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Lee County Clerk and Comptroller's Office Inspector General partners with School District of Lee County

The Lee County Clerk & Comptroller’s Office and the School District of Lee County have announced a new partnership designed to strengthen trust, enhance transparency, and protect taxpayer dollars.   Beginning Nov, 24, the Clerk’s Inspector General started accepting tips for suspected fraud, waste, and abuse claims directed against the Lee County School District. Investigations, when conducted, will be at no cost to the taxpayer or the School District.   The Inspector General is a department within the Clerk’s office that conducts internal audits and fraud, waste and abuse investigations of the operations and financial records of Lee County government agencies, ...

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‘The Curious Coyote’ to benefit CROW

A Sanibel-based wildlife rescue will benefit from a coyote’s intrepid — and highly covered — visit to a Fort Myers hotel’s parking garage. The Luminary Hotel & Co. is celebrating the wily visitor's safe exit from a ledge on its multi-story parking structure with the debut of “The ...

Keep Lee County Beautiful mourns loss of longtime leader Rudy Busch

Keep Lee County Beautiful, Inc. announced the passing of Rudy Busch, former Executive Director, who died Nov. 17. In an announcement of Busch’s death, the organization credited him with “laying the groundwork for many of the environmental and recycling initiatives that still benefit Lee ...

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Total disregard for Fort Myers Beach community is unacceptable

As the Town of Fort Myers Beach Council prepares for a mediation session with the administration of the School District of Lee County on Wednesday, we wanted to be optimistic this would lead to the reopening of the Fort Myers Beach Elementary School since it flooded during Hurricane Milton ...

Do you support the proposal from Fort Myers Beach Mayor Dan Allers to turn Fort Myers Beach Elementary School into a charter school?

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