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Breeze 60th

The Breeze at 60

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 ...

Editorial: 60 and counting: Thank you!

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 ...

Our news philosophy

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 Our Team

Meet The Breeze team, December, 2021.