A group of people who care about Punta Gorda’s history — and its historic buildings — are riled up.
People like Teresa Desguin, Dawn (McGibbon) Goode, Linda Wilson, Gene and Theresa Murtha want City Council to show a little more interest in preserving some buildings that are deteriorating out of neglect and indifference.
I talked with some of those folks this week and they’re not happy with the situation at the old Courthouse and the Freeman House. Those are two buildings they say suffered minimal damage from Hurricane Ian and Milton but were boarded up and left to sit and decay…