Buckingham News

Happy birthday United States Marine Corps. Nov. 10 is the 234th birthday of the Corps.

Samira Beckwith, president and CEO of Hope HealthCare Services, is a finalist in two categories in the sixth annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business: Lifetime Achievement and Best Executive - Nonprofit or Government.

They do it every year, those Coccoloba folks: gather somewhere and throw a huge Florida native plant sale, with plenty of the Florida-friendliest species at the wallet-friendliest prices.

Florida Fish and Wildlife officers are trying to catch a bear in the Buckingham area of Lee County.

A family in Lee County gets a strange knock at the door. A big black bear! Now a neighborhood is on alert for the hairy intruder.

Adrienne O'Linn loves passing time in her sunroom. With wall-to-wall windows, water and golf course views and the comforts of home, the sunroom offers daily enjoyment when she's in the North Fort Myers home she shares with husband Robert.

Many Southwest Florida residents know about Buckingham Army Air Field, a World War II training base in Lee County that helped propel growth.

Kavan Mallow's arm quivered as he aimed at the target 10 yards away at the Lee County Sheriff's Gun Range in Buckingham.

Michelle Musco doesn't mind telling the feds about her goats - all six of them: Nubians, pygmies and Boers that her two sons care for as members of the 4-H Goats-R-Us club.

Tiffany Giddes doesn't push the wheelchair as much as the wheelchair pushes her.

There is, and has been for 54 years, a man named Bill Smith behind Bill Smith Appliances, which has nine area locations.

The outage occurred just before 4pm. LCEC crews say the problem occurred on a transmission line supplied by FPL in Buckingham.

A Fort Myers woman will serve two years of probation and pay more than $3,000 in fines and court costs after she pleaded guilty to animal abuse.

What are they? A couple of big boys - a rearing stallion and a longhorn bull. Where are they? At Pat and Mark Bateman's Buckingham home, 4301 Staley Road, just north of the intersection of Staley and Orange River Boulevard.

For the first time in more than 60 years, Florida is losing residents. Demographers at the University of Florida's Bureau of Economic and Business Research, in a study due out Friday, report Florida's population dipped about 58,000 from April 2008 to April of 2009.

The Lee County Sheriff's Office is investigating a Wednesday night robbery at a Shell gas station in Buckingham.

Bob Reynolds, CCIM and Joe Ferrao of NAI Southwest Florida sold 13721 S. Tamiami Trail, Fort Myers, to Roubin Associates LLC for $2,260,000. Roubin purchased the building as an investment property.

Bob Reynolds, CCIM and Joe Ferrao of NAI Southwest Florida sold 13721 S. Tamiami Trail, Fort Myers, to Roubin Associates LLC for $2,260,000. Roubin purchased the building as an investment property.

As successful as the cash for clunkers program seems to be, again those of us who are in some way disabled have been overlooked and therefore, discriminated against.

Buckingham resident Chris Kidder wants to help east Lee County residents fulfill their dream of learning to fly an airplane.