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EcoWatch: Labor Day: A time for new policies – good and bad
“Accepting that one day your role might be handled by a robot is a hard pill to swallow. But if you can learn anything from…
Sarasota Opera Awarded $60,000 Grant from Gulf Coast Community Foundation
Sarasota Opera has received a $60,000 Empowering Arts Grant from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation to support programming…
Charlotte County Offers Free Vegetable Gardening Workshops in September
UF/IFAS Extension Charlotte County will host a series of vegetable gardening workshops in September, offering practical tip…
Lighthouses & Lullabies at Port Boca Grande Lighthouse
The Barrier Island Parks Society (BIPS) will host Lighthouses &…
Friends of Boca Grande Announces Rhythm & Boots Concert Lineup
Friends of Boca Grande will kick off its 2025/26 cultural season thi…
Turtle patrollers find surprises in nests during inventories
BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY
In last week’s article, we reviewed some of the data BGSTA turtle patrollers collect fo…
Looking Back: Waterspouts over island 25 years ago
FIVE YEARS AGO
Charlotte County launched their County Records website allowing all county documents going back to 1921 b…
History: Happy 110 years Banyan Street
By KAREN GRACE
In 1915, Peter Bradley of the American agricultural Chemical Company had 26 banyan trees planted on each…
Bluebottle man-o-war stings mighty
BY DR. JOHN FLETEMEYER
I’ve suffered the painful sting of a Portuguese man-of-war at least a dozen times. Consequently…
San Carlos and the ‘Commissioner item’
Last week, there were no actual items relating to Boca Grande on the agenda of the Lee County Commission. But there was one…