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Nils Richter docked the boat. He climbed to the landing area on Lofton Island off downtown Fort Myers.
Crews over the past couple of weeks have cleared all the non-native trees and plants and three damaged royal palm trees.
Gone are hundreds of Australian pines. Visible instead: mulch from the downed trees and the few remaining palms and a strangle fig tree.
“Now, you can see the land,” Richter said. “Now, we can determine what we want to do with it. We want to make it an amenity for downtown.”
The island of more than three acres, visible and about 1,500 feet from downtown Fort Myers, a short boat ride just north of the new Luminary Hotel and Oxbow Restaurant, was formed in 1910 by work crews who had dredged to deepen the Caloosahatchee River at the city’s marina.
HUNTINGTON â Some Cabell Huntington Hospital retirees and their families are speaking out after receiving a letter stating their supplemental Medicare insurance benefit will be terminated at the end of March.
âMom got her letter saying effective March 31, 2021, her coverage is terminated,â said Tom Hardiman, whose mother is a retired nurse in Wayne County. âNice deal when an 82-year-old retired nurse with a lot of medical conditions gets tossed aside.â
The letter, dated Jan. 28, 2021, states, âCabell Huntington Hospital will no longer offer a Medicare supplement plan to non-bargaining retirees.â
Supplemental coverage is used to help cover unpaid Medicare expenses. Hardiman says he has been trying to help his mother navigate insurance options after she received what he called âthe hospitalâs surprise letter.â