Sydney Persing

A school nurse in Southwest Florida is getting recognized for her hard work and dedication during the pandemic. In this time of COVID-19, healthcare workers continue to be overworked, but somehow Melissa Wallace continues to take on even more. Wallace is a mentor and counselor to students, on-call at night and on weekends for staff. […]

Do the Lee County School Board members think Superintendent Dr. Gregory Adkins has done a good job during his tenure? When we first reported Adkins was retiring, we showed you his most recent board evaluations available to us – those were from 2020. And we promised you we’d update you as soon as we got […]

A deaf customer ordered a meal at McDonald’s with a normal expectation: she’d get the food she’d paid for. Instead, she was left without food or a refund and hurt feelings. Brenda Lander believes her story is about so much more than a single visit to McDonald’s. Masks have made it more difficult for deaf people […]

After a year of living with masks as a necessity, the CDC says people who are fully vaccinated can take them off almost anywhere. The new guidance clears the way for a full-scale reopening, and doctors say people can return to doing the things they stopped doing because of the pandemic. This announcement is welcomed […]

The School District of Lee County has launched a webpage to help you get involved in the search for an interim superintendent. At the top of the Lee County schools website is a new page all about the search for a superintendent as the board begins its search for an interim. On April 16, Superintendent […]

An arch that once welcomed people to Fort Myers Beach is making a comeback, and pieces of the old will become part of the new. When a structure so large and iconic is destroyed, where does all that rubble eventually end up? In this case, it was on farmland in Buckingham, where 20 tons worth […]

After the pandemic shut down many industries and businesses, people are beginning to hire again. But, now they’re having difficulty finding workers to fill those positions. There could be multiple factors contributing to that but Florida Senator Marco Rubio blames the government. He says small businesses can’t hire people back because the governments paying people […]

A city councilman wants to discuss the possibility of disbanding the Fort Myers Police Department and turning over policing duties to the sheriff’s office instead. Fred Burson, who represent Ward 5 of the city, credits Fort Myers police Chief Derrick Diggs with much of the improvements at the police department, but now that Diggs has […]

Parents are fired up over mandated masks in schools. Lee County parents are upset the governor’s lifted COVID-19 emergency orders won’t trickle down to their students’ schools. Some say they’re sending their child inside without a mask, despite policy. Mask requirements in Lee County’s public schools will stay — at least through the end of […]

The race for governor of Florida is heating up already and some well-known Democrats are ready for 2022. Officially, only Charlie Crist has announced he’s running so far. There are, however, clues that he could have a challenger or multiple challengers. Congresswoman Val Demings is a lifelong Democrat. “If you don’t like something, you do […]