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Lighthouse to receive state funding
■ BY SUE ERWIN Last month Florida Senator Lizbeth Benacquisto (R-Fort Myers) proposed an amendment (995154) to add the Port…
What the Ladies Day Tarpon Tournament means to a good ol’ island girl
■ BY KELLY REARK BORZA For more than a decade my mom and I fished the Ladies Day Tarpon Tournament together in Boca Grande P…
Lots of island memories from the Bell family
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Lowell Bell sat on a park bench, staring down Park Avenue one morning, amazed at what he was seeing. Whi…
World-class art meets world-class fishing at invitational festival
■ STAFF REPORT The 2017 Boca Grande Tarpon Festival is almost here, a…
New part-time volunteer opportunities at BGHS
■ SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Are you interested…
‘Tis spring, and the male manatee’s thoughts turn to … love
■ BY SUE ERWIN The temperature is getting balmier and the water is getting warmer, and the manatees know what they should be…
Profile: Roselle Agles
■ BY SUE ERWIN You might see her cruising around town in her pink golf cart or walking the beach with her giant white “pola…
Englewood Bank & Trust collecting food for the troops
To the Editor: Kevin Hagan, president of Englewood Bank & Trust, announced that the bank will serve as a collection poin…
Scuttled
■ This sailboat ran aground on a sandbar in Gasparilla Pass (Gulf side) last weekend, and is definitely a hazard to navigati…
BGFD firefighters create life-saving grid system
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Gasparilla Island and its surrounding waters have thousands upon thousands of visitors every year who co…