pleblanc@breezenewspapers.com Pine Island ROAR member Kathy Chumley coordinated an Earth Day island cleanup on April 22, with the help of some willing islanders. “It went very well,” Chumley said. “We had quite a few people. Some of them worked down in Matlacha from around Miceli’s ...
Islanders Mike and Morgan Miceli have announced the birth of their son, Oliver Sergio Miceli, on Saturday, April 17, at 8 p.m. At birth, he weighed 7 pounds and 3 ounces.
news@breezenewspapers.com Kids learn better in school classrooms, data collected by the School District of Lee County shows. Although distance learning proved to be effective in some areas, numbers presented to the School Board of Lee County last week pointed towards the “face-to-face” ...
Did you know that Fort Myers once had a dance hall in the middle of the Caloosahatchee River? Or, did you know that 75 students formed a singing Christmas tree for years that performed for former President Dwight Eisenhower? These and other little known memories about the early days of Lee ...
pleblanc@breezenewspapers.com Jessica Potts has had a hand in her family’s business, TowBoatU.S., since she graduated college. Captains for Clean Water was getting organized around that same time period and a love for the water urged the family to get involved by partnering and supporting ...
pleblanc@breezenewspapers.com Carol Ervin has had a love for writing for as long as she can remember, which explains the number of books she’s written for her fictional historical series. Her “Mountain Women” series, currently consisting of 12 books, has created quite a following for ...
pleblanc@breezenewspapers.com Frank Vollmar’s parents, Andy and Georgia Vollmar, made their way to Pine Island when their friend began coming here in the 1940s and he talked them into moving here. By 1957, Pine Island was home to the family, which consisted of his parents, younger sister ...
pleblanc@breezenewspapers.com Two years ago Salvatore Cammilleri took his test and got a general equivalency diploma after studying at the Beacon of Hope. Unlike many Beacon GED graduates, Cammilleri is not a teenager. In fact, he’s not even in his 20s. Cammilleri is a businessman and ...
pleblanc@breezenewspapers.com Beacon of Hope Community Program Director Nancy Buthman told the Pine Island COVID-19 Task Force at its April 19 weekly meeting that the Beacon had given approximately 243 vaccinations, with the second dose to complete the immunization scheduled for May 4. ...
nmayberg@breezenewspapers.com New progress on the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Reservoir Project was announced on Earth Day by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The announcement followed a vote by the South Florida Water Management District Governing Board to authorize an agreement with the U.S. ...
