Chuck Kiester

Marco Island’s City Council met Monday, with the question of seawall repairs front and center. First, they took care of some other business.

The Marco Island Historical Museum's concerns about a lack of exhibits is soon to become history. The City of Marco Island agreed on Tuesday night to give the Marco Island Historical Society $100,000 to purchase permanent exhibits.

The Marco Island City Council heeded a recommendation by the Community Redevelopment Agency advisory committee regarding the proposed Town Center CRA on Monday.

There are few no-brainers in city politics. Nuance is king even when stiff-necked attitudes reign. Here’s one sure bet: Keep Jim Riviere as Marco Island’s permanent city manager, or at least as permanent as our roller coaster politics allow. Riviere ...

Like a damp fuse, the proposal to create a Community Redevelopment Area, or CRA, in Marco Island’s commercial district sputtered along at a meeting Wednesday evening, not quite dying, but not catching fire, either. Fourteen members of the CRA advisory ...

A discussion about making utility rates more equitable on Marco Island Monday afternoon turned to a proposition for the city to get bids for private management for the city department instead.

The man leading the U.S. Coast Guard oil spill response on Florida's west coast said Thursday that the threat to Southwest Florida is low but he's prepared.

You will find a new vision in Dick Adair the pastor of the United Church of Marco Island. He came to Marco Island from Sun City Arizona where he took a small church of just over a hundred folks and ...

Picked on for its size before it even got started, the 18-member Marco Island Community Redevelopment Area advisory committee met for the first time on Wednesday evening and picked back at the size of the city's proposed CRA.

It took five votes to hire him and four votes to fire Marco Island City Manager Steve Thompson on Monday. “Obviously, I wish I had been more successful here, but this is a very difficult community by anyone's standards. Council ...

It took five City Council members to hire him and will only take four of them to fire Marco Island City Manager Steve Thompson tonight.

Words of wit from Marco City Councilman Frank Recker kicked off the first few moments of the newly elected council members' terms this afternoon. Marco is considering charging fees to use Canine Cove, particularly for off-Island residents and is also ...

Six weeks after Marco’s City Council election, Larry Magel and Joe Batte are eager to get to work at their first council meeting on Monday, joining the reelected Councilman Chuck Kiester.

Marco Island City Council chose to defer a review of their ordinance regulating failing seawalls until March 1. Meanwhile, this evening will be largely about requiring developers to fund public displays of arts and whether to continue forward with a ...

With the election now behind us, I heartily congratulate councilors-elect Chuck Kiester and Joe Batte for their successful, honest and fair campaigns. Also, my thanks to Ted Forcht for his four years of dedicated public service. Ted’s extremely slim margin ...