{"id":383487,"date":"2026-08-28T12:14:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383487\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:14:39","slug":"north-fort-myers-high-athletics-and-activities-director-suspended-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383487\/","title":{"rendered":"North Fort Myers High Athletics and Activities Director suspended | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The North Fort Myers Athletics and Activities Director has been suspended, according to the Lee County School District.<\/p>\n<p>Athletic director Joseph Bowen is under investigation, but further details have not been released yet.<\/p>\n<p>The principal of North Fort Myers High School, Chris Drake, released a statement following the announcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to personal reasons, Mr. Bowen will no longer serve as our Athletic Director. I want to thank Mr. Bowen for his hard work, dedication, and service to our student-athletes, coaches, and school community. The position will be posted in PeopleSoft shortly,&#8221; Drake said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the meantime, please continue to work with Mr. Drake, Mrs. Hutchinson and Ms. Atkinson for all athletic and activity related needs,&#8221; he added in the statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WINK News is working to find more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The North Fort Myers Athletics and Activities Director has been suspended, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153762,21250,153759,107522,209,211,210,153761,28,897,153758,134242,153760,10632,9303,32037,40324,38979],"class_list":["post-383487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-activities-director","tag-athletic-director","tag-athletics-and-activities-director","tag-atkinson","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-chris-drake","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-fort-myers-senior-high-school","tag-hutchinson","tag-joseph-bowen","tag-lee-county-school-district","tag-north-fort-myers","tag-north-fort-myers-high-school","tag-south-fort-myers-high-school","tag-wink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383487","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=383487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}