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When you look through old newspapers, you find all kinds of interesting things

While the Fourth of July is a somewhat distant memory in the minds of many (of course Monday is a distant memory for many people), we thought you might be interested in something we found while going...

EDITORIAL: Joint statement from the Florida Secretary of State and Florida Supervisor of Elections in response to cybersecurity and infrastructure concerns

Submitted by the Florida Department of Elections Recently, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory confirming that Florida is well ahead of the nation on election...

Those are some really expensive tennis courts:

July 8, 2022
Marcy Shortuse
News

County talks about upcoming project on Wheeler, drops the numbers and … WOW! Pickles are usually small things. Pickleball is more or less a diminutive version of tennis, too. But when Lee...

VOTE! 2022 Primary election information you should know

July 1, 2022
Staff Report
Community, News

The Lee County Supervisor of Elections office will mail new voter information cards to all active Lee County voters this month. The voter information cards will include the voter’s personal information,...

Fourth of July Freedom Golf Cart Parade details

July 1, 2022
Marcy Shortuse
News

Got your bunting picked out? Your pinwheels primed? Your streamers slung high and low? We hope you do, because on Monday, July 4 at 9 a.m. the new traditional Freedom Gulf Cart Parade will begin. Line-up...

GIWA announces temporary modification of disinfection treatment procedures

PROVIDED BY THE GASPARILLA ISLAND WATER ASSOCIATION Gasparilla Island Water Association, Inc. will be temporarily changing the disinfection process for its Placida and Boca Grande potable (drinking...

OBITUARY: Larry Twitchell

July 1, 2022
Staff Report
Obituaries

Retired Air Force Major General Larry Twitchell of Placida, Florida passed away on Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota, Florida. Larry was born on Aug. 26, 1943 in Romulus...

TURTLE TRACKS: Beach trash needs to be looked at as a serious turtle hazard

July 1, 2022
Tonya Bramlage
News

As we head into peak nesting season, now is the time when sea turtle patrollers really come together and work hard as a team. There are multiple nests laid each day on eight different zones from the...

SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FISHING: The jumps that didn’t make the paper … until now

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EDITORIAL: ‘We have it in our power to begin the world all over again’

July 1, 2022
Marcy Shortuse
Editorial

As we sit perched on the brink of a Fourth of July three-day weekend, it might be a good time to talk about the 800-pound gorilla in the room. For a small local newspaper, trying to keep things light...