Lee County CO-OP Power Outage Scheduled 6-16-21

Lee County CO-OP has alerted Pine Island - Matlacha residents by phone that it has scheduled an area power outage for around 10 pm, Tuesday, 6-16-21 and may take as long as 1/2 hour. This is to perform storm hardening maintenance and although it may only take 5-10 minutes they want customers to be prepared. Turn off computers to be safe and cool down.

Lee County CO-OP Power Outage Scheduled 4-27-21

Lee County CO-OP has alerted Pine Island - Matlacha residents by phone that it has scheduled an area power outage for around 10 pm, Tuesday, 4-27-21 and may take as long as 1/2 hour. This is to perform storm hardening maintenance and although it may only take 5-10 minutes they want customers to be prepared. Turn off computers to be safe and cool down.

Pine Island Chamber of Commerce Building Sold

In a release Monday, Dec., 28, 2020, the Greater Pine Island Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors consisting of: Larry Solinger, President; Debbie Memoli, Vice President; Mel Brinson, Past President; Beth Sowers, Secretary/Treasurer; and Directors; Cynthia Welch, Nancy R Koucky, Jennipher Johnson, Todd Combs, Dotty Manning announced the new business plan which included selling the newly constructed building and the property on which it occupies.

Scanner Rejects Second Page of Ballot at Precinct 21

Presidential election, Nov., 3, 2020: Early reports are that the second page of the ballots where most of the amendments are located are being rejected by the ballot scanner at Precinct 21 at the Catholic church in Bokeelia. The first page of the ballot scanned without a problem. Without some other intervention it is expected that these ballots will require hand tabulation by poll workers and this hand tabulation is expected to go well into the evening. Voting as of early morning required about a 45 minute wait.

GPIWA Announces Water Outage

Greater Pine Island Water Assoc. announces a water outage starting at 9pm, Oct., 2, 2020, and scheduled to be completed at midnight. The notice is primarily for most of, if not all of northern Pine Island, the Bokeelia area, but it is expected that some of northern St. James might also be affected. Some customers may notice just lower water pressure. A boiled water notice accompanies the outage.

Storm Band Takes Down Power, Internet in Bokeelia

A fast moving storm band moving through Bokeelia, Monday, Aug., 24th at about 1:45pm blew down Australian Pine trees at the intersection of Bokeelis Rd. and Stringfellow Rd. The storm only lasted about 40 minutes, however, the winds were about 65mph gusts and the rain was seen blowing horizontally. The trees fell down across the road and took with them the power lines and the internet cable.

GPI Chamber Developing Business Plan

Excerpts from a Greater Pine Island Chamber of Commerce release;

"As of Thursday July 2, the Chamber Welcome Center will be open from 10am to 3pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. We would like to be open more days and are still seeking additional volunteers to do so. Please call the Chamber if you are available 5 hours, once a week or even once a month."

Pine Island's 4th of July Parade Has Been Canceled for 2020

A spokesperson for the Pine Island VFW stated that the 4th parade that they have sponsored would not be held this year since Lee County wouldn't issue a permit on the instructions from the State of Florida.

The Pine Island Chamber sponsored it for many years but decided they couldn't justify the insurance expense and dropped the event. The VFW picked the event back up and has been managing it for over ten years. (ed. Note; Maybe we should have a "peaceful" protest supporting the 4th of July.)

Bokeelia Water Outage 6-12-20

There is a water outage from about the Center north to and including Bokeelia in the afternoon at least up to 5:30 pm. There is some indication it may have been accident related. GPIWA issued a boil water notice at 5:30pm for all of Bokeelia. Water pressure was restored at around 8pm.

Pine Island Chamber of Commerce "Clarification"

Updated:

"While it is unfortunate that this information was communicated prior to our scheduled announcement to the Chambers membership, the Greater Pine Island Chamber Board of Directors would like to provide clarity to today’s article in order to prevent any further miscommunication of certain facts. 

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