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Boca Grande Beach Clean-up scheduled for September 21
To the Editor: We are co-hosting a beach clean-up on Saturday, September 21 beginning at 5th St. beach, from 9 a.m. until no…
Help Suncoast ‘Clear the Shelter’
To the Editor: The phrase, “It’s Raining Cats and Dogs,” was originally intended to describe a heavy downpour of rain. Right…
Should I laugh or should I cry?
To the Editor: Should I laugh or should I cry? This liveable and loveable village of Boca Grande with its Mediterranean touc…
Profile: Mary Mazyck
■ BY SUE ERWIN Mary Mazyck spent almost four years in Ecuador serving…
Code enforcement cases still in limbo, Pass cam gone because of complaints
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Some changes have been made downtown in light of…
FWC to public: ‘This is not the Wild West’
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE After a few emails and phone calls from this office to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commis…
Rosemary F. Bowler, Ph.D. — August 24, 1929 – July 26, 2019
■ BY SANDY JACOBS Rosemary Fannie Bowler, 89, until recently a resident of Boca Grande, passed away on July 26, 2019 after a…
Fire Department no longer a ‘lost and found’
■ STAFF REPORT
The Boca Grande Fire Department is not a repository for lost and found items and will no longer receive, secu…
Road paving …
■ STAFF REPORT The Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority will be having the road paved from Placida Road to the toll booth begi…
More disoriented hatchlings were found this past week
■ BY SUE ERWIN A Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association patrol member found a wandering newly hatched loggerhead turtle getting…