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Flying in a three-man formation as the “Veterans Airlift Command Tribute Wing” and led by Walt Fricke, former Army combat helicopter pilot and Vietnam Veteran, AirBoss and Founder of the Veterans Airlift Command non-profit, with fellow pilots Mike Grossmann and Dan Blackwell, the trio helped re-dedicate newly-opened Runway 4-22 at Punta Gorda Airport. -
The performer belting out some of the most popular songs of the time at the High Hat Club, a venue on what was then Anderson Avenue and now Martin Luther King Boulevard in Dunbar, looked like the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, dressed like Franklin and sounded like Franklin, but she wasn’t Franklin.
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The photos were taken inside the Warsaw Ghetto by a 23-year-old Polish firefighter as the Nazis were brutally crushing the Jewish uprising of 1943. The photos were discovered in a family collection.
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MLK Day celebration in Fort Myers
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January 12 marks the anniversary of a mystery nearly two decades old. The mystery of two men disappearing under similar circumstances has now become the subject a locally-produced podcast by investigative reporter, Janine Zeitlin, and her colleagues from the Naples Daily News and The News Press.
