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“I’m tired of all the abuses Congress has done. I’ve been complacent for years. I trusted my Congressman to take care of it, but they haven’t.” Bill Gepford, a GOOOH member since September.

Taxes, water and sewer rates, police staffing and illegal aliens are the four topics of most concern to Marco Island residents, according to the results of a long-range planning survey conducted by city leaders in November. However, there is a ...

Nearly 200 people turned out Sunday night to celebrate the inaugural Arts Afire festival with an evening of music and the presentation of the first-ever Flame Awards for Marco Island.

Residents of Marco Island have several more reasons to take note of the threatened gopher tortoises which inhabit the island: much of the scientific data surrounding the species doesn’t apply to turtles south of the Caloosahatchee. Julie Ross, who holds ...

Members of the Island’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee say a new Mackle Park Community Center would bring a much needed economic boost to the city, but that scaling back building plans is an option. In late February, the committee ...

For nine days, beginning Saturday, Marco Island will show off its residents’ artistic talents and the many and diverse cultural activities in the city as part of the first Arts Afire! Festival.

For nine days, beginning Saturday, Marco Island will show off its residents’ artistic talents and the many and diverse cultural activities in the city as part of the first Arts Afire! Festival. Saturday through March 20, art shows; demonstrations; and ...

Dozens of residents showed up at Tuesday night’s Marco City Council meeting to urge that councilmen to reconsider plans to replace the existing 8,000-square-foot Mackle Park recreation center with a two-story, 40,000-square-foot building at an estimated cost of $6 million. ...

The debate over density verses intensity was at issue Friday as Marco Island Planning Board members considered whether to use density transfers as a tool to allow limited service hotel development in the Midtown District. Last year, City Council asked ...

Candlelit walkways, spectacular auction items and the chance to meet a best-selling novelist made the American Cancer Society’s inaugural Hope Ball a night to remember. The sold out crowd of nearly 150 guests arrived to enjoy cocktails at the Marco ...

Free food, face painting and fire trucks are among the activities Island residents will enjoy at a weekend open house to show off renovations to City Hall. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, at ...

Restaurants and other establishments that serve food may soon face a change in permitting and fine if grease traps are not properly cleaned out. The Planning Board is concerned that improper grease trap cleaning will not only lead to odor ...

Residents and visitors interested in learning about or enhancing their understanding of the ancient practice of qigong can do so during a weekend workshop on Marco Island beginning Friday.

With eyes focused squarely on the city’s check book, members of the Marco Island’s Utilities Advisory Board (UAB) heard a preliminary update on plans to install additional fire hydrants in residential areas during the committee’s regularly scheduled meeting Wednesday.

City Council members are expected to take up the issue of unsightly cul-de-sacs. Cul-de-sacs are city property but residents are expected to maintain the upkeep at their personal expense, explained committee chairman Sydney Mellinger

More than 50 people who attended a meeting on Friday at Mackle Park to discuss plans to restore dead and dying mangroves on Marco Island. Robin Lewis, a Central Florida-based mangrove restoration expert with the non-profit Coastal Resources Group explained ...

Marco residents have a chance to help city officials decide what to call three areas of land on the Island and design a memorial to honor city founders, both past, present and future. The Parks and Recreation department and its ...

As a kid, Michael Ferencsik watched his idol, Jack LaLanne, on television, copying the fitness guru’s signature jumping jacks. LaLanne, also a bodybuilder, was primarily a vegetarian, eating only a limited amount of fish, and touted a healthy lifestyle above ...

An endless array of twinkling white lights wowed this year’s judges, who named a Leo Court residence as the best decorated home on the Island in the 14th Annual Marco Island Christmas Home and Business Decorating Contest. Albino and Julia ...

’Twas four weeks before Christmas and all through the city, creatures are stirring and hurrying to turn Marco into a holiday wonderland. But stringing twinkling lights around palm trees, hanging festive banners, erecting glowing angels in medians and putting up ...