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CITADELS OF NAPLES AND PALM BEACH: MANNERS AND MONEY
BY BILL CORNWELL For generations, Palm Beach has reigned supreme in matters of high society. Its Mediterranean style villas, with their barrel-tiled roofs and sweeping ocean vistas, may rest at sea level or slightly above, but the view from their wind-swept balconies is decidedly Olympian. Full Story
$7 million handed out to children's charities
As a result of the 2009 Naples Winter Wine Festival, 26 Collier County children's charities received nearly $7 million in grants. Trustees of the Naples Children & Education Foundation, founders of the wine festival, presented checks to the deserving nonprofit organizations last week during a ceremony at Mediterra. Full Story
Back to college
More and more workers are returning to school to learn new skills, enhance resumes
Once again, it seems, American colleges and universities, flexible enough to serve regional communities, and do it while the economy bucks wildly or the culture advances technologically, are riding to the rescue. Full Story
NABOR reports: February pending sales are the best in three years
Pending sales in the Naples area reached their highest peak in more than three years in February, according to a report released by the Naples Area Board of Realtors. NABOR tracks home listings and sales within Collier County (excluding Marco Island). Full Story
best seats in the house
Raffle and auction will raise funds for Naples Museum of Art
The best seats in the house ho at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts on Wednesday evening, March 25, will be those tho hand-painted and otherwise oth embellished for "Have a Seat wise a II Full Story
Here's the plan: Hop on the bus for an avant-garde architecture tour of Miami
Architects and architecture aficionados are invited to board a Miami-bound bus with the Florida Southwest chapter of the American Institute of Architects to see an array of recently built, avant-garde projects by internationally acclaimed architects. Full Story
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