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GIBA discusses new sidewalk to Bike Path, Watkins re-elected as chairman
BY KATHY BANSON-VERRICO – A new sidewalk from North Gulf Shores to the Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Bike P…
Chowder for everyone! Courtesy of The Island School
STAFF REPORT – If you are a fan of chowdery goodness, enchanting auction items and our island’s children, you need to make p…
Winner, winner – a French-themed dinner! Island residents reap benefits of 2019 Strawberry Festival winnings
STAFF REPORT – Ooh, la la! That is what guests had to say as they entered the Lavender Bistro on Pilot Street Friday evening…
(You don’t read this headline every day) History Bytes begins the season with a stripping Pilgrim
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – Not one, but two, speakers were at the first inst…
History sets sail: Boca Grande gets a first look at the Mayflower II
BY OLIVIA CAMERON – On Tuesday, Feb. 4, the Boca Grande Historical So…
Grande Glee performance to usher in beginning of Film Fest
STAFF REPORT – It’s the night before the Boca Grande Film Festival officially begins, Tuesday, Feb. 18, a night when island…
Take your ‘Leading Lady’ to RPP production for Valentine’s weekend
STAFF REPORT – Tickets are selling quickly for the next Royal Palm Players’ production, “Leading Ladies.” Starring some of t…
Island author Roger Howe will give ‘Farm Kid’s Journey’ presentation at Fust
STAFF REPORT – Island author Roger Howe will give a presentation in the Johann Fust Library Loggia on Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 4…
What’s that in the sky? Why, it’s a Jungle Penetrator!
BY MARCY SHORTUSE – If you were wondering why there was so much helicopter activity over the south end of the island this we…
OBITUARY: Richard ‘Dick’ Meister
Richard T. (Dick) Meister, 100, a longtime resident of Waite Hill, Ohio and Boca Grande, passed away peacefully on January 2…