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RED TIDE REPORT

We have a lot of red tide.  Over the past week,red tide was detected in 171 samples from and offshore of Southwest Flori…

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: FWC continues to monitor avian influenza across Florida

To the Editor: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission continues to monitor bird mortalities suspected to…

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Asking for forgiveness …

To the Editor, and to the citizens of Boca Grande: I’m Tim Spain. In December of last year I received my second DUI in a…
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PUBLIC NOTICE: 2024 homestead exemption applications should be turned in soon

To the Editor: The Charlotte County Property Appraiser is now acc…

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Thanks to concerned passerby after bike spill

To the Editor: Writing a note of thanks to the white car and kind…

THIS DATE IN THE BOCA BEACON

Boca Beacon backpages FIVE YEARS AGO We said goodbye to Pedalin’ Patty, and a new toll system was announced that woul…

‘You’re breaking up … I can’t hear you’

Our lack of ‘comms’ spurs a plan by several islanders What’s that? I can’t hear you … you’re breaking up. You’re not a…

You might think it’s just burrow, eat, mate, repeat, but the life of one of our oldest species on earth is being threatened every day

Gopher tortoises love Gasparilla Island. They gravitate to areas with sun, sand and great weather, not unlike the humans wh…

Density meeting in Charlotte County set for February 28

The Charlotte County hearing on Cape Haze density is set for 2 p.m. on Tuesday, February 28 in Room 119 of the Murdock Admi…
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History Bytes: The Boca Grande Hotel, post mortem

The final History Bytes session of the season was a rousing success as dozens of people gathered in the Fust loggia to hear…