Still fighting to protect the island
By Staff | Jul 7, 2021
To the editor,
There were a lot of unhappy Pine Islanders at the Town Hall meeting at the Methodist Church on June 29, concerned with the proposed development order from Jefferson Lakes for 94 “townhouses/condos” and 17 buildings to be constructed nearby environmental, sensitive wetlands, preserve areas and Pine Island Creek.
When asked, how close this would be to the creek, she responded, she didn’t know. Someone from the audience said, “He looked it up and it was 50 feet.” How can this be? Someone else said, “They thought only a Publix was going to be built there.”
Roskamp Institute executive director addresses GPICA
By PAULETTE LeBLANC - | Feb 10, 2021
The Greater Pine Island Civic Association held its monthly meeting on Feb. 2, where Mike Mullan, executive director of the Roskamp Institute, gave a presentation on a red tide project being conducted by the non-profit organization.
According to Mullan, who is a molecular biologist, the institute has been working on diseases of the brain and central nervous system for decades. Within the duration of Mullan’s work, he was part of a team that originally discovered the genetic causes of Alzheimer’s disease. The institute, he said, established in Sarasota in 2003, is composed of a group of scientists, MDs and PhDs as well as a neurology clinic, serving approximately 6,000 people. The group is funded on a competitive basis by grants and contracts from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration as well as some private donors.