'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 ...
Regional conservation leaders to explore the future of Southwest Florida’s living coast
On Oct. 10, Calusa Waterkeeper’s State of Our Water Quarterly Series will bring together regional conservation organizations, scientists, and the community to explore one of Southwest Florida’s most important and vulnerable landscapes: the estuary at the mouth of the Caloosahatchee River. Shell Point. Iona Cove. Cattle Dock Point. Glover Bight. These features in the mouth of the Caloosahatchee make up one of Southwest Florida’s most significant coastal landscapes, with both ecological and economic importance. The estuary contains some of the region’s last remaining undeveloped shorelines, critical nursery habitat for fish and wildlife, and one of the last remaining high-use ...
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 ...
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 ...
American Legion donates funds to Collier-Lee Honor Flights
The American Legion Post 123 Sanibel-Captiva recently contributed $2,500 to the Collier-Lee Honor Flights (CLHF). Accepting the donation were Dr, Stephen Wener and Steve Romaine volunteers for CLHF. Funds were generated by the Sons of the American Legion, American Legion Auxiliary, and ...
