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This date in the Boca Beacon: First burglary on island
FIVE YEARS AGO
David Futch was the featured speaker at a Boca Grande Historical Society event on the old days of Boca Gr…
Subsidiarity and the noisy leaf blower
The United States is living in two worldviews these days. As the late Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams would say, we are each…
Preschool Hat Day
The Boca Grande Preschool celebrated National Hat Day last Thursday, Jan. 15. The students celebrated in style and apprecia…
Fashion Show benefits Honor Flight
The Rotonda West American Legion Post 113 held a Fashion Show to ben…
‘Why Girls’ Schools Matter’ at Book Club
A special Book Club meeting featured member Whitty Ransome, who disc…
She said yes!
John Paul Turner of Boca Grande, son of Kathleen and James Turner, and Savannah Dunmire of Tampa, daughter of Bonnie an…
EcoWatch: Clean Water Act needs your support – get involved
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. It is the only thing that ever has…
SW Florida Fishing: January fishing … quiet sometimes …
BY CAPT. JOE LECLAIR
With the weather in early January absolutely perfect the water temps shot back up. The snook and ta…
SW Florida Fishing: The redfish bite is on…
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE
Redfish have been the story of the backcountry this week here around Gasparilla Island and the…
New Farlow’s restaurant Chophouse285 anchors Englewood’s Dearborn Street
On Jan. 8, local restaurateurs Keith and Laurie Farlow, owners of the Englewood restaurant Farlow’s on the Water, opened Ch…










