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Historic Preservation Board hears four requests at recent meeting
■BY SUE ERWIN The Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board approved four requests for renovations at its monthly meeting he…
Boca Grande Historical Society seeks volunteers
■ STAFF REPORT Summer weather is in full swing and the island is getting quieter, but this is actually the busiest time o…
Island LEO Beat
■SUBMITTED BY LT JEFF CORKHILL The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is pleased to advise you that there has been no reported th…
How the flow of water has created what we know as Florida
■ PROVIDED BY THE BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY This is not the st…
Profile Peggy Seawert
■ BY SUE ERWIN Peggy Seawert knows a lot about how to make things g…
Obituary: Marilyn Thurner
Marilyn Doris Thiemann Thurner, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, was welcomed into heaven on June …
See a whale shark? Let a scientist know
To the Editor: Mote Marine Laboratory received a report of five whale sharks — Earth’s largest fish species — about 40 mil…
A little more info on school resource officers
To the Editor: Our community has proved time and again that we will stand together to face a challenge or fulfill a need. …
Big sharks, little sharks: The sharks that swim in our waters (Last in a three-part series )
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE This is the third part of a three-part series about the sharks that swim in our waters, especially dur…
Red tide in June? Yep, it’s happening
■ BY SUE ERWIN Several residents and visitors to the island were experiencing the cough and throat tickle indicative of re…