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A resident participation meeting was held Thursday, Aug. 24, at Pine Island Elementary School to receive public comment and input on the Draft Action Plan for t

Dave Harner starts his first day as the new Lee County Manager, overseeing a $2.6 billion budget and 28,000 employees.

Dave Harner has started work as Lee County Manager, reporting to the Lee Board of County Commissioners and overseeing a $2.6 billion budget and 2,800 employees.

Dave Harner has started work as Lee County Manager, reporting to the Lee Board of County Commissioners and overseeing a $2.6 billion budget and 2,800 employees.

Fort Myers – Lee County has announced the creation of the Office of Strategic Resources & Government Affairs – a move that will place the c

Fort Myers – Lee County has announced the creation of the Office of Strategic Resources & Government Affairs – a move that will place the c

The delay qA an apparent violation of the meticulous evacuation strategy the county had crafted for just such an emergency.

A day of hesitation in Lee County came despite warnings that the Fort Myers and Cape Coral area could see mass flooding. Now authorities are encountering mass death.

Storm surge in Sarasota was expected to be 3 to 5 feet. A couple of Fort Myers Beach residents, Mary Shields and Dan Blanchet, were sitting at the end of Strandview Avenue just watching the clouds and waves go by at mid-day Tuesday. “So far it hasn’t shown much, but it still has a way to go until the center gets up here,” Blanchet said around noon, guessing that the worst part would come around dinner. “It’s not as bad as Eta (in November 2020), but it was a hurricane.” “We just...

Much of the money is aimed at adding organization to the nation’s vaccine rollout. Health departments, hospitals, Publix, CVS and Walgreens, even churches in Florida have gotten into the vaccine distribution business. But, with that being said, there’s no single plan to distribute those vaccines. Lee County Manager Roger Desjarlais said there were some assumptions about how the process would work. “It’s always been assumed by everyone that it was going to be a federal and state operatio...