Sanibel News

Lee County Health Department officials are wondering if they will ever find three boys who were seen handling a rabid bat at the Fort Myers Beach Pier on June 15.

Life in Lee County - especially in Cape Coral - has slowed down at a steep rate, according to population estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Three boys are still being sought by the Lee County Health Department eight days after they were seen with a rabid bat.

I visited Sanibel Home Furnishings last week, it consists of three different stores all in a strip mall on Periwinkle Way.

The beaches of Sanibel have been ranked among the 20 best beaches in America by Men's Journal magazine.

Tiffany Peterson clutched the ribbon cut Wednesday to mark the opening of her new home.

Lee County's Marine Program has 21 officially permitted artificial reefs in Charlotte Harbor and the Gulf of Mexico, and each has a name.

Three boys who tossed around a rabid bat on Fort Myers Beach earlier this week are now being sought for medical treatment.

Jake Mann likes a good peanut butter sandwich as much as the next person. But a few special ingredients he adds to his PB sandwiches might make a big difference in how much money he has in his piggy bank at the end of the month.

In Florida, more people are struck by lightning during the months of May, June, July, August and September.

Leadership Lee County is accepting fall applications for its unique 16-week program, Community Leadership.

Sea turtles are loving most of Lee County's beaches this year. A little more than a month into the sea turtle nesting season, several beaches are seeing more nests than in the previous two years.

LEE COUNTY: Talks of toll price changes across Lee County are raising concerns. County leaders are talking about eliminating dozens of local discount programs to help make it easier for drivers who pre-pay. But while most drivers will pay less at the tolls, about 17 percent of drivers will pay more.

Friday's Child, a children's clothing and toy retailer on Sanibel, has launched its online store at TGIFchild.com. The new online store features more than 3,000 unique, fun, funky and high quality Friday's Child clothing styles for infants, toddlers, girls and boys to size 12.

Congressman Connie Mack announced that 15 students from Southwest Florida have received appointments to the U.S. service academies and will be honored at a reception on Sunday, June 14th in Estero.

The battle to keep local waterways healthy is being fought not only in Lee County, but in the hallowed halls of Washington, D.C. Rae Ann Wessel, policy director for the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, lobbied on four issues directly tied to county waters during a recent trip to the nation's Capitol.

A Fort Myers neighborhood rallied for the safety of Layla, a Great Pyrenees. A few weeks ago, Drew Charles, a stylist at Vincent's Salon, called his friend Belen Brisco at 9 p.m. Belen works with Dogs Deserve Better, an organization determined to help dogs at risk.

Norman Love Confections has been selected to join the exquisitely innovative menu of Tabor Hill Winery Restaurant, one of the most affluent wineries in the Midwest.

Readers of flguide.com will notice significant improvements in the Web site, which has grown to be the definitive online source for tourism-related news about Southwest Florida.

PUNTA GORDA: Punta Gorda police officers will soon get a new weapon in their fight against crime.