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(You don’t read this headline every day) History Bytes begins the season with a stripping Pilgrim
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – Not one, but two, speakers were at the first installment of the History Bytes program held on Wednesday…
History sets sail: Boca Grande gets a first look at the Mayflower II
BY OLIVIA CAMERON – On Tuesday, Feb. 4, the Boca Grande Historical Society and History Center invited the community to parta…
Grande Glee performance to usher in beginning of Film Fest
STAFF REPORT – It’s the night before the Boca Grande Film Festival officially begins, Tuesday, Feb. 18, a night when island…
Take your ‘Leading Lady’ to RPP production for Valentine’s weekend
STAFF REPORT – Tickets are selling quickly for the next Royal Palm Pl…
Island author Roger Howe will give ‘Farm Kid’s Journey’ presentation at Fust
STAFF REPORT – Island author Roger Howe will give a presentation in t…
What’s that in the sky? Why, it’s a Jungle Penetrator!
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – If you were wondering why there was so much helicopter activity over the south end of the island this we…
OBITUARY: Richard ‘Dick’ Meister
Richard T. (Dick) Meister, 100, a longtime resident of Waite Hill, Ohio and Boca Grande, passed away peacefully on January 2…
PROFILE: David Sparks
BY SUE ERWIN – Island author David Sparks knows a thing or two about political science, congressional campaigns and writing…
Community planning group answers residents’ questions at introductory meeting
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – A name that hasn’t hit the headlines in a very, very long time is back, as the Boca Grande Community Pla…
Johnson’s attorney files countermotion in ‘rocks’ suit
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – The case of the 3rd Street rocks continues, as council for local historian Robert Johnson has filed a mo…