Town of Fort Myers Beach Manager Will McKannay has hired a new emergency services director in longtime New Jersey policeman Philip Rizzo. Rizzo will be paid $120,000 annually for his new job. Rizzo spent 25 years in the Franklin Township Police Department in Sussex County, New Jersey. Rizzo ...
The Fort Myers Beach Observer is asking the candidates for the Town of Fort Myers Beach Council a series of questions ahead of the Nov. 3 election Town of Fort Myers Beach Councilmember Rebecca Link is one of four candidates seeking one of three open seats on the council. Link won a recall ...
Ed Schoonover, a member of the Town of Fort Myers Beach Local Planning Agency, is one of four candidates seeking three seats on the Town of Fort Myers Beach Council. Schoonover answered the following questions from the Fort Myers Beach Observer regarding his candidacy: Ed ...
The Town of Fort Myers Beach Council voted to appoint volunteers to six committees that town management has created to assist in town officials as they explore creating a new charter school run by the Town of Fort Myers Beach. The council appointed Ellie Bunting, Walter Cheatham, and Tyler ...
Representatives of the DiamondHead Beach Resort will go in front of the Town of Fort Myers Beach Council on Monday with scaled-back plans for their proposal to add 55 rooms. General Manager Neil Hopgood said the new plans eliminate the tower that was proposed, and instead add on the rooms ...
Photos from the Island View Sports Bar grand opening at the Lani Kai Island Resort, on the sixth floor next to the Sun Deck restaurant overlooking Fort Myers Beach. All photos by Nathan Mayberg
