BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY
If you’ve watched the local TV news or read a local newspaper these past couple of weeks, there have been many stories about the impacts and recovery associated wi…
On the agenda for next Tuesday’s Lee County Board of Commissioners regular meeting is a beach and shoreline funding item with the Barrier Island Parks Society listed as one of the recipients.
If…
The temporary bridge over the Boca Grande Bayou being used by the Gasparilla Island Water Association to remove old equipment will be gone by Thanksgiving.
GIWA Executive Director Ron Bolton said…
An experimental SeaRey airplane made an emergency water landing just off Palm Island at Stump Pass on Sunday at around 4:20 p.m. Palm Island beachgoers, as well as a Jet Skier, came to the rescue of…
Mattress firm rip-rap puts wash to sleep
The shoreline hardening project of the Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority is in full swing. The $4.5 million initiative is a long-term solution to the coa…
Helene and Milton changed our lives and landscapes. Recovering is hard, slow and expensive. What doesn’t kill us does make us stronger. They hurt most of us profoundly but there is hope and light at…
Just as we have the power to harm the oceans, we have the power to put in place polices and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the sea, for the creatures there and…
BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY
YAWN. Pardon me, but the sea turtle nesting season for us patrollers is such a boring time. No new crawls have occurred since August 31 and the current nests we ar…
As the West Coast Inland Navigation District (WCIND) wraps up a year marked by three hurricanes, the agency is working on a number of waterway projects across Lee and Charlotte counties. “Great stri…
Work on a sand renourishment project at the south end of Gasparilla Island has now extended north past Belcher Road and the old “Bocahenge” docks.
This week, bulldozers were moving as they pumped…
