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SUNCOAST SAL: SHS joins the Giving Challenge 2022

Suncoast Humane Society will join over 700 other nonprofits for The Giving Challenge 2022, a 24-hour online giving event that harnesses the collective power of individuals, communities and organizations...

The ‘Process’

April 1, 2022
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Hanging an art show isn’t nearly as easy as you think BY BARBARA H HUGHES Tonalism was a nineteenth century art movement seeking the return to nature in a world, which had rapidly turned toward...

A beautiful story from an island legend recently passed … thank you, Jane

April 1, 2022
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Last week Gary Carlson and his brothers held a celebration of life for Jane Carlson, a long-time resident of Boca Grande. While he was cleaning out her home, he came across three versions of...

Boca Grande talks Boston: an overlooked past of an autonomous ‘city-state’

April 1, 2022
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SUBMITTED BY THE FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE This Saturday, April 9 at 4:30 p.m., the Friends of Boca Grande the Community Center presents Yale History Professor Mark Peterson. As part of the Friends’...

Clean water event brings a crowd to Power House

March 25, 2022
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BY SHEILA EVANS Shown above, Capt. Rhett Morris, Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades and Gil Smart, executive director of VoteWater and policy director of Friends of the...

Carlton Ward to talk about Florida’s ‘big cats’ at presentation on March 29

BY SHEILA EVANS Florida’s wildlife is being threatened, and it is the people who live in the state who can save it. This is the message Carlton Ward, Jr., wildlife advocate and award-winning...

Glee’s ‘Songs of Hope’ coming on April 7 and 9

March 25, 2022
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SUBMITTED BY GLEE Boca Grande’s “Glee” will be bringing hope to the island and to young people across greater Englewood at the Lighthouse United Methodist Church on Thursday, April 7 and Friday,...

Who knew something so irritating could be so beautiful?

March 25, 2022
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BY JULIE SALVETTI “THE PEARL GIRL” Welcome to the world of cultured pearls! Pearls that are cultured, cultivated, farm-raised and cared for are some of the most beautiful and rare specimens...

GICIA Mercabo Cove seagrass planting effort continues

March 25, 2022
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In January 2016, the Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association successfully acquired the Mercabo property located at the entrance to Gasparilla Island. It was in late 2015 that a rumor...

A new season soon to begin for Royal Palm Players: Are you going to audition?

BY ALICE COURT With one production left in this season, the celebratory Anniversary Show, Royal Palm Players is turning its eye to next season. With a new technical manager on staff and a new managing...