Gardening: Rainy season spurs new growth, challenges

The saying "You can sit and watch the grass grow" is really true here during the summer months.

Camp Able provides memorable experiences

Summer camp is a time-honored ritual for many American children, a chance to break away from routine, meet new people and try new activities.

MIA’s ‘Ambassadors of the Environment’

Children’s minds don’t stop learning during the summer months. The question is, what do they learn?

Little steps add up to help the environment

If you would like to help save the world, a good place to start is in your own backyard.

More pickleball courts, stadium planned for East Naples

The updates will cost an estimated $23.4 million and help keep the park a pickleball mecca.

What is Pickleball?

What is pickleball? Find out what it is.

Sailing Center summer youth classes return

Living on an island, learning to sail a boat seems like a natural thing. It is also, said Rocky Cale.

Record Tiger Shark caught near Marco Island

Mark Stock landed what he says is a record class tiger shark on April 25 while fishing out of Marco Island.

Marco star swimmer Maddy Burt honored

Describing her early pre-teen competitive swimming years as “nothing special,” rising star Maddy Burt had a bit of a revelation when she turned 12.

Winged Foot finalist: Teagan Havemeier, Marco Island Academy

Teagan Havemeier started at the bottom with the Marco Island Academy girls soccer team. In four years, she got to see the top with the rest of the Rays.

Lely’s Britt-Alvarez reflects on monster year

Lely No. 1 singles player Diego Britt-Alvarez went 16-2 and advanced to the Class 2A singles semifinals as a junior this year

Island’s Rotary clubs present 46th Eagle Open

Coming on the first day of June, the Eagle Open qualifies as the beginning of the off-season.

Maddy Burt to swim for Arizona in college

The Marco Island resident and St. John Neumann junior announced her commitment to Arizona on her 17th birthday

Lely track team give solid showings at district

Lely boys finish second, while girls take third at district meet in Immokalee

Marco Island’s Linn returns to state track meet

Marco Island Academy junior Suzie Linn returns to the Class 1A state meet after breaking her ankle at last year's regional event

Cyclists cover island with Y’s Tour de Marco

Before sending out the 186 registered riders on their paths of 30, 15, or as little as five miles ...

Photos: Scuba diving off Marco Island

Fishingcast: Conditions for SWFL, Aug. 10-15

The frequency and sustainability of wet weather occurring with such intensity is unique here on the Paradise Coast.

Fishingcast: Conditions for SWFL, Aug. 2-9

Typical summer weather pattern well in place here now.

On the Hook: Fishing and the cellular snare

“Can you hear me now? Is this any better? How about now?”

Gardening: Dealing with summer weeds

Recent rains caused a flush of growth in the garden that will continue through September.

Photos: Rising Tide Adventures, 2019

Fishingcast: Conditions for Southwest Florida, July 26-Aug. 1

Week will deliver another assault of torrid air temperature albeit just a tad muted as a weak.

Fishingcast: Conditions for SWFL, July 19-26

This week is total “summer normal” with 80 degree starts to the days and the late afternoon real feel more than 100 degrees.

Gardening: Enjoy the colors of the tropics

In sub-tropical Florida we have shrubs and trees which can provide us with flowers all year.

On the Hook: Heart-stopping shark encounter

There probably is no other single word in language that depicts potential momentous danger better than shark.

Photos: Summer sailing, 2019

Fishingcast: Conditions for SWFL, July 12-18

Would surmise that last week’s weather assault, with that tropical depression, was a surprise to just about everyone.

Photos: Fourth of July, Marco Island, 2019

Photos: Skimmers of Marco Island, 2019

On the Hook: A remembered fishing mission

As usual, it’s vitally important in managing this business to pay vital attention to electronic communication.

Hoopsters take bronze at National Senior Games

Don Harmon, Warren Chichester win bronze medals in three-man basketball at National Senior Games

Fishingcast: Conditions for SWFL, July 5-11

Obvious now, in professional commercial tropical weather forecasts, that late afternoon / evening tropical storms are not even forecast.

Fishingcast: Conditions for June 28-July 4

We have had to deal with the super-heated air temperatures that have tormented us these last two weeks. Anglers are among the most perplexed.

Gardening: Bulbous plants for Southwest Florida

Daffodils and tulips are my favorite flowers because it was a sure sign of spring in Connecticut when they began popping up in the fields and yards.

Gardening: Avoiding storm damage

The hurricane season is here along with tropical systems forming in the Atlantic ocean and Gulf of Mexico.

Fishingcast: Conditions for SWFL, June 21-27

Well, so much for forecasting the frequency and intensity of summer weather hereabouts come the “rainy season.”

On the Hook: ‘You just can’t outrun them’

Sounds like the prologue for an action-packed best seller, but this is a chilling recount of a long to be remembered charter trip.

Fishingcast: Conditions for SWFL, June 14-20

Looks like we will get a short-lived respite from the steady diet of the southwest to northeast storm pattern that has prevailed this past week.

Gardening: Rains, yellowing and take-all patch

Their presence will appear first as a yellowing of grass blades along the edges of any brown spots you may have or along sidewalks and driveways.