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The State of Florida has provided funds to the City of Cape Coral as part of the Hurricane Housing Recovery Program to assist residents impacted by Ian. The disaster-related funds are to be used to assist income-eligible applicants with payments of their insurance deductible amounts.
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Several Cape Coral schools were placed on lockdown Wednesday morning for several hours.Cape Coral High School, Heritage Charter Academy, Skyline Elementary, Challenger Middle School and Patriot Elementary were placed on lockdown as a precaution after a possible threat at the high school on Santa Barbara Boulevard South.All lockdowns were lifted shortly before 10:30 a.m.
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Blue-green algae has been detected for the first time this year in canals near the Midpoint Bridge into Cape Coral and the Florida Department of Health issued a warning
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The Florida Department of Health in Lee County has lifted a water quality advisory for the Cape Coral Yacht Club.
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Nearly 40 square miles of North Cape Coral is sinking, an inch or more every year, due to over-pumping the aquifers below the city for household water.
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A scheduled water main shutdown near Gleason Parkway will be effective at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, September 26.
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Lee County Commissioners Tuesday endorsed further analysis of a plan for the Cape Coral Bridge replacement. Two alternatives to the current bridge have been proposed, with overwhelming public and board support going to the choice known as alternative 1.
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The United States Department of Agriculture is sending $1M of green to Cape Coral to help spread that color throughout the city in the form of urban reforestation.
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Official City events can be seen via CapeCoral.gov; be wary of events that ask for payment if not officially sanctioned.
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The plan in Cape Coral for Slipaway Food Truck Park and Marina, on steroids, calls for 10 food trucks, an open-bar pavilion that will seat 154 people and six more pavilions that will seat an additional 150.