Author: Garland Pollard

Community Center approved by Preservation Board

Three projects, including a renovation and expansion of the Boca Grande Community Center, were each unanimously approved by the Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board on July 10. In spite of the...

No details yet on contract for Eldred’s from national broker

The Eldred’s Marina is under contract. “It is true,” said Michael Fay, chairman of the U.S. Capital Markets group Executive Committee of the brokerage Avison Young Global. Fay, of Miami, was...

Beach nourishment on Gasparilla Island

July 9, 2024
Garland Pollard
News

Stories in the Boca Beacon related to beach nourishment and renourishment, sand erosion and dunes on Gasparilla Island and in Lee and Charlotte counties. Some recent headlines, in reverse chronological...

If island retail is important, let’s start with an inventory

Currently, the Boca Beacon is digesting hundreds of pages of correspondence between Lee County and Boca Grande as part of a public records request. On June 4, we filed and paid for a record of any...

America’s Signers of the Declaration ‘put it all on the line’

June 27, 2024
Garland Pollard
Editorial

Americans often take for granted the hard-won freedoms celebrated at the Fourth of July. We should not. Our duty not to forget starts with the Declaration of Independence signers. The signers had...

June 13, 2024
Garland Pollard
Editorial

This weekend on Gasparilla Island was not a major holiday, just a plain old summer weekend. The weather was clear, and visitors came, while so many of our regulars have gone home. The tarpon crowd...

Author: Garland Pollard

Community Center approved by Preservation Board

No details yet on contract for Eldred’s from national broker

Beach nourishment on Gasparilla Island

If island retail is important, let’s start with an inventory

America’s Signers of the Declaration ‘put it all on the line’

Let’s start with parking by curbing the curb ‘lawns’

Roundup: Parking in Boca Grande and on Gasparilla Island

Placida railroad bunkhouse gets structure review

Mid-year check-in on real estate trends

Quiet Gilchrist, but overflowing Gasparilla Island State Park