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Sports on TV today in Southwest Florida

Nearly every color in Naples Botanical Garden’s landscaping glows back at it from the wall-sized mural by Roberto Burle Marx that emerged atop its engineered hill last week.

This summer, Michael Cates bungee jumped off a bridge in Zambia. Emily Payne climbed Table Mountain and slept near lions. Melissa Ellenman worked at a school in Zambia. What did you do with your summer? For 16 Community School of Naples students, that question can be summed up in one word: Africa.

Six weeks ago this column reviewed what we heard from focus groups and reader surveys about the daily newspaper.
You may recall that in less than two weeks the Daily News will be printed on a spanking new press in our new plant on Immokalee Road.

What a day last Sunday at Florida Gulf Coast University. The very best and the very — well, I’ll think of just the right word — were on full celebratory display as the freshman class was officially greeted to campus and launched its college career.

HAINES CITY – This city of 19,000 continues to be an excellent long-term prospect for distribution center development even as it struggles with the rest of Florida against a general market downdraft, according to sources familiar with the area.

“You’re located in the center of the state. You’re near the population center of the state, and you have excellent access to Interstate 4 and the US 27 corridor,” said David Murphy, senior vice president and industrial specialist with CB Richard Ellis in Orlando.

An 8-year-old boy was arrested on Thursday after police say he punched a pregnant school employee in the stomach at the Life Skills Center in Fort Myers.