Tag: Gilchrist Avenue

Wherefore art thou, sweet Aunt Bea?

To the Editor: It’s that time of year again. The time when the lords and ladies assemble their baggage trains and go back to whatever magical kingdom they’re trying to make Boca Grande into....

Editorial: Shark fishing, Gilchrist fibbing, fat-bottomed trucks

May 15, 2015
Boca Beacon
Editorial

BY MARCY SHORTUSE As the tourist season cools down and tarpon season heats up, an outsider would think that things would be pretty quiet around here. It sounds logical, but wait.Look, there...

A letter from the ‘ginned up’ locals

To the Editor: I just read the reply to my letter to the editor from last week, from Mr. Regnery. It made me dizzy. The RPMs of that spin were off the scale. Unsubstantiated charges? Red...

Letter to the Editor: Resident challenges last week’s letter

To the Editor: The letter headlined “The Saga of” in the May 1 issue contained a series of unsubstantiated charges (Sunday confrontation) and misleading example (parkway plantings) which...

Letter to the Editor: A happy community means well-attended churches … right?

To the Editor: We spend six months in Boca Grande, and the other six months we live in northern Ontario, Canada, where I was born and raised. Since building our beloved Camp David on the shores...

Letters: The saga of Gilligan’s Island continues (‘That patch of weeds belongs to all of us’)

To the Editor: I read with great interest an article by a spokesperson for the Gilchrist neighborhood Association, which stated there had been a miscommunication about the Gilchrist parking...

Gilchrist residents speak to the community: There’s been a miscommunication

April 24, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

The following is a statement prepared exclusively for the Boca Beacon, regarding the stance taken on Gilchrist Avenue parking by The Gilchrist Neighborhood Association. They have been largely...

Gilchrist meeting postponed – Lee County says ‘talk it out amongst yourselves’

April 17, 2015
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News

BY MARCY SHORTUSE Lee County Commissioners have once again put the fate of Gilchrist Avenue in the hands of the people of the island, after scheduling and then “unscheduling” a discussion of...

Lee County commissioners, Gilchrist interest groups to meet on April 21

April 10, 2015
BBadmin7502
Featured News

BY MARCY SHORTUSE It has been confirmed that Lee County Commissioners will review, listen to public input and make a determination regarding parking on Gilchrist Avenue at their meeting on...

County narrows Gilchrist parking proposals to three, expects to present to commissioners in April

March 13, 2015
Staff Report
News

BY MARCY SHORTUSE We’ve reported this before, but now it looks like it may come true: Lee County Commissioners seem to have plans to move forward with some sort of Gilchrist parking...