The World's Finest Skiff Raffle is a fundraising initiative designed to support Captains For Clean Water's efforts to raise awareness about south Florida's water-quality issues and advocate for Everglades restoration. The is the 7th year for the giveaway.

We were spoiled with two great tour guides on Avenida Pescadora Saturday. Both Alex King and Megan Allers gave us a ton of details about one of the highest roads on the island. The tour was sponsored by Studio AD Architect and you can watch it HERE.

On Wednesday, August 31st, The Fort Myers Mighty Mussels will take on the Clearwater Thrashers with $5 from each ticket purchased donated to the Fort Myers Beach Elementary School. The game will be played at the Twins Stadium with fireworks after the game.

Margaritaville Beach Resort on Fort Myers Beach has hired Bryan Detert as its new director of restaurant operations and Rhonda Decherd as sales and marketing director.

Fort Myers Beach is not the only barrier island dealing with traffic issues. The City of Sanibel is hosting 2 public discussions regarding traffic congestion at the Causeway Blvd. and Periwinkle Way intersection.

On Wednesday we'll also get our first look at where the Fort Myers Beach Fire District is heading with its millage rate at a 10AM board meeting at Diamondhead. Like the Library, the Fire District is its own taxing district.

We had a nice contingent of neighbors join us for our Saturday walkaround on Fairview Boulevard including Janet Randall Kernan who was our lead tour guide and gave us an update on so many homes in this very cool neighborhood. Watch HERE.

Fort Myers Beach is back in the good graces of FEMA. Residents will not lose their 25% Flood Insurance Program discount. Last week FEMA gave the town the good news after months of uncertainty and back-and-forth between FEMA and the town.

820 Buttonwood will be the location for the next Chamber of Commerce Coffee Connection at 8AM on August 1st. The event is free and you can register HERE.

Lee County tells Beach Talk Radio this vessel just past the edge of the Fort Myers Beach pier is a crew completing borings as part of preparations for work on the pier project. The pier, which was wiped out by Hurricane Ian, is expected to take 5-6 years to build.

Those 7 property owners now have 2 months to come into compliance, which means clean up their properties, or face the consequences. If their structures are not demolished before the clock runs out, the town will knock them down.

This week the Sanibel City Council advanced an ordinance (in a 5-0 vote) to allow Class 2 ebikes on Sanibel's 26 miles of shared use paths. Class 2 ebikes can go up to 20 MPH. The Fort Myers Beach Town Council is gearing up to possibly change their current ordinance regulating ebikes.