Tag: Gilchrist Avenue

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...

Glass act: Corning fiber optic clearly used for Verizon 5G install

Crews from Lamberts Cable Splicing are about the island, laying Corning fiber optic cable and black ductwork. The company, headquartered in Rocky Mount, N.C., is a utility contractor specializing...

A church is open all week, not just Sunday morning

August 1, 2024
Garland Pollard
Editorial

Many of our readers will be of the variety of persons who watch or read English murder mysteries. In many of those dramas, there is a scene, usually on Saturday, when all the suspects can be seen...

Firm two-hour limit in draft parking docs in Public Records request

A “maximum duration of two hours.” That would be the time limit for metered parking in Boca Grande in a draft code change from Lee County, circulated on Monday, May 6, 2024, that would...

Quiet Gilchrist, but overflowing Gasparilla Island State Park

June 13, 2024
Garland Pollard
Editorial

This weekend on Gasparilla Island was not a major holiday, just a plain old summer weekend. The weather was clear, and visitors came, while so many of our regulars have gone home. The tarpon crowd...

Lee officials again consider new parking regulations in Boca Grande

The contentious issue of new parking regulations in Boca Grande has some residents concerned that there could be new regulations in the works by Lee County officials. Over the weekend, emails and...

Take down the fence on 5th Street. Take a few steps.

If readers head to the end of 5th Street in Boca Grande, they will see a seaside attraction like no other. It is a wood fence, built completely across the whole length of the street, blocking...