FORT MYERS LCSO offering youth boxing program The Lee County Sheriff’s Office youth boxing program is your kid’s golden ticket to mastering the art of self-defense.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral man speaks on helping apprehend armed 13-year-old The man who helped apprehend an armed 13-year-old spoke on the incident.
NAPLES Naples Cars on Fifth event fuels $2M for local charity efforts For over two decades, car enthusiasts in Southwest Florida have gathered on Fifth Avenue in Naples.
MARCO ISLAND Caxambas Park boat ramp on Marco Island set to reopen Collier County announced the reopening of the Caxambas Park boat ramp on Marco Island.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral Animal Shelter to host Puppy Bowl 3 ahead of big game Ahead of the big game on Sunday, Cape Coral Animal Shelter will be featuring its very own Puppy Bowl III.
FORT MYERS From the ballpark to the beach: the Minnesota Twins are back for Spring Training 1700 miles later the Twins truck is here and the team from Minnesota is ready to spend the next six weeks here in Fort Myers.
the weather authority Warm stretch continues throughout this weekend The Weather Authority says if you are a fan of the warmer weather, you are going to love this weekend.
SANIBEL Sanibel’s red tide raises health alerts and wildlife concerns With great weather in the forecast, it’s shaping up to be a perfect beach weekend. However, visitors to the barrier islands should exercise caution.
NAPLES Naples Automotive Experience raises funds for St. Matthew’s House The Naples Automotive Experience brought excitement and philanthropy to the community, raising money for St. Matthew’s House.
MATLACHA Little Pine Island bridge work causes delays, FDOT promises progress Construction on the Little Pine Island Bridge has narrowed traffic to one lane, causing significant delays for drivers.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Support women’s heart health on National Wear Red Day The first Friday in February marks National Wear Red Day!
Ongoing repairs following Naples plane crash A deadly plane crash that occurred one year ago in Naples, Florida continues to impact lives in Southwest Florida. The tragic event involved two pilots who lost their lives on Interstate 75.
Naples jet crash, one year later: new details on emergency response Sunday marks one year since a jet crashed after its pilots attempted an emergency landing on I-75 just outside of Naples. “Your mind goes back to everything that happened that day,” said Heather Mazurkiewicz, public information officer with the North Collier Fire Rescue. “I think about the fact that there weren’t more lives lost.” At […]
LCSO cutting down law enforcement response times The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is gearing up to implement “Prepared 9-1-1,” a new tool designed to enhance emergency response times.
FORT MYERS LCSO offering youth boxing program The Lee County Sheriff’s Office youth boxing program is your kid’s golden ticket to mastering the art of self-defense.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral man speaks on helping apprehend armed 13-year-old The man who helped apprehend an armed 13-year-old spoke on the incident.
NAPLES Naples Cars on Fifth event fuels $2M for local charity efforts For over two decades, car enthusiasts in Southwest Florida have gathered on Fifth Avenue in Naples.
MARCO ISLAND Caxambas Park boat ramp on Marco Island set to reopen Collier County announced the reopening of the Caxambas Park boat ramp on Marco Island.
CAPE CORAL Cape Coral Animal Shelter to host Puppy Bowl 3 ahead of big game Ahead of the big game on Sunday, Cape Coral Animal Shelter will be featuring its very own Puppy Bowl III.
FORT MYERS From the ballpark to the beach: the Minnesota Twins are back for Spring Training 1700 miles later the Twins truck is here and the team from Minnesota is ready to spend the next six weeks here in Fort Myers.
the weather authority Warm stretch continues throughout this weekend The Weather Authority says if you are a fan of the warmer weather, you are going to love this weekend.
SANIBEL Sanibel’s red tide raises health alerts and wildlife concerns With great weather in the forecast, it’s shaping up to be a perfect beach weekend. However, visitors to the barrier islands should exercise caution.
NAPLES Naples Automotive Experience raises funds for St. Matthew’s House The Naples Automotive Experience brought excitement and philanthropy to the community, raising money for St. Matthew’s House.
MATLACHA Little Pine Island bridge work causes delays, FDOT promises progress Construction on the Little Pine Island Bridge has narrowed traffic to one lane, causing significant delays for drivers.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Support women’s heart health on National Wear Red Day The first Friday in February marks National Wear Red Day!
Ongoing repairs following Naples plane crash A deadly plane crash that occurred one year ago in Naples, Florida continues to impact lives in Southwest Florida. The tragic event involved two pilots who lost their lives on Interstate 75.
Naples jet crash, one year later: new details on emergency response Sunday marks one year since a jet crashed after its pilots attempted an emergency landing on I-75 just outside of Naples. “Your mind goes back to everything that happened that day,” said Heather Mazurkiewicz, public information officer with the North Collier Fire Rescue. “I think about the fact that there weren’t more lives lost.” At […]
LCSO cutting down law enforcement response times The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is gearing up to implement “Prepared 9-1-1,” a new tool designed to enhance emergency response times.
In this Monday, Nov. 20, 2017 photo a passerby makes their way past a mural, in Boston’s East Boston neighborhood, that is meant to pay tribute to grandmothers of East Boston from the early twentieth century up through the present, many of whom immigrated to the U.S. Murals celebrating immigrants are cropping up across Boston neighborhoods as part of the national “To Immigrants With Love” campaign. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) BOSTON (AP) Murals celebrating immigrants past and present are cropping up in Boston neighborhoods as part of the city’s take on the national “To Immigrants With Love” campaign. The murals, which began cropping up this summer, juxtapose real life Boston immigrants from past generations with more recent newcomers. One mural features a Russian couple who founded a local liquor store empire with a Dominican man who owns an electronic repair store. Another depicts an Italian catering company owner and a Mexican community activist. In this Monday, Nov. 20, 2017 photo a passerby walks past a mural that depicts Alex Castillo, left, who immigrated to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic as a child in 1996, and Beatrice and Louis White, right, a couple who immigrated from Russia and arrived at Ellis Island in the early 1900s, on the side of a liquor store in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood. Murals celebrating immigrants are cropping up across Boston neighborhoods as part of the national “To Immigrants With Love” campaign. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) The works of art also include a quote translated into Spanish, Italian, Yiddish and other languages: “You will always be welcome in the city of Boston.” “It’s a very powerful message of welcome,” says Veronica Robles, the recent Mexican immigrant featured in one of the murals. “It makes people feel safe and appreciated. More than ever, that’s an important message to put out there.” Katherine Copeland, who works in the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement and helped developed the project, says it was inspired by #ToImmigrantsWithLove, a social media campaign started by the nonprofits Define American and I Am An Immigrant to show solidarity with immigrants nationwide. “That’s what really sparked the idea,” Copeland said. “We wanted to take that message one step further but more specific to Boston.” The first of three murals were completed this summer by the Mayor’s Mural Crew, a long-running program paying high school students to complete public art throughout the city. Located on the side of the Atlas Wines and Liquors in the city’s Roslindale neighborhood, the brightly colored mural features Louis and Beatrice White, the Russian couple who founded the company in the 1930s following the repeal of Prohibition. In this Monday, Nov. 20, 2017 photo a passer-by walks past a mural that depicts Veronica Robles, left, a community activist who moved to Boston from Mexico in 2000, and Carmello Scire, right, an entrepreneur who arrived in Boston from Italy in the 1930s, in Boston’s East Boston neighborhood. Murals celebrating immigrants are cropping up across Boston neighborhoods as part of the national “To Immigrants With Love” campaign. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Pictured next to them is Alex Castillo, a native of the Dominican Republic and owner of Digitech Electronic Solutions, a nearby electronics repair shop. Across town in East Boston, a second mural located on the side of a dentist office depicts Carmello Scire, an Italian immigrant from the 1930s who founded a long-running catering company now known as Sammy Carlo’s Delicatessen and Catering. The derby hat-wearing Scire is joined in the mural by a sombrero-wearing Robles, who arrived in Boston in 2000 and founded the Veronica Robles Cultural Center to promote Latin American dance and culture. The third mural, located under an overpass along East Boston’s bike path, highlights immigrant grandmothers and draws from the photos residents submitted of their own grandmothers. Heidi Schork, director of the city’s Mural Crew, says the murals are meant to evoke each neighborhood’s evolution. Roslindale, for example, was once a thriving center of the city’s Jewish population and has become increasingly Latino, she said. And East Boston was once strongly Italian but today is a center of the state’s Central American community. “We want people to embrace the immigrants of today in the same way they embrace their own ancestors,” said Celina Barrios-Millner, a fellow in the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement. “We just want to make that connection because it’s such an immigrant city.”