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Remembering the railroad bascule bridge removal 

Above, a 1980s photo of what is believed to be the bridge in New York. Readers can help us by remembering where it might ha…

This date in the Boca Beacon: Boca Blooms Grande Opening

FIVE YEARS AGO Suncoast Humane launched the “Get ‘Em Home” project amid COVID to adopt shelter dogs. Restaurants partner…

Many more blue dolpins patrolling in the chill ahead

The dolphins were out and the mullet were jumping this weekend on the north end of the island. It was about as perfect w…
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Grande Stitches holds January trunk show

Janice Hursen of Grande Stitches is holding an in-store trunk show f…
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Mobile library bikes through Boca Grande

Last Friday, the Fust Library’s mobile bicycle unit was out with…
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Crews Bank features Susan Shaffer

Once again, the Boca Grande Art Center partners with Crews Bank & Trust to present rotating local artists’ exhibits at…
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EcoWatch: 2026 Year of the Horse … or is it?

“No,” he said, “that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was rig…

Telephone pole proximity, tides, complicate sewer pipe fix

DeJonge Excavating Contractors are working with the Gasparilla Island Water Association and Lee County and Florida Power an…
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Warning tickets given out to cars without passes

Several island visitors have reported getting warning tickets if they are parked in areas where new parking restrictions ha…
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Registration time now for Tennis Classic

The annual all-island tournament will be held at the Boca Bay Pass Club, The Gasparilla Inn Tennis Club and the Boca Grande…