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This Friday’s paper is the first of the new year. Despite still recovering from the dual hurricanes this fall, Boca Grande…

It’s the time of year to check on and update your listing in the 4-Digit Phone Book. Since 1991, the Boca Beacon has pu…

On Saturday, Dec. 28, a pink elephant appeared in the clouds. The view was looking west across the Gulf in south Boca Grand…

The island had a large number of dead mullet up and down the beach o…

This osprey was making a nest near the Range Light last week. He was…

The Charlotte County Commission has scheduled a utilities quarterly update meeting at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in Roo…

To the Editor: On behalf of our permit holder, Denise Juergens, I am writing this letter from the Boca Grande Sea Turtle…

The late illustrator Charley Harper created famous images of nature, for not only magazines, but biology textbooks. Curator…

BY KATHY Y. FUTCH One February, a few years back, islander-author Thomas McGuane enthralled an auditorium full of reader…

Next Wednesday, Doug Bradburn, director of Mount Vernon, will visit the island as part of a Friends of Boca Grande lecture…