{"id":153268,"date":"2026-02-12T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153268\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:06:09","slug":"society-tarpon-and-riverside-pier-ribbon-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153268\/","title":{"rendered":"SOCIETY: Tarpon and Riverside Pier ribbon cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridaweekly.com\/audio-articles\/player\/audio-article-1050973\" onclick=\"_paq.push([&#039;trackEvent&#039;, &#039;Article&#039;, &#039;Article Playlist&#039;, &#039;\/\/audio-articles\/player\/audio-article-1050973&#039;]);\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Open Audio Article Player<\/a> \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridaweekly.com\/author\/BY+DAVID+WISHTISCHIN\" onclick=\"_paq.push([&#039;trackEvent&#039;, &#039;Author Byline View&#039;, &#039;BY DAVID WISHTISCHIN&#039;]);\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BY DAVID WISHTISCHIN<\/a><br \/>david@floridaweekly.com\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1051017\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1051017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/DAVID-WISHTISCHIN-FLORIDA-WEEKLY_Representatives-of-Fort-Myers-City-Government-cutting-the-ribbon-ma.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1051017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representatives of Fort Myers City Government cutting the ribbon marking the reopening of the Tarpon Pier. -DAVID WISHTISCHIN \/ FLORIDA WEEKLY<\/p>\n<p>The Tarpon and Riverside Pier have reopened after being devastated by Hurricane Ian. The ribbon-cutting took place on Monday, Feb. 9, from 1-2 p.m. The event featured messages from city representatives, including Mayor Kevin Anderson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open Audio Article Player BY DAVID WISHTISCHINdavid@floridaweekly.com Representatives of Fort Myers City Government cutting the ribbon marking the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-153268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}