Author: Staff Report
Hurricane Ian book features Boca Beacon article about Little Gasparilla Island
Gulf Coast Writers Association Inc. (GWCA), Southwest Florida’s 28-year-old meeting ground for writers, editors and their associates, announced today that Leoma Lovegrove, internationally-known artist...
OBITUARY: Sackett Snow Cook
Sackett Snow Cook died peacefully August 1 at Westview on Main in Fairhaven MA, with his wife of 41 years, Mary Elizabeth (White) Cook, by his side.
He was born in Providence RI to Martha Sackett...
OBITUARY: Joe D’Angelo
Sadly, our family announces that Joe D’Angelo departed this world on August, 1, 2023, at the youthful age of 86. He peacefully passed away at his home in Rotonda West, Florida.
Joe was born in...
OBITUARY: Lucy Hamilton
Lucy Battel Hamilton died peacefully on July 19, 2023 at her summer home in Cooperstown, New York surrounded by her loving family.
Known to all as “Bunny,” she was born in Buffalo, N.Y. on November...
Beacon/Gasparilla Island Magazine staff brings home 15 awards
The Boca Beacon/Gasparilla Island Magazine staff attended the Florida Press Association and Florida Magazine Association awards ceremony last Friday, July 21 at The Westin in Sarasota and came home...
Public participation meetings for federal disaster recovery funds planned throughout Lee County (but not here)
Resident participation meetings throughout unincorporated Lee County and in municipalities are planned in August to receive public comment and input on the Draft Action Plan for the $1.1 billion Community...
The saga of ‘The Forgotten Ones’ at Gasparilla Mobile Estates continues …
More developments have unfolded in the Gasparilla Mobile Estates controversy and they are just as strange as the ones that preceded them. Residents have a new eviction notice, a new reason given by...
OBITUARY: Susan Hatch
Susan Hatch, 77, of Chenequa, Wisconsin died on July 3, 2023. She was born in Janesville, Wisconsin as the daughter of Albert and Mary Hamlin.
She was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin,...