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Sarasota Rising’s Living Arts Festival taking shape for November debut
Since he took on the task of spearheading a new festival celebrating Sarasota’s abundant and diverse arts scene about three years ago, Jeffery Kin has been juggling a lot of challenges, but none more important than trying to define and establish exactly what Sarasota Rising’s first Living Arts Festival would be. Kin, the former producing artistic director of the Sarasota Players, always had a vision for an event that would highlight the dozens of arts organizations in...
Tim Aten Knows: Restaurants continue to come and go
Q: Was wondering if you possibly knew when Havana Libre at Founders Square would be opening up? —Stephen Christ, North Naples. A: A new local restaurant, Havana Libre Cuban Cuisine, plans to launch Friday, Aug. 23, in The Plaza at Founders Square, the Collier County retail strip anchored by Sunshine Ace Hardware on the southeast corner of Immokalee Road and Collier Boulevard.
Drier and Brighter Conditions to Return
Following what was a soggy and stormy Saturday across South Florida, which included a record 2.99 inches of rain at Miami International Airport, a drier and brighter weather pattern — relatively speaking — will settle in to start the next week. The tropical wave we’ve been following is...
Hurricane center watching 2 tropical waves. FL to see thunderstorms as tax holiday kicks off
The tropics remained calm as a sales tax holiday for hurricane and other disaster supplies kicked off Saturday, but severe weather could affect portions of Florida over the weekend. Tropical cyclone activity is not expected over the next seven days, the National Hurricane Center reported in its latest update. ...
Protecting the Matanzas Pass Preserve with planting event
On Saturday, the Matanzas Pass Preserve teamed up with the Florida Native Plant Society to create an educational barrier island, grow native plants and a butterfly garden. Matanzas Pass Preserve is a sixty-acre preserve located on the seven-mile-long barrier island of Estero. The preserve is one of the few undeveloped,...
Neighbors upset over overflowing garbage outside foreclosed home in Cape Coral
Things have gotten so bad in one Cape Coral front yard that it looks like a junkyard, and one neighbor is fed up with the garbage. “By the end of the night, there was a pile about the size of the house outside the house,” said Tom Ashton, “and I was like, ‘Wow.'”
Florida is much safer than Washington D.C.
Dear Mr. Osgood: The only logical way to look at murder rates is homicides per capita. Cherrypicking a total deaths number without reference to the number of residents in a state is foolish at best and disingenuous at worst. Florida was ranked 27th in the United States with 5.0 deaths...
Secretive Naples' exec on how to build a $3B medical device business
Reinhold Schmieding could easily be a braggart. The Naples entrepreneur has a lot to boast about, much of it attributable to Arthrex, a medical manufacturer focusing on sports medicine and less invasive surgery products through the motto of “helping surgeons treat their patients better.”. Schmieding, born in Michigan and...
Ribbon cutting ceremony for new state of the art turf field at Estero High School
Community leaders gathered for a ribbon cutting ceremony, for the newly installed state of the art turf field at Jeff Sommer Stadium on August 23, 2024. Estero Mayor Jon McLain welcomed the crowd, Estero High Director of Athletics David LaRosa and Estero High Principal Jennifer Biddell honored the late Athletic Director and Coach Jeff Sommer for whom the stadium is named.
Farmer's Market Forecast Saturday
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Farmer’s Market weather should be quiet for the Market hours. Saturday thunderstorms are more likely to pick up in the later afternoon and not as widespread as Sunday. Sunday storms could start midday and be more widespread. Sarasota Farmer’s Market is located in the heart...
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