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Community planning group answers residents’ questions at introductory meeting
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – A name that hasn’t hit the headlines in a very, very long time is back, as the Boca Grande Community Pla…
Johnson’s attorney files countermotion in ‘rocks’ suit
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – The case of the 3rd Street rocks continues, as council for local historian Robert Johnson has filed a mo…
A little charcuterie, a little chocolate … a whole lotta ‘Taste!’
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – The moment we have all been waiting for is almost upon us for the 2020 Taste of Boca Grande, so we hope…
It’s ‘Love Lines’ time again!
It’s almost time to start writing those valentines! If you want to su…
Drainpipe work coming to a close soon
STAFF REPORT – East Railroad Avenue will be closed to through traffi…
‘Love Island’ star Elizabeth Weber has island ties
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – When 24-year-old Elizabeth Weber was contacted through Instagram by someone who claimed to be working fo…
Boca Grande Chamber announces ‘Educate Boca’ scholarship deadline
STAFF REPORT – The Boca Grande Area Chamber of Commerce 2020 Educate Boca Scholarship Applications Committee reminds student…
11th annual ‘Hope for Haiti’ reception in Boca Grande
STAFF REPORT – The Boca Grande Hope For Haitians Committee agreed to fund 150 homes in the remote area of Savann Kabrit, Hai…
Farmer/florist to speak to the Boca Grande Garden Club
SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB – Jennie Love, a founding mother of the “farmer florists” movement, comes to Boca G…
From Professor Jackson’s classroom of sailing spitballs to his Civil War brilliance
BY MARY COOK, FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE – Sam Gwynne treated the Friends of Boca Grande crowd to a recording of the “Rebel Yell…