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Dr. Robert Marbut, a renowned homelessness expert, will host a community conversation at Venice Community Center, 326 S. Nokomis Ave., 2 p.m. to  4 p.m., Friday, Aug. 30.
He will speak about his experiences working with communities across the country to...

SARASOTA COUNTY — State prosecutors decided to drop a charge of lewd or lascivious molestation against a North Port man prior to his September trial for multiple counts of child voyeurism.
Assistant State Attorney Amanda Gambert said the state will be re...

CHARLOTTE HARBOR — It is the beautiful shores of Charlotte Harbor that brought Jana and Mike Hamilton to the Banana Bay Waterfront Motel, which they purchased in 2002 for their first plunge into the hospitality business.
And, after this month’s sale of th...

The seven-day forecast for our area, according to WINK News, includes isolated showers, afternoon thunderstorms, rain and more rain.
Since hurricane season began June 1, the afternoon or evening showers have persisted, flushing away the regional drought c...

PUNTA GORDA — Martha Bireda was a college student at the time, but her mother, Bernice Russell, was among the crowd of 250,000 who gathered at the Lincoln Memorial as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered, with great emotion, his iconic “I Have a Drea...

Herb McCool of Port Charlotte figures he was shot at by North Vietnamese Army regulars and Vietcong guerillas at least 5,000 times during his three tours in Vietnam. He served in the 67th Maintenance Company from 1967 to ’69 at “Camp Eagle,” near the conv...

Charlotte County Commissioner Chris Constance won the judges’ choice at the Comedy for a Cause fundraiser, a benefit for the Charlotte Players, Saturday at the Charlotte Harbor Event & Conference Center in Punta Gorda. The event featured several leaders p...

PUNTA GORDA — Charlotte High School’s Katie Moran can display her talent in the pool in a great many ways.
The Tarpons senior is one of the top returning freestyle swimmers, and she won the District 3A-6 diving championship last season. This season, she h...

Brothers Christian and Devon Lazarski are serious skateboarders.
Actually, Christian, 19, and Devon, 18, hope to become professional skateboarders.
They have been skateboarding since elementary school and have been competing about four years, usually fro...

FORT MYERS — Riverdale beat Port Charlotte 25-19, 25-22, 25-11 in a nondistrict contest Monday in the season-opener for both teams.
Port Charlotte was without starting setter Katie Stewart, who sustained a concussion in Thursday’s preseason finale agains...