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Beer in the Bushes celebrates community

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) hosted its 12th annual Beer in the Bushes on April 4 at its headquarters on Sanibel. It featured craft beer, food trucks and live music, with the proceeds to support the SCCF's mission to protect and care for Southwest Florida's coastal ...

Kiwanis holds meetings with speakers

The Sanibel-Captiva Kiwanis Club recently welcomed islands historian and local author Betty Anholt as its guest speaker at a meeting. Her presentation covered Sanibel-Captiva's rich history, the people who shaped it, and the changes seen over the years. At a following meeting, it welcomed South ...

Volunteers remove invasive air potatoes

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation's (SCCF) Coastal Watch reported that this winter, while the tides were too low to restore oyster reefs, a few volunteers stayed on land to help remove invasive air potatoes. The air potato is one of Sanibel's most stubborn non-native aggressive ...

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County project to strengthen resiliency of two roads

On May 19, the Lee County Board of County Commissioners voted to award a contract for engineering services for a project to provide additional structural hardening to make Sanibel-Captiva Road and Captiva Drive more resilient to storm surge on both sides of Blind Pass. The county reported that ...

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DDWS provides update on refuge’s trails

The “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge (DDWS) reported that the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge will continue work throughout the summer repairing boardwalks on trails that were damaged by Hurricane Ian in 2022. The DDWS provided the following ...

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City to host public workshop on Sanibel Plan

The city of Sanibel will present its Sanibel Plan Update: Community Workshop #2 on June 3 from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at The Community House, at 2173 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel. The topic will be “Shaping Our City — Collaborative Group Discussion.” The workshop will use a ...

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Guest commentary: Prepare now for hurricane season

As we approach the start of hurricane season on June 1, I want to take a moment to encourage all of our residents to begin preparing now. For many of you, this is a familiar process, but we also have new members of our community who may be experiencing their first Florida hurricane season. No ...

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City to host public workshop on Sanibel Plan

The city of Sanibel will present its Sanibel Plan Update: Community Workshop #2 on June 3 from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at The Community House, at 2173 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel. The topic will be “Shaping Our City — Collaborative Group Discussion.” The workshop will use a ...

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www.captivasanibel.com

  • 2340 Periwinkle Way P.O. Box 809
  • Sanibel Island, FL 33957
  • Phone: 239-472-1587