Before Cape Coral was officially a city, the first residents to call home what was then little more than 100 square miles of scrub brush and vacant land had a newspaper to call their own. Beginning as a one-page, mimeographed sheet detailing weddings, birthday celebrations and fishing ...
The Breeze hit a major milestone last week — we marked our 60th anniversary as Cape Coral’s community newspaper on Tuesday. On Dec. 14, 1961, a Cape Coral couple, Dick and Sally Crawford, published Volume 1, No. 1 of the Cape Coral Breeze, the four-year-old community’s first “real ...
December 1961. Social upheaval, global angst, the space race. But in the newly founded Cape Coral, a few thousand early residents had different concerns: Canals being dug, streets being paved and businesses being built. Enter the Cape Coral Breeze, which published its first newsprint edition ...
On Dec. 14, 1961, a Cape Coral couple, Dick and Sally Crawford, published Volume 1, No. 1 of the Cape Coral Breeze, the then still-new community’s first “real newspaper.” As owners serving as editor and “correspondent,” they promised — smack dab on page 1 — that the new ...
The family atmosphere at The Breeze is one of the many reasons the newspaper company has numerous employees that have been a part of the team for well over 15 years. “We have a lot of folks that have been here a lot of years. We have some new folks that have added some new fresh ideas. ...
Meet The Breeze team, December, 2021.
For six decades — and counting — The Cape Coral Breeze has been the Cape’s source of local news. From small business milestones to your kid’s spelling bee win, The Breeze has been residents’ place to go to for community news they can’t find anywhere else. From editing, ...
Not many local newspapers can say they’ve been watchdogging a city or town since before the community incorporated, but that’s a feat the Cape Coral Breeze can claim. Starting with the first edition of what would become The Breeze that debuted 60 years ago until today, being a ...
Although the city of Cape Coral is only 50 years old, it has a number of landmarks — locations that stand out in people’s minds as having been here as historical markers. The Cape Coral Yacht Club, the Iwo Jima statue, Big John and the Cape Coral Shopping Plaza it towers over, City Hall, ...
The Breeze has covered the Cape for 60 years.
