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…
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…
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…
We are heartbroken that our beloved friend and Whitney resident, Ed Cassel, passed away on Monday, April 14. Ed and his wife Linda were an integral part of our community for many years, first as renters beginning in 2015, and then as owners when they purchased their unit in 2020. Ed will be deeply missed…
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…
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…
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…
Sometimes you just want to get a little hokey. For an afternoon, our Social Committee turned the front lawn into a County Fair, complete with games, custom Whitney Beach coozies designed by Kimmie Corder, and even a pie bake-off. Congratulations to all our hardworking Social Committee volunteers, and to Joni Diesenberg for baking the winning…
A hardy group of volunteers tackled the job of cleaning out the north pool utility room, so we don’t have to pay professionals to do it. There have been a lot of dirty jobs around here lately, and this has to be one of the dirtiest. The utility room is underground, so you can imagine…