Author: Marcy Shortuse

Couple gets creative, completes some pretty amazing puzzles during their quarantine time

August 21, 2020
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

BY OLIVIA CAMERON – Candace and Billy Sasser found a way to escape quarantine restraints by thinking within the box. Many jigsaw puzzles later, they’ve pieced together a painting replica from...

South sidewalk, decreased revenue topic at GIBA quarterly meeting

August 21, 2020
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

STAFF REPORT – The Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority Quarterly Board meeting was held on Tuesday, August 18, virtually and in the offices of the Authority. The Members of the Authority were updated...

New beginnings for Water Association as concrete pad is poured for wastewater reclamation facility

August 21, 2020
Marcy Shortuse
Featured News, News

BY BONNIE PRINGLE – This spring, the Gasparilla Island Water Association contracted with Cardinal Contractors, Inc. for Phase 2 of the rehabilitation of our wastewater treatment facility. The...

Stories of early island fishing guides (Part I of II)

SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY – Local guides have been taking guests fishing since the late 19th century. Among the early guides was Phalo Padilla, born in 1888, who was a guide...

PROFILE: Hermila Perreault

BY OLIVIA CAMERON – From a Catholic upbringing to administrative assistant at a Methodist church, Hermila Perreault has found a job in Boca Grande that, in her own words, is “very rewarding,...

Three lucky finds …

August 21, 2020
Marcy Shortuse
News

STAFF REPORT – Bryan Steinman is a very lucky kid. The 11-year-old was visiting his grandparents, Bill and Jean Steinman, of Boca Grande when he found three rare junonia shells on the beach...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Charlotte County launches new records web site

To the Editor: We are proud to unveil our brand new “Charlotte County Records” website, a robust and easy to use online system which allows you to search and view County documents from 1921-present. Charlotte...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: GCCF still accepting applications for first- ever virtual Gulf Coast Board Institute

To the Editor: Gulf Coast Community Foundation is still accepting applications for the first-ever entirely virtual Gulf Coast Board Institute. The deadline to apply for this high-level nonprofit...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Has an adopted pet changed your life?

August 20, 2020
Marcy Shortuse
News

To the Editor: The Petco Foundation, together with BOBS from Skechers, want to know all the ways, big and small, that your adopted pet has changed your life for the better. Winning stories will receive...

Feisty blacktip takes a chunk out of Iowa man’s arm in local waters

August 14, 2020
Marcy Shortuse
News

BY MARCY SHORTUSE- An Iowa man will have an interesting story to tell after his trip to Boca Grande left him minus a bit of flesh, but alive and well.