News and Events
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Landscape Clean-up
If the appearance of our beloved Whitney has gotten you down in these last months, take heart. There’s some light on the horizon, or at least on the landscape. Down to Earth Landscape, our newly contracted landscape company, spent three days hard at work on our property. They removed the many dead shrubs and plants…
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Lonely Chair Seeking its Match
Can you do a neighbor a favor? Gail Strong is missing the matching chair to this one. She thinks a Northstar employee may have put it back in the wrong unit by mistake. If you find this chair in your unit, could you either get in touch with Gail (she’s in the directory on the…
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A New Sandbar in our Neighborhood
Alert resident Bryan Forrester brought it to our attention that a new sandbar has formed about a quarter mile northwest of Whitney Beach. Sandbars in the Longboat Key area are known to shift, disappear or reappear due to tides, storms and dredging. The hurricanes Helene and Milton have redistributed a lot of sand, making changes…
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It’s a Pop-up Pool Party!
Hurricane, what hurricane? Everything felt back to normal, at least for an afternoon, on Saturday, April 5, when 35 Whitney residents and visitors gathered for our first all-community party in almost a year. The impromptu pool party was the brainstorm of Joni Diesenberg. Thank you, Joni for giving us the nudge we needed! Everyone rallied…
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We Can Swim Again!
Great news! Our pools are open! We have received clearance from our pool maintenance company that the water is balanced and they are ready to be used! As February 5, 2025, the water temperatures were at 80 degrees but rising. That’s a touch chillier than we would like them, but our new heat pumps are…
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Making our Electrical System Resilient
The Board approved to replace the electrical feeder wires from the outside meters to the electrical panels in each unit in Buildings 8 through 20. We learned that during Hurricane Helene, seawater entered the underground conduits for each unit and caused degradation of the aluminum cabling. This poses a fire and safety risk and must…
