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ECOWATCH: Mothers must become Mother Nature’s teachers

Ode to Delphinus: She swims in warm salt waters, her baby being fed. Her search for food and safety gave way to ominous dre…

A closer look at Banyan Gasparilla Sound

It’s difficult to get your bearings when you first see the old Fishery property without the shops, the fish house, the rest…

Jungle Joe is back in business!

Island favorite Joe Wier has a new job That square jaw, freckled face and set of twinkling eyes we all know and love wil…

The pros and cons of a population boom:

Where to put all of these people? In November of 2021 a woman pos…
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Ladies and kids fishing details

Lee County Parks & Recreation and the Boca Beacon will sponsor a…

Become one with the sea with a reefball burial

Environmental considerations have become part of the process of planning a funeral for many of today’s families. It is no l…
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Game, set, match for Mark and Jinx

Jinx Howe and Mark Horan have decided to hop the net for the last time on the clay courts of The Gasparilla Inn Tennis Club…

OBITUARY: Barbara (Mooney) Kelly

Barbara Joan (Mooney) Kelly of Wellesley, previously of Wayland, passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on…

OBITUARY: Elizabeth Haraden

Elizabeth Jane (Bubar) Haraden, 85, recently of Acton, Mass., died in Concord on March 25, 2022.   She was born on June…
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AROUND THE TOWN: With Chef Tim Spain, Effie and Savannah

Chef Tim Spain and his assistants, Effie Joiner and Savannah Pope, put on quite the spread at a recent island dinner party…