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Obituary: Virginia Jeane Wilber

May 29, 2015
Boca Beacon
News, Obituaries

Virginia Jeane “Shay” Wilber, born in Albany, N.Y. on October 7, 1979 to the parents of Mr. and Mrs. David F. Wilber III, died unexpectedly at home on May 20, 2015. Shay grew up in Oneonta, N.Y....

Profile: The new minister in town, Matthew Williams

May 29, 2015
Boca Beacon
News, Profiles

BY JACK SHORT – Sometimes it takes a few knocks at the door before someone finally answers. For Rev. Matthew Morgan Williams, the new pastor at the United Methodist Church of Boca Grande, the...

BGIPOA and 5F sued over settlement agreement

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

Twenty five years of dispute seemed to have been put aside — at least for a day or so. The ink was barely dry on an agreement between the Boca Grande Isles Property Owners’ Association and...

Studying tarpon with … balloons?

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

BY JACK SHORT – Scientists from the Florida Institute of Technology hope everyone fishing the pass next week won’t be alarmed by the presence of an eight foot balloon floating 150 feet in the...

Observers needed for World’s Richest

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

BY LEW HASTINGS – In case you were wondering what those beautiful tarpon posters all around town are, they are there to let you know that Southwest Florida’s premiere sport fishing event, the...

Agreement between BGI and TSI reached

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

BY JACK SHORT – A court ordered mediation has resolved 25 years of dispute between property owners on Three Sisters Island and in the Boca Grande Isles. The agreement provides the right to...

A trip to Belize to study tarpon … are you in?

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

BY ADAM MARTON, THE FIELDWORKERS CLUB – This August a small group of anglers from all over the USA will be traveling to the Caribbean to participate in the Belize Tarpon Tagging Expedition, a...

Have some fun and help out a local captain by fishing the ‘Tito’

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

One of Boca Grande’s charter captains, Capt. Jimmy Robertson, is in need of some good energy and prayers from the community as he faces stage 4 liver cancer and issues from a recent fall.Jimmy was...

Another stranded sea turtle found on island beaches

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

Another dead sea turtle has been found on a loca beach, this time at the very northern tip of the island. According to one sea turtle patroller, Marilyn Googins, she found it at the “northern end...

This Memorial Day, watch for manatees while on the boat

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

The Memorial Day weekend typically means crowded conditions on Florida waterways, and Save the Manatee Club cautions the boating community to keep a look out for manatees.“Collisions with watercraft...