Local Recreation

The Marco travel soccer ball is rolling. An important meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Wednesday at Mackle Park to determine the potential number of teams.

Alex Galiana, a strong supporter of youth programs, is the new recreation supervisor for the Marco Island Parks & Recreation Department.

This past week was certainly an adventure for the kids at Camp Mackle. The campers “journeyed” to Africa where they experienced every aspect of its diverse culture.

In an 88-page decision, Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said the Park Service environmental analysis at both the Gulf Island National Seashore in Florida and Mississippi and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in ...

Meeting up with friends at Veterans' Park on Marco Island can be tricky because there are two of them. Veterans' Memorial Park is the smaller park located at North Collier Boulevard and North Barfield Drive. It's to get a new ...

Marco’s Kim McIntosh, for many years, passed up physical exercise. “No, I walk, I’m fine,” was her usual response.

There was dead silence, unless a small groan was heard, as five women poured over a U.S. Sailing certification test at the Marco Island Yacht Club.

Marco's Ed and Lois Dixon first got their yearning for sailing while watching sail boats in lakes around Des Moines, Iowa. Now they win Multihull Class races regularly.

“Bandit, bandit, 12 o’clock high, coming on you,” will seem realistic when the dog fight is on at the Collier Model Aeronautics Club’s annual two-day show on Saturday and Feb. 21.

Pontoon boats, Carolina Skiffs, and luxury yachts are just some of the boats being displayed and sold during the Naples Boat Show this week. Strong attendance and higher than expected sales are helping vendors move some of their stagnant inventory, ...

Through April, Mackle Park will be a beehive of construction activity for park and recreation improvements.

Happy New Year! If that was all I wrote, it would be a short column, wouldn’t it? However, my mission is to report to you the happenings at your Greater Marco Family YMCA.

City, county and state officials are seeking project acceleration and public comment for Marco Island’s pedestrian and bicycling trails.

A slight twist on the traditional ribbon cutting, a grand opening of Marco’s newest dog park, Canine Cove, will begin with a ceremonious cutting of a dog leash Saturday.

Marco Island currently has two parks that may be too similarly named. One is the new Veterans’ Community Park on Elkcam Circle. The other is Veterans’ Memorial Park on North Barfield Drive.