With plenty of beverages of choice flowing during Christmas and New Year’s celebrations across Southwest Florida, there are a few ways to get home safe following the festivities. Chuck and Eddie Farah, senior partners at Farah & Farah, are bringing their Safe Ride Home Program back to Fort Myers for its third consecutive year, offering residents $50 Uber credits to ensure everyone gets home safely. Farah & Farah states that the New Year’s Eve historically sees higher crash rates than any other holiday. The Farahs are putting resources into prevention, having already provided nearly 17,000 safe rides across the region. “Having spent over four decades ...
Lee County Parks & Recreation invites community members to share their favorite memories from past fairs and Southwest Florida Ag Expos as part of a special photo exhibit celebrating this year’s theme, “Roots ‘n’ Rides: A Celebration of Tradition.” With friends and families ...
The U.S. Coast Guard Fort Myers Beach was continuing to search Monday for two men whose boat was found 70 miles off the coast of Fort Myers on Saturday after they went on a deep water fishing trip. U.S. Coast Guard Fort Myers Beach units were participating Monday with other Coast Guard units ...
The Cape Coral Youth Council is inching closer to its goal to send all of its members to Washington, D.C. for the National League of Cities Youth Leadership Council. They are still $3,000 short and they hope to raise these remaining funds by the first week of January. Cape Coral City ...
The search for missing Fort Myers boater Randall Spivey and his nephew Brandon Billmaier was called off by the U.S. Coast Guard after sunset on Monday, three days after the search started. The two had been missing since Friday when they left Fort Myers to go on a deep-water fishing trip. The ...
The Coast Guard has announced it was suspending the search for two missing boaters at sunset today, pending the development of new information. Missing are 57-year-old Randall Spivey and 33-year-old Brandon Billmaier. “After the utmost consideration and careful review of all factors ...
The city of Cape Coral’s reclaimed (reuse) irrigation water pumps are temporarily shut down while crews work to isolate a leak on a reuse main and complete repairs. This shutdown is necessary to safely lower system pressure and allow crews to access and fix the break,city officials ...
Tuesday BOYS BASKETBALL City of Palms Classic Owasso (OK) 82, Cape Coral 30: The Seahawks, a last-second invitee to fill in for St. John Bosco, had a tough game against nationally ranked Owasso. Hezekiah Jones and Elijah Felix scored 10 points each for Cape (10-2). Owasso was ranked 18th ...
Updates • While Florida and local partners lead Helene and Milton recovery, FEMA has provided more than $11 billion in grants to survivors, reimbursements to communities, and flood insurance payments. • More than $1.8 billion in recovery funds have been obligated to the state to ...