This date in the Boca Beacon: GIBA tests self-scan lane

FIVE YEARS AGO

A new clinic opened in East Englewood. The clinic was offering monoclonal antibody treatments for patients testing positive for COVID.

TEN YEARS AGO

Agape Flights, of Venice, made its first trip to Cuba to deliver goods since travel restrictions had eased. They delivered boxes of food and 26 water filtration systems.

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO

The Boca Grande Health Clinic announced that Dr. Jeffrey Humbarger would be joining the practice as a full-time physician.

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Lee County Property Appraiser sent out TRIM notices with Boca Grande taxable values increasing by 12.5 percent.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO 

The Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority was going to begin testing a “self-scan” lane. The test would run for two weeks.

THIRTY YEARS AGO

The Land Conservancy of the Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association was closing on its first of seven purchased lots.

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Royal Palm Productions started up its first season in Boca Grande with Kristina Johnson as the director and three productions planned for the season.

FORTY YEARS AGO

Lemon Bay was designated as an Aquatic Preserve which placed bans on multi-slip piers and reduced the size of piers on any state-owned submerged lands.

FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Placida Harbour opened just north of the Boca Grande Causeway on the former estate of Bill Mote, president and chairman of Mote Marine Laboratories.