Roger Williams

Jan 16, 2025 | charlottecounty.floridaweekly.com | Roger Williams

When numismatist Mike Joyce began to see the spike in customers coming into his long-established shop to buy gold, he wasn’t entirely surprised, even with the historically unprecedented escalation in price. People have been buying a lot of gold. “They’ve been spending from under $1,000 for silver or gold, to hundreds of thousands,” said Joyce, whose business, Gulfcoast Coin & Jewelry in Fort Myers and Bonita Springs, specializes in gems, jewels, coins and the trading of precious metals.

Jan 15, 2025 | fortmyers.floridaweekly.com | Roger Williams

When numismatist Mike Joyce began to see the spike in customers coming into his long-established shop to buy gold, he wasn’t entirely surprised, even with the historically unprecedented escalation in price. People have been buying a lot of gold. “They’ve been spending from under $1,000 for silver or gold, to hundreds of thousands,” said Joyce, whose business, Gulfcoast Coin & Jewelry in Fort Myers and Bonita Springs, specializes in gems, jewels, coins and the trading of precious metals.

Jan 9, 2025 | palmbeach.floridaweekly.com | Roger Williams

Terrence Sumter, husband and father of a 10-year-old and a college student, was doing some banking work after hours on a recent weekend. But he wasn’t depositing or withdrawing money from the bank. Instead, he was cleaning the bank parking lot and the walk-up ATM patio. He also emptied outside trash canisters and filled them with clean garbage bags. His wife, Kara Sumter, who owns a family cleaning business, was also on the job at a nearby commercial property.

Jan 9, 2025 | palmbeach.floridaweekly.com | Roger Williams

Reflecting on what he’d helped create starting about 2010, the feted environmental photographer Carlton Ward Jr. once made a simple connection between the past and the future in describing the unique, 1,000-mile-long Florida Wildlife Corridor. At the time, he was celebrating the extraordinary 20,000-acre Archbold Biological Station in central Florida — half working cattle ranch and half research station, itself a part of the corridor.

Jan 8, 2025 | fortmyers.floridaweekly.com | Roger Williams

Reflecting on what he’d helped create starting about 2010, the feted environmental photographer Carlton Ward Jr. once made a simple connection between the past and the future in describing the unique, 1,000-mile-long Florida Wildlife Corridor. At the time, he was celebrating the extraordinary 20,000- acre Archbold Biological Station in central Florida — half working cattle ranch and half research station, itself a part of the corridor.