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Sanibel Island Fishing Club to meet

The Sanibel Island Fishing Club will hold its monthly meeting on April 8 at 7 p.m. at The Community House, at 2173 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel, with a half-hour social gathering to begin at 6:30 p.m. The guest speaker will be Christine Heffern, an avid angler who works at Whitney's Bait & ...

Music festival season kicks off

The 38th annual Sanibel Music Festival kicked off with its Gala Benefit, “Celebrating Sanibel Music Festival's Return to the Island,” on March 1 featuring cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han at the Sanibel Congregational United Church of Christ on Sanibel. On March 4, the festival ...

Progressive Club to hold pot luck

The Progressive Club of the Islands will hold a Pot Luck on April 9 at 5 p.m. in Fellowship Hall at the Sanibel Congregational United Church of Christ, at 2050 Periwinkle Way, Sanibel. Attendees are asked to bring a dish, such as an appetizer, a salad, main dish or dessert. Drinks will be ...

Supper raises funds for island school

Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church presented The Sanibel School with $1,533 raised at the Mardi Gras Pancake Supper on March 4 at the church on Sanibel. The funds will support the Middle School Science Program and National Junior Honor Society (NJHS). Saint Michael's covered all of ...

The city of Sanibel's Vegetation Committee will offer a free, guided native vegetation and landscaping tour on April 9 at 9 a.m. around the grounds at City Hall, at 800 Dunlop Road, Sanibel. Even though the grounds sustained damage from Hurricane Ian and other recent storms, the ongoing ...

Led by Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) educator Richard Finkel, fourth graders from The Sanibel School recently continued their habitat studies at the SCCF's Pick Preserve on Sanibel. They explored interior marsh habitat, investigated the life cycles of plants and animals, and ...