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Game, set, match for Mark and Jinx

Jinx Howe and Mark Horan have decided to hop the net for the last time on the clay courts of The Gasparilla Inn Tennis Club after 37 years. They are retiring as the tennis professionals there and plan...

No, it’s not a Marriott:

April 29, 2022
Marcy Shortuse
News

Banyan Gasparilla Sound amenities, part I There’s been a lot of speculation regarding the facets of Banyan Gasparilla Sound, the new project at the Fishery project created by husband-and-wife island...

GIBA traffic numbers prove that this year, Easter wasn’t the cutoff for the 2022 season

April 29, 2022
Marcy Shortuse
News

The traffic on the Boca Grande Causeway has not thinned out too much this year after the eggs were hunted and church services attended for Easter. The stores and streets still seem full in downtown...

Reports show what we have known for some time:

April 29, 2022
Marcy Shortuse
News

Florida is now the least affordable place to live in United States If you’ve left your house and found crowded roads and stores, and you find yourself wondering when all of the part-time residents...

The passing of a well-loved island figure, Father Charles Sullivan

April 29, 2022
Marcy Shortuse
News, Obituaries

Father Charles Sullivan, founder of St. Columbkille Mission Parish in Fort Myers and former leader of Our Lady of Mercy in Boca Grande, died Wednesday morning, April 27, 2022. His funeral will be...

The Island School Annual Art Show

April 29, 2022
Marcy Shortuse
Community

The Island School held their annual art show this past week at the Boca Grande Art Center, and there was a lot of enthusiasm for the students’ work. Here are a few highlights … ...

The Boca Beacon five-day weather forecast

EDITORIAL: A thank you to you, in a very big way

April 29, 2022
Marcy Shortuse
Editorial

Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. Whether we’re talking about the freedom to roam around the world without masks and vaccination records, or the multiple choices we used to have...

BOCA BEACON TIMELINE: This week throughout four decades …

Boca Beacon backpages 4.22.2022 FIVE YEARS AGO The United Methodist Women of Boca Grande announced they raised $80,000 at the Strawberry Festival, which would be split among 25 charitable organizations....

Dogs and Bocascopes

Meet the finest page in the paper, filled with dogs up for adoption and all of the future wisdom about your life that you need to know. Boca Beacon backpages 4-22-22 p25Download

Author: Marcy Shortuse