Author: Staff Report

OBITUARY: Joe D’Angelo

August 10, 2023
Staff Report
Obituaries

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...

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...

PETS OF THE WEEK

August 3, 2023
Staff Report
Columns

Beacon/Gasparilla Island Magazine staff brings home 15 awards

July 27, 2023
Staff Report
News

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)

July 27, 2023
Staff Report
Community, News

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 …

July 20, 2023
Staff Report
Community, News

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

July 13, 2023
Staff Report
Obituaries

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,...

PETS OF THE WEEK

July 13, 2023
Staff Report
Columns, Community

Two arrested for damages done at Inn Golf Course

Two teenagers from out of state were arrested this week after being caught by Lee County deputies for some disturbing crimes. According to reports, on Tuesday, June 27 Lee County Sheriff’s detectives...

ISLAND SHERIFF, FIRE AND EMS: BGFD calls from June include some fainting, some falling

It was a pretty quiet Fourth of July on the island for the Boca Grande Fire Department and Lee County EMS. Just a few calls came in and most of them were easily solved. On Tuesday, July 4 at 10:05...