As the third year of Hurricane Ian approaches, so is the deadline for temporary trailer permits the town authorized for residents and businessowners after the devastating storm. On September 23, temporary use permits for residents and commercial uses, will expire. “The purpose of these ...
Christina Brown, who had been a bartender at Mr. Waves Island Bar on Fort Myers Beach since it opened in 2023, died in a car accident last night. Lynn Bommarito, operations manager at Mr. Waves, confirmed the death. Bommarito said Brown's 12-year-old daughter is in the intensive care unit ...
The Beach Theater will no longer be a movie theater under plans going in front of the Town of Fort Myers Beach Council next month. The plans now include a restaurant, steakhouse and live entertainment indoors and outdoors at the former movie complex at 6425 Estero Boulevard. The Fort Myers ...
Fort Myers Beach Marine and Environmental Resources Task Force member Rob Howell is sounding the alarm of what he believes is a problem with speeding boats on the back bay of Fort Myers Beach. It’s a problem he believes has contributed to manatees washing ashore with boat strike marks and ...
The Beach Bar just had its most successful day of business since Greg Boyd and Madeline Boyd bought the Fort Myers Beach business in 2009. They held a grand reopening with their new building on the Fourth of July on a day when the town canceled its scheduled parade due to inclement weather in ...
Property assessments are up 12% for the current fiscal year in the Town of Fort Myers Beach per preliminary data released by the Lee County Property Appraiser's office. Total taxable property values went up 12.33% in part due to new construction, the rebuilding of homes and businesses on the ...
