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An agnostic view of Boca Grande’s alien visits over the years

In the wake of the recent explosive hearings in the U.S. Congress on UFOs, now called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, the so…
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Mote saves thousands of endangered corals amidst extremely high water temperatures

Submitted by Mote Marine Laboratory As Florida’s coral reef experienced record-breaking heat waves starting in July, wit…

GICIA Bike Path landscape project begins

The Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association (GICIA) is pleased to announce that a Bike Path enhancement…
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Celebrate National Golf Month by warming up and cooling down

By Andrew Colburn, Boca Grande Health Clinic Back in 1993, the Pr…

Lee County Commissioners to vote on new roof for Boca Grande Community Center

When Lee County Commissioners hold their monthly meeting on Tuesday…

Hurricane Ian book features Boca Beacon article about Little Gasparilla Island

Gulf Coast Writers Association Inc. (GWCA), Southwest Florida’s 28-year-old meeting ground for writers, editors and their a…

OBITUARY: Sackett Snow Cook

Sackett Snow Cook died peacefully August 1 at Westview on Main in Fairhaven MA, with his wife of 41 years, Mary Elizabeth (…

OBITUARY: Joe D’Angelo

Sadly, our family announces that Joe D’Angelo departed this world on August, 1, 2023, at the youthful age of 86. He peacefu…

PROFILE: Amy Cyr

Amy Cyr loves music, and she has since she was very young. Now she has joined The Island School as its music teacher, and s…
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THIS DATE IN THE BOCA BEACON

FIVE YEARS AGO Was it red tide or Vibrio vulnificus that was making young stomachs upset, or back-to-school jitters? Eit…