Guest Columns

The Marco Eagle Sanctuary Foundation (MESF) is celebrating their first annual “Nest Fest on from 4:30 to 7 p.m., May 1, at Marco Island’s Art League Center for the Arts, 1010 Winterberry Drive. This wine and hors d’oeuvres fundraising event ...

Most property owners on Marco Island probably know by now that the much-discussed water and sewer Cost of Service Study has been underway since the Consultant, Burton & Associates, was hired in December of 2010 and actually started their work ...

Proposed remedies to reduce the national debt.

Americans are brighter than you often think. If you pass the corrective legislation that will restructure our economy and enable America to prosper and regain our declining status in the geopolitical arena, you may even get re-elected on your own ...

The Marco Island Academy is now officially the newest public high school in Collier County. On March 15, 2011, the Collier County School Board approved the final contract for the Academy. Now the Academy organizers will to spring into action ...

The Marco Island Academy is hosting a 5K Fun Run/Walk at 8 a.m., Saturday, at the Esplanade. Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. Families and residents of all ages are welcome to participate. There is no cost for ages 9 ...

You should and here’s why. Supporting the arts makes sense … dollars and cents! For every $1 spent supporting the arts, the City of Philadelphia determined $4 of economic activity was generated. Then Michigan Governor John Engle’s administration found that ...

At last week’s City Council Workshop the City Parks and Recreation Department presented a proposal under which the Mills Gilbane construction company would build an almost 40,000 square foot building to replace the existing 8,000 sq. ft. Mackle Park Community ...

For the third consecutive year the two Rotary Clubs and the Kiwanis Club on Marco Island are working together in an unusual and very successful joint venture: the Marco Island Seafood Festival, the Island’s largest single annual community event. From ...

Now that I have sought and received permission from the Marco Eagle Editor to submit a guest commentary, I find myself sitting in front of my computer monitor asking myself where are the words that best presents my subject? Is ...

cently the city of Marco Island renamed the Town Center area, the “Midtown District.” The area might have a new name, but the goal remains the same — to increase density/intensity in the Town Center area. At their Dec. 10, ...

It is time to tell the other side of the Key Marco story. Permits were issued by the then Community Development Director for the work that was done on the Indian mound (Tract 2) and in a Native Habitat Park ...

Should there be a charter high school in Collier County? If the school serves the community it is placed in, and there is a demand in that area for it, a charter high school might be a good addition. A ...

I find the rage and self-righteousness offensive on the topic of a Marco charter high school. People for the charter school do not own all opinion, we all have a right to our opinions. I don’t consider myself or others ...

There is a new book on the market today: “The Soprano State: New Jersey’s Culture of Corruption” by Bob Ingle & Sandy McClure. It outlines the cost of criminal corruption to New Jersey taxpayers and the questionable flamboyant lifestyles of ...