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Public participation meetings for federal disaster recovery funds planned throughout Lee County (but not here)
Resident participation meetings throughout unincorporated Lee County and in municipalities are planned in August to receive…
New airlines make for breezier visits, fewer stopovers
In the last few years, new airlines serving Southwest Florida have meant hundreds of new direct flights and cheaper fares –…
OBITUARY: Bob Halford
Robert “Bob” Sidney Halford, 94, died Thursday, July 20, 2023 at his home surrounded by his family.
Interment will be he…
PROFILE: Fr. Anthony Hewitt
Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church is now in the hands of its new pas…
THIS DATE IN THE BOCA BEACON
FIVE YEARS AGO
PJ’s Seagrille and The Grapevine were officially o…
EDITORIAL: This dead parrot is a lawsuit waiting to happen … please, Lee County, let us take down the Bakery Building
It took 15 days to complete the Sanibel Causeway after Hurricane Ian crunched it. It took two-and-a-half months for the sev…
Time marches on at the Fishery property …
Tuesday, July 18 was the beginning of the end for two pieces of Cape Haze Peninsula’s history. The former home of Mike Schw…
The saga of ‘The Forgotten Ones’ at Gasparilla Mobile Estates continues …
More developments have unfolded in the Gasparilla Mobile Estates controversy and they are just as strange as the ones that…
$3.8 million restoration contract signed for Lighthouse
This week, Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) signed a contract to complete repairs at the Port Boca Gr…
Fall debut scheduled for Temp sign
Did you really think it wouldn’t be back? Ha ha, ho ho, hee hee, you must belong in the maison de fous!
The Temptation m…