Whiskey Creek News

Tough times continue to mean tough going for locally owned restaurants. Mom-and-pop operations and small chains continue to close as Lee County's economy stumbles along.

When it comes to asbestos, Michele DePalma is not worried about her health, she's worried about her son's. "I want to know if my child is going to get sick, is he going to end up with cancer?" Her fears began to mount when the Department of Environmental Protection confirmed asbestos was found at the County's Summerlin Road overpass site.

A community is demanding answers after asbestos was found in concrete pipes at the Summerlin Road project.

Talking shop with Liz Herman-Ennen, owner of Bee in a Bath, a new natural bath products company.

They were men known as Wild Bill, Frog and Nature Boy. Southwest Florida's history includes, if you believe everything you read, a 122-year-old man who died mullet fishing and a 132-year-old woman who had an 8-year-old great-great-great-great granddaughter.

Two well-known but recently closed Fort Myers businesses plan to reopen their doors.

There was Wild Bill Belvin, who disappeared into the woods in the 1930s for a year wearing grass clothes.

Two landmark businesses that have been operating side by side on McGregor Boulevard since the 1970s have closed their doors - victims of a relentlessly slow economy.

Dan Irons sent The News-Press a picture of a new fish he's been catching in his pond at Whiskey Creek.

In the beginning, there were cattle. They drove Southwest Florida commerce as the first non-Indian settlers arrived in the mid-1800s. Sure, the region lured other business pioneers including moonshiner Bill Clay, who set up shop on a waterway still known as Whiskey Creek.

The Florida Department of Transportation has completed the repaving portion of the McGregor Boulevard road project, according to FDOT public information officer JoAnn May.