For the past eleven months, the ball fields at Bay Oaks have been taken over by dump trucks and land movers as the clean up after Ian continued. Recently, however, it was announced that the ball fields will be back in operation by the end of the month. This will come as welcomed news to […]
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In an earlier blog, I wrote about the days when Fort Myers Beach was known as Crescent Beach. In this article, I am going to address the origin of the name “Estero.” As I was growing up on the island, there was always a controversary over the name Fort Myers Beach. Many residents preferred to
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The passing of longtime Beach resident AJ Bassett this week is another loss for our island. AJ was one of the few residents still alive who were on the island in the 1940s. When her newly widowed mother, Mildred, packed up her three children (AJ, Connie, and Frandy) and her mother and drove from Philadelphia
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For most of my life, Sargassum has been an elusive natural occurrence known by anglers as a “Weed Line.” These patches of Sargassum float offshore in the Atlantic providing food and shelter for bait fish as well as fish that live in the pelagic zone of the ocean which is neither close to the bottom
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For the past few weeks, volunteers have been busy painting street signs to help people navigate on the island. Very few of the “Approved” signs survived the storm, so this was a great way for people to help out with the rebuilding of FMB. Unfortunately, some controversary has arisen about these signs since they are not “up to code.” I thought this might be a good time to look back about seventy years when the last sign controversary rocked the Beach.
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