PUNTA GORDA — The name Gasparilla Soap Company is appearing in more places in Southwest Florida and has now spread as far as Alaska. Owner and founder Ann Campbell fills us in on the small, but growing company.
Once a restaurant changes its marquee, you can bet there’s more change afoot in its kitchen.
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NORTH PORT — A Punta Gorda sod company is owed $45,270.
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VENICE — One of the largest internet companies and the second-largest private employer in the United States is staking some ground just outside Venice city limits.
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WEST VILLAGES — All the world is a stage, but the Atlanta Braves are wanting to share their piece of it with area residents with talents beyond hitting and pitching.
Technically speaking, the Victorian Era ended two years before the Charlotte County Chamber of Commerce’s A.C. Freeman House was built in Punta Gorda in 1903. The Edwardian Era had kicked off, but that doesn’t mean our happy home is any less Victorian in grace and style. It is stately, beaut…
Well, this will be an adventure! The next two Charlotte County Chamber of Commerce monthly membership meetings, the Third Wednesday Coffee, will be on the road. We are quite cozy in our usual space at the Charlotte Harbor Event and Conference Center, but on Wednesday, Feb. 19, we’ll attend a…
If you can’t find something to please your palate at two new local restaurants, it’s not their fault. Their missions, though different, are to offer everyone something they like.
VENICE — Pinkerton has long been a name associated with Venice financial consulting.
NORTH PORT — The North Port City Commission wants more clarifications before it approves a new impact fee ordinance.
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The North Port Area Chamber of Commerce announced the winners of the Business of the Year and Frosty awards at the annual awards luncheon at Heron Creek Golf & Country Club.
There are 366 days of 2020 ahead of us. Let’s just get this all out of the way now, shall we? There are more catchy, cute, and creative slogans, themes, and promotional ideas for 2020 than we have days to advertise. They involve throw-backs to the Roaring (18)20s, rhymes, and obviously … eye…
I will get to Feb. 6 momentarily, but first, there are big things coming our chamber way.
Newsflash: The holidays are rapidly approaching – like you didn’t figure that out already. It’s at this time of year that our community glows in the lights and sounds. Have you visited the Peace River Botanical and Sculpture Gardens’ “Aglow” nights yet? Done a canal cruise? Visited your loca…
We have a big week ahead in Charlotte County Chamber of Commerce Land. I will get to that in a moment, but first let’s discuss a very important and timely issue — White Elephant Gift Exchanges. With so many groups relying on this fun tradition for their holiday festivities, a few directions …
Holiday season 2019 is like Daylight Shopping Time. “Spring forward and lose an hour” is nothing compared with wolfing down Thanksgiving dinner and starting the gift-shopping countdown clock. Every year, the span between Thanksgiving’s fourth-Thursday-in-November date to Christmas Eve can be…
SOUTH VENICE — The clock is ticking fast to get the largest auditorium renovations completed at the B&B Theatres Stadium 11 in South Venice before the arrival of “Star Wars: Episode IX.”
PORT CHARLOTTE — Have you ever heard of a blow dry bar? If you haven’t, there’s a new one in Port Charlotte at a salon with 10 stylists serving clients. Owner of Vuja’ de’ Salon and Blow Dry Bar, Kerri Chamberlain, who was born and raised in Port Charlotte, said she wants to bring “all of th…
{div class=”gmail_quote”}{div lang=”EN-US” xml:lang=”EN-US”}{div class=”m_-4011398344661654720WordSection1”}There’s no politics intended when I write, it takes a village, because I know after 26 years with the Charlotte County Chamber, that statement is true. This village/community helped me…