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To the Editor: The deadline to request to vote by mail has now expired. You can still drop your ballot off in person, however. Voted ballots must be physically returned (not just postmarked) to the Supervisor of Elections Office by 7 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. Any vote-by-mail ballot delivered to the […]
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Lee County Commissioners sent out an email on Friday, Oct. 28 stating that agenda item 26 regarding the Gilchrist Avenue meeting landscape project in Boca Grande has been stricken from the November 1 meeting agenda. In the email Assistant County Manager Douglas L. Meurer said the issue is no longer slated to be discussed. The […]
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■ BY TOMMY DOYLE As the campaign season comes to a close, I think it is important to remind people why I decided to run for this office. I am running to fix a series of problems that have existed for years. In the 2012 election, Lee County voters waited up to eight hours to […]
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Lee County commissioners voted unanimously to pass a proposal to renovate the 5th Street public parking lot at a meeting held on Tuesday, Oct. 4. While they have not yet begun to create a timeline for the project, it will include enhancement of the existing parking lot by increasing the number of parking spaces from […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE When Lee County commissioners meet on Tuesday, Oct. 4, they will be discussing the expansion of the public, County-owned parking lot located at the west end of 5th Street, next to The Gasparilla Inn Beach Club. The proposed project includes enhancement of the existing parking lot by increasing the number of parking […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE – The island’s farmer’s market will return in January, 2017 to the Wheeler Road Ball Field, but new faces will be running the ship. Jean Baer and Betsy Ventura of Local Roots, a company with seven other Lee County farmer’s markets, will be leading the way into a healthy new year. The […]
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Now ushering in the classic resort’s 103rd Season, The Gasparilla Inn & Club invites its neighbors from Boca Grande and beyond to step through the white pillared entrance for the annual Community Open House. No reservation is necessary for the event scheduled for Wednesday, Oc. 5th from 5 to 7 p.m.
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BY HALEY RUTGER – Mote Marine Laboratory and The Nature Conservancy are partnering on a coral conservation initiative that will enable coral restoration at unprecedented scales throughout the Caribbean and the Florida Keys. The collaboration officially began on the evening of Sept. 12, 2016 in Miami with the signing of a one-year memorandum of […]
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BY SUE ERWIN – The GoFundMe account to help send a veteran to the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 2016 has grown to nearly $1,900. But donations are still needed to help send Englewood resident John Seelie to the services in Hawaii. Gasparilla Inn Golf Course employee Cathy Joel lives next door […]
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Joyce Jacobs, associate director of the Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida, has announced that she will retire on June 30, 2017, after almost 24 years of service. During her tenure, Jacobs has seen Harry Chapin grow from a grassroots organization that distributed a few hundred thousand pounds of food a year to a […]