Olga News

The Southwest Florida Walk Now for Autism Speaks mission is to increase awareness about autism, to support families living with autism and to raise much-needed funds for Autism Speaks.

Tropical cyclones, which have, in some years, been drawn like magnets to Florida's shores, stayed far away from the Sunshine State in 2009.

Thrill-seekers and conservationists someday soon may be zipping across the wilds of Caloosahatchee Regional Park on a steel cable strung high above the palmettos.

The North Olga panel is working on a community plan for the area north of the Caloosahatchee River and six miles east of State Road 31.

Two Communities in North Lee County want $100,000 dollars of tax payer money. North Olga and Alva want the money to help plan the futures of there communities and to settle a border dispute.

A Lee County park advisory board voted 5-2 to recommend to the state a zip line attraction be allowed in the Caloosahatchee Regional Park.

Food isn't the only item on the menu of things needed by Lehigh Acres residents squeezed by the economy.

The first dawn of autumn had arrived an hour earlier, but summer's wet heat still hung heavy in the old Olga orange grove, framing the graceful silhouette of a grand old farmhouse.

Concerned with the growing rate of medically uninsured in Lee County as more and more people lose their jobs, a group of citizens are reaching out to help people access basic health care services through a health and wellness expo.