As recently as one year ago, there was little open on the island – just a handful of places to stay and a few restaurants.

Jerry’s isn’t alone. On Tuesday, city officials announced that the Sanibel Recreation ... right in and said I need some shirts.” Gasparilla Island State Park reopened in Lee County ...

Residents of Florida’s Sanibel Island – which ... storm at their friends’ house on the island. They were securing homes for neighbors who weren’t on the island, and by the time they ...

I’ve been coming to Sanibel for decades ... I don’t think I’ve never seen it this quiet. To be sure, there are some benefits to being on the island with so few visitors: * We didn’t ...

Slowly, but surely, Sanibel is putting the pieces back together. In this case, the pieces are the island's globally popular ... to Blind Pass Beach shouldn't see much of a difference ...

On Sanibel, it shelters mangrove forests, marshes and seagrass beds, as well as animals like alligators, bobcats and more than 240 species of birds. In fact, for herons, white pelicans , warblers ...

just can’t even understand the damage that we’ve experienced.” Sanibel, home to about 6,300 people, is located on Sanibel Island off the west coast of Florida, just south of Fort Myers.

The concept? Support Sanibel businesses – the restaurants, the retailers, the island treasures with a low-key flash mob of sorts. Pick a date, pick a location, and go. “People on the island ...