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Island pastors meet to plan Easter

The leaders of the Boca Grande churches met this week to begin planning for the 2024 Holy Week and Easter services availa…
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Three missing boaters were fixtures at Boca Grande houses

Longtime employees, friends, rally to cause of lost fathers Three of the four men lost off the coast near Venice in an…

Cape Haze at nexus of American sawfish revival

We reside in a sawfish aquarium, Charlotte Harbor. It’s Jurassic Park, and you don’t have to visit Universal Orlando. …

SW Florida Fishing: Warm up to come…

BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE The weather has been chilly but sunny …

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: A banker with most interest in his Faith

Money and ministry go hand-in-hand for Larry Hannah. His efforts h…

Obituary: Denee Peyton, 1985-2024

Friends and family of the late Denee Peyton, who worked as a clerk at The Temptation’s liquor store, Park Ave Wine a…

Like looking into the sun with the Geographic

Sixty years ago, the National Geographic came to Florida. The magazine devoted over 50 pages to this state, in a major fe…

GUEST ESSAY: Memories of my first days in 1970s Boca Grande

BY K.Y. FUTCH When I first started my secretarial business, I had to use the typewriter at Capt. Charlie Wheeler’s hom…

History Bytes: Leslie Porter Joiner on ‘Effie’

Memories of Effie Sapp Joiner, 1900-96 Artist Leslie Porter Joiner shared stories about Effie Sapp Joiner at a talk at…

Briefly: Wildflower open house

Lemon Bay Conservancy will host its annual open house from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24. The free event will …