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ECOWATCH: Is the web of life collapsing?

“We warned that one day  you would not be able to control what you have created, and that day is here.” – Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Lakota Native American spiritual leader                                                                                                                       What is the Web of Life? Many people do not realize that understanding this description of nature is crucial to man’s survival. One of the […]

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2021: The year of the paradigm shift

It’s that time once again to step into a new year, to sign a new year’s number on the dotted line and to determine that things are going to change. They will change, won’t they? Because when you look from the year 2020 to the year 2021 and try to find the differences, the biggest […]

Hill Tide Estates controversy continues to unfold

It appears that several state and local agencies are still working on finding out why the large wrought iron-type fence is on the beach at the boundary of Hill Tide Estates. Several emails have gone back and forth between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and Lee County … but so far no decisive action […]

ECOWATCH: Welcome to the New Year, but let’s remember the past

“There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek.                         But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.”   – Nickolas Sparks, American novelist                                                                                                    The Christmas holiday has its three ghosts: the past, […]

Be a friend of the pelican: Reel, remove, release

“A wonderful bird is the pelican; his bill can hold more than his belly can.”– Dixon Lanier Merritt The above excerpt from Merritt’s poem is true: A pelican’s pouch can hold up to three times more than its stomach. Brown pelicans are primarily fish-eaters and require up to four pounds of fish a day. They […]

OBITUARY: Ariel Spurgeon

Ariel Quinn Spurgeon passed away on December 21, 2021 at the age of 30. Daughter, sister, mother, friend and forever mermaid, she is now catching the biggest wave. Born to Mark and RuthAnn Spurgeon on June 26, 1991, Ariel was a bright spirit full of life, whose laughter and joy were beyond contagious. She was […]

OBITUARY: Jean Ferguson

Jean Dwinell Ferguson, proper to the very last, succumbed to pancreatic cancer on December 16, 2021, exactly two months after her 85th birthday. She rejoins George, her beloved husband of 61 years, who passed away in September. She is survived by her daughters, Lee and Jenny, their husbands, her four grandchildren and her brother James […]