Participants in the state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program will be able to access funds to cover their HIV medication after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Tuesday providing stopgap funding mitigating cuts imposed earlier this month.The bill (HB 697) includes $31 million to restore cuts to ADAP through June 30, the end of the fiscal year.
County, local and state officials celebrated with Matlacha residents Tuesday at a ribbon cutting ceremony Lee County Parks & Recreation’s restored Matlacha Community Center and the Pine Island Art Building as well as for the conclusion of the Florida Department of Transportation’s Little Pine Island Bridge Reconstruction project.