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CIYC hosts art opening with music

The Captiva Island Yacht Club's (CIYC) Visual Arts Committee hosted an Art Exhibit Opening on March 4. Attendees gathered to meet featured artist William Cantwell. Born in Philadelphia, he trained through studies at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, School of Visual Arts, Parsons School ...

Shell museum welcomes new marine life

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel reported that there are hundreds of marine animals on exhibit in its Living Gallery of Aquariums, including several new species. Many popular species, such as the queen conch, horse conch, giant clam, flamingo tongue snail, ...

The Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW) will host a presentation and talk with author Emiliana Fuger, 9, on May 9 from 11 a.m. to noon at its Visitors Education Center on Sanibel. Her debut book, “Anatomy Under the Sea: The Adventures of Luna the Loggerhead,” is part of the ...

Festival continues with string quartet

The Sanibel Music Festival continued its 39th season with the Viano Quartet on March 10 at the Sanibel Congregational United Church of Christ on Sanibel. Violist Aiden Kane, violinists Lucy Wang and Hao Zhou, and cellist Tate Zawadiuk delighted attendees with a varied display of their talents. ...

Four island nonprofit organizations are continuing their “Sanibel Wild Mile” outreach campaign with the goal to broaden public awareness and appreciation of natural resources and wildlife on Sanibel. Partners the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium, Clinic for the ...

The J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge and “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge (DDWS) celebrated their annual Volunteer Appreciation and Awards Luncheon on March 28 at The Roost at the Sanibel refuge. “Volunteers are the lifeblood of DDWS and the ...