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Letter inviting Lee Commissioners in November 2024

Below is the text of a letter sent this week by Larry Hannah of Lighthouse United Methodist Church to the Board of County C…
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Visitors find Fourth traditions in Boca Grande

As freedom’s ringing dissipated throughout Boca Grande following yesterday’s Fourth of July holiday, many people expressed…
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If island retail is important, let’s start with an inventory

Currently, the Boca Beacon is digesting hundreds of pages of correspondence between Lee County and Boca Grande as part of a…
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Parking meeting set for Monday; invite for all this fall

Editor’s Note: Due to a family emergency, this has been postponed…
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EcoWatch: Toxic sunscreens are harmful to our oceans

“Sunscreen is a surprising culprit of ocean pollution, and one that’…
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SW Florida Fishing: Tarpon still around

BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE Lots of tarpon are still being caught in Boca Grande Pass, Little Gasparilla Pass, and out on t…
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Turtle report: Please stop pulling up yellow stakes protecting nests

BY ARLENE HALL BGSTA SECRETARY  The most exciting part of turtle nesting season began last week, when hatchlings from th…
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Van Hubbard: Memories of mackerel, and a trout show with Santa Claus 

Somewhere in the intense mid- ‘80s, I took videographer Gary Sullivan tarpon fishing. It was 1985 when I met Gary, aka Sull…
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Seagrass survey volunteers needed by Sea Grant

A volunteer seagrass monitoring program through the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences needs…
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Keeping a father’s memory alive on Little Gasparilla

BY KRISTEN VARELA-SCHILD At my father’s memorial, I was a little jealous. Jealous of the stories my brother told of conn…