PUNTA GORDA — What’s better than free samples?
* This story was updated Oct. 29, 2019 to include the website for Dollars for Mammograms.
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There are 100 trauma alerts on average each year from Charlotte County.
Hundreds walk Out of the Darkness
It is a very trying time for many animal shelters in Southwest Florida.
PUNTA GORDA — The Student Impact Team at Punta Gorda Middle School recorded powerful public service announcement videos for their peers.
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PORT CHARLOTTE — Unable to move from her bathroom floor, Debra Tyler didn’t have much time.
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In March, smokable medical marijuana was signed into Florida law. Now, state legislators are looking to place restrictions and limits on that.
PORT CHARLOTTE — Punta Gorda resident Bill Thomson, 87, has been going to the Fawcett Memorial Hospital pool for 18 years.
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Eating disorders are the least talked about, least treated, yet the most deadly of mental illnesses.
Chelsea Place Senior Care held its trivia night on Feb. 28 at its adult day care facility located at 3626 Tamiami Trail, Port Charlotte.
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PORT CHARLOTTE — You could slice the tension in the air with a well-timed serve of a ping pong ball.
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NORTH PORT — Gunner lived in a hotel with his mother and two younger siblings when he ran away.
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SARASOTA — A few weeks after the Sarasota County Department of Health disclosed four children in its region suffering from measles, studies suggest an easy vaccine to protect kids from such illnesses are being ignored.
Last weekend I made a jaunt down to Fort Myers to run the Edison Bridge. I have the New York City Marathon coming up — which has five bridge crossings — so I’ve been trying to hit different bridges throughout my training.
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NAMI — the National Alliance on Mental Illness — is planning its first annual 5K walk at the Fort Myers Pier on Saturday, Sept. 29.
