Estero News

As the world prepares to celebrate Monday the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, media outlets have replayed President Ronald Reagan's famous words: 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.' These words reportedly did not receive too much attention when Reagan spoke them June 12, 1987, commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin.

The Lee County Sheriff's Office will offer residents a chance to anonymously discard unused prescription medications on Saturday.

Estero's Kacy Smith , Immokalee's Rogelt Munoz-Trejo , Lely's Emily Hine and Cypress Lake's Kaitlyn Martin lead the early portion of the Class 2A-District 6 girls cross country meet on Nov.

Sunday, 12:30-4 p.m., Anchor Christian Church, 11651 E. Terry St., Bonita Springs; fund raiser benefitting the Mading family and blood drive benefiting Community Blood Center Tuesday, 5-9 p.m., Cici's Pizza, 20041 S. Tamiami Trail, No.

Actually, it was a pretty short line. Last year, the first thing we did upon arriving in Florida after a summer in Wisconsin and long drive south was head for the polling booths, anticipating long waits for the US presidential election.

The hall inside Estero's Three Oaks Banquet & Conference Center was set for more than a hundred guests but about 20 seats were filled.

Chabad of Bonita Springs and Estero will serve kosher Cuban food at its next monthly ethnic community Sabbath dinner.

The Estero Newcomers Club luncheon meeting will be held Nov. 12 at Spanish Wells Country Club, 9801 Treasure Cay Lane, Bonita Springs.

A 26-year-old man is in jail on charges of using a fake prescription to get Oxycodone pills from two Lee County pharmacies.

Luke Bryan will launch his first headlining tour on Thursday at the Germain Arena in Estero, Fla.

Megan Loraine Bowers, 19, of the 1000 block of Hollygate Lane, Naples, was arrested by Naples police Sunday at home.

Luke Bryan launches his first headlining concert tour tonight in Estero, Florida.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Estero Bay Preserve State Park in Lee County plans to conduct a prescribed burn Thursday morning.

It's lunchtime on a Friday at Pinchers Crab Shack in Bonita Springs, and all the wooden barstools are angled diagonally toward the door.

JoAnn Ostrowski's love of controlling her environment is exemplified in her watercolor paintings.

The first Interstate 75 overpass built in Lee County since the early 1980s opened on Friday.

A party celebrating new friendships made through dog ownership at Estero Community Park's K-9 Corral was a success in more ways than one.

George Magee has been waiting 16 years for the final two pieces of his late aunt's estate, and now they're headed his way - part of a $1.2 million windfall for a big bunch of Southwest Floridians.

For all those who claim Spanish-speaking immigrants don't want to learn English, Laura Ramirez Dondero has three words: Read my books.

Toll Brothers released for sale a new Aragon Versailles, an estate home at Belle Lago, a community of single-family homes on Estero Parkway.