LaBelle

LaBelle was founded as city during the Great Florida Land Boom of the 1920s.

Community of all ages invited to take a trip down memory lane with LaBelle's centennial celebration Saturday.

Firehouse Community Theatre is going country this month. Director Mike Shough says the theater’s in-house singers are gearing up to provide patrons with a foot-stomping evening of old-fashioned entertainment.

Firehouse Community Theatre enters its Season 33 with an enticing schedule of comedies and a musical revue featuring the Firehouse Singers. For the LaBelle mainstay, the journey has been marked by resilience, resourcefulness and ingenuity.

Florida Power & Light will host a Power to Save event at Hope Connections in LaBelle on Wednesday, January 15.Through this program, FPL's team of energy experts, customer care and external affairs will provide free energy efficiency products and services including LED lightbulbs, weather-stripping/caulking, limited ductwork repair, water heater pipe-wrapping, water faucet aerator and low-flow shower head, A/C unit inspection and more.

Arts of the Inland Gallery in LaBelle will host a juried exhibition of works by artist members on Saturday, Nov. 16. We’ll learn more about the gallery’s efforts to extend visual, literary, and performing arts offerings into Southwest Florida’s more rural inland communities in a conversation with gallery president Stella Luckey and Board of Directors member Brandon Jett.

A water line break in LaBelle Monday forced the city to shut down service to the entire city for hours.The water main break was located at the corner of Bridge Street and Park Avenue.

The Secretary of State’s 2023 Florida Main Street Award winners were named recently for outstanding results in historic preservation and commercial activity.

The small Hendry County town of LaBelle will go to rehabilitate or replace 10 low-to moderate income homes.

All 67 counties in Florida will take part and complete a vulnerability assessment and be eligible for inclusion in future iterations of the Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience Plan, which proposes funding for the highest ranked resilience and adaptation projects across the state.