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Tourism collapsed in Southwest Florida in 2010 and more than 500 claims for economic-related damages were paid in Charlotte, Lee and Collier counties alone totaling $23.5 million.

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Heidi Lewis Coleman is a big fan of legendary artist Robert Rauschenberg, who made Captiva Island the epicenter of his artistic pursuits from 1970 until his death in 2008. Coleman never met Rauschenberg. She moved to Naples in 2021, 13 years after Rauschenberg’s death. But at the opening of her “Dreamscape” solo show at the Alliance for the Arts, she learned that she and Rauschenberg had something in common.
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