Chokoloskee News

Published: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 10:12 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 10:12 p.m. The Fakahatchee Strand is one wild area of Florida in which I have spent little time.

A new book examines the history of the Fakahatchee area of eastern Collier County and its farmers, loggers, gladesmen, developers and conservationists.

In a particular part of Florida the White Ibis is known as the Chokoloskee Chicken.

It's time to bring some precision to notions that are out there. Some of them are half wrong and others are just flat-out totally wrong.

That's the situation owners of Smallwood Store Ole Indian Trading Post and Museum found themselves in for the past couple of months.

We check this channel a lot to see whether we'll have a wet, a wild or a weenie of a sunset, so we decided to find out more about what we see on the screen.

Born in 1884, Leonard Santini grew up in a shack on Chokoloskee Island, eating turtle and salted mullet.

Pastor John Gilmore of Copeland Baptist Church and Morris Dantin, pastor of Chokoloskee Church of God, blesses Captain McBeth Collins' boat as Jenny McBeth holds son, Maximas, 2. The Rod and Gun Club Blessing of the Stone Crab Fleet was in Everglades City on Oct.

Pastor John Gilmore of Copeland Baptist Church blesses the fleet as Pastor Morris Dantin of the Chokoloskee Church of God watches.

What constitutes a classic Florida book? An author's passion for sabal palms, hurricane warnings, mildew, mojitos and the ability to pluck nuggets of truth from our rich and sometimes ugly history? A wicked sense of humor about the subtropical oddities a ' flying cucarachas, copulating iguanas, six-toed cats, swamp-eating developers a ' skittering ...

There are several hundred neighborhoods in Collier County and south Lee County. We know we can't cover the news in all of them.

Name: Daniels, Shanna Marie Charge: VOCP/DWLSR Residence: Chokoloskee Age: 28 Occupation: Waitress Case #: 09-1794CTVPI Follow this case online: Collier County Clerk of Courts Please note: most cases require 5-7 days to be inputted into the public court record.

Name: Daniels, Shanna Marie Charge: VOCP/DWLSR Residence: Chokoloskee Age: 28 Occupation: Waitress Case #: 09-1794CTVPI Follow this case online: Collier County Clerk of Courts Please note: most cases require 5-7 days to be inputted into the public court record.

Name: Daniels, Shanna Marie Charge: VOCP/DWLSR Residence: Chokoloskee Age: 28 Occupation: Waitress Case #: 09-1794CTVPI Follow this case online: Collier County Clerk of Courts Please note: most cases require 5-7 days to be inputted into the public court record.

Name: Daniels, Shanna Marie Charge: VOCP/DWLSR Residence: Chokoloskee Age: 28 Occupation: Waitress Case #: 09-1794CTVPI Follow this case online: Collier County Clerk of Courts Please note: most cases require 5-7 days to be inputted into the public court record.

Holiday photos submitted by readers. E-mail this gallery to a friend Willow and Elizabeth Nash meet up with best friend Nicole Nixon, who now lives parttime out of state, at Resident's Beach on the Fourth of July.

Chokoloskee Island At the southern end of Route 29, 3 miles south of Everglades City, 239/695-2414, www.chokoloskee.com Before the invention of air conditioning, and before developers and the Department of Transportation covered the place with concrete and asphalt, South Florida was a mosquito-infested hideout for iconoclasts who wanted little to ...

Art Ullmann is celebrating the first anniversary of his "Then & Now" historic photo gallery at The Plaza on Third Street South in Naples with an expanded exhibit.