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If you appreciate the phrase "It's hard to avoid the elephant in the room," you'll agree it's even harder to avoid an elephant on the roof. Especially if it's pink.At Goben Cars, a new business at the corner of San Carlos Boulevard and Broadway Avenue, that's just what you'll see - at least for ...

Unless it's a substantial public park, with plenty of room for parking, you can mostly forget about receiving Lee County bed-tax dollars to support a shoreline or beachfront project.That's the message delivered Monday to the Town Council by Tamara Pigott, the executive director of the Lee ...

The big yum

The heat was intense and the smoke was dense.Only at Taste of the Beach is that a good combo, as a mouth-watering cloud of barbeque aroma hovered above the crowd Sunday during the 21st edition of the foodie extravaganza.Along San Carlos Boulevard on Fort Myers Beach, local restaurants proved ...

The small strip of San Carlos Island has been pretty quiet the last few years. There are some fun shops, a nice restaurant here and there, but not really too much else to do for the locals. When an opportunity was presented to longtime island resident Booba and his lovely wife, Windy May, they ...

Junkanoo to stay put for another year

Fans of the Junkanoo, rejoice. The popular beachfront restaurant at 3040 Estero Blvd. will continue to operate through April of next year, according to property owner Joe Orlandini.Steve Huss, a longtime customer who lives nearby on Jefferson Street and helped remodel the mid-island ...

The Spring Break breakdown

On short notice, Ron Kain wanted to take the family on a spring getaway and he chose Fort Myers Beach on a whim."We've never been here, but we knew we'd be warm," said the Columbus, Ohio stepfather of two teenage high-school boys. "And I'd never heard much about it as a Spring Break ...