Author: Marcy Shortuse

Southern Grand Slam Country Music Festival starts tonight

■ BY SUE ERWIN Grab your hat and boots and get ready to dance. The Southern Grand Slam Concert is coming to Charlotte Sports Park on Saturday, July 6. Artists scheduled to perform include Darryl Worley,...

Turtles are turtling all over the turtling place

July 5, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY SUE ERWIN The Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association would like to remind everyone that bright lighting could misdirect and disturb nesting sea turtles and their hatchlings, so beachgoers should avoid...

‘Operation Knot Lit’ to focus on holiday driving, boating

July 5, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ STAFF REPORT The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office is participating in “Operation Knot Lit,” a Florida Sheriffs Task Force initiative for enhanced enforcement that will run through the 4th of July...

The road that once was …

July 5, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ STAFF REPORT In 1907 the Boca Grande Land Company was created to carry out a joint venture between Albert Gilchrist and the American Agricultural Chemical Company, and the land currently contained...

Stop in Englewood for Ringling art

July 5, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

The Ringling College of Art and Design and the Englewood Art Center present a summer art market on Friday, July 12 and Saturday, July 13 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. The summer may be sizzling hot,...

Profile: David Mota

July 5, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News, Profiles

■ BY SUE ERWIN He’s been offering authentic, tasty Mexican cuisine on the island since 2015, starting out as a vendor at the Boca Grande Farm & Fish Market. Since joining the Pink Pony team, David...

Keeping it simple when it comes to explaining new shore-based shark fishing rules

■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Last summer we wrote a three-part series on sharks in local waters and the people who fish them, as there appeared to be some confusion in the general population as to what is legal...

4th of July parade final details

June 28, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ STAFF REPORT Details for the 4th of July Golf Cart Parade have been finalized, so plan on gathering at the side parking lot between Englewood Bank and the Old Theatre Building at 9 a.m. the morning...

Ladies Night Out: the twilight of the 2019 season

June 28, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE It was a competitive tournament to the end on Saturday, June 22 when the Ladies Night Out “Howl at the Moon” Tarpon Tournament was held in Boca Grande Pass. The tournament had originally...

State Park road to give a smoother ride

June 28, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ STAFF REPORT The old dirt and gravel road from Belcher to the Port Boca Grande Lighthouse is finally being graded, and the potholes that a grown man could become lost in are being filled. Now there’s...