CHERYL FERRARA

• Contractors raise the roof on Marco Island city manager's decision to move building inspectors to Naples Published 05/25/2012 at 2:05 p.m. 23 Comments

  Monday, Marco Island city building inspectors learned they would have a new boss as of June 2. Marco Island City Manager Jim Riviere met with staff and explained a new collaboration he worked out with Collier County's building department. The ...

• What's hot? What's not! Marco Island City Council budget subcommittee gets first peek at capital requests for 2013 Published 05/25/2012 at 2:05 p.m. 3 Comments

  In dollars, a new community center at Mackle Park made sense Thursday when it came before Marco Island City Council’s budget subcommittee. Realistically, the Smokehouse Bridge may outstrip all other requests in the city’s 2013 capital projects budget.

• Sub-meters allowed for non-household water on Marco Island; audit confirms financial state of city Published 05/24/2012 at 3:41 p.m.

  [No Paragraph Style]BC BodycopyAt the request of homeowners, Marco Island City Council voted 7-0 Monday to allow sub-meters for residents on city water and sewer. Sub-meters measure the amount of water purchased by a homeowner and used outside of househo

• Marco Island City Council opens with Marco Island Academy report; close with advisory committee selections Published 05/24/2012 at 3:40 p.m. 15 Comments

  [No Paragraph Style]BC BodycopyNaysayers were nowhere to be found Monday as Jane Watt gave City Council her first year report on the Marco Island Academy. Critics dogged the fledgling charter high school from its inception. The report by Watt, chairwoman

• Prep football: Marco Charter School board says principal to decide Mike Vanderjagt's fate Published 05/24/2012 at 1:33 p.m. 22 Comments

  In a moment of frustration, a coach’s future has been known to hang in the balance. Mike Vanderjagt, former NFL football placekicker and part-time coach for Marco Island’s Charter Middle School, has reached such a moment.

• Power Squadron may take on marker updating for Marco Island's Waterways Advisory Committee Published 05/21/2012 at 4 p.m. 3 Comments

  Power Squadron may take on marker updating for Waterways Advisory Committee

• Beach shuttle, off-site parking and Tigertail Beach top list of Marco Island's 'no swale parking' solutions Published 05/21/2012 at 4 p.m. 11 Comments

  Daphne Ricobene, paralegal for the city attorney's staff, zeroed in on the Hamptons Friday to kick off a presentation for resolving island parking issues. The parallels, she said, made the comparison a viable model for Marco Island's woes. Early on, ...

• Marco Island's TBE tennis courts to close for lack of repairs;funding considerations for new community center at Mackle Park heard Published 05/17/2012 at 4:24 p.m. 4 Comments

  The score Tuesday for saving Tommie Barfield Elementary’s tennis courts was love-nothing. Bryan Milk, Marco Island community affairs director, told the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee the city plans to remove the two courts’ nets, take down city signs and ...

• Time is running out for FEMA $1 million to restore Marco Island’s south beach Published 05/17/2012 at 4:21 p.m. 6 Comments

  Four years after Tropical Storm Fay, failing to capture Federal Emergency Management Agency funds could deal another blow to Marco Island’s south beach. Tropical Storm Fay came ashore with winds of 65 mph at Cape Romano in August 2008. The ...

• Vanishing beachfront: County’s Coastal Advisory Committee denies emergency funds for Hideaway Beach Published 05/14/2012 at 3:26 p.m. 23 Comments

  On Thursday, Erik Brechnitz, chairman of Hideaway Beach’s Tax District Board, told his group there was a glimmer of hope for funds to prevent a disaster at the gated community’s 5000 and 6000 high-rise condominiums. On Friday, that hope was ...

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