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More than 50 people turned out to witness the ribbon cutting of the Wheeler Road…

The second Annual Gasparilla Mallet Club Tournaments are in the history books, and they were resounding successes, accordin…

By Karen Grace, Boca Grande Historical Society Joseph Spadaro came to Boca Grande in the 1920s. On Sunday, March 26, 202…

Florida Lighthouse Day is celebrated every year at lighthouses throu…

When Absalom Markland died in 1888, his obituary was carried in news…

The Johann Fust Library Foundation is excited to present a unique program featuring two professors from the University of C…

Mary Dosdall Guyer, 88, of Boca Grande, formerly Saint Paul, Minn., went to heaven peacefully surrounded by her loving fami…

Bob Frederick, a much-loved father, grandfather and great grandfather, passed away on March 22, 2023, with family at his si…

From burls to bowls … It started out as a curiosity. Lewis Carlisle had heard that tree burls could be turned into pie…

Boca Beacon backpages FIVE YEARS AGO There was a mass exodus of man-o-wars parading through our waters. The Fishery P…