On Tuesday at Wahoo Willie's Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno sat for a 35 minute interview on Beach Talk Radio. We covered everything from how LCSO worked the beach after Hurricane Ian to school violence to some of the tactics and technology the department utilizes to keep Lee County safe. Watch the interview HERE.

Yenier Marrero is the new General Manager of Margaritaville on Fort Myers Beach. Marrero is being promoted from his position of Director of Guest Experience at the resort. He replaces David Cesario who took a job at The Naples Grande last month after being hired from Orlando to open the resort.

Greg Scasny is the 4th Fort Myers Beach resident to announce a run for Fort Myers Beach Town Council. Scasny made the announcement outside Town Hall Monday morning prior to the Town Council meeting. You can watch that video HERE.

A proposed ordinance for a Future Land Use Map Amendment was pulled from the Town Council agenda Monday at the request of the Freeland Group. Freeland needs the Map Amendment Change in order to move forward with The Arches redevelopment project on the Moss Marina property.

Customers who order the new Send It South cocktail at Doc Ford’s restaurants and the Dixie Fish Company will be helping Captains For Clean Water. The restaurants are donating $1 from every drink to the nonprofit organization.

You might think a job evaluation in public would be awkward when most are done behind closed doors. That was far from the case for Fort Myers Beach Town Manager Andy Hyatt who celebrated his one-year anniversary by receiving a bucketload of praise from the 5 people who hired him.

That's the target date Peter Ennis and Nick Ruland announced on Beach Talk Radio last Saturday when they also told the community they were taking over operation of the the popular beach hangout on Old San Carlos.

Several members of the Southwest Florida delegation say you are not and they want to change how Lee County Government operates. Over 100 people showed up to a town hall meeting on the subject in Lehigh Wednesday, including Mayor Dan Allers, other local elected officials, and many candidates running for office.

Calusa Waterkeeper has announced the start of the Eyes on Seagrass pilot program in Lee County, a program developed and managed by Florida Sea Grant in partnership with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Scientists.

Three industrial sugarcane corporations filed a lawsuit in 2021 against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the design and intended use of the Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir. Captains for Clean Water has launched a campaign to get Big Sugar to drop that lawsuit.

The Town Council is expected to approve Ahtna Marine and Construction for the big dredging/pipeline renourishment project the town will begin this Summer. Ahtna was the only company out of three that met the criteria for the project and came in under budget.

We are 1 day away from our 5K event on the beach to benefit the Fort Myers Beach Woman's Club. We're holding one t-shirt/race bib pickup today from 4PM to 6PM at La Ola at Bell Tower. If you cannot make it, it's easy to just pick up your shirt and bib on race day in Times Square.