If you plan on attending the Fort Myers Beach Town Council meeting Monday at 9AM, do not show up at DiamondHead Resort. The meeting will be held at the recently reopened Bay Oaks building.

On September 28, 2022, Hurricane Ian damaged or destroyed nearly every structure on Fort Myers Beach. In the months that followed, many of you entered the painful process of getting permits to repair your property. Some of you didn't. Those of you who didn't are about to feel some additional pain.

On Thursday morning, Affinity Building Systems and Idyll Construction invited us to watch their crew expertly set 4 pieces of a new home on top of a foundation that will become the new residence at 130 Jefferson street.

The Friends of Matanzas Pass Preserve is hosting a workday tomorrow at 9am to clean and clear the entrance and amphitheater area behind the Estero Island Historic Society cottage.

Keep Lee County Beautiful is hosting the Environmental Stewardship Awards on March 7th to recognize and reward notable efforts within the community to promote environmental stewardship and innovation through education and action.

On Monday, January 8th from 1PM to 2PM at The Mound House (451 Connecticut Street), the Estero Island Historical Society is hosting a presentation by Alexandria Edwards, Marketing & Public Relations Coordinator for the Edison and Ford Winter Estates.

Fort Myers Beach resident and parent Monica Schmucker is running for Lee County School Board. She has a video message she'd like to share with everyone. Here's how you can watch the video message, which includes Monica's two beach kids.

Albert D'Ambrose from Studio AD Architect and Scott Allan from the Allen Development Group will be our guests at 11:30AM Saturday morning LIVE from the License to Chill Bar at Margaritaville. Bring your rebuild questions.

BTR will be LIVE from the Times Square Farmers Market again this morning at 9AM. We'll have our merch tent set up, Ellie Bunting will be signing her book Lost Icons of Fort Myers Beach and our daughter Jillian will have a few of her paintings to show off.

Birds, wildlife hurricane survival, toxic waste, and trash: What do they all have in common? They are the topics of six speakers who fill the free “Ding” Darling Lecture Series schedule this season for the 19th year at the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel.

Fort Myers Beach (and Wisconsin) resident Julie Nusbaum took 2nd place at the Sanibel-Captiva Art League’s 48th Annual Juried Art show with her painting called Tru Grit.

It was a shocker of an announcement at the end of the Town Council meeting last week. Councilman Bill Veach said he was most likely be attending his last meeting after stating he would not be filling out a new state-mandated ethics and financial-disclosure form. He kept his word and officially quit today.