Sarah Mankowitz

18 hours ago | gulfcoastnewsnow.com | Sarah Mankowitz

BEHIND HOMES IN GATEWAY. NOT TOO FAR FROM THE SIGHTING ALONG DANIELS. GIVING FLUORIDE FLOWING EVEN WITH A STATEWIDE AS THE CONTROVERSIAL MINERAL GOES AWAY LESS THAN A MONTH. MANY ARE WONDERING HOW THEY CAN GET MORE OF IT. NOW IT'S SORT OF LOOKING FOR THOSE RESOURCES. I GOT SOME MOUTHWASH AND THAT'S GREAT. >> THAT TYPE OF THING. BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S ENOUGH. >> I >> OK, SHOULD I BE EATING SOMETHING DIFFERENT? BUT WILL THE FLUORIDE FIX BE THAT EASY TONIGHT? ONLY SARAH MANKIEWICZ IS SCRAPING AWAY.

2 days ago | gulfcoastnewsnow.com | Sarah Mankowitz

The city of Fort Myers is using ChatGPT for a lot more tasks now. "I had ChatGPT help me create the agenda item that purchased the enterprise upgrade to ChatGPT," said Richard Calkins, IT Director for the city of Fort Myers. Calkins started a pilot program with 30 people to test if ChatGPT would be a good fit. "We worked with them and said, what would you use it for? And they would tell us, I do a lot of report writing. It takes a long time. So, let's have it generate some reports," Calkins said.

4 days ago | gulfcoastnewsnow.com | Sarah Mankowitz

Saharan dust is making its way to our Gulf Coast. So, what is it? “The Saharan air layer is basically what you, what it sounds like. It's an air mass that originates in the Sahara Desert of Africa, the biggest desert on the planet,” said Gulf Coast News meteorologist Rob Duns. As the dust gets closer to us, it’s not right at eye level. “It actually travels at a height of sometimes upwards of a mile in the air. So, we're talking 20, 25,000 feet up and above the Earth's atmosphere,” said Duns.

1 week ago | gulfcoastnewsnow.com | Sarah Mankowitz

The Florida Governmental Utility Authority (FGUA) is teaming up with the Lehigh Acres Senior Center to help conserve water. “A lot of folks in Florida actually have private wells, so that really drains our aquifer. So, anything we can do to conserve water and rain in the form of rain, helps to keep our water tables from going dry,” said Donna Lizotte, a community service representative for FGUA. It's a problem we're seeing right now on our Gulf Coast, especially in Cape Coral.

1 week ago | gulfcoastnewsnow.com | Sarah Mankowitz

A Buc-ees is being proposed right off Interstate 75 in Charlotte County, but not everyone is happy about it. “I have nothing against Buc-ees, but I just, it does not belong there,” said neighbor Rebecca Scholl. “This is just not the place for it. It's not the land for it. I'm sure Southwest Florida would welcome a Buc-ees, it's just not here,” said neighbor Drema Doolittle. Neighbors of the Harbour Heights community said the newly proposed Buc-ees is not the right fit for their neighborhood.