Chokoloskee News

We check this channel a lot to see whether we'll have a wet, a wild or a weenie of a sunset, so we decided to find out more about what we see on the screen.

Born in 1884, Leonard Santini grew up in a shack on Chokoloskee Island, eating turtle and salted mullet.

Pastor John Gilmore of Copeland Baptist Church and Morris Dantin, pastor of Chokoloskee Church of God, blesses Captain McBeth Collins' boat as Jenny McBeth holds son, Maximas, 2. The Rod and Gun Club Blessing of the Stone Crab Fleet was in Everglades City on Oct.

Pastor John Gilmore of Copeland Baptist Church blesses the fleet as Pastor Morris Dantin of the Chokoloskee Church of God watches.

What constitutes a classic Florida book? An author's passion for sabal palms, hurricane warnings, mildew, mojitos and the ability to pluck nuggets of truth from our rich and sometimes ugly history? A wicked sense of humor about the subtropical oddities a ' flying cucarachas, copulating iguanas, six-toed cats, swamp-eating developers a ' skittering ...

There are several hundred neighborhoods in Collier County and south Lee County. We know we can't cover the news in all of them.

Name: Daniels, Shanna Marie Charge: VOCP/DWLSR Residence: Chokoloskee Age: 28 Occupation: Waitress Case #: 09-1794CTVPI Follow this case online: Collier County Clerk of Courts Please note: most cases require 5-7 days to be inputted into the public court record.

Name: Daniels, Shanna Marie Charge: VOCP/DWLSR Residence: Chokoloskee Age: 28 Occupation: Waitress Case #: 09-1794CTVPI Follow this case online: Collier County Clerk of Courts Please note: most cases require 5-7 days to be inputted into the public court record.

Name: Daniels, Shanna Marie Charge: VOCP/DWLSR Residence: Chokoloskee Age: 28 Occupation: Waitress Case #: 09-1794CTVPI Follow this case online: Collier County Clerk of Courts Please note: most cases require 5-7 days to be inputted into the public court record.

Name: Daniels, Shanna Marie Charge: VOCP/DWLSR Residence: Chokoloskee Age: 28 Occupation: Waitress Case #: 09-1794CTVPI Follow this case online: Collier County Clerk of Courts Please note: most cases require 5-7 days to be inputted into the public court record.

Holiday photos submitted by readers. E-mail this gallery to a friend Willow and Elizabeth Nash meet up with best friend Nicole Nixon, who now lives parttime out of state, at Resident's Beach on the Fourth of July.

Chokoloskee Island At the southern end of Route 29, 3 miles south of Everglades City, 239/695-2414, www.chokoloskee.com Before the invention of air conditioning, and before developers and the Department of Transportation covered the place with concrete and asphalt, South Florida was a mosquito-infested hideout for iconoclasts who wanted little to ...

Art Ullmann is celebrating the first anniversary of his "Then & Now" historic photo gallery at The Plaza on Third Street South in Naples with an expanded exhibit.

PHOTOS/EAGLE i: Marco residents, postal workers stamp out hunger

CHOKOLOSKEE ISLAND, Fla."A foot sticking up in the river near Watson's home started the problem.

It all started with a complaint from one of the contractors Darnell Sims hired to help with a Youthbuild project.

Pensacola's Children's Chorus is ready for "Showtime 2009" this weekend. And they'll be paying tribute to the renovated Saenger Theater with a performance called: "Back Home At The Saenger".... on Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30. The chorus is made up of 3-hundred children 8 to 18.

By Naples Daily News staff report Originally published 4:02 p.m., Thursday, May 7, 2009 Updated 11:10 p.m., Thursday, May 7, 2009 Lou Bishoff Update: 10:45 p.m. A 75-year-old boater who was missing for nearly two days in the waters near Chokoloskee was found alive Thursday night by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter.

Governor Charlie Crist is one of about ten thousand state employees who make more than forty-five thousand dollars a year and who will be taking a two percent pay cut.

Get out the candles, frost the birthday cake and prepare to celebrate History Month.