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Send us Love Lines
February is almost here and it’s time to start writing your Valentines. The Valentines can be to the person you love, or an…
4-Digit deadline Friday
Get us your updated address for the 4-Digit Phone Book. Email info@bocabeacon.com or call us at 941-964-2995.
Business and Real Estate: Water Authority elects new officers, announces treatment improvements
The Gasparilla Island Water Association (GIWA) held its Annual Membership Meeting at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church on Jan…
Lee Commissioners’ item to address parking minimums
The Lee Board of County Commissioners will hold a regular meeting at…
Here’s your lineup for the 2025 Boca Grande Film Festival
Get ready, film lovers – the wait is over! The Boca Grande Film Fest…
No Bike Parade this year
Goodbye to a longtime family spring break tradition, at least this year. There will be no Spring Bike Path Parade or Spring…
Over the hills where the spirits fly …
It might look like the West Coast or New England at the end of this rocky road, but this was the south end of Gasparilla Is…
Fust Library reopening set for Tuesday, Feb. 4
The Johann Fust Community Library, 1040 West 10th St., Boca Grande, will reopen at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 4. The library wa…
Keylime Bistro to reopen in Depot; no firm date set
The Keylime Bistro will reopen, though they do not yet have a firm date. Owner Sandy Stilwell Youngquist expects that it co…
OPINION: BRANDON SHULER
Water quality problems bigger than Lake Okeechobee
BY BRANDON SHULER
Much recent hay has been made about the current…