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Summertime giving By Staff | Jun 28, 2021 Summer in Southwest Florida has lots going for it for those of us who embrace the sunshine or love nothing better than the sound of a late-afternoon thunder-boomer. Less crowded beaches. More time for, well, most anything that makes this a great place to live. For some of us, though, particularly those involved with any of the area’s many non-profits or social services organizations, there is no summer break. A pair of press releases received by our newsroom this week illustrated this well. School hasn’t been out yet a week, but the Foundation f...

Nils Richter docked the boat. He climbed to the landing area on Lofton Island off downtown Fort Myers. Crews over the past couple of weeks have cleared all the non-native trees and plants and three damaged royal palm trees. Gone are hundreds of Australian pines. Visible instead: mulch from the downed trees and the few remaining palms and a strangle fig tree. “Now, you can see the land,” Richter said. “Now, we can determine what we want to do with it. We want to make it an amenity for downtown.” The island of more than three acres, visible and about 1,500 feet from downtown Fort Myers,...