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Planning Commission Backs Alcohol Service Rule Change

At its Oct. 27, 2026, meeting, the Planning Commission discussed a possible amendment to the Land Development Code that would allow establishments to serve wine without meeting the restaurant standard for food sales. Island Time Wine currently operates a retail wine shop with a tasting room at 2407 Periwinkle Way...

Sanibel, FL · 7d
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Why Do Families Keep Lining Up For Gator Tail At Joanie’s Blue Crab Cafe In Ochopee, Florida?

The salsa at this swamp-side cafe has no tomatoes in it. It uses squash and swamp cabbage instead, and that is just the warm-up act. The building started life as a cattle barn in the early 1930s. Later it stored oil drums. Now it serves fried gator bites to hungry...

Ochopee, FL · 5d
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Artis—Naples’ Beethoven Festival TO LIGHT 2026-27 Season

Even two hundred years after his death, Ludwig van Beethoven cannot be consigned to the past. Attempting to separate his influence from the music that followed would be something like trying to remove salt from seawater. His symphonies, concertos and chamber works altered expectations of what music could express, while some of his melodies have become part of a cultural vocabulary that extends far beyond the concert hall.

Naples, FL · 5d
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Photographer underscores importance of having 'right tool for the job'

For today's "What We Do", our weekly touch base with our journalists and asking them questions about what they cover and the content they create, we catch up with photo journalist Ricardo Rolon to ask him about one of his favorite photos of 2026, so far. Question: Where and when was this photo taken and time of day? Answer: This aerial view of new development along Oil Well Rd. in Collier County was captured June, 15, 2025 at around 3:53 pm. What were you trying to capture or express? I was trying to capture different perspectives to illustrate the magnitude of the development in the area for a future story about growth. What type of lens/equipment did you use to get this image? A Potensic Atom II drone was used to capture this image. The exposure included a shutter speed of 1/4000th of a second, an aperture of F/1.8, and an ISO of 118. Any challenges with lighting, or anything else environmental? The main challenge while capturing this assignment was finding a safe place to be while positioning myself in a way where I could maintain visual contact with the drone. Because of the rural location and current lack of

Collier County, FL · 5d

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Downtown Farmers Market reaches agreement with Punta Gorda

PUNTA GORDA — After months of speculation and rumors, the Downton Farmers Market will continue to operate next year at 226 Taylor St. after reaching an agreement with Punta Gorda City Council.

Punta Gorda, FL · 5d

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Holiday Shows Make the Season Jolly

Holiday shows are entertaining and offer a great way to make memories. In Cape Coral there are a few great choices to get in on some seasonal spirit. One is the Belle Theatre where The Santa Switch, a holiday musical comedy, will be onstage from December 16–20, 2026, as part of the theatre’s 5th Anniversary Season.

Cape Coral, FL · 5d

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LowBrow Pizza & Beer Expanding to Bonita Springs

Located at 3148 Tamiami Trail E. in Naples, LowBrow Pizza & Beer serves “wood-fired pies, scratch-made food, and a killer craft beer lineup.” It’s a “7 time Best Pizza winner in Naples and 2026 Best Pizza and Best Wings winner in Collier County.”. Building on that...

Bonita Springs, FL · 6d

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Swamp Cabbage And Fried Gator Bites Keep Drawing Road-Trippers To This Old Florida Fish Camp

Fritters made from the heart of a palm tree were never on my Florida bucket list, and then one bite changed my mind. What I expected to be a quick stop in a quiet river town turned into a whole weekend of parade floats, crispy gator tail, and a crowd cheering for racing armadillos.

Hendry County, FL · 7d

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Southwest Florida International Airport to Offer Remote Parking This Thanksgiving

FORT MYERS, Fla. (Oct. 30, 2026) – Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) is offering passengers RSWRemote, a reserved and remote parking option located on the north side of the airport, this Thanksgiving. The RSWRemote parking lot will be open from Monday, Nov. 23 through Sunday, Nov. 29, 2026. The cost is a flat $60. The fee is non-refundable and cannot be used at any other airport parking location. You must reserve and prepay for a parking space prior to coming to the airport. Reservations can be made at rswremoteparking.com.

Fort Myers, FL · 7d

Naples Daily News

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Collier Mosquito Control must phase out neurotoxins | Opinion

Hurricane Idalia blew large flocks of American flamingos ( Phoenicopterus ruber ) back into Florida in late August 2023. Yet the birds have failed to recolonize in Collier County’s salt marshes and brackish estuaries — thriving nowhere locally except at the Naples Zoo. Although boat traffic flushes foraging flocks, altered freshwater sheetflow and neurotoxic pesticides deplete their invertebrate food supply. These birds rely on filter-feeding in mudflats to consume larvae, amphipods, and shrimp. Naled causes acute aquatic mortality at parts-per-billion levels, while synthetic pyrethroids deployed by the Collier Mosquito Control District (CMCD) adhere to estuarine sediment and destroy crustacean prey at parts-per-trillion levels — whereas Bti offers a one-million-fold safer alternative. First covering a six-square-mile territory in 1950 and adopting Naled during the 1960s, CMCD has expanded its spray area to 765 square miles over the last 20 years and added six turbine aircraft. The vast majority of coastal aerial treatments target salt-marsh nuisance mosquitoes ( Aedes taeniorhynchus ). Conversely, primary human disease vectors such as Culex and Aedes aegypti reproduce mainly in residential containers and inland freshwater habitats. Once Jay Kohlhagen (nonpartisan, CCMCD-3) and I take our seats on the CMCD Board in 2027, we will work to build

Collier County, FL · 7d

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Best SW Florida reader photos include Useppa Island, Fort Myers

Do you have a picture from paradise you’d like to share with Tropicalia readers? We’d love to print it. Email photos to tropicalia@news-press.com. Be sure to include your full name, where you took the picture and what kind of camera or phone you used. Get snapping!. Note: Photos...

Fort Myers, FL · 5d

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$6M Yellow Fever Creek Preserve opens in Cape Coral with camping and disc golf

CAPE CORAL, Fla. — The Yellow Fever Creek Preserve in Cape Coral has officially opened, providing residents and visitors with new opportunities to enjoy nature after years of planning and construction. Wil Harding, a Cape Coral resident, shared his enthusiasm for the new park. "We look forward to touring...

Cape Coral, FL · 7d

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Chicago Trucking Mogul's Cabaret Club Targets Bonita Springs Site for Early 2027

A Chicago trucking entrepreneur is betting that Southwest Florida has room for an immersive, three-hour cabaret dinner show. Roy Dobrasinovic plans to open Voulez-Vous Naples, a cabaret and nightclub, inside the long-vacant former Southwest Florida Event Center at 11515 Bonita Beach Road SE in Bonita Springs. The venue would pair fine dining and cocktails with an immersive production featuring singers, dancers, aerialists and live music.

Bonita Springs, FL · 8d

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Arts Bonita unveils music schedule for November

Arts Bonita’s live music schedule is filling up with shows at the Performing Arts Center in Bonita Springs. Frontiers, starts the month of music on Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m. Built on meticulous musicianship, dynamic vocals, and a deep understanding of Journey’s sound, Frontiers delivers a full-scale concert that reflects the tone, style, and spirit of an era when these songs dominated radio and arenas alike. Comprised of five seasoned New York–based musicians, the band recreates Journey’s music with striking precision, capturing the soaring vocals, layered instrumentation, and signature guitar work that defined one of rock’s most enduring catalogs.

Bonita Springs, FL · 8d

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Southwest Florida International Airport reveals progress on $1B Terminal E expansion

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Southwest Florida International Airport is advancing its $1 billion Terminal E expansion, which will add new gates, enhanced TSA checkpoints, and Gulf-inspired design elements, with completion expected by the end of next year. Inside the construction zone, the terminal will include 14 gates, with the...

Lee County, FL · 8d

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Fort Myers Chicken Salad Vendor Opens First Restaurant, Keeps All 15 Markets

A chicken salad business that built its name on folding tables at Southwest Florida farmers markets has moved indoors. Twila Mae's Chicken Salad opened its first brick-and-mortar restaurant on October 23 at 18011 S. Tamiami Trail, Suite 30, in Fort Myers, tucked into the San Carlos Park Plaza behind a McDonald's. The storefront is named for owner Landon Stevenson's 89-year-old grandmother, who still lives in Missouri.

Fort Myers, FL · 8d

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Cape Coral council to weigh historic status for Four Freedoms Park

CAPE CORAL, Fla. — A Cape Coral father is fighting to preserve Four Freedoms Park by nominating it for historic designation as the site faces redevelopment due to the approved Bimini East development plan. The Madden family discovered the park years ago during a visit to Cape Coral through...

Cape Coral, FL · 8d

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RSW opens remote parking for Thanksgiving travelers from Nov. 23 to Nov. 29

FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)—Southwest Florida International Airport said it would offer a reserved remote parking option for Thanksgiving travelers from Monday, Nov. 23, through Sunday, Nov. 29, 2026. The RSWRemote lot would cost a flat $60, and the fee would be nonrefundable and could not be used at any...

Fort Myers, FL · 7d

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Snowbirds Driving Down I-15 Should Stop At These 15 Old Florida Roadside Diners

The long haul south to Florida gets a lot easier when breakfast comes with a bottomless coffee cup and a waitress who calls you hon. Once you cross the state line and head down the I-75 corridor toward the Gulf Coast, a string of old-school diners sits just a few minutes off the highway, from Lake City all the way to Fort Myers.

Lake City, FL · 8d

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Historic Pre-Festival Vintage Cellar Event for 2027 Naples Winter Wine Festival

Château Latour CEO Frédéric Engerer and Leading Wine Critic James Suckling to. Headline Historic Pre-Festival Vintage Cellar Event for 2027 Naples Winter Wine Festival. Intimate wine tasting and luncheon on Thursday, January 28, 2027 to feature rare and highly sought-after First Growth wines of Château Latour with expert analysis by James Suckling.

Naples, FL · 8d