After months of dealing with red tide and blue-green algae, a group held a meeting in Cape Coral inviting hundreds to talk about the future of Southwest Florida’s water. Bill Johnson Junior, CEO of the Cape Coral Construction Industry Association was attending the meeting, he says business is taking a hit. “With us being in…
Hurricane Florence began barreling into the Carolina coastline Thursday afternoon. The storm originally put almost 10 million in the cross hairs, prompting many to evacuate and some of those evacuees ended up here in Southwest Florida. Dale Bradford remembers Hurricane Irma wreaking havoc on Poinsettia Park in Fort Myers. “I’d say 80 percent of the…
Police seized a large amount of drugs from a home in Fort Myers after a search warrant was obtained following a traffic stop. According to Lee County Sheriff’s office, their narcotics unit along with the Highway Interdiction Unit conducted a traffic stop on Edgar Vazquez, 33. During the traffic stop they discovered 520 grams of…
Early on Thursday morning, a bomb squad and the Fort Myers Hamat team were called to a house in a Fort Myers neighborhood about a substance found in a bucket. Neighbors who witnessed the the whole thing go down say it was a crazy situation. “We just woke up to like the cops saying come…
Earlier this week we spoke with residents of Punta Gorda Isles who say they aren’t happy with the destruction being caused by contractors repairing their seawalls. MORE: https://www.winknews.com/2018/09/11/residents-of-punta-gorda-isles-not-happy-with-seawall-contractors/ The city told neighbors in the area that docks were their responsibility, but the residents say, the contractors used their docks to stack supplies without any permission. The…
The Jeep of a fallen police officer will recieve a make-over thanks to a local auto body shop. Officer Adam Jobber-Miller was killed in the line of duty back in July. Since his death his 2014 Jeep has been with his family. “It’s got dents in it, it’s got some scrapes on it. You know,…
Plans are already in place to rescue Hurricane Florence survivors. One woman right here in Southwest Florida is going to do her best to help from hundreds of miles away. Roxanna Perez-Harnarain is 70 years old, she’s in a one-story house, and she’s stuck on the kitchen counter, but she’s ready to help. Perez-Harnarain has…
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You have to walk a mile in someone’s shoes to understand their life and you’d have to walk pretty far to keep up with ‘Officer of the Year’ nominee Emilia Lock. MORE: Sergeant Sylvester Smalls up for ‘Officer of the Year’ Lock balances four kids at home and keeps the streets of her hometown safe as…
A North Fort Myers man died in a moped accident on the Edison Bridge Wednesday morning, according to the Fort Myers Police Department. At 6:47 a.m. police responded to a crash in the southbound lanes of the Edison Bridge. A moped was involved in a crash with another car, according to FMPD. Jimmy Ray Thorp,…