Photos by Ed Bania

  • It is easy to view videos and listen to audio from each City Council agenda item.
  • A Marco Island city worker and an employee of DH Higgins were critically injured Tuesday afternoon at this construction site near the intersection of Barfield Drive and Woodbine Court. The workers were in a manhole at the time.
  • Ken Allen said the citizens have been denied the opportunity to play a role in the future of the island.
  • Marco Island Fire-Rescue Department firefighters neutralized gas vapors from a leaking propane gas tank behind the Towne Center shopping center Wednesday afternoon.
  • Don Anderson, a resident of South Seas Tower 2 near Tigertail Beach, stands on his balcony overlooking the Tigertail Lagoon. The spreading of the sea grasses near the lagoon and dunes will eventually cut off the Tigertail Beach public park from the rest of the island’s coastline to the south.
  • Marco Island City Councilwoman Terri DiSciullo questioned City Manager Bill Moss about two invitations to bid notices placed in Sunday’s Naples Daily News by City Hall. 'Who gave you authorization to advertise this schedule in the newspaper?' DiSciullo stated in an e-mail to Moss.
  • The body of a drowning victim lies under a green tarp on the dock at Moran’s Marina Sunday afternoon.
  • A Marco Island Police Department officer, second from left, interviews people about the drowning of a man Sunday afternoon at Stephens Landing.
  • Customers and employees were evacuated from the Marco Island Marriott Resort and Spa Friday afternoon.
  • Marco Island Fire-Rescue Department firefighters found smoke inside two of the ballrooms at the Marco Island Marriott Resort and Spa.
  • City Council candidate “Butch” Neylon said the home rule provision in Florida law has been used too many times by the city and has lead to the turmoil, lawsuits against the city and unnecessary costs.
  • City Council candidate 'Butch' Neylon said the home rule provision in Florida law has been used too many times by the city and has led to the turmoil, lawsuits against the city and unnecessary costs.
  • A table and seating module for the city manager and city attorney is shown on the left side of the first floor meeting room. The padded seating for the public can be expanded.
  • The speaker’s podium is equipped with a laptop computer for presentations, an adjustable microphone and an adjustable scanning instrument that will display documents on the wide-screen monitor above the council dais.
  • The speaker’s podium faces the chairman’s seat in the center of the City Council dais. A wide screen monitor, above, will broadcast the meeting and any presentations.
  • City council member Ted Forcht adjusts a microphone on the dais while looking at a touch-screen monitor with built-in controls, including on-screen prompts for speaking and microphone volume. Each council member also has a flat monitor built into the tabletop of the dais.
  • Tara Trevethan, one of the contestants in this year’s Dancing with the Starz event, scrubs a wheel during her Bikini Car and Bike Wash charity event.
  • Dana Schwam, left, hoses down a car as Tara Trevethan, second from the right, shares a joke with other volunteers during Sunday’s car wash.
  • Helping out at Sunday’s Bikini Car and Bike Wash were, left to right, Dana Schwam, Adrian Mirabilio, Sarah Logaglio, Tom Ackerson, Tara Trevethan, Tim Stinchcomb, Sasha Popoff and Erin O’Brien.
  • Motorists couldn’t help notice Dana Schwam with her sign for the Bikini Car and Bike Wash on Sunday at the Old Marco Pub and Restaurant.
  • Marco Island City Manager Bill Moss, right, and City Council Chairman Mike Minozzi, center, presented Steve Fickling with the Employee of the Month award for July.
  • Marco Island City Council Chairman Mike Minozzi, right, presented Frank Clark with the Employee of the Month award for June.
  • Preserve Our Paradise and its chairman Russ Colombo are trying a second time for a referendum to allow voters to approve or disapprove of the performance of the Marco Island City Manager.
  • Preserve Our Paradise and its chairman Russ Colombo are trying a second time for a referendum to allow voters to approve or disapprove of the performance of the Marco Island City Manager.
  • Roger Hall said Marco Island ‘will have a council and city manager that will have dictatorial powers for the next four years’ if the voters don’t act during the City Council election.
  • Sen. Burt Saunders, center, told Marco Island City Council members May 23 he would file an amendment to exempt Marco Island from any property tax reform. Saunders told the Marco Eagle on Tuesday that he decided against filing the amendment.
  • Bill McMullan collected more than 1,000 e-mails from property owners opposing Marco Island being exempted from tax reform. McMullan said Monday he would overnight the e-mails to Gov. Charlie Crist, President of the Senate Ken Pruitt and Speaker of the House Marco Rubio.
  • Marco Island Fire-Rescue Department Chief Mike Murphy, seen here speaking to a group of citizens, said the newly-formed Marco Island Fire-Rescue Foundation will allow firefighters and members of the community “to come together, break bread and discuss ways of helping each other.”
  • Marco Island residents Lee Oldershaw, left, and Dave Dumas told the Marco Eagle in January they would challenge a regulation of the controversial Marco Island Waterways and Boating Safety Ordinance.
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  • Even 5-year-old Briana Landan and other youngsters had a great time dancing to the band.
  • The Alex Popoff Band played classic rock 'n roll hits for the crowd. From left are, Alex Popoff, Tom Williams, Fran Skyler, Alex Hanegin, Joe Manento and drummer Steve Lipschutz (not shown). Popoff’s father, Rob, said his son got all of the players together for the event.
  • Marco Island Charter Middle School students hung out with the Alex Popoff Band during Thursday’s 'Schools Out For Summer' Beach Bash behind the Apollo Condominiums. The school’s athletic director, Roger Raymond, said the students in the band and those attending the event were 'good kids, students and musicians.'
  • MCB Community Service Awards Committee Chairman Dick Braun, left, and MCB Chairman Bob Marks, right, presented the Community Service Award to Joseph Giannone, second from left, and his brother Vincent.
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  • Officer Tige Thompson
  • Joe Batte said 'We've lost our city' and citizens have 'absolutely no say' about what goes on.
  • Marco Island City Councilwoman Terri DiSciullo, left, and City Manager Bill Moss, right, listen as Sen. Burt Saunders discusses property tax reform.
  • Drivers on Honduras Avenue had long waits trying to get to North Barfield Avenue. Construction equipment and workers for the Septic Tank Replacement Program had the street blocked.
  • Members of the Naples Police Department SWAT teams include, standing left to right, Patrolman Keith Mason, Sgt. John Barkley, Lt. Greg Gaffney, Detective Seth Finman, Officer Ian Rudnick, Officer David Monroig, Officer Rodney Dent and Detective Randy Durniak. In the foreground is Officer Kyle Bennett.
  • Members of the Naples Police Department SWAT team round an obstacle corner during the Jigsaw Puzzle competition.
  • Sgt. Mike Stillwell, a member of the CCSO SWAT Team Honor, was joined at the event by his wife, Kristin, and son's two-year-old Connor and one-year-old Drew.
  • Rico Doro, sniper for Team One of the Ft. Myers Police Department, takes aim at a four-inch target on a moving stick 100 yards away.
  • Hundreds of handgun shell casings were discarded during the competition.
  • Members of Team Honor of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office, led by Cpl. Jonathan Warford, run onto the field for the Jigsaw Puzzle event. The team won first place in the SWAT Team Challenge.
  • Team Honor of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office won first place in the Southwest Florida Region VI SWAT Team Challenge. Standing from left to right, are Cpl. Matthew Macera, Sgt. Mark Carroll, Sgt. Mike Stillwell and Cpl. Joe Fernandez. In the foreground is Cpl. Jonathan Warford.
  • Lt. Dennis Eads is team commander in charge of overall operations for the Ft. Myers SWAT team. The city had 21 members competing in the event.
  • 'We can’t actually shoot at them during competition, but we try to get their stress level up as high as we can without doing that,' Sgt. Daren Larson, SWAT Training Supervisor for the CCSO said. Larson coordinated the event.
  • Sgt. John Barkley of the Naples Police Department said, if a large criminal activity occurred in Southwest Florida, or one that lasted a long time, all of the region’s SWAT teams would be at the disposal of the agency nearest to the incident.
  • Commander Bob Lewis of the CCSO Special Operations Group said all 16 teams that entered the SWAT competition were good. 'It’s like playing golf,' he said. 'You’ve got to be on every hole.'

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