Michael Braun and Andrea Melendez
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Ground was broken Wednesday in Charlotte County for the Beirut Peacekeepers Tower at the William R. Gaines Jr. Veterans Memorial Park.The tower will memorialize the 241 Americans killed 40 years ago in the Oct. 23, 1983, bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War.
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A family of great horned owls has set up housekeeping on a birding platform, usually used by ospreys and other types of raptors, at Estero High School.