The Cape Coral Breeze has served the community for more than half a century.
The paper was first published in May of 1961 by pioneer resident Dick Crawford who
saw the need for a community paper for the sparse number of residents at the time.
The first issue was a one-page, mimeographed sheet detailing events such as birth and wedding announcements.
Purchased by Ogden Newspapers of Wheeling, WV in 1974, The Breeze moved to its current
location on Del Prado Boulevard, which housed 66 employees, in 1975. The first edition
of the Cape Coral Daily Breeze hit the streets as an evening publication on November 3, 1975.