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Thomas K. Ruppert, a coastal planning specialist with Florida Sea Grant and thought leader on legal policy around sea-level rise adaptation and other areas of environmental law, has been selected as the assistant provost for coastal resilience and director of the new Virginia Coastal Resilience Collaborative (VCRC) at William & Mary.

Bill Nelson, who has served in the Florida House of Representatives and in both chambers of U.S. Congress, gave his sixth presentation of the Nelson Initiative on Ethics and Leadership series, which aims to educate the public about how to build strong leadership skills.

The Walton County Commission raised constitutional questions with its approval of a nearly $200,000 grant to the Tri-State Christian Camp.

Lakeland attorney Jean Pierre Espinoza was awarded the Karla Foreman Wright Attorney Award by the Polk County Trial Lawyers Association.

Inspecting a boat ramp at the Ocklawaha River’s Rodman Reservoir are Jennifer Carr, president of the Florida Defenders of the Environment, and her daughter, Carmen, and the group’s executive director Jim Gross. Rodman Reservoir is plagued by a chronic growth of muck and floating weeds, as seen here at the boat ramp. Weeds have engulfed the ramp and dock. A legacy of the hasty construction of the dam and reservoir in the 1960s is that it left many trees in the reservoirs boundary. Part 3 of ...

Weeds block free flow of Ocklawaha River from Silver Springs to St. Johns River Part III of the Orlando Sentinel series examines how human error helped choke this North Florida river.     Inspecting a boat ramp at the Ocklawaha River’s Rodman Reservoir are Jennifer Carr, president of the Florida Defenders of the Environment, and her daughter, Carmen, and the group’s executive director Jim Gross. Rodman Reservoir is plagued by a chronic growth of muck and floating weeds, as seen ...