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The state of Florida has a robust program for derelict boats. During recent hurricanes, there were hundreds of boats in…

BY CAPT. SANDY MELVIN Tarpon season continues in full swing. There are thousands of tarpon around right now and you can…

“As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life – a fabric on th…

Happy VanBeuren and Cotton Hanley visited the Suncoast Humane Societ…

BY CAPT. VAN HUBBARD Editor’s Note: Van Hubbard’s column Hook, Li…

The 2024 sea turtle nesting season for Gasparilla Island runs through October 31. Here are some sea turtle season “Do’s and…

Running for a local office on Gasparilla Island is sometimes more complicated than one might expect. Because there are two…

Charlotte County Transit has scheduled two workshops to solicit public input on its transit development plan. The worksh…

BY CAPT. ROBERT JOHNSON Editor’s Note: The late Capt. Johnson wrote a history of The Boca Grande Quarantine Station duri…

Livingston Byrns Sheppard II was born in the Appalachian mountains of Jenkins, Kentucky to his father Livingston Byrns Shep…