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Lee County Parks & Recreation plans holiday events

Lee County Parks & Recreation has planned a number of holiday events throughout December. Events include: • 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 7, Holiday Market, Wa-Ke Hatchee Recreation Center, 16760 Bass Road, Fort Myers Gather the whole family for a festive Holiday Market featuring ...

Panther Country Tour de Sprawl set for Jan. 15

Panther Country Tour de Sprawl is an immersive field trip to witness the community and ecological impacts, including the risks to Florida panther habitat and other vulnerable ecosystems, posed by large-scale development projects to provide journalists firsthand details of the escalating threats ...

Temple Judea installs new rabbi

A few months ago, Rabbi David Arias and his children were covering their heads in bomb shelters in Israel as rockets and drones rained down upon the nation from Iran and Lebanon. “My two children learned about sirens, missiles and wars before they could learn English,” Arias ...

School District honors Principal and Assistant Principal of the Year

The School District of Lee County has announced that Carl Burnside, principal at Dunbar High School, is the 2025 Principal of the Year. Superintendent Dr. Denise Carlin, Board members, District administrators and Dunbar staff surprised Burnside with the award Friday morning. He will go on to ...

Keep Lee County Beautiful Art Contest opens

Keep Lee County Beautiful Inc. has announced the annual “Leave the Scene Clean” art contest, inviting students in grades K-12 from all public, private and home schools across Lee County. The contest aims to inspire students to creatively envision ways we can all contribute to maintaining a ...

American Legion Post 90 invites students to enter scholarship contest

American Legion Post 90, Cape Coral, invites high school students to compete in the 83rd Annual American Legion High School Oratorical Scholarship Program. Post Chairman Ted Clark has extended the invitation to local students to enter the competition. Contact him at 239-540-8128, 845-527-7948 ...

ARC to hold Starlight Auction Nov. 30

To think there was a time when they thought of cancelling the Starlight Auction many years ago because they didn’t think it was raising enough money for it to be worth it. Today, the event has become a favorite fundraiser of the Animal Refuge Center. And this year the event should have the ...