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Lemon Bay heads to Florida State Thespian Festival
The student theater troupe at Lemon Bay High School is heading to Tampa on March 13 for the Florida State Thespian Festival…
Island pastors meet to plan Easter
The leaders of the Boca Grande churches met this week to begin planning for the 2024 Holy Week and Easter services availabl…
Three missing boaters were fixtures at Boca Grande houses
Longtime employees, friends, rally to cause of lost fathers
Three of the four men lost off the coast near Venice in an a…
Cape Haze at nexus of American sawfish revival
We reside in a sawfish aquarium, Charlotte Harbor. It’s Jurassic Par…
SW Florida Fishing: Warm up to come…
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE
The weather has been chilly but sunny th…
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: A banker with most interest in his Faith
Money and ministry go hand-in-hand for Larry Hannah. His efforts have shown that, in the right hands, money can be the root…
Obituary: Denee Peyton, 1985-2024
Friends and family of the late Denee Peyton, who worked as a clerk at The Temptation’s liquor store, Park Ave Wine and…
Like looking into the sun with the Geographic
Sixty years ago, the National Geographic came to Florida. The magazine devoted over 50 pages to this state, in a major feat…
GUEST ESSAY: Memories of my first days in 1970s Boca Grande
BY K.Y. FUTCH
When I first started my secretarial business, I had to use the typewriter at Capt. Charlie Wheeler’s home…
History Bytes: Leslie Porter Joiner on ‘Effie’
Memories of Effie Sapp Joiner, 1900-96
Artist Leslie Porter Joiner shared stories about Effie Sapp Joiner at a talk at t…