Garland Pollard

When people get worked up and annoyed about the issues of parking in Boca Grande, one concept that comes up, …

This weekend on Gasparilla Island was not a major holiday, just a plain old summer weekend. The weather was c…

The working cistern, which is the earliest form of water conservation in the world, is still being used in Bo…

Trumpeter Rex Richardson, who has played with many of the greats of jazz, gave students at Lemon Bay High Sch…

Increasing development and the importance of local tarpon and snook populations have spurred a $1.2 million g…

Foundation planting, or the idea of creating a garden bed around the foundation of your house, often damages …

The beaches of Gasparilla Island were renourished by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the early summer of …

A Charlotte County historic plaque makes a very clear promise about the Placida Bunkhouse, an old railroad do…

High real estate prices in Boca Grande are giving the rest of the Cape Haze peninsula and the neighboring isl…

We sat down with Bradley Ruhmann, marketing director for Crews Holding Company and the banks attached to it. …

America gambled on allowing a libertarian paradise of regulated vice. The consequence is omnipresent gambling…

Last week, the Lee County Board of County Commissioners voted 4 to 1 to overturn longstanding height restrict…

Keith Laakkonen of Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary had reports of 52 in Estero Bay and a flock of 14 on M…

In the wake of the recent explosive hearings in the U.S. Congress on UFOs, now called Unidentified Aerial Phe…

In the last few years, new airlines serving Southwest Florida have meant hundreds of new direct flights and c…

In the '50s and '60s, Florida boomed, and mainline denominational churches were struggling to keep up. Enter …

Garland Pollard discovers the origins of a beloved 1934 woodcut map of Eastern Virginia that once hung in the…