🌴 Fort Myers Brief: September 28 - October 4

Major Events & Celebrations in Fort Myers

September 28, 2026

Monday is four years since Ian, and the week opens with a Mass under tents on Fort Myers Beach at a church that has not held one on its own grounds since the storm. After that the calendar gets lighter and friendlier: Ashley McBryde at the Barbara B. Mann on Friday, the first Art Walk of October downtown the same night, and a Saturday that has a 5K where you carry a pumpkin, bikes and boats, a foster care gala at Pelican Preserve, a nonpartisan walk through everything on your November ballot and goats before nine. Here it is one day at a time, so you can plan the week the way you actually live it.

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🗓️ Monday, September 28

⛪ Hurricane Ian Anniversary Mass at Church of the Ascension
📅 Date: Monday, September 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM
📍 Location: Church of the Ascension, Fort Myers Beach
🕯️ Details: The parish holds its first public Mass on its own property since Ian, under tents, with Bishop Emilio Biosca expected alongside Father Bill Adams. They are also showing the rebuild plan, an elevated church for 738 people, so it is part remembrance and part first look at what comes next.

🎤 SWFL Stand-Up Comedy Studio at Coastal Dayz
📅 Date: Monday, September 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM
📍 Location: Coastal Dayz Brewery, 2161 McGregor Blvd, Fort Myers
😂 Details: Free comedy, cold beer and dogs welcome, with an open invitation to get up and try five minutes yourself. Some sets land and some do not, and that is the whole charm of a Monday open mic.

🐄 Goat Snuggling with Marsala the Highland Calf
📅 Date: Monday, September 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM
📍 Location: 13151 Pinto Lane, Fort Myers, FL 33912
🐐 Details: Sit in the grass and let the goats decide you are furniture while Marsala, a shaggy Highland calf, supervises. Monday morning is the calm session with the smallest group, so the animals come to you.

🏃‍♀️ Let's Get MOVING, City of Fort Myers
📅 Date: Monday, September 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 11:30 AM
📍 Location: Riverside Community Center, Fort Myers
💪 Details: A free city-run movement class, indoors and air conditioned, for people who want to get moving without a drill sergeant. An easy way to start the week on purpose.

🗓️ Tuesday, September 29

🧠 Tuesday Trivia at Southern Fresh Farms
📅 Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Location: 8500 Penzance Blvd, Fort Myers
🐔 Details: Trivia out on the farm with the kitchen open and the animals within earshot. Real parking, no downtown traffic, and a crowd that takes the music round very seriously.

🍺 Trivia Night at Point Ybel
📅 Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Point Ybel Brewing Co, 2180 W First St Ste. 110, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🧠 Details: The downtown option, free to play, and the regulars have been at it long enough to be dangerous. Pick this one if you want a taproom instead of chickens.

🗓️ Wednesday, September 30

💃 Weekly Line and Partner Dance Lessons and Open Dance
📅 Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Location: 3061 E Riverside Dr, Fort Myers, FL 33916
🕺 Details: A lesson first, then the floor opens up, and you do not need a partner for the line dancing part. It keeps drawing one of the bigger midweek crowds in the listings for a reason.

🍻 Summer Trivia on McGregor
📅 Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM
📍 Location: 2161 McGregor Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🧠 Details: The last Wednesday of September, so technically the last summer trivia of the year. Same room as Monday's comedy night, earlier start, smaller teams.

💻 Senior Planet Lectures, Workshops and Courses
📅 Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
⏰ Time: 1:00 PM
📍 Location: 5100 Tice Street, Fort Myers, FL 33905
📚 Details: Free technology classes for older adults, taught at a pace that assumes nothing. Good one to forward to a parent who keeps calling you about their phone.

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🗓️ Thursday, October 1

👟 Point Ybel Run Club
📅 Date: Thursday, October 1, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM
📍 Location: 2180 W First St Ste. 110, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🏃 Details: Every Thursday, all paces, run the loop and then drink the reward. A decent warmup if you signed up for Saturday's pumpkin run and have not actually run yet.

📄 Resume Writing, Job Search and Job Application Workshop
📅 Date: Thursday, October 1, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM
📍 Location: 5100 Tice Street, Fort Myers, FL 33905
📝 Details: Free and hands on. Bring whatever resume you have, even the one from 2014, and walk out with one that works.

⌨️ Self-Paced Typing and Computer Digital Training
📅 Date: Thursday, October 1, 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 done. Same building as the morning workshop, so you can make a whole day of it from one parking spot.

🗓️ Friday, October 2

🤠 Ashley McBryde: Into the Wild Tour
📅 Date: Friday, October 2, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 PM
📍 Location: Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall at FSW, 13350 FSW Pkwy, Fort Myers
🎸 Details: The biggest ticket of the week, a Grammy-winning songwriter who writes country songs like short stories and sings them like she means every word. The Mann is the right room for her, big enough to feel like a show and small enough that the quiet songs still work.

🎨 Fort Myers Art Walk
📅 Date: Friday, October 2, 2026
⏰ Time: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
📍 Location: Downtown Fort Myers River District, First and Hendry Streets
🖼️ Details: More than 50 Southwest Florida artists set up on the closed downtown streets to show, demonstrate and sell their work, first Friday of every month, rain or shine. The first one of October always feels like the unofficial start of the season.

🎶 ResacoustiC Duo at The Hideaway for Art Walk
📅 Date: Friday, October 2, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: The Hideaway Bar, Fort Myers
🍹 Details: An acoustic duo playing through the Art Walk crowd, which makes it the right place to sit down once your feet give out. Grab a drink, then go back out for another lap.

💬 Uplift Peer Group
📅 Date: Friday, October 2, 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. Steady, quiet and there whether the week went well or not.

🗓️ Saturday, October 3

🎃 Running Scared 5K Pumpkin Run
📅 Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:30 AM
📍 Location: FGCU South Village, 10501 FGCU Blvd S, Fort Myers
🏃 Details: The most popular event in this week's listings by a wide margin, and the reason is simple: you pick a pumpkin, carry it, and the bigger the pumpkin, the shorter your route. You keep the pumpkin at the end, and every dollar goes to Special Olympics.

🗳️ League of Women Voters Ballot Presentation
📅 Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
📍 Location: The Collaboratory, 2031 Jackson St, Fort Myers
📋 Details: Three state amendments, four Lee County charter amendments and six Fort Myers Beach ones, explained in plain English in one morning, with a candidate meet and greet after. Free, in person or on Zoom, and mail ballots land this week, so the timing is perfect.

🏍️ Boats and Bikes at Ryco Marine
📅 Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM
📍 Location: Harley-Davidson Fort Myers
⚓ Details: Motorcycles and boats in one parking lot, which is about as Southwest Florida as a Saturday morning gets. A real crowd is planning to show up, so come early if you want to look at anything without a line.

💙 Tides of Change Gala for 4KIDS
📅 Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026
⏰ Time: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
📍 Location: The Club at Pelican Preserve, Fort Myers
🥂 Details: The dressed-up night of the week, with stories from families, a keynote and an evening built around raising money for kids in foster care across Southwest Florida. Tickets and sponsorships through 4KIDS.

🧘 Goat Yoga with Marsala
📅 Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM
📍 Location: 13151 Pinto Lane, Fort Myers, FL 33912
🐐 Details: Same farm as Monday, same goats, now with downward dog. Expect at least one to use your back as a step stool.

🍅 Downtown Fort Myers Farmers Market
📅 Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
📍 Location: Fort Myers Farmers Market, 2200 First St, Downtown River District
🧺 Details: Every Saturday under the bridge, rain or shine, with Kaye Krest's jewelry table in its usual spot. Go early for the produce and before the sun gets serious.

🧘‍♀️ Poses and Pints Yoga
📅 Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:30 AM
📍 Location: Point Ybel Brewing Co, 2180 W First St Ste. 110, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🍺 Details: Yoga on the brewery floor, a pint afterward, done before lunch. Pairs neatly with the farmers market a block away.

👻 A Ghost Class: Sculpting with Jeff Ocasio
📅 Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026
⏰ Time: 12:30 PM
📍 Location: Alliance for the Arts, 10091 McGregor Blvd, Fort Myers, FL 33919
🎨 Details: A Halloween sculpting class where you leave with a ghost you made yourself. Early enough in October that it will be on your shelf the whole month.

🎧 Live from 2 to 5 at Point Ybel Brewing Co
📅 Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026
⏰ Time: 2:00 PM
📍 Location: 2180 W First St Ste. 110, Fort Myers, FL 33901
🍻 Details: An afternoon set in the taproom with no cover. The natural landing spot between the morning run and whatever you have planned for Saturday night.

🐠 Fort Myers Aquarium Society: Wild Livebearers
📅 Date: Saturday, October 3, 2026
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM
📍 Location: IMAG History & Science Center, 2000 Cranford Ave, Fort Myers
🐟 Details: The local aquarium club's October meeting, this month all about wild livebearers, the guppy and molly cousins that started half the fish tanks in America. Friendly room, and newcomers asking basic questions are welcome.

🎭 All Week

🎸 Forever Everly: The Everly Brothers Rockumentary
📅 Date: Through Sunday, October 25, 2026
📍 Location: Florida Repertory Theatre, ArtStage Studio, 2267 Bay St, Fort Myers
🎶 Details: Jared Mancuso and Nick Gallardo sing the Everly Brothers live, plus some Paul Simon and Beatles, right alongside the documentary footage on screen. It is in the small studio, so every seat is close. Box office 239-332-4488.

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

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📰 What's Happening in Fort Myers

🔗 City Manager Marty Lawing Will Retire December 9
Lawing is leaving after about five years running Fort Myers and more than 43 in local government, including 12 as Brunswick County, North Carolina's manager, and City Council now has to decide how it will pick his replacement while several of the city's biggest projects are mid-build.

🔗 Fort Myers Has a New City Attorney and a New City Clerk
Council approved a contract on September 21 for deputy city attorney Ronald Dente Jr. to replace Grant Alley, who retired after 31 years, and swore in Lilliana Baker as clerk in place of the retired Mary Hagemann, with Baker already planning mock council meetings for local middle schoolers.

🔗 Mayor Kevin Anderson Left Two Nonprofit Boards as Allegations Reached City Hall
Anderson stepped off the FGCU Alumni Association and Valerie's House boards in mid-September after sexual impropriety allegations were first reported by SW Florida Lighthouse, two young men repeated their accusations publicly at the September 23 council meeting, and the mayor has declined to resign.

🔗 Fort Myers Beach Parking Is Going to $6 an Hour
Town Council voted 4-1 for a $13.75 million budget that raises the millage 3 percent to 1.0655, bumps meters from $5 to $6 an hour for about $511,000 more a year, and lifts residential parking passes from $50 to $75, with John King the lone no.

🔗 Church of the Ascension Unveiled Its Plan to Rebuild on the Beach
The parish will replace its storm-wrecked campus with a single elevated church seating 738, a new rectory and a restored monastery building, while the old chapel and retirement home come down, though no cost or timeline has been released yet.

🔗 Cape Coral Picked Its Yacht Club Rebuild Partner
Council reached consensus to open detailed talks with KMB Marine and Yacht Clubs of the Americas, whose pitch puts the marina at $30 to $33 million and a hotel at $53 to $83 million, over a competing $250 million plan that Bill Steinke knocked for having no truck and trailer parking.

🔗 North Cape Homeowners Are Looking at Utility Bills of $35,264 to $41,029
Cape Coral council holds a special meeting at 4 PM Monday, September 28, to set assessments for the $384 million North 3 utility expansion across 58.8 road miles, with properties east of Burnt Store Road paying $35,264, west paying $41,029, and installments on the tax bill allowed.

🔗 Cape Coral Is Swapping 807 Signs to Drop Neighborhood Speeds to 25
Crews have started the $57,719 job of lowering residential limits from 30 to 25 miles per hour after a speed study and community poll, and police are handing out warnings only until the city announces when real tickets start.

🔗 Veterans Are Pushing to Turn the Cape Coral VA Clinic Into a Real Hospital
A committee led by Dr. Alan White wants a 150 to 200 bed hospital on the clinic's 30 acres because Lee County's 60,000 veterans currently drive to Tampa for inpatient care, though a new build would take around 15 years and more than $2 billion.

🔗 Lee County Mail Ballots Start Going Out September 29
Supervisor of Elections Jenna Persons-Mulicka's office starts mailing domestic ballots Tuesday, the registration deadline is October 5, early voting runs October 19 through 31 from 10 AM to 6 PM, and Election Day is November 3.

🔗 Two Lee Residents Are Among 20 Charged in the State's Noncitizen Voting Cases
Prosecutors say a Fort Myers woman and a Lehigh Acres woman, both lawful permanent residents, falsely claimed citizenship to register in 2024 and voted that November, and each now faces third-degree felony charges carrying up to 10 years.

🔗 Lee Mosquito Control Is Knocking on Doors Over Dengue
Lee County is up to eight travel-related dengue cases this year with none spread locally, Florida has passed 330 cases with one death, and Mosquito Control crews are going door to door asking people to dump standing water in planters, buckets and birdbaths.

🔗 Sanibel Is Rewriting Its 1970s Growth Plan and Wants to Hear From You
The update to the Sanibel Plan, written right after the city was founded, is weighing hurricanes, traffic, overdevelopment, conservation and, for the first time, sea level rise, and SCCF says resident input will shape what the island looks like for the next generation.

🔗 Cape Coral Is Launching a Cleanup Plan for North Cape Canals and Matlacha Pass
The North Cape Coral Alternative Restoration Plan takes aim at nutrient pollution in the creeks, canals and Matlacha Pass while also studying storm surge and flooding, and the public kickoff is 5 PM October 14 at 815 Nicholas Parkway East.

🔗 An Invasive Pasture Pest Has Turned Up in Lee County
The pasture mealybug is now in 25 Florida counties including Lee, Collier and Hendry under an updated state emergency order, mostly damaging limpograss and sugarcane so far with no residential lawns hit, and the tell is grass that reddens or dries out like drought within a few weeks.

🔗 The Southwest Florida Eagle Cam Goes Live October 1
Pritchett Real Estate's four cameras return on YouTube only this season, and the storyline to watch is M15 looking for a new mate after F23 went missing.