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Lee Schools board considers full-day phone bans The biggest talking point in a Lee County School District safety presentation wasn’t about violence or drugs, it was about phones
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PINE ISLAND FDOT asking you if bike and pedestrian lanes should be added to busy road The Florida Department of Transportation is asking you if bike and pedestrian lanes should be added to the busy road.
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ESTERO FGCU star in the circle reflects on historical senior season The Eagles’ ace told WINK News she is focused on making every moment count before she hangs up her cleats for the last time.
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LEHIGH ACRES Flames shoot through roof of house in Lehigh Acres Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District said the people inside the house got out okay and no one was injured.
FORT MYERS Lee County making changes to fix bus issues In the past, the Lee County School District struggled to find enough bus drivers.
NAPLES Naples man gets original Bob Ross paintings appraised Bob Ross took this blank canvas in a small studio in Muncie, Indiana, and transformed it into a beautiful masterpiece.
Lee Schools board considers full-day phone bans The biggest talking point in a Lee County School District safety presentation wasn’t about violence or drugs, it was about phones
PORT CHARLOTTE Fallen officer ceremony in Charlotte County commemorates those who lost lives in line of duty The emotional ceremony was held at the William R. Gains Veterans Memorial Park in Port Charlotte.
SAN CARLOS PARK Lee County couple suspected of drugging and sexually abusing child Neighbors say a home in San Carlos Park was just another house before Tuesday.
PINE ISLAND FDOT asking you if bike and pedestrian lanes should be added to busy road The Florida Department of Transportation is asking you if bike and pedestrian lanes should be added to the busy road.
Food drive for mental health awareness While someone may look healthy, they may be fighting a real inner battle.
FORT MYERS Overbilled for overflow of water; Residents stuck with hefty water bill The Moore’s make ends meet living at The Cove for almost a year.
ESTERO Scoreless Eagle up for award at NIL Summit FGCU’s Brandon Dwyer is one of the big time performers in NIL despite having never scored a single point in his entire Eagle career.
What happens after a nuisance alligator is captured? For alligators, the month of May means we are in the heart of mating season in the Sunshine State.
Exclusive: Interview with woman who shares hope of recovery on National Fentanyl Awareness Day Lee County Sheriff’s Office said that in 2020 they seized nearly two thousand grams of fentanyl. In 2023, that number jumped to over 8,000.
ESTERO FGCU star in the circle reflects on historical senior season The Eagles’ ace told WINK News she is focused on making every moment count before she hangs up her cleats for the last time.
NAPLES Pastrami Dan’s reopens in Naples after SUV crash Pastrami Dan’s in Naples welcomed customers once again, with people waiting at the door.
FGCU Two FGCU softball players playing for those who impacted their lives Two FGCU softball players, Riley Oakes and Olivia Black, are playing for friends who impacted their lives in a major way.
Mink carcasses are disposed of at a farm in Farre in the southern part of Jutland, Denmark, October 21, 2020. Kopenhagen Fur, which describes itself as the world’s largest fur auctioneer, said this week it will shut its doors in a few years. Some say this could be one element signaling the start of the end of the global fur trade. The cooperative of 1,500 breeders, which was founded in 1930, said a government announcement earlier this month to kill 15 million mink — to minimize the risk of them transmitting COVID-19 to humans — “changes the basic platform of the company in the long term.” “Unfortunately, the loss of the Danish mink production means that the ownership base disappears and therefore, the company’s management has decided to gradually downsize the company and make a controlled shutdown over a period of 2-3 years,” the company said Thursday on its website. The government has pulled back on the mink cull order announced earlier this month due to legal issues, and now recommends that farmers cull minks, rather than mandating it. Kopenhagen Fur released the news about its company after the government backtracked on its order. CEO Jesper Lauge told the company’s more than 300 employees on Thursday that the business will close a couple of years from now, according to Kopenhagen Fur. Denmark is among the main exporters of mink fur globally. It produces about 17 million furs every year, according to the Associated Press, and Kopenhagen Fur accounts for 40% of mink production worldwide. “Kopenhagen Fur’s large international customer group has difficulty understanding the past week’s development in Denmark,” the auction house said on its website. “Many customers have based their entire business model on Danish mink.” “Kopenhagen Fur is built on the cooperative spirit’s belief in the individual and its strength in the community,” Lauge said. “Unfortunately, even the strongest community cannot survive the consequences of the decisions that have now been made.” On the same day as the announcement, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control published a report highlighting the evolution of coronavirus in mink and its potential to impact human diagnosis, treatment and vaccine development. Scientists have found that a mutation of the virus, called cluster 5, has the potential to undermine future vaccine efforts, but emphasized that further research is still needed. “The ECDC risk report and the announcement by Kopenhagen Fur that it will cease trading could very well signal the beginning of the end of the worldwide fur trade,” Dr. Joanna Swabe, senior director of public affairs for Humane Society International/Europe, said in a news release. “Fur farms are not only the cause of immense and unnecessary animal suffering, but they are also ticking time bombs for deadly diseases, potential virus factories capable of churning out mutations of COVID-19 and even undermining medical progress towards reliable treatments.” Denmark’s Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said earlier this month that half the 783 human COVID-19 cases in northern Denmark “are related” to mink. On Thursday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said the mutation detected in Denmark will not compromise vaccines that are in development. Mink have prompted coronavirus concerns in the U.S., too, but officials said there was no evidence of animals infecting humans. Last month, officials said some 12,000 of the animals had died of the disease on farms in Utah and Wisconsin, which have seen steep declines in recent years, even before the pandemic. On Friday, PETA said the fur industry is “well and truly dead” following Kopenhagen Fur’s announcement. “We cannot simply wait for the next pandemic to emerge. Governments must end the cruel and risky fur trade for good and focus instead on supporting fur farmers as they move to humane, safe and economically viable livelihoods,” Swabe said. “There was never going to be a happy ending for the 60 million mink exploited for fur annually, but stopping breeding them altogether would be the best way to prevent animals suffering in the future for the fickle whims of fashion.”