
The Town of Fort Myers Beach has announced that the application forms for emergency temporary placement permits for trailers is now available for residents and business owners seeking an extension past the town's Sept. 23 deadline. To receive an extension from the town, trailer owners need to ...
The Fort Myers Beach Kids Foundation recently awarded their annual scholarship awards with a dinner for students and family members at the Island Pancake House on Fort Myers Beach. The foundation awarded $21,000 in scholarships including two special scholarships in honor of the late Fort ...
Fort Myers Beach residents and businessowners with emergency temporary placements for their trailers who are seeking an extension past the Sept. 23 deadline should expect an announcement from the town on the application process sometime next week. Town of Fort Myers Beach Manager Will ...
In the wake of a school shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis that left two children dead and 17 individuals injured, local law enforcement and school officials offered shared heartbreak and continued vigilance. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno was among those expressing both. “In ...
The Democratic Party of Lee County is inviting residents to "step up, speak out, and help shape the local agenda" at its upcoming Listening Tour stop in Cape Coral. The event, entitled "Your Voice, Our Future", will be held Saturday, Oct. 4, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Cape Coral Lee County Public ...
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday halting further expansion and ordering the winding down of an immigration detention center built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” that advocates said violated environmental laws. U.S. District ...
On August 4, the Fort Myers Beach Town Council took an important but often misunderstood step by approving a not-to-exceed millage rate of 1.255 mills for the upcoming fiscal year. Let me be clear: this is not a final tax increase. It is a procedural requirement that sets the upper limit for ...
Count us among those excited for the start of the new school year Monday. Not because we have kids, tweens or teens who — though we love them the muchest — may have, ummm, pushed our parental patience a time or two during this long, hot and humid summer. But because the district has ...