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Fundraiser planned for teacher with island ties battling rare disease
■ BY SUE ERWIN Lauren Hanrahan once taught kindergarten at The Island School. Now she teaches third grade at Englewood Eleme…
Lemon Bay Sunrise Rotary Club taking donations for Bahamas, island drop-off point at Key Agency Insurance
■ STAFF REPORT The Englewood Lemon Bay Sunrise Rotary Club, in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Englewood and the Rotar…
Island fire and rescue personnel respond to report of woman drowning in Gasparilla Sound
■ STAFF REPORT Boca Grande Fire Department and Charlotte County marine unit responded to a distressed boater and a possible…
Profile: Dencina Ihlanberg
■ BY SUE ERWIN Dencina Ihlanberg is an amazingly strong woman – emoti…
Obituary: George Robert Baker
George Robert Baker – November 5, 1929 to September 3, 2019 – died pe…
Impossible to forget …
■ BY NED HICKSON I’ll never forget how I felt this day 18 years ago as an American, a volunteer firefighter and as a father…
Another typical island controversy arises … oh, joy
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE In my house, the quickest way to lose privileges is to demand them … especially when said privilege is…
‘Come get us, please!’ Local woman shares story of her Murphy Town family and their Dorian catastrophe
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE UPDATE TO THIS STORY: As of Thursday evening, Dencina’s family had been relocated to Nassau and even mor…
Island School student performing in ‘Jungle Book’ production in Venice through September 15
■ BY SUE ERWIN Makaila Lindsey, a 5th grade student at The Island School, will be performing in The Jungle Book at the Venic…
We dodged a mess, but Bahamas are decimated
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE There was hardly a break in our typical summer weather at all when Hurricane Dorian was spinning off the…