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Bridge traffic up 7 percent for year
Above, the new “Share the Road” bike pavement markings this week. Photo by Garland
The Gasparilla Island Bridge Authorit…
Service for architect Hank Browne set for Saturday in Charlottesville
Above, Browne, in a profile in 2004, and below, in a story in 2009 while on the Preservation Board, as he railed against u…
Robert Marini, 1931-2026
Robert Marini of Boca Grande, Florida and South Weymouth, Massachusetts passed away on January 1, 2026 in Englewood, Florid…
Blessing the transom at Habitat House in Port Charlotte
A crew from St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church assisted in the constr…
Cape Haze Flotilla
The Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 99, is holding a Boat America Co…
Remembering the railroad bascule bridge removal
Above, a 1980s photo of what is believed to be the bridge in New York. Readers can help us by remembering where it might ha…
This date in the Boca Beacon: Boca Blooms Grande Opening
FIVE YEARS AGO
Suncoast Humane launched the “Get ‘Em Home” project amid COVID to adopt shelter dogs. Restaurants partner…
Many more blue dolpins patrolling in the chill ahead
The dolphins were out and the mullet were jumping this weekend on the north end of the island.
It was about as perfect w…
Grande Stitches holds January trunk show
Janice Hursen of Grande Stitches is holding an in-store trunk show featuring Julie Pischke Designs throughout the month of…
Mobile library bikes through Boca Grande
Last Friday, the Fust Library’s mobile bicycle unit was out with some of the latest bestsellers. Here, Stacy Bak with t…











