Author: Marcy Shortuse

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...