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Pine Island Elementary to host Veterans Day Celebration Nov. 7

Pine Island Elementary School warmly invites all local veterans to attend its annual Veterans Day Remembrance Celebration Friday, Nov. 7. The event is an opportunity to honor and thank those who have served in the United States Armed Forces while also educating students about the importance of ...

2025 Pine Island FISH Basket Brigade effort under way

This is a reminder that the 2025 Pine Island FISH Basket Brigade is underway, and FISH is looking for the registration forms from parents in need of a little help, to enroll their children. Requests or referrals for Pine Island and Matlacha residents who could benefit from this program should be submitted to P.I. Fish at 239 283-4442 or the FISH website at pineislandfish.org, or use the QR code. For Spanish, text Carolyn at 707-291-0310 no later than Oct. 31. This allows staff the necessary time for any shopping, wrapping, sorting and assignment of gifts. A notice has been sent home with all the P.I.E. children on or about Oct. 8, for their parents to fill out and return to the ...

Celebrating Pine Islanders: Mike George

Mike George said his life’s philosophy is to try not to have any enemies. So far, it’s worked for him to get along with everybody. “I try to put other people before myself, and not make ripples I guess,” George said. Led to Pine Island by his maternal grandparents, George said, they ...

SWFL News

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Verot boys win district golf title; girls earn runner-up spot

Tuesday BOWLING FHSAA Championships At Boardwalk Bowl, Orlando BOYS Team (two games): 1 South Lake. 2 Sports Leadership & Management. 3 Astronaut. 4 Seabreeze. 5 Ferguson. 6 Melbourne. 7 University. 8 Fort Myers. 9 Northeast. 10 (tie) Hagerty. Windermere. Martin County. 13 Mariner ...

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Seed and Bean Market to open at The Cove at 47th in Cape

The Seed and Bean Market has announced that its third location will be in Cape Coral at The Cove at 47th, a luxury apartment destination in downtown. Seed & Bean Market was founded in 2018 and is Florida’s first Cannabis Café and CBD marketplace with locations in Fort Myers and Venice. ...

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Oktoberfest among ‘most successful yet’

A milestone celebration for one of Cape Coral’s biggest events wrapped up this past weekend, as the 40th year of Oktoberfest concluded with a final round of steins filled with beer and plates of food served.  The German American Club of Cape Coral’s signature event, Oktoberfest drew tens ...

Local Columns

On the Water: There was good fishing action off the beaches

Large schools of bait fish continue to move down the coast into our area, followed by a variety of hungry predators. With winds blowing from an easterly direction, it was possible to fish a few miles west off the beaches, but further into Gulf waters was getting rough.   King and ...

Editorials

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Always: Embracing local journalism

National Newspaper Week wrapped up Saturday with, no doubt, a typical end-of-week collective sigh by those of us working a beat. Our numbers have dwindled — an 80% decline from 800,000-plus newsroom jobs in 1990 to around 86,000 in mid-2025, according to ReportEarth — but still, papers ...

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