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The Boca Grande Health Clinic explains a little about a commonly asked question: What does fully vaccinated mean?
BY MARK DRISCOLL, CEO OF THE BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issue…
An update on Heather Gardner …
BY TONYA BRAMLAGE – Our Boca Grande community continues to support Heather Gardner as she fights against cancer. Heather is…
RPP creates pandemonium: A COVID cabaret
BY ERICA RESS MARTIN – What a strange year it has been. RPP’s big musical “Nunsense” was shut down in the middle of the run…
Free marine pollution educational symposium by top local experts
The Barrier Island Parks Society and Mote Marine Laboratory will host…
One of the newest members of the flock … meet Ethan Williams
BY SUSAN HANAFEE – Having hundreds of “aunts” and “grandmothers” eage…
Spring Break keeps local fire, EMS busy on land and on the water
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – It’s been a busy week of ambulance calls, alarms and water rescues for the Boca Grande Fire Department…
Boots Tolsdorf looks back at 20 years of RPP performances
BY BOOTS TOLSDORF – With no lines to memorize this year for RPP, (yea!) I have turned to other endeavors, not unlike most of…
A history of Plein Air painting on Gasparilla Island
BY TONYA BRAMLAGE – Although one can never fully know the daily sights that will be seen while spending a day outdoors here…
OBITUARY: Barbara Leiter
Barbara Ketcham Leiter, age 76, passed from this life March 4, 2021 at the Venice Florida Regional Bayfront Hospital in the…
PROFILE: Patricia Christakos
BY T MICHELE WALKER – When COVID-19 struck our world last year and we were all forced into lockdown, the reactions were as v…