The city of Cape Coral’s 9/11 remembrance is always poignant and dignified. This year’s ceremony again focused appropriately on the victims — all those who died in New York at the World Trade Center, in Washington, D.C., at the Pentagon, and in a field in Pennsylvania in the terrorist ...
A hearing examiner has recommended that Cape Coral temporarily suspend a “mandatory involuntary contribution” to the city’s Tree Fund, imposed as a condition by city staff on those seeking what previously was routine vacation approval. In a recommendation dated Aug. 9, Hearing Examiner ...
In usual times, the third anniversary of the debacle that was the withdrawal from Afghanistan would have passed this week with fading headlines, fewer local remembrances and continued personal heartache among those who lost loved ones in the final hours of America’s longest war. But these ...
Jaycee Park will now join the Yacht Club as a stop on the Cape Coral ghost tour. Cape Coral City Council on Wednesday approved a $16-$18 million redevelopment plan in conjunction with a public-private partnership for the riverfront park at the end of Beach Parkway. The approval came 6-2 after ...
The attorneys who represented a 70-year-old Cape Coral man in a federal civil rights lawsuit say they hope the $100,000 settlement the longtime resident received serves as a wake-up call for the city. If by “wake-up call,” the lawyers mean Cape Coral city officials now realize they might ...
More than 100,000 students will head back to school on Monday as the new school year begins. It’s said that each year brings a fresh start, a new beginning, for children and educators alike. This year, maybe more than ever, we are among those who hope this is more promise than ...
We don’t like surprises. Especially those that goose taxpayers via a deep grab for their wallets. That’s why a handful of usually routine requests from private property owners to the city of Cape Coral caught our attention this week. Three canal-front lot owners are asking for correction ...
Twenty Lee County organizations are among entities statewide that have been affected by a surprise veto by Gov. Ron DeSantis who axed the entire $32 million legislative appropriation for the arts a few weeks ago. The local arts community took a collective hit of more than $1.8 ...
If Americans are not grieving this week, we should be. An assassination attempt that failed by a fraction of an inch. A mass shooting in the making that does not meet the FBI definition only because three of the four victims survived and a Secret Service sniper took the shooter out in ...
Election 2024 is a full-bore train wreck in the making: Competing freighters shakin’ and quakin’ at full speed, collision course be damned. Boxcars loaded with ammunition, explosives and rhetorical bombshells. Stockcars packed with the oblivious and the faithful. Aging engines afire, ...
