning Saturday

February 15, 2024
This weekend, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will let the waters run out of Lake Okeechobee. Saturday was to be the day. In their press release, they described it as a measure that would prevent…

Getting to the heart of the story for women

February 15, 2024
BY MARY BETH SCHNEIDER I should have died this past summer. Not the illness kind of death, but the drop-dead kind that makes everyone ask “What happened? She was so fit!” Thankfully, it wasn’t …

Letters: Memories of a Chicago street rekindled

February 15, 2024
Response to last week’s letter from Ron Raedeke on their memories of sharing the same street in Chicago. To the Editor:  The randomness of a conversation with a stranger at th…

Letters: Cabaret, Chicago and the Crowninshield

February 9, 2024
To the Editor:  Last Friday my wife and I went to the Cabaret at the Crowninshield. Another couple sat down at our table. The usual conversation began for most people.  Where do yo…