🌴 Fort Myers Brief: August 24 - 30

The primary is settled and the pier has broken ground, so the week ahead belongs to the ballpark and the stage. Bradenton comes to Hammond Stadium for six straight nights starting Tuesday, with a different promotion bolted onto every one of them. Buckcherry and Black Stone Cherry take The Ranch on Tuesday, which makes that the loudest room in town by a wide margin. Godot keeps running at the Lab and Sinatra keeps running at Players Circle, so there are four separate nights to get your theater in. Saturday is the usual pileup: goats, tomatoes, brewery yoga, a back to school fair and a songwriter night at the Alliance. Here is everything worth leaving the house for.

We recommend confirming with event hosts for complete details and current schedules.

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🎵 Live Music, Trivia and Late Nights

🤘 Buckcherry and Black Stone Cherry
📅 Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Location: The Ranch Concert Hall and Saloon, 2158 Colonial Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33907
🔊 Details: Two bands with cherry in the name on one bill, with Tyler Bryant opening. Tickets start around $47. This is the biggest touring show landing in Fort Myers this week and the only one still ringing in your ears Wednesday morning.

🎙️ SWFL Stand Up Comedy Studio
📅 Date: Monday, August 24, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM
📍 Location: 2161 McGregor Boulevard, Fort Myers, FL 33901
😂 Details: Local comics working out new material in a Monday room. Half the entertainment is still watching a bit die in real time, and everybody there knows it.

🧠 Trivia Night at Point Ybel
📅 Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Point Ybel Brewing Co, 2180 W First St Ste. 110, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🍺 Details: Free to play, and the taproom crowd takes it far more seriously than they will admit to you. Bring three friends and at least one person who follows sports.

🎤 Karaoke Fridays at Lumber Axe
📅 Date: Friday, August 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 PM
📍 Location: 2158 Colonial Blvd #1, Fort Myers, FL 33907
🪓 Details: An axe throwing bar with an open mic, a sentence that explains itself. The room claps for everybody and nobody has ever been booed off it.

🎧 Live from 2 to 5 at Point Ybel Brewing Co
📅 Date: Saturday, August 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 2:00 PM
📍 Location: 2180 W First St Ste. 110, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🍻 Details: An afternoon set in the taproom, right in that dead stretch between lunch and whatever you agreed to at seven. No cover, no commitment, cold beer.

⚾ Six Straight Nights at Hammond Stadium

🐚 Bradenton Marauders at Fort Myers Mighty Mussels
📅 Date: Tuesday, August 25 through Sunday, August 30, 2026
📍 Location: Hammond Stadium, Lee County Sports Complex, Fort Myers
🎟️ Details: A full six game homestand against Bradenton to close out August, with weeknight first pitches at 7:05 PM and Sunday at 12:05 PM. Tickets stay cheap, the outfield berm stays open, and the promotions below are stapled onto individual nights.

2️⃣ Turn 2'sday
📅 Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:05 PM
📍 Location: Hammond Stadium, Fort Myers
⚾ Details: The Tuesday deal night, built around two of everything. It collides directly with the Buckcherry show across town, so pick a lane early.

👕 Wear It Wednesday
📅 Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:05 PM
📍 Location: Hammond Stadium, Fort Myers
🧢 Details: Show up in Mussels gear and the night gets cheaper. The simplest promotion on the schedule and the one people actually remember to use.

🎓 College Night and Mussel Up for the Community
📅 Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:05 PM
📍 Location: Hammond Stadium, Fort Myers
🎉 Details: Three things stacked on one night, a student discount, a community fundraiser and a Lutheran Services group night in the same seats. Easily the busiest Thursday at the ballpark this month.

📣 League Spirit Night
📅 Date: Saturday, August 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 5:00 PM
📍 Location: Hammond Stadium, Fort Myers
🥎 Details: Youth leagues get the field and the spotlight before the game, which means a lot of small people in uniform and a lot of adults holding phones up. Show up at five if one of them is yours.

👦 Sunday Kid's Day
📅 Date: Sunday, August 30, 2026
⏰ Time: 12:05 PM
📍 Location: Hammond Stadium, Fort Myers
🏃 Details: A noon start, kids run the bases afterward, and everyone is home while the afternoon still exists. The most family friendly window of the entire homestand.

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🎭 Stage and Screen

🌳 Waiting for Godot, Week Two
📅 Date: Thursday, August 27 and Friday, August 28, 2026, plus matinees Saturday, August 29 and Sunday, August 30
⏰ Time: 7:30 PM Thursday and Friday, 2:00 PM Saturday and Sunday
📍 Location: The Laboratory Theater of Florida, 1634 Woodford Ave, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🎩 Details: The Lab opened Season 18 with Beckett last weekend, and director Madelaine Weymouth pitches it as hilarious slapstick, which is not how anybody remembers reading it. Daniel Sabiston plays Vladimir, Art Keen plays Pozzo, Chris Noonan plays Lucky. Tickets are $25 adults and $10 students, box office 239-291-2905, and the run continues through September 6.

🎤 My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra
📅 Date: Wednesday, August 26 through Sunday, August 30, 2026
📍 Location: Players Circle Theater, 13211 McGregor Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33919
🎫 Details: Closing week of a limited return engagement, with four singers, a piano, bass and drums trio, and better than fifty songs out of the Great American Songbook. AJ Mendini, Ruthgena Faraco, Kimberly Suskind and Ted Wioncek III carry it, and Wioncek directs. Evening performances start at 7:30 PM and matinees at 3:00 PM, so check the specific date before you buy. Box office 239-800-3292.

🎬 UFTA Local Film Screening
📅 Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM
📍 Location: Alliance for the Arts, 10091 McGregor Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33919
🍿 Details: Local filmmakers, local screen, local audience, and one of the better attended listings in this week's pack. The kind of night where the director is sitting three rows back and will absolutely talk to you afterward.

🎸 An Intimate Evening with Hank Woji and Roy Schneider
📅 Date: Saturday, August 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Alliance for the Arts, 10091 McGregor Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33919
🎶 Details: ACMA puts two songwriters in the smaller room at the Alliance for a night that is mostly guitars and stories. Strong early interest, which for an acoustic show in August means get there early enough to sit where you want.

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🍺 Taproom and Table

🅰️ Free Beer Monday: A to Z
📅 Date: Monday, August 24, 2026
⏰ Time: 2:30 PM
📍 Location: 2161 McGregor Boulevard, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🍻 Details: They are working down the alphabet one letter of beer at a time. The name handles most of the explaining and the price handles the rest.

🏡 Real Estate Professionals Appreciation at Bay Street Yard
📅 Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026
⏰ Time: 5:00 PM
📍 Location: 2136 Bay St, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🥂 Details: An after work thing in the yard aimed at the agent and lender crowd, which in this town is a large crowd. Useful if you are in it, pleasant if you just came for the outdoor bar.

🧘 Move Your Body

🏃 Let's Get MOVING, City of Fort Myers
📅 Date: Monday, August 24, 2026
⏰ Time: 11:30 AM
📍 Location: Riverside Community Center, Fort Myers
💪 Details: Free city run movement class, indoors and air conditioned. In the last week of August the air conditioning is doing most of the selling.

👟 Point Ybel Run Club
📅 Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM
📍 Location: 2180 W First St Ste. 110, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🍺 Details: Every Thursday, run first and drink after, all paces welcome and nobody gets dropped. For roughly half the field the beer is the actual event.

🚴 Saturday Group Ride
📅 Date: Saturday, August 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM
📍 Location: 4440 Colonial Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33966
🚲 Details: A led group road ride rolling out of the shop lot. Nine o'clock in late August is already generous, so carry more water than the distance suggests you need.

🧘‍♀️ Poses and Pints Yoga
📅 Date: Saturday, August 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:30 AM
📍 Location: Point Ybel Brewing Co, 2180 W First St Ste. 110, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🍻 Details: Flow on the brewery floor, pint when you are done. Still the most Fort Myers possible way to start a Saturday morning.

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👨‍👩‍👧 Family, Farm and Market

🎒 Back to School Fair
📅 Date: Saturday, August 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM
📍 Location: 2025 Arcadia St, Fort Myers, FL 33916
🖍️ Details: By a long way the most popular listing in this week's pack, with interest running into the triple digits. Supplies, resources and a lot of families in one room, two weeks into a school year, which is exactly when the first round of supplies has already gone missing.

🐐 Goat Snuggling with Marsala the Highland Calf
📅 Date: Monday, August 24, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM
📍 Location: 13151 Pinto Lane, Fort Myers, FL 33912
🐄 Details: You sit down, the goats climb on you, and a Highland calf named Marsala supervises the whole operation. Unbeatable with small kids, and it burns an entire morning.

🧘 Goat Yoga with Marsala the Highland Calf
📅 Date: Saturday, August 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM
📍 Location: 13151 Pinto Lane, Fort Myers, FL 33912
🐐 Details: Same farm, same animals, downward dog added. The nine o'clock start beats the worst of the heat, and you want a mat you do not mind getting hoofprints on.

🍅 Downtown Fort Myers Farmers Market
📅 Date: Saturday, August 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
📍 Location: Fort Myers Farmers Market, Downtown River District
🧺 Details: Every Saturday, year round, rain or shine, with produce, local makers and Kaye Krest's jewelry table. Get there before eleven if you want the good tomatoes.

🌿 Community, Skills and Support

💼 thINC Leadership Conference
📅 Date: Friday, August 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:30 AM
📍 Location: Caloosa Sound Convention Center at The Luminary, Downtown Fort Myers
🎤 Details: SWFL Inc. runs its one day leadership conference under the banner Lead with Purpose, thINC Ahead, with speakers, panels and the densest concentration of business cards in the county that morning. Registration runs through SWFL Inc.

🏛️ CRA Town Hall
📅 Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: 2031 Jackson St, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🗣️ Details: Community redevelopment, in the room where it gets decided, with the public invited to say something about it. The best attended civic listing this week and the one where showing up actually changes the record.

📄 Resume Writing, Job Search and Job Application Workshop
📅 Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM
📍 Location: 5100 Tice Street, Fort Myers, FL 33905
📝 Details: Free and hands on. Bring whatever version of your resume currently exists and walk out with one better than that.

💻 Senior Planet Lectures, Workshops and Courses
📅 Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2026
⏰ Time: 1:00 PM
📍 Location: 5100 Tice Street, Fort Myers, FL 33905
📚 Details: Technology classes built for older adults and taught at a pace that assumes nothing. Free, out on the Tice Street campus.

⌨️ Self-Paced Typing and Computer Digital Training
📅 Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026
⏰ Time: 1:00 PM
📍 Location: 5100 Tice Street, Fort Myers, FL 33905
🖥️ Details: Drop in, work at your own speed, leave when you are finished. Useful and free, two words that almost never show up together.

✍️ Writing Workshop
📅 Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Location: 1342 Colonial Blvd, Unit C18, Fort Myers, FL 33907
📖 Details: A working session rather than a lecture, with real feedback on real pages. Bring the thing you are stuck on and be ready to read it out loud.

🤝 Uplift Peer Group
📅 Date: Friday, August 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:30 AM
📍 Location: 2506 Second Street, Suite 106, Fort Myers, FL 33901
💬 Details: Early morning peer support downtown, same time every week. Quiet, steady, and there when you need it.

🍳 Men's Breakfast
📅 Date: Saturday, August 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 AM
📍 Location: 4701 Summerlin Rd, Fort Myers, FL 33919
☕ Details: Eggs, coffee and conversation before the day gets hot. A low bar to walk into cold, which is the entire point of it.

⚠️ Please verify all event details with the respective organizers before attending, as schedules and venues may change.

📰 What's Happening in Fort Myers

🔗 The Beach Pier Officially Breaks Ground After Nearly Four Years
County and town officials turned dirt Friday at Crescent Beach Family Park on a $14.4 million replacement roughly 1,000 feet long and 12 feet wide, better than 70 percent longer and 50 percent wider than the pier Hurricane Ian destroyed, funded through FEMA Public Assistance, Tourist Development Tax revenue and RESTORE Act grants with completion set for late summer 2027.

🔗 Amanda Cochran Unseats the Governor's Appointee in a Referendum on Growth
Cochran took the District 5 county commission seat with 64,815 votes to Trish Petrosky's 53,618, a 54.73 to 45.27 split, after Petrosky, appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis in December to fill the late Mike Greenwell's seat, outraised her by at least $175,000 in a race that turned on whether Lee County is building too fast.

🔗 Byron Donalds Wins the Republican Nomination for Governor
The Naples congressman carried the Republican primary with President Trump's endorsement and will face former Representative David Jolly, who took the Democratic nomination, in November to replace the term limited Ron DeSantis.

🔗 Schwartzel and Arias Advance in the District 19 Congressional Race
Republican Jim Schwartzel and Democrat Victor Arias won their respective primaries Tuesday and will meet in the general election for the seat Donalds is leaving to run for governor.

🔗 Cape Coral's Mayor Fails to Survive His Own Primary
Mayor John Gunter finished out of the running in a six candidate field, leaving political newcomers Rick Erickson with 11,663 votes at 32.22 percent and Lisa Cohen-Adkinson with 8,907 at 24.61 percent to settle it in November, with District 1 and District 6 council seats also headed to runoffs.

🔗 All Three Cape Coral Charter Amendments Pass
Voters approved clarifying how the new council elects its mayor pro tem by 74.33 percent and approved requiring council candidates to live in their district for a full year before qualifying by 92.99 percent, with the third residency documentation amendment also carrying.

🔗 Two School Board Seats Are Settled and Two Go to November
Sam Fisher held District 1 with 17,510 votes at 57.59 percent and Jada Langford-Fleming held District 6 with 66.10 percent over India Palencia, while District 4 and District 5 both head to runoffs on November 3.

🔗 A Narcotics Sweep Called White Tide Produces More Than 100 Arrests
The Lee County Sheriff's Office says multiple separate narcotics investigations, not one ring, yielded 1,780 grams of fentanyl, four kilos of cocaine, four pounds of methamphetamine, 45 pounds of marijuana, 51 firearms and more than $121,000 in cash, with some cases still open and more arrests possible.

🔗 TRIM Notices Are in the Mail and the Clock on Appeals Has Started
Property Appraiser Matt Caldwell mailed 2026 Truth in Millage notices on August 17 showing assessed values, tentative millage rates and estimated tax bills ahead of the October 1 fiscal year, and since taxing bodies can now only lower those rates and not raise them, the number on the page is close to the ceiling.

🔗 Cape Coral Will Fine Unlicensed Contractors Up to $2,500
Ordinance 49-26 lets a code enforcement officer issue civil citations up to $2,000 on an expedited track with a special magistrate able to go to $2,500 per violation, paired with a new licensing investigator position funded by a $5 building permit fee that Councilmember Rachel Kaduk voted against.

🔗 A Cape Coral Woman Is Convicted of Vehicular Homicide in a Street Racing Death
Anastasiya Zadorozhna, 29, was found guilty of a second degree felony after video showed her racing Chase Magruder on Pine Island Road in July 2024 in a crash that killed a 52 year old driver, with Magruder sentenced August 19 and Zadorozhna due for sentencing September 28.

🔗 Fort Myers Is Collecting Supplies for Colombia After a 7.4 Earthquake
Councilwoman Diana Giraldo brought the request to the city council and fire departments after a quake that killed more than 300 people in western Colombia, and the city is taking new, unopened diapers, sleeping bags, blankets, ponchos, first aid kits, flashlights, batteries, toiletries, tents and pet food.

🔗 Florida's First St. Jude Dream Home Showplace Is Going Up in Cape Coral
Bahnam Builders held a lot pop celebration at 4848 S.W. 24th Ave. for a community built home targeting $1 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, with construction starting at the beginning of next year and completion set for the end of 2027.

🔗 The Cape Coral Rowing Club Finally Gets Tropicana Park
Council approved the license agreement that deadlocked on a tie vote back in April, clearing the club to row out of Tropicana Park.

🔗 A Fourth Straight Day of Heat Advisories With the Index Hitting 109
The advisory ran 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. across Southwest Florida with heat index values up to 109 degrees, the fourth consecutive day of dangerous afternoon heat, which is worth remembering before you commit to any of the outdoor listings above.

🔗 Bonita Springs Voters Approve $35 Million in Bonds for the Rail Trail
The BERT measure passed 8,749 to 4,065, a 68.28 percent yes vote, funding acquisition of the Bonita Estero Rail Trail corridor and construction of a multi-use path along it.

🔗 Lee County Opens Volunteer Signups for National Public Lands Day
Parks and Recreation will run four sites on September 26 starting at 9 a.m., pulling invasives at Lakes Park and Oak Hammock Preserve, removing fence and clearing vegetation at Moody River Preserve and doing beautification work at Wild Turkey Strand Preserve, with limited spots and registration closing September 24.