Local/State

CROW is asking local knitters and crocheters to create handmade nests for patients being cared for at Sanibel's hospital.

"Rauschenberg at 100: As Large as the World Is" focuses on the Bob Rauschenberg's deep ties to Southwest Florida. The exhibition, which features locally produced and privately held works—most never before exhibited and spanning several pivotal decades of the artist's career – was scheduled to close May 2nd. It will now run through August 1st.

It's the first week of sea turtle nesting season in Southwest Florida, and this year the thousands of loggerheads and greens that nest on our beaches have a new ally in nine-year-old entrepreneur Naomi Haynam. The Cape Coral pre-teen so loves sea turtles she's making beach-themed earrings and selling them at home, online, and in parks to raise money to donate to volunteer sea turtle protection groups.

The vessel was named for its home port in the 1910s, when it performed hurricane patrol and the crew took part in Gasparilla. It rested on the Atlantic floor for 107 years until a British dive team spotted it.

Experts say the estimated 250 pieces of the Berlin Wall’s eastern side likely make up the largest collection outside Germany.

Musicals, improv and comedies with heart will keep theater's five stages busy.

We introduce you to people who make or teach music in the Tampa Bay and Sarasota communities. Classical WSMR's Susan Giles Wantuck interviewed Sam Nelson, organist and choirmaster of Church of the Redeemer in Sarasota.

Giancarlo Guerrero has brought new energy to Sarasota Orchestra as he announces programs for his second season.

Monday, April 27, is Agan's swan song as director of the radio plays she's helmed for the past 10 years. But she says the shows will go on and praised the new guy.

FWC officers are investigating the incident, and they believe the mothballs were placed intentionally to disrupt shorebird nesting.