Gwendolyn Salata

Naples mobile home residents feel helpless as community moves forward with post-hurricane rebuild.

With construction of a 350-home housing development on a Bonita Springs golf course set to move forward, a neighboring subdivision that controls water runoff is concerned about what this will mean for the community’s drainage system and water quality despite plans showing improved storm water management and less flooding.

At the January 18 Bonita Springs city council meeting, the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), who which commissioned the research for the project, presented multiple alternatives for the trail. The two most favored alternatives, according to the study, would replace the existing Seminole Gulf Railway (SGR) with a path that runs through Bonita Springs and Estero. It would start at Bonita Beach Road and end at Alico Avenue.

The nonprofit Our Mother's Home anticipated receiving two government funds for its new building, at Evans and Winkler avenues, until the hurricane left unseen destruction in its path. After Ian, $450,000 in funding was reallocated to hurricane relief, and another $875,000 was paused.

A Holocaust-era boxcar is on display at a South Fort Myers private school and will be there through thewhole month of November.

The museum's new space is its third home since 2009 and second after the COVID pandemic forced it out of Cape Coral due to finances.

Some Fort Myers Beach residents and business owners are anxious about how their community will look in the rebuilding aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

As theaters in Southwest Florida enter a new season in the wake of Hurricane Ian, the performing arts community has more attendance challenges ahead after two years of struggling through the pandemic, local theaters say.

People in the 18-29 age range tend to have the lowest voting rates in the nation. Southwest Florida officials, and even young people themselves, say that probably will not change in this November's election.