Fort Myers Beach

Extended summary: As people return to Fort Myers to pick up the pieces after Hurricane Ian, some are finding that harder than others. Crystal Edge of Naples has spent days trying to pry the last vestige of her mother’s memory from the water. She left the 28-year-old sailboat that belonged to her mother tied up at a marina underneath the Fort Myers Beach bridge when Hurricane Ian made landfall. When Edge’s mother died last year, the boat became more important to her. When she checked on the family heirloom after the storm, she was distraught to see it sunken and piled underneath another boat in the marina. Edge has been trying to recover the mast from the boat’s wreckage. She intends to repurpose it as a flagpole to honor her mother.

A few days after the Category 4 storm made landfall in Southwest Florida, people were still being rescued and transported to shelters. Here are their stories.

In a move similar to the one made by the City of Sanibel last week, members of the Town Council of Fort Myers Beach voted in favor of prohibiting…

A Florida administrative law judge in Fort Myers began hearing testimony this week over the proposed construction of a private boardwalk over a publically…

Southwest Florida singer/songwriter Sheena Brook plays live in studio ahead of her performance at the first, “Music on the Mound,” concert at the Mound…

Tomorrow, Fort Myers Beach will be hosting, yet again, the second annual Southwest Florida Sustains: A Regional Seafood Experience.The event centers…

The Fort Myers Beach Film Festival is raising the curtain this week for five days of screenings, including a full-length feature film shot entirely in…

An article by the Coed Media Group on its website for college students says Fort Myers Beach is number nine on the top 20 ‘trashiest’ spring break…

Fort Myers Beach officials are currently working to make the Mound Key Archeological State Park officially part of the town. The largely undisturbed shell…