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Boca Grande Dead Fish Disposal
From Friday, June 29 to Monday, July 2 residents can use the dumpster that will be located at the west end of 7th Street in…
Research shows bad blooms back to the 1800s, so the question is … Are we really feeding the red monster?
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Hype on social media and on local television news channels continues regarding our red tide bloom, and i…
Red tide from a Mote scientist’s perspective
■ BY SUE ERWIN Coughing and sneezing due to red tide is annoying enough … but as dead fish piled up on island beaches this w…
GIBA discusses petition to change name of Causeway
■ STAFF REPORT At the quarterly meeting of the Gasparilla Island Brid…
Sea turtle hatchlings due any day, but will they survive red tide?
■ BY SUE ERWIN So far this season, there are far fewer sea turtle nes…
Lookin’ for lionfish
■ STAFF REPORT You’re invited to partner in the fifth annual Sarasota Lionfish Derby, hosted by Mote Marine Laboratory, in c…
Profile Greg Foos
■BY SUE ERWIN If you’ve enjoyed a meal at the Boca Grande Club over the past several years, you would likely agree that the…
WHOM TO WRITE TO ABOUT RED TIDE
WHOM TO WRITE TO ABOUT RED TIDE
Army Corps of Engineers:
Contact(s): Colonel Jason Kirk, District Commander and District E…
Summer camp kids say ‘thank you’ to Woman’s Club, community with beach access cleanup day
To the Editor: Our Boca Grande Community Center Summer Camp kids wanted to say “Thank You” to the island and especially the…
Clarification regarding last week’s story
To the Editor: Marcy, I really enjoyed your article, “Where is our clean water?” Thank you. But the assertions about the Cap…