Cape Coral City Council took a big step Wednesday night, opting to hire an independent investigator to look into the alleged actions of one of its own. The elected board voted 6-2 to determine whether District 4 Councilmember Patty Cummings resided in the district in which she qualified to run ...
Count us among those who have nothing but kudos to Gov. Ron DeSantis for his efforts for Southwest Florida in the wake of Hurricane Ian. He was not only here, he was here often. He put both money and effort into the repair of critical infrastructure like the Matlacha bridge and the Sanibel ...
North 1 West UEP Informational Packet An estimated 8,400 property owners in the northeast Cape have received, or will receive early next year, a notice of pending assessments from the city of Cape Coral for utility expansion. The city is nearing the start of North 1, the next component. To ...
Southwest Florida may have a good ways to go to reach pre-Ian normalcy but we, as a community, are certainly bouncing back strong in the face of continued adversity. Today’s Breeze highlights a plethora of popular returning events as well as a handful of fundraisers to help what ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis puffed up a lead balloon this week, saying that perhaps the state should consider replacing Advanced Placement courses with, well, something else. Maybe the International Baccalaureate program. Maybe the Cambridge Assessment program. Maybe some other vendor. And there’s ...
Sometimes a single person can right a very big wrong. And sometimes that person is a child with courage greater than their years and their time in history. In 1963, a high school senior named Rosalind Blalock wanted to attend a Lee County high school that would better prepare her for the ...
Cape Coral City Council decided Wednesday that it will not renew the contract of the city’s top administrator, Rob Hernandez. Instead, City Manager Hernandez’s three-year contract will expire on its Aug. 11, 2023 end date and Council will embark on a search for a new city manager, the ...
The Cape Coral Construction Industry Association’s premier event — its Showcase of Homes — continues this weekend and next. Featuring 15 models ranging in price from around $400,000 to more than $3 million, the annual three-weekend event allows those considering a new home to “connect ...
Come hell and high water, the wheels of government still do to go round and round. That’s both good and not so good. Case in point: The city of Cape Coral will circle back next Wednesday with a proposal to eliminate “food-truck based outdoor restaurants.” The proposed ordinance would ...
At the top of many Southwest Floridians’ wish lists this year is likely one common crave: normalcy. For Lee County’s hardest-hit communities and neighborhoods, that’s still a ways off as repairs, rebuilds and reopenings continue. But there is a glimmer — and then some — as some ...
