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New parcels included in plan for The Village & Marina at Boca Grande

Construction could begin in early 2022 It has been a long, strange, expensive trip for a Boca Grande couple since the da…
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GIFT Tournament set for November 23

Another island tradition is coming up, and if you’re a fly fisherman who loves to fish for redfish you won’t want to miss t…

NHR nomination shot down in Tallahassee

On Thursday, Nov. 4 the possibility of the National Register of Historic Places nomination proposed for the residential his…
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BGHPB meeting includes NHR and sidewalk amendment discussions

Three Special Certificates of Appropriateness were heard at the mont…

Sidewalk ordinance amendment expected to be finalized, passed at December 7 Lee County Commissioners’ meeting

On Tuesday, Nov. 2 Lee County Commissioners unanimously approved the…

Record-breaking bridge crossings discussed at GIBA meeting

The Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority Quarterly Board meeting was held on Wednesday Nov. 3, in the offices of the Authorit…
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Grande Rounds series begins with ‘Back to Boca’ virtual talk

The “Grande Rounds” health lecture series sponsored by the Boca Grande Health Clinic and the Boca Grande Health Clinic Foun…
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Remembrances of a life well lived, lost too soon: Shannon Hoeckel, 1979 – 2021

BY CARROLL SWAYZE – It is with overwhelming sadness I share the news that my son, Capt. Shannon Lee Hoeckel, left us to fly…
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In honor of Veteran’s Day, an in-depth glimpse at new PBS documentary titled ‘A State at War: Florida During WWII’ (Part I)

It was September 1941 and Leading Aircraftsman R A G Cleave, a British student pilot training at the Lodwick School of Aero…
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RPP’s ‘Inherit the Wind’ is a star-studded tempest

You will be seeing stars and lots of them too, when you see Royal Palm Player’s “Inherit the Wind,” a knockout courtroom ba…