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1 week ago | 
coastalbreezenews.com | Kelly Farrell
Marco Island City Council proclaimed May a month of water safety as they discussed new electricity bill surcharges to help keep the City budget afloat into 2026. Meanwhile, one member of Council accepted responsibility for an ethics violation involving her dog attacking a minor and dog in December.
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1 week ago | 
coastalbreezenews.com | Kelly Farrell
Digging up the past is getting a lot of attention on Marco Island as archaeologists sift through dirt in Old Marco and developers carve into the earth of Indian Hill. “Everybody is pretty excited about what we’re doing,” said Luigi Carvelli, a restaurant owner and property owner along Bald Eagle Drive in Old Marco.
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2 weeks ago | 
coastalbreezenews.com | Kelly Farrell
Despite previously taking millions of dollars from the Conservation Collier Trusts, the Collier County Commission moved forward with large conservation land purchases during their meeting on Tuesday, April 22. The Commission approved the purchase of Williams Reserve in Immokalee at a purchase price of nearly $20.1 million for the 2,247 acres of farmland and slough. “We have long sought the acquisition of that slough area,” said County Commissioner Bill McDaniel.
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2 weeks ago | 
coastalbreezenews.com | Kelly Farrell
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2 weeks ago | 
coastalbreezenews.com | Kelly Farrell
An Amazon delivery landed in the Everglades on Saturday, and it wasn’t from an online shopping spree. Instead, Arassari Pataxó, a member of a bird clan who lives in the Amazon forest of Brazil, arrived in the Everglades alongside the local Bird Clan of the Miccosukee and Seminole Tribes of Florida. Both Clans, near and far, as well as others, came with messages to connect with nature and ancestors during the International Big Mamma Day Festival at the Miccosukee Village.
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3 weeks ago | 
naplespress.com | Kelly Farrell
Local News
FLORIDA’S WILDERNESS
Welcome to wilderness, to Big Cypress National Preserve, where the evolving relationship between humans and the natural world plays out in politics, in daily life — and sometimes, over a cold beverage in the wooded swamps.
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3 weeks ago | 
coastalbreezenews.com | Kelly Farrell
Marco Island City Council plans to consider a purchase of Caxambas Boat Park from Collier County as Council began budget discussions on Monday night. Also on the horizon is reconstruction of the Collier Boulevard and North Barfield Drive intersection at the entrance to the island for a cost of approximately $4.1 millionCaxambas Boat ParkCity Council members said they would like to consider taking over Caxambas Boat Park instead of having the County in control of the park on Collier Court.
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1 month ago | 
coastalbreezenews.com | Kelly Farrell
Port Marco was more than just a trailer park - it was once a clam factory and 1,500 years before that a village, another 1,500 years before an earlier village and still one more village below that, according to a Marco Island archeologist. The news, which includes at least as much deep history as it does new information, comes after Port Marco was demolished this April to make way for a five-story mixed-use development.
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1 month ago | 
coastalbreezenews.com | Kelly Farrell
Rabbit rescue organization leaders are cautious about adoptions during the Easter holiday as Florida neighborhoods are still hopping with pets of yesteryear gone wild. “We do not adopt out for children. They have to wait until after Easter and visit the sanctuary, so they can make an informed decision,” said Jennifer Macbeth, president of Southwest Florida House Rabbit Rescue, with a home sanctuary located in Estero.
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1 month ago | 
coastalbreezenews.com | Kelly Farrell
A newly released film about the Everglades — “River of Grass” — describes and encourages a bond with nature. The documentary feature film made its Florida debut in April at the Miami Film Festival, then the Sarasota Film Festival. From Florida, it heads north toward audiences in New York City and Canada. Filmmaker Sasha Wortzel, who directed, produced, and edited the documentary, describes the film as a reimagining of Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s book River of Grass, published in 1947.
