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Donations sought

Donations are being accepted for long-time resident Nancy Vanhotegem, from the Pine Island Moose, who is battling breast cancer. If you would like to donate or if you have any questions, please email Marshall Edens at Medens1951@gmail.com.

Lee County Community Band to present ‘On the Road Again’ Sunday

The Lee County Community Band invites Southwest Florida residents and visitors to its final concert of the season, “On the Road Again,” this Sunday, April 12, at 3 p.m., at Mariner High School in Cape Coral. This lively spring program celebrates the end of the band’s season and offers a musical send-off to winter visitors heading north. The concert will feature an exciting mix of popular favorites, classic marches, Broadway music, ragtime, and audience sing-along tunes. The program opens with “On the Road Again,” a fitting tribute to snowbirds preparing for their journeys home. Audiences will then enjoy the vibrant “Colorburst Concert March,” the energetic “Soul ...

Friends of Lisa pasta dinner fundraiser April 15 at SJCCA

A pasta dinner fundraiser for Pine Islander, Lisa Dence will be held Wednesday, April 15, at the St. James Civic Center. Dinner will be served from 5-7 p.m.; eat-in or carry-out. Tickets are $20 and available in advance from Julie Robbers at (239) 744-9767 or at the door. Dence is the owner of Salty Girls Cafe in Bokeelia. She has been experiencing some serious medical issues and is unable to return to work. This is a severe hardship for Dence and her family.   Dence has been a generous and accommodating member of the Pine Island community for many years, whether lending her previous Olde Fish House location for island fundraisers such as the Matlacha Hookers Fishing Derbies ...

Lee Health, FGCU conducting joint study

Lee Health and Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) are jointly exploring opportunities to improve healthcare, wellness and support services provided to persons living in Southwest Florida with an Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) diagnosis, as well as their families and caregivers. Officials reported a recent market study that was conducted uncovered the potential to improve services to this segment of the local population that will help them thrive more successfully in the community. The organizations are conducting a survey to learn more directly from this population on how they can enhance and expand services that will be most impactful to them. The survey links ...

SWFL News

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Operation Green Light set for April 14-17

Anyone with a suspended license or overdue traffic tickets may be eligible to get back on the road through the Lee County Clerk & Comptroller’s Operation Green Light. During the annual event, those with cases in collections will be allowed to pay their court fees and fines without ...

Transformation to ‘cluster schools’ rolls out

The School District of Lee County’s decision to use a “cluster model” approach to Exceptional Student Education will affect 216 students when the first phase begins in August. “The students were selected by the service delivery model of their Individual Education Plan,” district ...

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Cribbage Corner

Scores from 3/26/26 1st. Place    Wanda Lallier 2nd Place    Tracy Sheets 3rd Place     Nate Bleyle 4th Place        Ray Korleski 5th Place        Dennis Gettys TaterHead of the week Just Schuitama Cribbage is played every Thursday evening at 6:30 at St James ...

Editorials

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Editorial | Actions have consequences

By School District of Lee County estimates, 3,400 students took part in walkouts last week in protest of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions. The walkouts took place at 13 of the district’s high schools — all but two — and at one middle school in south county. School ...

Should more commercial development be encouraged for the islands?

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