Coastal Breeze News

By Coastal Breeze News Staff In a ceremony at the Community Room on Monday evening, March 26th, Police Chief Don Hunter promoted officer Hector Diaz to sergeant and appointed officers Paul Keys, Joe Mack and Nick Ojanovac to be detectives. The actions were replacements for vacancies, and no new personnel were added to the Police Department. Family members, fellow officers, city councilmen Jerry Gibson and Wayne Waldack, former Chief Thom Carr, and a number of members of the Marco Island Police Foundation attended the ceremony. The newly designated officers were each “pinned” with a new badge by a family member. ... Read More »

September 11, 2001 is one of the unique times in our lives that we will forever remember exactly where we were and what we were doing, no matter how close or how far we were to the actual events. Some were much closer than others, but it affected each and every one of us no matter where we were! From the first plane crash into Tower One, a sense of uncertainty and fear swept across the country, and beyond. One thing was certain, we were all Americans and we were bound together by the attack regardless, of race, creed, economic ... Read More »