Lee County has added the Estero Community Park as an additional residential drop-off location for residents who do not want to wait for debris-management trucks to arrive.   Rather than using the park’s main entrance, residents need to enter the park’s maintenance compound entrance off the east side of Via Coconut Point. Signs will be posted. The address is 21651 Via Coconut Point.   Hours will be the same as the county’s other two self-drop sites – 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. seven days a week beginning Thursday, Oct. 12.   You must show ID and be a resident of [Read More.]

Lee County has launched a new Hurricane Irma Daily Updates landing page on its Solid Waste website. It also has started opening drop-off locations for residential horticultural debris from the storm. The Hurricane Irma Daily Updates site features an interactive map showing where crews are working. The map – also viewable on mobile phones – is updated each evening to show where trucks will arrive the next day throughout Lee County. The site also features daily updates showing the volume of debris collected. For residents who do not want to wait for debris-management trucks to arrive, there is now a [Read More.]

(Shown left to right: Dr. Jason Lortie, FGCU; Jim Shields, ECCL; Vince Modarelli, ECCL; Dr. Sandra Kauanui, Director, Institute of Entrepreneurship; Vice-Mayor Bill Ribble; and Dr. Eric Arseneau, FGCU) Vice-Mayor Bill Ribble met with Community Leaders and FGCU faculty from the Institute for Entrepreneurship on August 30, 2017. Dr. Sandra Kauanui, Director of the Institute, gave her guests an overview of the Entrepreneurship Program and the need for student mentors, funding, classroom and meeting room space. Over the last three years, the program has grown from 20 students to more than 80 students this semester. The meeting concluded [Read More.]