The biggest musical event of the year takes place November 22nd through the 24th. Def Leppard, Train and Brad Paisley headline The Harvest Nights Music Festival in Immokalee thanks to The Charity Pros. Here’s how you can get tickets and help the Woman’s Club.

This 4900 square foot home at 5940 Estero Boulevard has sold for $11.25 million, a record for a Fort Myers Beach single family residence. The home has 4 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms and sits right on the Gulf of Mexico.

The home at 433 Palermo Circle, owned by Mike Dewitt, built by Joe Orlandini, failed 11 inspections before finally getting a Certificate of Occupancy in October of 2022. The Engineer on the home was Steve Brockman.

The Whale and Sandy Bottom restaurant owners Mike and Dawn Miller are buying the old fire house building at 3043 Estero Boulevard. The sale price was $900,000.

After crunching numbers with Fire District Finance Director Jane Thompson, Fort Myers Beach Fire Chief Scott Wirth has proposed the Fire District Board vote for a millage rate for the 2024/2025 fiscal year of 2.8 per $1,000 of assessed property valuation. The current rate is 2.985.

The Lee County Board of Commissioners is expected to approve $3.1 million Tuesday and begin installing lights at 42 crosswalks on Estero Boulevard in October. Lee County owns Estero Boulevard.

Fort Myers Beach Building Official Joe Specht has confirmed to Beach Talk Radio News that local builder Joe Orlandini is no longer permitted to use 3rd party inspectors on any construction he may be doing on Fort Myers Beach.

We go live at 5PM Friday from The Fins Up Beach Club pool at Margaritaville. Thanks to The Alex King Group and Michael Stewart P.E., everyone who prints out the flier at the end of this story gets into the pool for free.

The Fort Myers Beach Fire Control District will be breaking ground on its new fire station at 2545 Estero Boulevard. Shovels will hit the dirt Friday, October 25th at 10AM. The new fire house will be built on the old Topps Building next to where the old Town Hall once stood.

Exactly 23 months after Hurricane Ian destroyed their dream, Brian and Stacey Martins, owners of The Island’s Pancake House in the Seagrape Plaza on Estero Boulevard, are back open for business. 

The smell of natural gas coming from 433 Palermo worried neighbor Stephen Sexton enough to go over to the home and call out for his neighbor Mike Dewitt. Sexton hadn't seen Dewitt for over 24 hours and the smell had him concerned.

In a 50-page report the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission detailed 51 changes that need to be made to the resort's lights in order to come into turtle compliance. It was a report TPI CEO Tom Torgerson and State Representative Adam Botana called an overreach.