Archive for December, 2008

ESTERO - Meg Judge, Estero Chamber of Commerce president, received a shiny new key Monday.

No, it wasn’t to a new car or house, but to the first post office box in the shiny new Estero Post Office that will open sometime in January after a few last minute items are installed.

Judge received the key from [...]

ESTERO - Estero unofficially opened its 4,500-square-foot post office on Three Oaks Parkway on Monday.

Local business and government leaders attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony and presentation of its first post office box key to the Estero Chamber of Commerce, which was largely instrumental in making a 10-year dream a reality.

“This was something we dreamed about for [...]

Session ended with few victories for either party

WASHINGTON - Congress has wrapped up a legislative year noticeable for passing a string of bailout packages — and a dearth of any other type of bill.

That meant finishing the session with few legislative victories for either party, says Rep. Connie Mack IV.

“If the question is, ‘What did [...]

Smuggled B-17s during fight for independence

MIAMI - It took decades to tell his story, but Jimmy Winters hopes he was finally able to bring closure for his father, Charles Thompson Winters, a Boston native who was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 1949 for smuggling arms to Israel.

The elder Winters, a Protestant who died [...]

WASHINGTON - Congressman Connie Mack (FL-14) issued the following statement today after the Bush Administration announced the U.S. automobile industry would receive loans of up to $17 billion from the federal government through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

Mack, who voted against the auto bailout and the TARP in the House of Representatives, said:

“Washington needs [...]