Spotlight Exclusive Bonita Springs- The City’s recently adopted homeless shelter moratorium does apply to a pending shelter application in Bonita Springs, according to a memorandum of law by the City’s outside legal counsel. “The moratorium ordinance as adopted applies to this pending…application for homeless shelter…,” wrote Beverly Grady of Roetzel and Andress in a memorandum [...]
Bonita Springs — The difference between winning and losing is based on how well you can use the shortest club in your bag, your putter. Frankly, the better you putt the better you play. Golfers hear pretty often that putting is responsible for over 40 percent of your total score. This is a fact worth [...]
Bonita Springs — Two years ago, I moved to Bonita Springs to spend the winters with daughter and her husband. It was a little different after my 73 years in the Midwest, but I was happy for the warm weather. Even my dog, Bob, seemed a little more at rest in the warm Florida sun. [...]
Bonita Springs — Barbara Garzelloni of Bonita Springs was talking with a friend about birds with no thought of dogs at all. Her friend had large pit bulls; but floundering around their legs, fighting for a scrap of food too big for a puppy, was a tiny little black puppy that had been “dropped off” [...]
Bonita Springs— With Florida summer, typically comes rain. That is the reason that from June 1 to Sept. 30, fertilizers with nitrogen and phosphorus are prohibited. “Our city ordinance (and every other city in SWFL and Lee County) does not allow use of phosphorus and nitrogen from June to September because it ends up washing away and causing nutrient pollution,” said Bonita Springs Councilwoman Martha [...]
Bonita Springs — Water. We flock to it, especially here in Southwest Florida where we have beautiful beaches and ready access to swimming pools at our homes and in our communities. But for those with small children, water can be frightening. When we bought our house, with a pool, the first thing we did was [...]
Bonita Springs — Did you look up into the trees as you heard the distinctive osprey call and see this bird of prey high in its nest, on a man-made platform? Did you wonder about that platform? In coastal Florida, the osprey is both a year round resident and a migratory bird, protected by the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act and state protected by Chapter 68A of [...]
Bonita Springs — As I was walking out of City Hall after a particularly prickly Council meeting a gentleman patted me on the back and said “Mr. Mayor, you have the patience of Job!” It was a nice compliment and I thanked him, but it is not a virtue that comes naturally to me, nor one that I am always able to access. But the patience that [...]
Bonita Springs — Hannah Stimson has been creating art since she was a little girl. When she was 11 she took her first pottery class, and her life was changed forever. “I began to explore the other side of art,” the 17-year-old artist said. As she moved from crafts and cards to creating pottery vessels [...]
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