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Florida real estate prices stable, but fewer sales going on lately

In spite of interest rate increases, the Florida real estate market this June remains stable, with the average house sellin…

Beacon/Gasparilla Island Magazine staff brings home 15 awards

The Boca Beacon/Gasparilla Island Magazine staff attended the Florida Press Association and Florida Magazine Association aw…
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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 m…

OBITUARY: Bob Halford

Robert “Bob” Sidney Halford, 94, died Thursday, July 20, 2023 at his…

PROFILE: Fr. Anthony Hewitt

Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church is now in the hands of its new pastor, Father Anthony Hewitt. Fr. Anthony began offering…
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THIS DATE IN THE BOCA BEACON

FIVE YEARS AGO PJ’s Seagrille and The Grapevine were officially out of business. TEN YEARS AGO Kathy Banson-Verric…

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…
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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…
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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…