The Fort Myers Beach Lions Club held its annual donation event last week and for the first time since COVID-19 hit it was held in person. The 2021 event was held at Bonita Bill’s.

Town Lighting, the consultant Fort Myers Beach has hired to come up with a plan for lights in Estero Boulevard, will recommend the town install the eLuminaire (pictured here), dual source light, which is not on the FWC certified product list.

We'll talk to the team at Tunaskin about the 2021 Grouper Grappler fishing tournament and Al Kinkle who runs Kimmie's Recovery Zone , which was named after his daughter Kimmie (pictured here). Join us live at 9AM from Pete's Time Out.

With the news of nests hatching on FMB earlier this week, Turtle Time has checked in with its updated turtle numbers for Fort Myers Beach. There are now 83 nests, 125 false crawls, and 3 nests have now hatched.

The 2021 Grouper Grappler Fishing tournament will take place August 19 through 21 at Fish Tale Marina. The tournament consists of two categories: Grouper and Snapper.

This week the Fort Myers Beach Public Safety Committee voted 6-0 in favor of the Town Council budgeting for at least two Lee County Sheriff Community Police Officers. Committee member Jim Knickle believes 4 should be hired.

At a recent Chamber evet State Insurance USA donated $500 to Kimmie's Recovery Zone. Al Kinkle runs Kimmie's, which was named after his daughter who struggled with mental health and drug issues for 20 years. It ended up taking her life. Al will be on Beach Talk Radio Saturday at 9:30AM.

TripAdvisor has released its 2021 "Best of The Best” restaurant awards, and two establishments on Fort Myers Beach have made their lists. Doc Ford's and The Doghouse.

To further its mission to reach and connect with underserved urban communities, the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge migrates its 33rd annual “Ding” Darling Day celebration to Lakes Park in Fort Myers on Sunday, October 10 with its Wildlife on Wheels.

Captains for Clean Water has posted a message to its website asking its members to urge the Army Corps to optimize Plan CC to benefit all stakeholders. They say this is only a starting point and more work needs to be done...

To help fill thousands of open hotel jobs across the country, the American Hotel & Lodging Association and the American Hotel & Lodging Foundation have launched a new advertising campaign. We reached out to several Fort Myers Beach hotels to see if they were also hiring. Here's what they had to say.

And as it stands now local representatives are not real happy with the choice saying it needs a lot of work before residents of Southwest Florida should be satisfied.