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Letters: Interlocal pact could shore up island off season

Editor’s Note: An open letter to Lee Commissioners from a Charlotte resident in the parking discussion. To the Editor…

Letters: Increase in fire budget questioned by resident

To the Editor: Regarding the increase in the Boca Grande Fire Department budget.  Where is the additional 8.5% i…

This date in the Boca Beacon

FIVE YEARS AGO A freak storm took out a big tree in the Sister’s Restaurant parking lot. Lee County Sheriff’s Office was…

These here lights blink on and off. Life is aglow.

It is 6:05 a.m. along “this here” Gulf of America. Those there light…
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EcoWatch: Factory farming is not for the octopus

Octopuses can rival the creatures of science fiction: big-eyed, mult…
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Coffee & Conservation to Spotlight Gopher Tortoises

SUP Englewood’s Coffee & Conservation series will return on Tuesday, Oct. 21, with a program focused on the gopher tort…
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Appreciation for our Kawasaki ‘Hatch’

BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY Here we are in mid-September, and the number of remaining incubating nests continues to…
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Business & Real Estate: J.McLaughlin new chief creative officer

J.McLaughlin has appointed Lee Anne Henrico as chief creative officer. She will oversee the brand’s women’s and men’s desig…
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September/October Gasparilla Magazine out

Featuring Mah Jongg, shell collections and a natural cemetery The new edition of the Boca Beacon’s Gasparilla Island Mag…
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Lee rangers to continue Boca Grande service

Two Lee County Parks parking rangers will continue to serve Lee County Parks beach access on Gasparilla Island. “There a…