The Chamber of Commerce hosted a special Business After Hours Wednesday night at Shuckers as the restaurant showed off its new menu. According to Bar Supervisor & Music Manager Roxanne Jakaitis (pictured here), the turnout was excellent, everyone had a great time, they loved the music "and we got awesome feedback on the food."

$450,000 worth of renovations are planned for the restroom facilities in Lynn Hall Park. The upgrades are scheduled to take place in March of 2021 and the bathrooms will be closed while the work is being done.

Candace Johnson from the Dr. Piper Foundation is our first guest. She'll be telling us about their 106th Christmas Celebration to benefit at-risk children. Estero Island resident and author Patrick McKeown, joins us at 9:30 to tell us about his new book "The Mound House: Crown Jewel of Fort Myers Beach."

Would you like to be a skunk researcher? There's no pay and there's no guarantee that the job won't stink. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has a new project for Florida residents. The organization is looking for help learning more about the one mammal most of us try to avoid at all costs.

Work to restore the beach shoreline at Lynn Hall Park begins this Saturday. The beach will be closed from the pier to the north end of Lynn Hall Park. The south side of the parking lot will remain open. The restrooms and shower facilities will also stay open. The work is expected to be completed by Thursday, Dec. 24.

The Fort Myers Beach Art Association has opened its Art Divine Holiday Sale, Nothing Over $150. The gallery is open Monday-Thursday 10-3pm with limited capacity and masking required.  There are over 300 works of framed and matted original art for sale.  100% of the commission goes to the artists themselves.

Over 2,000 of you watched our coverage of the 2020 Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce Boat Parade from Nervous Nellie's this past weekend. It was clear that local residents wanted to get outside and enjoy a community event after so many have been canceled due to the pandemic. And here are the 2020 Boat Parade winners....

Saturday night's Mile Wide Concert at The Ranch in Fort Myers was a HUGE success, according to organizer Chris O'Neill. O'Neill was our guest on Episode #141 of Beach Talk Radio. The event brought in thousands of dollars in donations and hundreds of toys.

A handcrafted art & craft show is being held on the grounds of St. Mary's Church on Bonita Beach Road Thursday & Friday. The boutique style art show will feature over 30 artists and will be socially distanced and plenty of hand sanitizing stations. The show is being produced by Blue Ribbon Events.

The New Years Eve fireworks were canceled earlier this year and yesterday the Town Council decided to cancel the Times Square Ball Drop as well. Every New Years Eve, Fort Myers Beach hosts an event in Times Square to count down the clock to the start of a new year with a ball drop above the poinsettia decorated tree in Times Square.

Don't miss the next “Evening at the Homestead” virtual presentation sponsored by the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation. On Thursday December 17th the topic will be the Smalltooth Sawfish: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going? The Plight of the Endangered Smalltooth Sawfish and What is Being Done to Promote Recovery in the U.S.

Tonight at 5PM we'll be broadcasting from La Ola in Times Square. Our guests will be Dan Allers who will tell us about the 12/19 bicycle parade, Andi Clemmons updates us on what she's doing at the Women's Club Tree Festival and Nancy Bouchard and Kelly Jones Smith from the FMB Community Foundation to discuss their  latest distribution of gift cards.