Lean times mean more mouths to feed
With record demand for emergency food, the holidays of 2009 might be the most difficult in history for area food banks and pantries. And a new class of needy — breadwinners who have never faced sustained unemployment before — is compounding the challenge. Full Story
PYTHONS ON THE LOOSE
Largest of Florida's pet pests invade Everglades
T hey're out there, all right, thousands of them, although just how many is impossible to determine. And at this point there's not a darn thing Skip Snow or anybody else can do about it — except be thankful that not many folks Full Story
There's no place like HOME
10 years later, the Naples Art Association celebrates the opening of The von Liebig
N aples needed an art center. So the Naples Art Association built one. It's that simple. And that difficult. "It took passion and tenacity," says Bette Young, former NAA president and building chairperson. "You have to have passion for what you're doing, and everybody that was inv involved had the passion. Full Story
It's always a musical treat when Howard Shelley comes to town
World-renowned pianist performs with and conducts the Philharmonic Orchestra
When Howard Shelley was a precocious 4-year-old, he begged his mother to teach him to play the British national anthem on the pianola that sat, unused, in their modest home. A few months later, his parents nearly fainted when they were presented a bill from his school for private piano lessons. Full Story
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