Julie Glenn
Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Fluent in Italian, Julie has also worked with Italian wine companies creating and translating web content and marketing materials. Her work has been featured in international, national, and local magazines. She has served as president of the local chapter of Slow Food where she remains on the board. Her interests include cooking, traveling, and spending time with her family.
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Volunteer tasting panels have long been relied upon to guide decisions on which strawberries taste and smell best, and therefore should be bred for Florida's $300 billion crop.
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There is a community garden tucked behind the Mission Peniel food distribution and outreach center in Immokalee. It’s called “Cultivating Abundance” and features produce not normally found in stores, but which is prolific in the native countries of many of the town’s inhabitants.
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In Fort Myers, Fla., older people waited in line for hours to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Officials have apologized and say they fixed the problem, but what's next as the state ramps up distribution?
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Red tide is back in Southwest Florida’s Gulf waters.
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After years of searching for what was rumored to be a giant salamander living in the swamps of the Florida panhandle and southern Alabama, a team of...
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In case you ha dn’t noticed, we’re currently in what could easily be described as a bonanza of new TV and film production. Just Netflix alone is...
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While red tide rages along Southwest Florida’s Gulf coast, blue-green algae is making its way westward along the Caloosahatchee River toward the Gulf....
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A University of Florida researcher has found three species of mosquitoes feeding on Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades. Lawrence Reeves, a post...
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Five central Florida cities are teaming up with the ridesharing company Uber to offer discounts on rides within the five-city area, as well as to...
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Bees often bring to mind images of large hives dripping with honey and buzzing with the common honey bee. But thousands of North American bee species...
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While most of the complaints about Southwest Florida's recent rainy weather center on the comeback of the annoying mosquito, the rain brings out another...
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Hoping to get ahead of potential Zika outbreaks , Planned Parenthood of Collier County is launching a new education initiative aimed at prevention....