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Will the real lens please step forward?
BY SHARON MCKENZIE, BARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY – While researching the original lens for Gasparilla Island Light, it came…
Hey kids, it’s time to fish this Saturday!
Lee County Parks & Recreation and the Boca Beacon have teamed up once again to bring you a youth fishing tournament this…
Royal Palm Players, Kids’ Drama Club performance this Friday
BY SUE ERWIN – Catch a glimpse of the youngest stars on the island at a performance this Friday at the Boca Grande Community…
Lights out, holes filled in, beach furniture picked up for turtle season
Soon you’ll begin seeing the telltale signs of another sea turtle sea…
Former Boca Grande chef opens gourmet shop in Asheville, N.C.
BY SUE ERWIN – Denise Searle and her husband, Jimmy, enjoyed livin…
GIWA pleased to report island water passed all federal & state requirements
BY BONNIE PRINGLE, GASPARILLA ISLAND WATER ASSOCIATION – Gasparilla Island Water Association, Inc. (GIWA) is pleased to pres…
Journey’s End: The history of an island home
Submitted by the BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Journey’s End was a house and group of cottages accessed from 18th Street…
Beware the oxymoron, my son!
To the Editor: As a proud homeowner and winter resident of Boca Bay for over 20 years, I found out from the letter to the B…
Hope for Haitians committee thanks community
Friends of Boca Grande, On behalf of the Hope for Haitian Committee, I want to again thank you, the Boca Grande community…
Mote to research local sea turtles in quest for many answers
To the Editor: The official season for sea turtle nesting on the Gulf Coast of Florida begins May 1 and ends Oct. 31, but ne…