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Dangerous dog days of summer
Many Floridians get to work in comfortably air-conditioned offices during the summer. But many also don’t — and they could be in danger. We’re talking about more than 630,000 construction workers, more than 100,000 of the nation’s million farm laborers, and likely a total of about 2 million people in the state working outside now, during the historically hottest spring […] The post Dangerous dog days of summer first appeared on Charlotte County Florida Weekly.
August Beach Cleanup Finds Beauty and the Beasts on the Dunes
Beauty on the Dunes: What are those beautiful funnel-shaped lavender flowers with bright green foliage spreading out from the dunes with their long runners? It is a Florida native vine (Ipomea pes-caprae) and part of the Morning Glory family. They attract pollinators such as bees and butterflies. Sometimes you’ll notice a runner reaching more than 20 feet from the dunes. On the dunes, they form a large mat of green foliage with its roots helping stabilize the dunes and preventing erosion.
US Champion from 1984 LLWS reflects on historic Florida runs
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. — Florida has a rich history when it comes to deep runs in the Little League World Series. Florida teams have made eight appearances, but finally, Lake Mary claimed victory this past weekend. It’s been four decades since Jerrey Thurston’s Altamonte Springs team made it’s 1984...
Summer storm pattern to continue through weekend
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Flooding hits the Suncoast yet once again this summer. 2-5 inches of rain fell over parts of the west coast of Florida causing some street flooding again from Englewood to Palmetto. The sea breeze was hung up along the corridor of I-75 on Wednesday afternoon. We can expect to see storms again on Thursday but the rain shouldn’t be as widespread as we saw on Wednesday as some slightly drier air will slip in for a couple of days. We will still see a few scattered storms on both Thursday and Friday developing later in afternoon and early evening.
Moms for Liberty influence wanes in Florida school board elections
The big story: It wasn’t just Ron DeSantis who had a bad night for school board endorsements in the August primary. Moms for Liberty didn’t do well either. Some observers have begun pondering whether the Florida-based organization has reached its limit. “The public is sick of the chaos and disruption,” political scientist Maurice Cunningham said.
As deaths of endangered panthers mount, 3 kittens spotted in forest
As conservationists worry over the fate of the highly endangered Florida panther, state officials have confirmed three kittens have been born and are currently living in the Okaloacoochie Slough State Forest. All three kittens are part of one litter, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said, and were born earlier in August. The litter includes one male kitten and two female kittens. These are the only births that the commission has documented this year, according to its website. The commission tracks all kitten births by adult female panthers wearing radio collars, so there may have been other, unrecorded kittens born in...
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