Author: Boca Beacon

Beaconcam is up and running!

July 10, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

Remember back in the day when you used to be able to go to our website and watch the world go by in downtown Boca Grande? Those days are here again, my friends, because the Boca Beacon webcam is back...

Friends of Cape Haze vs. Charlotte County may not go to hearing

July 10, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

BY JACK SHORT – A dispute between Charlotte County and nonprofits Sierra Club and Friends of Cape Haze that originated prior to 2011 may be resolved at the next board of county commissioners’...

Local teen almost serves up a trifecta of holes-in-one

July 10, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

BY MARCY SHORTUSE – You’ll want to remember the name Gabriella Vetter. She’s only a teenager now, but give her a few years and she might be playing in the Masters’ Golf Tournament. You actually...

Crawford takes top art honors, exhibits at YoungArts Invitational

July 10, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

Catrina Maria Crawford, granddaughter of Linda and Bob Edic from Boca Grande and daughter of Darlene Edic Crawford, recently graduated from Dreyfoos School of the Arts High School in West Palm Beach...

Go to the beach? This survey’s for you

To the Editor:If you visit Florida’s beaches, your feedback can help Mote Marine Lab scientists enhance their real-time Beach Conditions Reporting System (BCRS). Florida residents and visitors are...

Come say ‘Happy Birthday’ to Guinness World Records’ Oldest Manatee at South Florida Museum

To the Editor:Snooty is an extra special Florida manatee who sets records every day for how long we know manatees can live. That fact has now been documented by the Guinness World Records. He has been...

Obituary: Mary Louise Bowe

July 10, 2015
Boca Beacon
Obituaries

Mary Louise Bowe, 89, formerly of Boca Grande, died in Port Charlotte on July 5, 2015. Louise was born on September 2, 1925 in Bartow and moved to Boca Grande at age 3, where she resided until age ...

Profile: Joshua Karl

July 10, 2015
Boca Beacon
Profiles

BY JACK SHORT – Joshua Karl would have had to try pretty hard to end up in a place more different than Boca Grande. When he grew up here on the island, he went by Joshua Johnson, of the “harbor...

All you need to know about Boca Grande’s 4th of July

July 3, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

This year, the 4th of July festivities will begin bright and early at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 4, as all participants in the 3rd annual 4th of July golf cart and bicycle parade will congregate in...

Minimum wake expansion proposed by Charlotte MAC

July 3, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

BY JACK SHORT – A proposed minimum-wake zone expansion that began as an effort by a small group of homeowners has passed its first major hurdle. The Charlotte County Marine Advisory Committee...