First Lady Michelle Obama visited Naples Friday to campaign for her husband. Local students greeted her upon landing at the airport.

Two dozen students from Avalon and Mike Davis Elementary Schools gathered near the runway of Naples Municipal Airport and spoke with the First Lady.

At least four loggerhead turtles have laid nests in the last week on Southwest Florida beaches, ahead of the May first start of official nesting season when lighting ordinances go into effect and monitoring begins.

The Mosaic Company has agreed to a settlement with environmental groups over the expansion of phosphate mining around the Peace River in exchange for certain conservation efforts.

There’s a petition drive underway in Lee County to change the way commissioners are elected. Right now Commissioners must live in the district they represent, but they are voted for in at large – or county-wide elections. The group sponsoring the petition drive wants to change that - narrowing the electorate only to the commissioner’s district. But there’s opposition .

Looking for secrets to a long life? Just ask women in Collier County.

They live longer – an average of 85.8 years –than women in any other county in the nation, according to a new study.

 



The last surviving FBI agent present at the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy has died. With James Sibert, goes one more account of how the 35th president was assassinated. A memorial service was held Saturday in Fort Myers.

Medicare covers treatment for diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. All are costly to the health care system – and all often have their roots in a larger problem.

More than fifteen groups have come together so that Glades County can offer the USDA Summer Food Service Program this year. The service will provide lunch and activities for children during the break. WGCU’s Jenny Bechtold has more.

 

The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) made a recommendation April 12 to the Army Corp of Engineers to release water from Lake Okeechobee to the Caloosahatchee River. But so far, the releases have not been made.

A group of students at Florida Gulf Coast University have been reaping  the benefits of their labor this season after turning a half acre parking lot into a “Food Forrest”.  Surrounded by banana plants and sugar cane – to provide a wind break -  fruit bearing shrubs and trees as well as range of vegetables  and herbs  are flourishing.  WGCU’s Valerie Alker took  a tour with Food Forrest President  Kelly Walch.