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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 with the Peace Corps before returning to her hometown…
Code enforcement cases still in limbo, Pass cam gone because of complaints
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Some changes have been made downtown in light of the recent complaints made to Lee County Code Enforceme…
FWC to public: ‘This is not the Wild West’
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE After a few emails and phone calls from this offi…
Rosemary F. Bowler, Ph.D. — August 24, 1929 – July 26, 2019
■ BY SANDY JACOBS Rosemary Fannie Bowler, 89, until recently a reside…
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…
ISLAND SHERIFF, FIRE AND EMS NEWS: Fire Department, EMS respond to fainting and water rescue
■ STAFF REPORT Boca Grande Fire Department and EMS workers responded to two calls this week, among others – a potential wat…
New playground should be completed by the end of August
■ BY SUE ERWIN If you drove down First Street near the Boca Grande Community Center this past week, you may have noticed som…