JENNIFER LARINO

• PHOTOS: Couple marketing Porsche-like computer mouse that looks like it belongs on a racetrack Published 08/23/2009 at 7:45 p.m.

  For most people a computer mouse is a computer mouse, so long as it works. But for Roger Shaw and his wife, Susan, who run the online gift shop Avant Garde Gifts LLC from their Marco Island home, it’s an ...

• PHOTOS: One Naples doctor harnesses solar rays to save money and energy Published 08/16/2009 at 6:38 p.m.

  Ask Dr. Raymond Phillips for a small business cost-cutting solution and he’ll point to the layer of solar panels atop the roof of his Naples practice. The system is the city of Naples’ first large-scale commercial solar power system and ...

• Coconut Point appears to be weathering economic storms Published 08/10/2009 at 5:24 p.m.

  Take all the good and bad from a down economy, bundle it up, put it on 500 acres in Estero and you’ve got Coconut Point shopping center in a recession. In the past few months, the center — a Lee ...

• PHOTOS: Bike shop owners enjoying greater sales, but they’re just happy more people are riding Published 08/09/2009 at 7:16 p.m.

  With more than 20 years of selling bicycles under his belt, Doug Newman has seen bicycles go from last option to desired option. Newman, who co-owns the Bike Route with his brother, Keith, said when he started selling sport cycles, ...

• Power outage shuts down businesses at the Park Shore Plaza Published 08/07/2009 at 6:35 p.m.

  Forget hard economic times, some businesses in the Park Shore Plaza off of U.S. 41 had a more immediate challenge to deal with on Friday: no power. Power on the side of the plaza facing U.S. 41 and in the ...

• PHOTOS: Naples cafe a place where 'everyone knows your name' Updated 08/06/2009 at 9:58 a.m.

  Ric’s Cafe & Grill near U.S. 41 and Seventh Avenue North in Naples is a busy place on a Friday morning. Customers line up in front of a glass case full of Danishes and turnovers, waiting to place their regular ...

• PHOTOS: North Naples golf course first to use water and money saving device Published 08/04/2009 at 5:08 p.m.

  Maintaining an emerald green Florida golf course in drought conditions once required a lot more legwork. For Francisco Navas, superintendent at the Cypress Woods Golf Club in North Naples, and his crew that meant spending three hours each morning and ...

• Rep. Mack weighs in on issues at Naples luncheon Published 08/03/2009 at 8:07 p.m.

  The Naples real estate community got its chance to speak to an open Washington ear Monday.

• BLOG: Mack answers questions on immigration, first-time home buyer tax credits Updated 08/03/2009 at 1:48 p.m.

  Connie Mack addresses the Naples Area Board of Realtors and answers questions.

• VIDEO/PHOTOS: Belly dancing studio in Naples opens as sanctuary to some Published 08/02/2009 at 7:10 p.m.

  It started with a feeling. Two years ago Ansuya Rathor, a world-traveling professional belly dancer with the instructional DVDs and jingling hip scarves to prove it, made a home in Naples.

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