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Fort Myers Retired Major General James L. Dozier celebrated
12/09/2025

Fort Myers Retired Major General James L. Dozier celebrated

The feature film Dozier will be shown during a private screening at Collaboratory on Dec. 10, 2025. The two-hour film, directed by Max Leonida, recounts the harrowing 1981 kidnapping of Fort Myers resident, retired Major General James L. Dozier. In 1981, Dozier lived in Verona, Italy, with his wife....

When they stroll onstage, these 20-somethings from Nashville by way of Branson, Missouri, will melt the heart of every g...
12/08/2025

When they stroll onstage, these 20-somethings from Nashville by way of Branson, Missouri, will melt the heart of every grandparent in Gulf Theater — until all that cute effect gets detonated in a dazzling cloud of keyboard runs, a cello that sings, tight guitar licks, and a girl singer who channels a young Doris Day.

When they stroll onstage, these 20-somethings from Nashville by way of Branson, Missouri, will melt the heart of every grandparent in Gulf Theater — until all that cute effect gets detonated in a dazzling cloud of keyboard runs, a cello that sings, tight guitar licks, and a girl singer who channel...

There are a lot of ways to expand the horizons of your personal wine world, and one of my favorites is the wine dinner.
12/07/2025

There are a lot of ways to expand the horizons of your personal wine world, and one of my favorites is the wine dinner.

There are a lot of ways to expand the horizons of your personal wine world, and one of my favorites is the wine dinner. Many fine restaurants stage these events, spotlighting a particular varietal, region, or winery. Not only do you learn about the wines (often from the winemakers themselves), but y...

Optimus Energy Solutions brings Charging Depot to the Shoppes at Pelican Preserve Center
12/06/2025

Optimus Energy Solutions brings Charging Depot to the Shoppes at Pelican Preserve Center

Optimus Energy Solutions has signed an agreement to provide ten Level 3 chargers in the Shoppes at Pelican Preserve Center on Colonial Boulevard, just east of Interstate 75. The chargers will be available for public use, accommodating all electric vehicles. “Recently, a report showed EV sales are ...

Premier Mobile Health Services hosts 7th Annual Breakfast with Santa
12/05/2025

Premier Mobile Health Services hosts 7th Annual Breakfast with Santa

Premier Mobile Health Services is bringing holiday cheer and essential health services to families at its 7th Annual Breakfast with Santa. When: Saturday, Dec. 6 | 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Where: City of Palms Park, East Parking Lot, 2201 Edison Ave., Fort Myers Families can enjoy breakfast, meet Santa, a...

SW-FloridaCon returns to Fort Myers
12/05/2025

SW-FloridaCon returns to Fort Myers

Your favorite comic book and anime heroes are signaling from across the multiverse, and Fort Myers geared up to welcome them as they made their epic crash landing. Not all heroes wear capes, but in this corner of paradise, most of them do —and sometimes they are accompanied by the occasional villa...

Here's what's happening around town this week
12/04/2025

Here's what's happening around town this week

TOP PICKS 7th Annual Braves Tomahawk 5K & Beer Run is a family-friendly race at 7:30 a.m. Dec. 6. Run the stadium, finish on the field, enjoy breakfast, medals, holiday fun and prizes for all ages. 18800 S. West Villages Parkway, North Port. 941-413-5000 or www.cooltodaypark.com. Charlotte Players p...

Volunteer RescuersFew likely think about them until they do, and then it’s with need, desperation, urgent hope and grati...
12/04/2025

Volunteer Rescuers

Few likely think about them until they do, and then it’s with need, desperation, urgent hope and gratitude that such people in the American world, and the Florida world, volunteer rescuers.

Few likely think about them until they do, and then it’s with need, desperation, urgent hope and gratitude that such people in the American world, and the Florida world, volunteer rescuers. They’re not just brave souls who happen past an opportunity to help somebody on the spot and decide to do ...

The Season of Gifting
12/03/2025

The Season of Gifting

In case you weren’t aware of it, we are all Jews, Christians of Catholic and protestant hues, Buddhists and Muslims and a few hundred other things. We’re agnostics and atheists. We’re Russians and Ukrainians, Germans and Turks, Africans and Australians, Chinese and Japanese, Israelis and Pales...

If you’re a bear in Florida, the odds of you living to ring in the new year are somewhat diminished now that hunting sea...
12/02/2025

If you’re a bear in Florida, the odds of you living to ring in the new year are somewhat diminished now that hunting season is about to open on Dec. 6.

If you’re a bear in Florida, the odds of you living to ring in the new year are somewhat diminished now that hunting season is about to open on Dec. 6. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission estimates there are approximately 4,051 black bears in the state, and that is approximately ...

  A timely find takes me back to my teens
12/01/2025

A timely find takes me back to my teens

I always liked clocks. When I was a boy, I stayed a couple of times a year with my grandfather and step-grandmother at their home in Belle Glade. My step-grandmother, whom we called Miss Beula, was not a collector. Still, she had a cabinet filled with souvenir figurines and other objects she acquire...

You don’t have to manage diabetes alone
11/30/2025

You don’t have to manage diabetes alone

Before November ends, let’s take a moment to recognize American Diabetes Month, a condition that affects more than 38 million Americans. Diabetes occurs when the body cannot properly produce or use insulin, a hormone that helps turn sugar in the blood into energy. Over time, high blood sugar can l...

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