SIGN UP NOW: Estero Wildcat Booster Golf Tournament
The Estero Athletic Booster Club is hosting its 4th annual fundraising golf tournament at 8 a.m., Sunday, August 18, at The Club at Renaissance in Fort Myers. The event will include a 4-person scramble, lunch and presentation of awards following golf. This annual fundraiser helps raise funds to support athletic scholarships, equipment and training tools for student athletes. Cost is $150 for individuals and $600 for a team; price includes breakfast, lunch and cart fees. You may register here. Sponsorships are available for $200 a hole, $300 closest to the hole, $400 for long drive and $3,000 for lunch sponsorship [...]
12th Annual Breaking Par at Grandezza to benefit Estero students and honor Estero’s first Mayor Nick Batos on April 13 & 14
The 12th annual “Breaking Par at Grandezza” is a two-day fundraising event to benefit Estero High School students who don’t have the resources to go on to college or trade schools. You may support this event by playing in the shotgun/scramble at Grandezza at 8:30 a.m., Saturday, April 13. and/or attending the gala dinner at Grandezza at 5:30 – 8:15 p.m., Sunday, April 14. The shotgun/scramble will feature lots of fun games while supporting Estero educational initiatives. The shotgun/scramble will be followed by a delicious luncheon. Tickets are $140 for single players or $500 for golf foursomes. You may click [...]
Great turnout for EsteroFest 2024 on March 16
Approximately 2,200 Estero residents, their families and friends came out on a sunny Saturday afternoon to join in the festivities at the EsteroFest 2024 event at Estero Community Park. Starting out, there was a popular Kids Zone featuring face-painting, carnival games, arts and crafts, bounce houses, magic shows, Way Too Tall Torrie and kid friendly food trucks. Later, adults enjoyed a beer and wine garden, a variety of food trucks and the music performed by the Swamp Blues Band followed by the nationally acclaimed Ben Allen Band. Estero Fire Rescue and Lee County Sherriff’s Office had display areas, and there [...]
Estero Park to host EGGStravaganza featuring the Easter Bunny and an egg hunt on March 30, 2024
Estero’s EGGStravaganza featuring an adaptive egg hunt will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 30, at Estero Park, 9200 Corkscrew Palms Blvd. Preregistration is required by calling the recreation center at 239-533-1470 or online at www.leeparks.org/register. The egg hunt and the opportunity to meet the Easter Bunny are for children age 12 and under. The cost is $5 per child. Bring your camera and basket. The first egg hunt begins at 10 a.m. This is an outdoor event, weather permitting. For more information, call the Estero Recreation Center at 239-533-1470.
Grant applications and construction management on the agenda for Council on March 20, 2024
The meeting will start at 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 20, addressing a contract with Hagerty Consulting, Inc., to assist the Village in preparing and submitting infrastructure grant applications. Lee County received funds to support long-term hurricane recovery for the area, and Hagerty Consulting, Inc., would work with Village staff to get grant applications submitted to Lee County before the end of May. Council will then review a proposal to execute a piggyback agreement with Chris-Tel Construction and Manhattan Construction for construction manager at risk services (CMAR) to manage and build smaller projects that are expected to cost less than $4.5 [...]
Cell tower, learning center and daycare reviewed by the Planning, Zoning and Design Board on March 12, 2024
Public Hearing The Board started their meeting with a public hearing for an amendment to Commercial Planned Development to add a 178-foot-tall monopole cell tower on a 12-acre parcel at 19980 Bella Terra Blvd. off Corkscrew Road. The facility will include the monopole with antennas, a 4 x 8-foot concrete pad for a generator, three 10 x 15- foot lease areas, all of which will be enclosed by an eight-foot chain-link fence with barbed wire surrounded by a fifteen-foot-wide landscape buffer with double hedgerow and sable palms. According to the applicant Broadus Tower, this facility is necessary to improve the [...]
The following information is provided by Cougar Contracting, Inc.: Corkscrew Road Widening Project – Phase I Construction Project: The project widens Corkscrew Road to six lanes from Ben Hill Griffin Parkway to Fire House Lane, and to four lanes from Fire House Lane to Bella Terra Boulevard. The project includes adding on-road bike lanes, some sidewalk, installing new drainage, and constructing a wildlife crossing approximately 1000 feet west of the entrance to Cypress Shadows Boulevard. This crossing will coincide with a regional flow-way that crosses Corkscrew Road at that location. The Village of Estero will be installing shared use paths, lighting, and landscaping [...]
Planning, Zoning & Design Board applicants interviewed on March 13, 2024
The Village Council conducted this special workshop in order to interview the 12 applicants for the Planning, Zoning & Design Board. Four members of the Board have terms that expire on April 30, 2024. In addition, there are two vacancies on the Board. The Land Development Code provides for a range of 7-9 members on the Board. Staff advertised for Board members, as well as verifying existing members’ interest in serving on the Board. There were a total of 12 applications; 1 applicant had withdrawn: 8 new volunteers and 4 from existing members whose terms expire in April. There are [...]
Donated, Not Wasted – Lee County’s seventh annual food-rescue campaign begins as seasonal residents head north
Donations to be accepted March 18 through April 1 Lee County Solid Waste’s seventh annual “Donated not Wasted” food rescue campaign encourages seasonal residents and visitors to donate unopened pantry items before returning north. Estero residents can drop off unopened canned or dry goods from Monday, March 18, to Monday, April 1, at the South County Regional Library, 21100 Three Oaks Parkway or Estero Recreation Center, 9200 Corkscrew Palms Blvd. Since the program’s inception, more than 31,100 pounds of food has been diverted from potential disposal and sent to the Harry Chapin Food Bank – enough food to provide more [...]
Corkscrew Road Widening Phase 1 & 2 update on March 10, 2024
The following information is provided by Cougar Contracting, Inc.: Motorists should expect lane shifts and lane closures during the nighttime/overnight hours on Wednesday, March 13 and Thursday March 14 for the contactor to continue work to finish structural asphalt throughout the project. One lane in each direction will remain open during this work. Motorists should expect lane shifts and lane closures during the nighttime/overnight hours starting on Sunday, March 17 for installing the final lift of asphalt throughout the project. This work is expected to last about two weeks. One lane in each direction will remain open during this work. The contractor [...]