By Pam Nicholls, GSAC Board Member Submit questions or feedback online Did you know that you can play a practical, meaningful role in keeping our county and coasts cleaner? For over 26 years, the non-profit Keep Collier Beautiful (KCB) has been organizing volunteers in Collier County to help keep waterways free of trash. Recently, KCB has been [...]
The issue. The existing hospital tower on 41 is 92’6” tall and is a grandfathered City height variance from the 42’ City Charter limit. The new NCH Heart & Vascular Institute is asking for a 6’2” height variance on the Telford location behind the Route 41 hospital tower. This would make the new NCH Heart [...]
The NCH Healthcare System (NCH) plans to build a new, state-of-the-art Heart, Vascular, and Stroke Institute on its downtown campus. Currently, cardiac services are spread across departments and buildings on the downtown campus. The new building would consolidate these services into one building, thereby providing significantly improved efficiencies in care and research, as well as [...]
The City Council election is nearly upon us. Five candidates are contesting for the three open seats. Historically one or more of the seven Council members has lived in our area. Currently, however, none do, though one of the three first-time candidates, Ian Rudnick, does reside in Park Shore. If you have yet to make [...]
As befitting the youngest candidate in the race, Ian Rudnick’s enthusiasm is matched by a sense of urgency. “I’m not getting into this to become a politician; I’m going into this because I was a Naples police officer and I see that this city is going to become unsafe if we keep going down the [...]
Beth discovered Naples in 2008 when she was searching for a vacation home. Her first impression of the city is not uncommon. “When I drove over that bridge into 5th Avenue, I nearly had to pull my car over because it was so pretty,” recalls Beth. She liked the ‘Midwest vibe’ – it looked clean [...]
Newly remarried and “learning a lot” out on the political trail, John first came to Naples when his parents relocated to the city in 2003. He’s called Naples home since 2010. Nearly all of his business career was spent as a road warrior with the global services and consulting giant Accenture. Getting involved with the [...]
Ray Christman is one of two incumbent councilors up for re-election. Ray and his family were regular visitors to Naples before purchasing a home here in 2003. After graduating with a master’s degree in city planning, Ray worked in urban development and land conservation in his home state of Pennsylvania before embarking on a career [...]
If there was one person in the world who could claim a median was the launchpad for a stint in the political arena, it would be Terry Hutchison. While the convenience store company 7-Eleven brought the native from Indiana initially to Venice, Florida in 2008, frequent visits to our city inspired Terry’s relocation here eight [...]
By Pam Nicholls, GSAC Board Member Submit questions or feedback online Naples is graced with a beautiful and diverse population of trees. More than 20,773 carbon gobblers of 148 different species enhance our parks, public spaces and neighborhood streets. However, Naples lost nearly 2,000 trees to Hurricane Irma in 2017 when there were already 2,000 sites identified [...]
