By Stan Karpf, GSAC Board Member Submit questions or feedback online As GSAC members continue to put down new sod and plant new bushes, trees, and flowers our neighborhood looks more beautiful every day! Hurricane Ian is starting to seem like nothing more than a bad dream. We recently met with Chad Merritt, City of Naples [...]
By Pamela Nicholls, GSAC Board Member Submit questions or feedback online Red Tide clean-up efforts of the inland bays began March 3 after City Council authorized the city manager to spend up to $100,000 to expedite the removal of the accumulation of dead fish within the city's waterways. Four boats and crews worked throughout the week with nets and hooks [...]
By Helen McGrath, GSAC Board Member Submit questions or feedback online Verizon is in the process of deploying 12 “micro” cell towers to enhance 5G coverage in Naples. One of these towers has already been constructed on 12th Ave South by the City Pier (see photo). Four towers will be placed on City public rights of [...]
By Pamela Nicholls, GSAC Board Member Submit questions or feedback online Have family in town for Spring Break? We’ve gathered together some ideas to entertain the young and not so young! Spring Safari at Naples Zoo A trip to the Naples Zoo is always fun but even more so when you can promise the little ones that [...]
By Pamela Nicholls, GSAC Board Member Submit questions or feedback online Five months after Hurricane Ian sentenced them to a watery grave, the cars swept into Moorings and Venetian Bays by the storm surge were finally retrieved by State contractors on March 7. Two automobiles from Moorings Bay and one from Venetian Bay were recovered. That brought [...]
By Jim Melican, GSAC Board Member Submit questions or feedback online At GSAC’s Tuesday, March 14 Board of Directors meeting, Paul Hiltz, President and CEO of the NCH Healthcare System and Jon Kling, Chief Operations Officer, Administration updated the GSAC Board on the status of its proposed Heart, Vascular and Stroke Institute. While the proposed Institute was [...]
By Stan Karpf, GSAC Board Member Submit questions or feedback online We last updated you on the rebuilding of the Seawall located at the north end of Gulf Shore Blvd North in our January newsletter. Since many of you have recently asked questions concerning the status of this project, we thought it might be a good [...]
By Pamela Nicholls, GSAC Board Member Submit questions or feedback online Trucks hauling sand to City beaches for the County’s Emergency Beach Berm restoration project should start hitting our streets the first week in April. County Coastal Zone Manager Andy Miller confirmed on Monday that his best estimate for a start date is April 3, 2023. [...]
By Pamela Nicholls, GSAC Board Member Submit questions or feedback online Please submit any questions you might have to gsacnaples.org/contact and if we can’t answer we will find an authority who can! Question. Five months after the storm, the streetlights on GSBN, north of Harbor Drive, are still out. When is FPL going to get our streetlights [...]
