Sanibel, Florida Water Damage

Lee County's Tourist Development Council Thursday chose not to recommend spending bed-tax dollars on replicating a turn-of-the-20th-century river pavilion at Edison & Ford Winter Estates, Fort Myers.

The growing size of the oil spill continues to stoke fears in Southwest Florida that beaches here could fall victim to this environmental disaster.

SANIBEL: Most of the oil coming from the destroyed oil rig in the northern Gulf of Mexico is headed toward the Louisiana and Alabama coasts.

Anhingas. Roseate Spoonbills. Wood Storks. Magnificent Frigatebirds. Black Skimmers.

I first voted Republican in 1952. I was in the Navy and voted for Ike by absentee ballot.

His four years as an enlisted Navy man provided opportunities to see the Atlantic, Caribbean and Mediterranean.

Gelato tastes better than ice cream, a group of tasters enthusiastically agreed last week after trying the Italian-style gelato at Run Agrounds, a coffee, pastry and gelato shop in Cape Coral.

Published: Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 2:19 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 2:19 p.m. Dear Pharmacist: My wife and I have always had a healthy sex life but lately, I'm not to able take care of matters.

After four months of investigating allegations of discrimination at The Sanibel School, the U.S. Department of Educationa s Office of Civil Rights found insufficient evidence to charge either the school or Lee County School District with misconduct.

It's spring and, for me, spring means kites. One of my favorite memories from childhood is getting a new kite from my parents for Easter and flying it so high, my best friend offered to ride his bike to the store to buy more string so we could send it even higher.