Hamming it up in Georgia
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This week’s Bocascopes
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Lovelines, 2022
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Man sentenced in Hudson’s counterfeiting incident
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office announced this week that a man who was arrested at Hudson’s Grocery on May 18 of last year was sentenced to 36 months in prison for making counterfeit money.
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Creative solutions for the ‘Great Resignation’
By Marcy Shortuse and T Michele Walker
The pandemic continues to transform the labor force. During the first months of 2021, millions left their jobs, resulting in what some call “the Great Res…
Boca Grande wildlife needs you!
Never has there been a time when wildlife rescue volunteers were needed more on Gasparilla Island. To say there is a dire lack of people willing to pick up and drive injured or ill wildlife to loc…
Internationally renowned organist to christen new organ at St. Andrew’s
Boca Grande’s St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church will hold a dedicatory concert for its recently installed organ. The free organ concert will feature Dr. Jeremy Filsell, who has been hailed as one of t…
PROFILE: Kim Newlin
When we first met Kim Newlin back in 2005, she was a wife, a mother of two young children, and a new business owner of Newlin’s Mainely Gourmet. Today, she and Frank are happy and “Newlin’s,” as t…
Last call for Lovelines!
NOW IS THE TIME TO CONFESS YOUR LOVE,
WHETHER IT’S RED AS FIRE OR WHITE AS A DOVE;YOUR LAST DAY TO SEND THEM IS FEBRUARY 8,
IF YOU KNOW WHAT’S GOOD FOR YOU, YOU SHALL NOT BE LATE!Email your…
First History Bytes of season: Pranks and programs
BY KAREN GRACE, BOCA GRANDE HISTORY CENTER
Janet Gillespie who lived in Boca Grande between 1978 and 2004 told stories of the jobs she held, the friends she made, the programs she helped start …