Archive for April, 2010

Off-duty Bonita firefighter saves heart attack victim at Germain Arena

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Firefighter John Kutz, 26, was participating in a pickup hockey game when a 56-year-old man collapsed on the ice.

Child struck by vehicle on Del Prad…..

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

A 13-year-old child who was struck by a car on Del Prado Boulevard Tuesday night while attempting to cross the roadway has died, officials said this morning.

Dean Park targeted for National Registry of Historic Places

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

A 100-year-old Fort Myers neighborhood is on its way to national recognition. Jared Beck, historical preservation coordinator for Fort Myers, and Bonita Springs resident Karin Wolfe are working to get Dean Park on the National Registry of Historic Places.

South Lee County Police Beat: April 27, 2010

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

To report a crime or any suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call the Lee County Sheriff's Office at 477-1000 or you can remain anonymous and call Crime Stoppers at 332-5555 or 1-800-780-TIPS. Battery arrests a- Edward Wilson Howell, 22, of the 13000 block of Shetland Lane, Fort Myers, was arrested Monday by Lee deputies at home.

FYI: April 28, 2010

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

ViVi Ristorante at Coastland Center mall celebrates a long happy hour from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Wednesdays with discounts on house wine and well drinks.

RV storage project rejected by Bonita council gets OK to go in anyway

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

The city staff on March 31 granted Bar N Ranch development, next to Bonita Bubbles, a development order allowing it to build three recreational vehicle storage buildings totaling about 68,000 square feet and an office at 24296 U.S. 41 and 24300 U.S. 41.

Retiring Florida greyhounds head north to become ’40-mph couch potatoes’

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Silvanna Rizzi-Cortella, owner of Hollydogs' is moving 14 greyhounds to an adoption agency in Philadelphia with the help of volunteers.

Man throwing money into drainage ditch arrested on robbery charges

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

A Bonita Springs man seen by a Lee County Sheriff's Office lieutenant throwing money in a drainage ditch was arrested Friday on strong-arm robbery charges.

Bonita Springs officials schooled on public records laws

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Bonita Springs city officials went to school today to learn more about Government in the Sunshine State and public records laws.

POLL Talk of Bonita Springs, Estero, San Carlos Park fire merger heats up

Monday, April 26th, 2010

District fire consolidation, the process of merging independent fire districts, is like getting married to someone with children, Bonita Springs fire Commissioner Steve Lohan said.