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Horoscopes
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) After much traveling this year, you’re due for some settled time with family and friends. Use this period to check out situations that will soon require a lot of serious decision making. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Keep your keen Bovine mind focused…

Crossword – 9/23/2026
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Inclusive theatre webinar Sept. 30
STARability Foundation explores how the performing arts can build skills, foster connections and expand accessibility during its upcoming “Support. Learn. Connect.” webinar. The free virtual session, “The Naples Players: How Theatres Can Impact a Community,” will take place from…

Party in the swamp
The Alliance for Florida’s National Parks will host its annual Big Cypress Celebration on Oct. 10, at Burns Lake Campground in Big Cypress National Preserve, and is inviting businesses and community partners to participate as event sponsors. “Big Cypress Celebration is about…

Raining (homeless) cats and dogs
The sun had not yet peeked above the horizon when we set out from the SNIP Collier facility behind the Immokalee stockade. Loaded with 24 cats in crates, all freshly treated and neutered, SNIP founder Tom Kepp’s minivan headed out to return the felines to their homes – or at…

Mr. Pogo and Growlin’ Gertie keep a Naples family’s swamp buggy memories rolling
The old style of Florida living is one that is hard to give up.

Meet swamp buggy racers featured in WGCU’s 'Swamp Buggy Fever!'
The drivers are what make the swamp buggy races in Naples so exciting.

Swamp Buggy Fever! - :55sec Promo
In Naples, Florida, swamp buggy racing isn’t just a sport — it’s a living tradition.

Swamp Buggy Fever!
In Naples, Florida, swamp buggy racing isn’t just a sport — it’s a living tradition.

Roger and Scotty McCandless reflect on the 'Rat On' swamp buggy racing tradition
For over 75 years, the Swamp Buggy has been an annual tradition in Naples.

Getting to the bottom
In the world of collecting, I’m lucky. I know a little about a lot. Of course, that also means there’s a lot I don’t know, so that’s when I turn to experts. That’s where my friend Jimmy comes in. He has dealt in antiques and collectibles since he was a boy. In other words, he…

Felines enjoy Fifth Ave fame, now on Fourth
They could have named the store “Cats in the Cradle,” or “The Felines on the Floor.” But it is, of course, The Wind in the Willows, an Old Naples tradition going back to 1969. Then, under the previous owners, The Wind in the Willows was on Third St. South, in the historic…