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Is it red tide … or something else?

Submitted by the Boca Grande Health Clinic Like allergies or the flu, red tide ebbs and flows with the season. And when…

PROFILE: Capt. Tater Spinks

Mary calls him “My Salty Dog Redneck Fisherman.” It’s an affectionate nickname that only a wife could get away with calling…

OBITUARY: Robert Allgyer

Robert E. Allgyer, Jr. of Oyster Bay, New York died unexpectedly on August 6, 2021 of a heart attack at the age of 42. Rob…
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From the Boca Grande History Center: Delmar Fugate and the Pink Elephant (Part II of a series)

Submitted by the Boca Grande History Center In our August 6 editi…

Captains For Clean Water sits down with the Boca Beacon about Everglades restoration, USACE and clean water

With record-breaking deaths of the manatee, red tide, Piney Point an…
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Fred was a dud, Grace got lost … what’s next?

While Fred came and went with a whimper, and Tropical Storm Grace turned into Hurricane Grace but decided to visit Mexico…
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The question of insurance liability and sidewalks: We may save our pink pump, our outdoor seating and our flowers, but at what cost?

While Lee County Ordinance NO. 21-XX, presented at the Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board meeting last Wednesday, soun…

PROFILE: Laquanda Dixon

On a sunny August morning in Boca Grande Laquanda Dixon took a short break to sit out by the fountain and answer a few ques…

OBITUARY: Carol Elwood

Carol Nancy Marilyn Maass Elwood, of Cedar Rapids, formerly of Cresco, Iowa passed away on Monday, August 16, 2021, at the…

Storm season is right for kite surfing Gasparilla Sound

Tami and Ralph Bellon kite together in Gasparilla Sound locally but the couple travels literally to where the wind takes th…