Author: Staff Report

Time is winding down to turn in educational scholarship applications to Woman’s Club

January 12, 2023
Staff Report
Education, News

The Scholarship Committee of the Boca Grande Woman’s Club is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 school year. General criteria for application include: – Candidate has applied to a post-secondary...

Camera Club heads to Selby Gardens

January 12, 2023
Staff Report
News

The Boca Grande Camera Club, an already hustling, bustling group of island shutterbugs, have started their season off with a bang. Their first meeting was just this past week, and their first field...

Tennis Classic begins January 21:

Sign up now! The Gasparilla Island Tennis Classic is about to begin on a court near you … are you signed up yet? The tournament, sponsored by the Boca Beacon’s publisher, Dusty Hopkins...

Woman found on beach with gunshot wound

January 6, 2023
Staff Report
News, Police & Fire

On the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 4 at approximately 8:25 a.m. the Boca Grande Fire Department got a call that no one wants to get – a gunshot wound victim on the beach at Range Light Beach on Gulf...

Why worry about a storm? Just paint

January 6, 2023
Staff Report
News

Gail Cleveland featured artist for January at Smart Studio Smart Studio will host artist Gail Cleveland for the month of January, featuring watercolor and acrylics of local scenes. Gail is traditionally...

Johann Fust Foundation presents author Virginia Hume and ‘Haven Point’

On Thursday, Jan. 26 at 4 p.m., the Johann Fust Library Foundation is excited to host Author Virginia Hume, who will present her debut novel “Haven Point” in the library’s courtyard. Virginia spent...

Boca Grande Hope for Haitians group accelerates home building drive in Perigny, Haiti

January 6, 2023
Staff Report
News

Boca Grande Hope For Haitians and the Scott family’s campaign to fight poverty and provide homes for families in Haiti through Food For The Poor (FFTP), now in its 14th year, shows no signs of slowing. This...

The Time of the Chowder is almost upon us!

January 5, 2023
Staff Report
News

Get ready, as The Island School’s Chowder Dinner is coming on January 27 If you are a fan of chowdery goodness and a scintillating silent auction, with a nice 50/50 raffle thrown in, you won’t want...

Boca Bargains opens Saturday, bright and early … how exciting!

January 5, 2023
Staff Report
News

Get your comfortable shoes on, clean out that back seat or trunk and prepare to get up bright and early on Saturday, Jan. 7 as the moment we’ve been waiting for is finally here. The island’s very own...

A look back at 2022

December 30, 2022
Staff Report
News

There aren’t many years that start out with so much hope for a “back-to-normal” life, only to have a big old sledgehammer come at the end of the third quarter, but 2022 provided that. Hurricane Ian...