pleblanc@breezenewspapers.com Jim Downer began Pine Island Pest Control by servicing his own home. He said the most important thing they do is to give people peace of mind. Now serving, not only Pine Island, parts of Cape Coral and also the outer islands by boat, he said there is nothing else ...
pleblanc@breezenewspapers.com The business of water treatment is nothing new to Roy and Donna Barticciotto, since they run over a hundred of the same size plants in New York for CEMCO water and wastewater specialists, as we do here on the island. Commuting a couple of times a month became a ...
news@breezenewspapers.com A teacher of 35 years shifted her career path after her husband became her inspiration to publish her first book. Theresa Corbley Siller, a North Fort Myers resident, said she has taught kindergarten, fourth grade and high school students in public schools, as well ...
cjhaddad@breezenewspapers.com Southwest Florida municipalities are in store for a monetary influx on the heels of the American Rescue Plan. The $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11 includes $350 billion in relief to states, localities, ...
pleblanc@breezenewspapers.com Gary Harvey and Kerri Lynn are a music duo known very well on Pine Island as Gary and Kerri. In addition to sharing their love for and gift in the art of music, they have been married for 17 years. In November of last year, at only 54 years of age, Gary suffered ...
pleblanc@breezenewspapers.com Ernestine Holloway Squires reports that the 23rd annual Bobby Holloway Jr. Memorial Fishing Tournament held this past weekend was an amazing event. “We had an amazing turn out -- 69 adult boats and 12 youth," said Holloway Squires, an organizer and hostess ...
pleblanc@breezenewspapers.com Pine Island Task Force facilitator Eric McCrea reported at the April 5 meeting that in a poll done in his church on Easter morning, he was able to ascertain approximately 70 to 80 percent of those attending had received their first immunization shot. Task Force ...
cjhaddad@breezenewspapers.com Lee County’s vaccination site is getting a new, indoor location. Officials from the Florida Department of Health – Lee and Lee County Government recently announced the COVID-19 vaccination site is to be relocated to the former Sears building at the ...
nmayberg@breezenewspapers.com More than 200 million gallons of wastewater loaded with high levels of nitrogen and phosphate emptied into Port Manatee over the past week, at the entrance to Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico due to the failure of the Piney Point Reservoir at a defunct phosphate ...
pleblanc@breezenewspapers.com Current board member and former Greater Pine Island Chamber of Commerce Board President Mel Brinson had the honor of presenting the Al Mills Award to Marty and John Kendall of the Calusa Land Trust at the recent chamber dinner, where the award is traditionally ...
