Tag: Gilchrist Avenue

Tree crews out across island

Tree removal across the island, including on Gilchrist Avenue and at the location of the Clinic of the Future. The clinic has just begun laying foundations this week. Clinic construction photos...

Letters: Suggestions to solve the Gilchrist issue for once

To the Editor: I would like to make a few suggestions regarding the Gilchrist Avenue parking problem. Install curb and gutters on both sides of the boulevard. This will keep cars off the...

Methodist Church explains position after online comments

Lighthouse United Methodist Church has responded to criticism in social media that it is behind or supporting all the elements in a proposed parking plan for Boca Grande. Peter Soderberg, Chair...

Parking draft differences in club email

Church group questions wording Emails being sent out to support a proposed parking regulation in Boca Grande have not clarified details sought by Gilchrist Avenue churches. An email sent...

Lee County on task for palm maintenance on Gilchrist Avenue

Lee County is planning tree maintenance on Gilchrist Avenue. Crews from the county, including Lee County Parks and Recreation, have been out in medians also on 5th between Park and Gilchrist. ...

Methodist Church announces agreement with neighbors on parking

Tuesday’s meeting at Lighthouse United Methodist Church regarding parking started with an announcement that the church had struck an agreement with neighbors in its decades-long fight over parking...

OPINION: ALICE GORMAN

April 24, 2025
Staff Report
Opinion

BY ALICE GORMAN One of the results of living and caring about a small community for many years is the awareness that certain complicated and difficult issues seem to never be permanently...

Taking the ‘Christ’ Out Of Gilchrist: Churches not viable without parking

March 27, 2025
Staff Report
Opinion

BY PETER SODERBERG Many of those of us deeply engaged with the three churches on Gilchrist Avenue are aghast by our reading of the draft of your parking ordinance to be signed by Commissioner...

The Gilchrist Potato Stix, and other visual snacks

March 6, 2025
Garland Pollard
Editorial

Early Thursday morning, there were high winds across the island. They caused waves that washed away newly deposited sand. Those winds, which brought much-needed rain, rustled the yellow reflective...

Can we at least take the sheets off?

November 28, 2024
Staff Report
News

On Gilchrist (and across the island), the dumping is quite regular. As soon as contractors get what is in the middle, it seems to get filled up again. Here, we got a dump of a wicker living room...