Derrick Shaw

From the Lee County Department of Public Safety: Estimates vary, but as many as one in four people live with some type of disability. Sometimes signs are obvious, such as a wheelchair, a guide dog or a cane. However, many times a disability is not obvious. Whether obvious or not, awareness and sensitivity toward persons […]

Contact phone numbers, online information, and resources you’ll need most before, during, and after a hurricane. Emergency Operations Centers Lee: (239)533-0622 Collier: (239)252-3600 Charlotte: (941)833-4000 DeSoto: (863)993-4831 Glades: (863)946-6020 Hendry: (863)674-5400 Hotlines FEMA Disaster Assistance/ Registration: 800-621-3362, TTY: 800-462-7585 U.S. Small Business Administration: 800-659-2955, TTY: 800-877-8339 FEMA Fraud Hotline: 866-720-5721 Report false claims: 800-323-8603 State […]

Hurricane protection can involve a variety of changes to your house and property – changes that can vary in cost and complexity. A professional contractor licensed to work in Florida should carry out complicated or large-scale changes that affect the structure of your house or its electrical wiring or plumbing. However, there are several projects […]

Health Care Due to structural damage, the offices and operations of medical facilities and hospitals may very likely be limited. A mobile health unit may be available to provide services to residents with minor medical needs such as cuts, scrapes, bruises and illnesses. Stay tuned to WINK News for information regarding medical treatments. Carbon Monoxide […]

The Punta Gorda Seafood and Music Festival kicks off Friday with its inaugural event at Laishley Park. The free pet-friendly three-day event will feature seafood entrees cooked on-site along with other meat and vegetarian options and side dishes. Scheduled performers include: Kara Nally Band, Memphis Lightning, Damon Fowler, Frank Bang, The Whole Band, Rockin’ Jake, […]

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office’s animal cruelty task force is joining the search for the person that killed a dolphin that washed ashore. Lee County Sheriff Camine Marceno says his deputies will assist NOAA and FWC with their investigations. Sheriff Marceno said that someone in Southwest Florida must know something about who may have hurt […]

Life is a highway, but not as many trucks are on the open road these days. “As everything goes up our rates have to go up. They aren’t going up accordingly. Trucks are getting parked,” said Pete McKnight, a truck driver. Pete McKnight has been behind the wheel of big rigs, driving across the U.S […]

The Collier County Sheriff’s Office responded to calls of a tiger attack just outside Everglades City. Deputies say this happened at Wooten’s Everglades Airboat Tours – Animal Sanctuary & Alligator Park, at 32330 Tamiami Trail East in Ochopee. The emergency calls tell the story. “At the back of a facility in southern collier county everglades […]

St. Matthew’s House announced it will open two emergency shelters this weekend. Both shelters are relocated in Collier County, one at Campbell Lodge at 2001 Airport Road South in Naples and the other at the Immokalee Friendship House at 602 W Main Street in Immokalee. They will be providing blankets, coffee and snacks for everyone who […]

Florida Highway Patrol confirmed that two people died in a motorcycle crash. This happened in Hendry County near the intersection of SR-80 and CR-833. According to FHP, at about 4 p.m. on Sunday, a 63-year-old Fort Myers man was riding a motorcycle with a 41-year-old woman as his passenger. The motorcycle was traveling west on […]