Author: Boca Beacon

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...

A tale of two soldiers … Walter Tatko and John Bourgoin

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News, Profiles

BY JACK SHORT – To anyone who happened upon a scene in the kitchen of the Palmetto Inn recently, two men pouring over maps with their wives and siblings, sandwiches and soup cooking on the other...

Get ready to ‘howl’ on May 30

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

Capt. Sandy Melvin of Special Effects/Gasparilla Outfitters has announced the date for the traditional “Howl at the Moon” Open Invitational Tarpon Tournament to be on Saturday, May 30, from 8 to 11...

May 15, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

BY MARCY SHORTUSE – Sea turtle season has just begun and while nest numbers are still low, island patrollers have already found one turtle dead on local beaches. According to Maureen McConnell,...