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VIDEO: Local couple knows what it takes to stay in love for 70 years

After 45 years as Vaudeville performers, Lucille and Henry Rich of Isle of Capri talk about what it take to be in love and stay in love for 70 years. [...]

Love is cheap: Majority to spend less than $50 on Valentine’s Day (POLL)

Two-thirds of Americans, or 67 percent, say they plan to spend less than $50 on Valentine’s Day this year, a new Zogby Interactive survey of adult Americans [...]

Happy New Year! Look back at 2009, ahead to 2010 in Naples, Florida and beyond

As we start a new decade, enjoy this compendium of news items looking back at 2009, ahead for 2010 for the Naples area, Florida, the nation and [...]

PHOTOS: New Year’s Eve fireworks draw crowd to Naples Beach

The first fireworks of the evening lit up the sky at exactly 7:30 p.m., mesmerizing the [...]

End the decade with a bang at Naples New Year’s Eve firework show

Naples will host its annual New Year’s Eve fireworks show at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Naples [...]

Cool! Naples area temperatures into 40s this morning, mid 70s by afternoon

Morning lows will be in the 40s in Southwest Florida before a rebound to the middle 70s for Wednesday afternoon, according to NBC-2 weather [...]

After a Southwest Florida Christmas, these folks get to talk trash

Each year nationwide, the holiday season generates more than 5 million tons of waste, according to the Clean Air Council, an environmental nonprofit organization. And if an upshot in waste during and after the holidays is the rule, one local expert says Collier County is hardly the [...]

In the red zone: Fighting back against all that fa-la-la-la fat

It starts with a single dinner roll and escalates into second helpings. Carbohydrate-heavy mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole and stuffing are next in line. A healthful turkey breast can morph into a calorie -fest when drowned in a cup of gravy. [...]

How to avoid a hangover after New Year’s Eve

It seems obvious. To avoid a hangover, don’t drink too much. But even one or two drinks can cause the sluggish feeling associated with a hangover the next day. There are ways to lessen a hangover, although the only way to completely avoid an arduous morning is to abstain from drinking the night before. [...]

Anxious wait, special feast mark Christmas for Collier emergency workers

It’s mid-afternoon on Christmas and firefighters at East Naples Fire Rescue Station 21 wait. That’s mostly what they do on Christmas day. Wait and cook. Wait and eat. Wait and read. Wait and nap. Wait and [...]

Unity, faith among principles in 7-day Kwanzaa celebration

The day after Christmas marks the arrival of the Kwanzaa celebration, a holiday Naples resident Laverne Franklin looks forward to every year. This year, along with hundreds of thousands of other observers, she’ll spend the seven days after Christmas practicing the seven principles for which Kwanzaa is [...]

VIDEO/PHOTOS: Snow cones, skateboards are day’s favorites at Immokalee Kiwanis Christmas

Thanks to the Northside Naples Kiwanians, it wasn’t a Hard Candy Christmas – as Dolly Parton would sing – for Immokalee families. Some 1,500 volunteers made a nice Christmas for residents of Collier County’s agricultural community, many of whom are migrant [...]

Church reverts back to traditional Christmas Eve beach service

Gene Scott doesn’t typically do traditional. Better known for holding outdoor church services with a tropical twist — a little Jimmy Buffet here, a dash of Bob Marley there — Scott, the senior pastor of the Celebration Community Beach Church, decided to give his annual Christmas Eve service at Lowdermilk Park a more traditional feel on Wednesday night. Goodbye “Go tell it on the beach.” Hello “Away in a Manger” and “O Holy Night.” [...]

Holiday Happenings: Dining spots, church services, movie times, weather forecast, and more

Here’s where you will find Christmas Eve and Christmas Day times and places for area dining spots, church services, movie times and more. We’ve made the list; now check it [...]

Christmas weather: Cool forecast includes wet stuff

Temperatures dipped into the 30s inland early Tuesday as Southwest Floridians woke up to a chilly morning. See what’s ahead for Christmas Eve and Christmas [...]

Community School brings Christmas to Immokalee Farmworker Village

On Thursday afternoon, 35 Community School high school students and their teachers went to the headquarters of the Jumpstart Family Literacy Program at the Immokalee Farmworkers Village on State Road 29 in Immokalee, with bags full of Christmas gifts and groceries for 67 [...]

Ideas for a great New Year’s celebration

Yes, you can go out to dinner again. Yes, you can stay home again. But why do it without planning a great time while you’re waving so long to the first decade of the new millennium? Here are some options that will even give couch potatoes some New Year’s [...]

Christmas sales up slightly despite frugal shoppers, retailers cutting inventory

The National Retail Federation reported in a press release that November retail sales released by the U.S. Commerce Department show total retail sales have increased 1.3 percent since October and 1.8 percent [...]

Making Christmas possible: East Naples firefighters toy drive helps 1,200 families

Billed as the longest continuously-running holiday toy drive in Collier County, the East Naples Fire Department’s annual Toy Drive Command kicked off Wednesday night with the first of three nights of scheduled toy giveaways. [...]