


Lee County Domestic Animal Services is celebrating Adopt a Shelter Dog Month with its October PUPkin Special. Throughout the month of October, adoption fees for all adult dogs will be reduced to just $25 with an approved application. Every adoption includes a complete package valued at more ...
Cape Coral City Council approved a 7.25% increase to the base salary for the municipality’s top administrator on Thursday. The contract for City Manager Michael Ilczyszyn, who received an “above average” overall rating from the elected board to whom he reports, increases his annual base salary from $314,204.80 by $22,779.85 to $336,984.65. The amendment that Ilczyszyn initially asked for — that the 7.25% increase he is due according to city policy pertaining to non-bargaining unit employees, go towards insurance for his family, was declined. Ilczyszyn said he decided to decline moving forward with the amendment with the contractual agreement and that the 2023 contract will ...
A proposed “mobility fee” on new construction to pay for infrastructure was approved Thursday but in a modified form. The proposal first failed 5-3, one vote shy of the super majority needed, but ultimately passed unanimously after Cape Coral City Council removed the “extraordinary ...
Council Coral City Council reduced the city’s property tax rate Thursday, approving the “rollback” rate which keeps revenues from these taxes at their current level The elected board adopted a budget and millage rate of 5.1471 mills, which is lower than current rate of 5.2188. Also ...
The Lee County Department of Transportation is advising motorists that beginning Oct. 1, Daniels Parkway lanes will be shifted to the outside of the roadway for construction of new inside travel lanes from Danport Boulevard to west of Powers Court/Apaloosa Lane. The traffic shift will reduce ...
Both southbound and northbound lanes of the Wilson Pigott Bridge (SR 31) will be closed on Wednesday, Sept. 24, from 7 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. Thursday for grid deck replacement. Crews will install a new section of the deck overnight. All lanes will reopen by the morning rush hour. If additional ...
Registration is open for the annual “FORE” Our Community Golf Tournament in North Fort Myers, hosted by Knights of Columbus Council 13483 at Saint Cecilia. Proceeds from the event will support Child Care of Southwest Florida in providing local children with scholarships to attend early ...
The Pine Island Eagle is grateful to a Good Samaritan from St. James City who found, and stored, the paper’s historic sign lost in Hurricane Ian after the Category 4 storm made landfall on Cayo Costa on Sept. 28, 2022. Jan Robertson said the storm had blown it into a neighbor’s yard and, ...