'Best of the Islands' winners photo gallery
Isaias becomes season's first hurricane
Captivating Quandary
To the editor: 154: That is the number of Florida special districts that have been dissolved since 2018. Not all were dissolved for the same reason, and this is not a suggestion that the Captiva Erosion Prevention District is presently facing dissolution. But the number should give its constituents pause. Special districts are not permanent simply because the communities they serve value them. Florida maintains formal processes for their oversight, inactivity, and dissolution. For Captiva, CEPD has a home-rule effect. It allows the community to elect its own governing board to address an issue uniquely important to the island and gives that board the authority to tax and assess ...
American Legion donates funds to Collier-Lee Honor Flights
Noah’s Ark opens
The Noah’s Ark Thrift Shop opens for another season. Located at Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, the store will be open from 10 am. To 1 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays. Operating for more than 60 years, the shop features clothes, jewelry, furniture, decor, art, shoes, books and ...
Nearly 400 volunteers remove 4,000 pounds of debris during International Coastal Cleanup
Nearly 400 volunteers spread out across Lee County on Saturday, Sept. 19, for Keep Lee County Beautiful, Inc.’s (KLCB) annual International Coastal Cleanup, removing 4,000 pounds of trash and debris from local beaches, shorelines and waterways. Volunteers participated at multiple cleanup ...
Sanibel-Captiva Rotary Club and SCCF partner on Mangrove Nursery Project
A vision will soon come to life for the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) due to a grant it received. SCCF Community Conservation Coordinator Skye McDonald-Newman said the Mangrove Nursery project is one that has been a very long time coming. The foundation received a $20,000 ...
