Archive for January 1st, 2009

PHOTOS: New Year’s Eve fireworks draw thousands to Naples Pier

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Upwards of 25,000 people were expected to flock to Naples’ beaches Wednesday night for the 30-minute show.

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Lely High students charged with East Naples murder point fingers at each other

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Two Lely High School students stabbed a 51-year-old garden worker to death and dragged his lifeless body into a nearby stand of woods in East Naples, all in an effort to steal his wallet, according to Collier County detectives, as well as neighbors and an employer who identified the victim.
Juan Jose Barrientos Jr., 17, 111 [...]

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Lely High students charged with East Naples murder point fingers at each other

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Two Lely High School students stabbed a 51-year-old garden worker to death and dragged his lifeless body into a nearby stand of woods in East Naples, all in an effort to steal his wallet, according to Collier County detectives, as well as neighbors and an employer who identified the victim.
Juan Jose Barrientos Jr., 17, 111 [...]

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Record turnout for Sanibel ‘Polar Plunge’

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Originally posted by Adam Freeman on: Thursday, January 01, 2009 Last updated on: 1/1/2009 5:32:42 PM LEE COUNTY : Over 200 people participated in the ninth annual Polar Plunge on Sanibel Island.

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Record turnout for Sanibel ‘Polar Plunge’

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Originally posted by Adam Freeman on: Thursday, January 01, 2009 Last updated on: 1/1/2009 5:32:42 PM LEE COUNTY : Over 200 people participated in the ninth annual Polar Plunge on Sanibel Island.

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Police beat: Jan. 1, 2009

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Fishing Report: If it’s January, it’s time for trout

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Trout season opens on New Year‘s Day, and there is no better remedy for a hangover than a little trout fishing on the grass beds in the Ten Thousand Islands.

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Suspect arrested in theft of ATM machine

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Punta Gorda Police have made an arrest in the theft of an ATM machine on Christmas Day.

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Loved ones try to wake teen from coma

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Sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Selenke suffered severe head injuries in a motorcycle accident nearly two weeks ago. Her loved ones held a vigil Thursday to try to wake her from her coma.

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What does it cost to raise a child born in 2009?

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The first baby of the year in Lee County was born just after midnight at HealthPark. Raising a child in this day and age will undoubtedly be an expensive undertaking.

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Record turnout for Sanibel "Polar Plunge"

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Over 200 people participated in the ninth annual Polar Plunge on Sanibel Island. The participants splashed into the no-so-cold Gulf of Mexico Thursday afternoon.

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Whatever happened to … the replacement of Marco’s Jolley Bridge?

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For a few months, it rose to the level of fever pitch.
A study, generated to explore the possibility of raising tolls on the Judge S.S. Jolley Bridge, raised more than just a little ruckus in Marco Island.
But since August, the din has grown quiet over how to replace the Jolley Bridge, built in 1969 as [...]

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Whatever happened to … the replacement of Marco’s Jolley Bridge?

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For a few months, it rose to the level of fever pitch.
A study, generated to explore the possibility of raising tolls on the Judge S.S. Jolley Bridge, raised more than just a little ruckus in Marco Island.
But since August, the din has grown quiet over how to replace the Jolley Bridge, built in 1969 as [...]

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Humanitarian passes away after long-term battle with cancer

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To know Buddy Brunker was to like him. That is the way friends and colleagues remembered the 65-year-old humanitarian, who passed away Dec. 20 after a five-year battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells.

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Small brush fire in Lehigh

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Just after 12:30 p.m., the Division of Forestry received a call about a brush fire at Jaguar Boulevard and Roma Avenue in Lehigh Acres.

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