We're delving into the critical, but often overlooked skill and art of storytelling and its power to educate, entertain, connect, and foster empathy and healing. Professional storyteller, character interpreter and teaching artist Sheila Arnold will be featured in Florida Gulf Coast University’s Professional Storyteller Series Oct. 23 and Oct. 24 for a storytelling performance called “Locks Opened: Waterways to Freedom” consisting of stories of the underground railroad. Arnold will also conduct a

While its official grand opening isn’t until next month, the Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center of Southwest Florida has opened at its new location on Imperial Golf Course Blvd. in Naples. Since its unique beginning as a middle school classroom exhibit in the late 1990s, the museum and education center’s programs have reached more than 15,000 students a year, and hosted more than 5,000 visitors annually.

As the global prevalence of plastic pollution becomes increasingly clear, more and more people are seeking out ways to reduce the amount of single-use plastics they use. Our guests are in business to help people with that mission when it comes to their oral hygiene. WooBamoo is a Cape Coral-based company that primarily sells eco-friendly toothbrushes that are made of bamboo. They now also sell biodegradable floss made from silk, and toothpaste made using all natural products.

Students at Florida Gulf Coast University’s Vester Field Station are building mini artificial reefs to create habitat for filter feeders like oysters using broken hockey sticks. The Rink2Reef program has built and installed hundreds of these reefs since its inception three years ago.

Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland is the newest of the 12 institutions in the State University System of Florida . It’s the state's only public polytechnic university, focusing solely on STEM education . In the past few years it’s gotten out ahead when it comes to research into autonomous vehicle technology with its Advanced Mobility Institute .

Award-winning guitar phenom John Housely is out with his second album of Flamenco Nuevo music titled, “ A Dance of Ghosts .” His first album of Flamenco Nuevo guitar music “ The Heart’s Furnace ” came in in 2018. Housley is a life-long musician and educator and his musical interests include a broad spectrum of genres from southern rock to classical. We’ll catch up with Housley, explore the roots of the Flamenco Nuevo style and hear selections from the new album.

Until just a few years ago, individuals with disabilities and their families could not have more than $2,000 in cash or investments in the disabled relative’s name without losing all or part of government benefits they receive, like Supplemental Security Income , Medicaid or other services. But, in 2014, Congress passed the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act , or ABLE, which created a state-sponsored, tax-advantaged savings program similar to a popular college savings program.

Florida’s Blue-green Algae Task Force met for the sixth time on Monday. Its five members are charged with finding ways to reduce nutrient pollution that fuels toxic cyanobacteria blooms , and determine how best to allocate resources to speed up nutrient reductions in Lake Okeechobee and the downstream estuaries. Nutrients polluting Florida’s water bodies are widely recognized as the main driver of harmful algal blooms. The task force has identified the primary sources as agricultural operations,

We’re sitting down with two Southwest Florida journalists upon their return from the Bahamas where they spent several days learning how people in some of the hardest-hit areas are doing one month after Hurricane Dorian . Dorian was the most intense storm on record to hit the Bahamas, and is considered to be the worst natural disaster in the country's history.

Radio listeners – especially in the northern part of our listening area – might have noticed some times in recent months when our air signal is not as strong as it normally is. That's because work is being done on our main tower in Charlotte County. So, we’re spending a few minutes with our Associate General Manager for Technology and Operations, Kevin Trueblood, to get an update on that work, and some other upgrades that are in progress here at the station, and at our transmitter sites.