Interest DigestFort Myers Digest
Fort Myers's week in one email: the local news worth knowing and what's coming up, each item linked to its source.
Free, every Thursday morning
What's in an issue
Every issue is organized the same way, so you know where to look.
Each issue follows this layout, with real local items, every one linked to its source, where the grey lines are.
Fort Myers Digest
Every week, in this order
The Short List
The three or four things worth knowing this week, one line each.
News Notes
A few sentences on each local story, with a link to the full piece.
Coming Up
Events nearby, soonest first, with the day, time and place.
Around Town
Openings and community happenings, in weeks that have some.
What Fort Myers Digest covers
News and events from Fort Myers and the towns around it in Lee County, Florida, gathered from 15 local publishers, each item linked to the one it came from.
Cities and towns
- Fort Myers
- Cape Coral
- Sanibel
- Captiva
- Fort Myers Beach
- Estero
- Lehigh Acres
Neighborhoods
- Downtown Fort Myers, Fort Myers
- McGregor Boulevard, Fort Myers
- Dean Park, Fort Myers
- Edison Park, Fort Myers
- Dunbar, Fort Myers
- Whiskey Creek, Fort Myers
- Iona, Fort Myers
- Gulf Coast Town Center, Fort Myers
- Bell Tower Shops, Fort Myers
- North Fort Myers, Fort Myers
- Cape Coral Yacht Club, Cape Coral
- Cape Harbour, Cape Coral
- Cape Coral Parkway, Cape Coral
- Matlacha, Cape Coral
- Pine Island, Cape Coral
- Periwinkle Way, Sanibel
- Ding Darling, Sanibel
- Estero Boulevard, Fort Myers Beach
- Bowditch Point, Fort Myers Beach
- Coconut Point, Estero
- Miromar Lakes, Estero
Local sources it reads
- Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall
- City of Fort Myers
- City of Sanibel
- Florida Politics
- Florida Repertory Theatre
- Florida Weekly
- Gulfshore Business
- Gulfshore Life
- National Hurricane Center
- Ogden Newspapers (Breeze Newspapers)
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation
- Santiva Chronicle
- Town of Fort Myers Beach
- WGCU Public Media
- WINK News
How each issue is made
Gathered from local sources
Through the week, our software reads local sources: city and county sites, public media, local papers and venue calendars.
Checked by an editor
An editor reads every issue and approves it before it goes out. An item without a source doesn't make it in.
Sent Thursday morning
It arrives as one email: a short summary of each item, with a link to where the story was published.
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