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The following is a message from Lt. Jeff Corkhill, Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Boca Grande substation. The Lee …

Twas the night before Christmas and all around No noses were frozen, no snow fluttered down. No children in f…

There’s a big change on the horizon for your weekly island newspaper. The Boca Beacon’s website will be keeping you up to…

It all started with a phone call. “Approximately a year ago, we received a call,” began Jim Blaha of The Boca Grande Hist…

Joan Schmidt believes in the adage “help thy neighbor.” Even if that neighbor isn’t next door. After a series of deadl…

Oberta “Obie” A. Baker passed away Friday November 19, 2021 in Aurora, Ohio. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 3, 1936, sh…

Richard George Robb, died early morning on Nov. 9, 2021 in the company of his wife, Nancy and his Labrador Retriever, Ava…

The year was 1921. Women had just fought for and won the right to vote, Warren G. Harding had just taken the oath of offi…