Author: T Michele Walker

How close we came to battle: Part II of our ‘Florida during WWII’ series

While today’s national news is dealing heavily with topics that some are worried should not be taught in our schools, in recognition of Veteran’s Day and the sacrifices of so many military personnel...

BGHPB meeting includes NHR and sidewalk amendment discussions

Three Special Certificates of Appropriateness were heard at the monthly Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board meeting on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, held at the Boca Grande Community Center Auditorium. However,...

In honor of Veteran’s Day, an in-depth glimpse at new PBS documentary titled ‘A State at War: Florida During WWII’ (Part I)

November 6, 2021
T Michele Walker
Featured News, News

It was September 1941 and Leading Aircraftsman R A G Cleave, a British student pilot training at the Lodwick School of Aeronautics in Lakeland, Fla. was getting ready to take flight. Little did he...

Winners! Manta Rays keeping the drama on the volleyball court, with the help of an island girl

Lemon Bay’s girls’ varsity volleyball team, the Manta Rays are on a winning streak and they’re determined to keep it going all the way to the state championship. On Tuesday night, the Manta Rays...

Once a ghost town, Venice is coming back from a housing bubble bust

October 28, 2021
T Michele Walker
News

Most of us have been around long enough to have experienced one or two housing bubbles. The current seller’s market has created many unexpected changes, good and bad. When Florida faced its first...

PROFILE: Sharon Hawkins

October 28, 2021
T Michele Walker
Profiles

You know spring has arrived when you see the first bloom of yellow forsythia or the robins prancing in the yard. In Boca Grande, you know the season is getting ready to ramp up when you receive your...

Many voices, one story: Boca Grande History Museum collaborates with Blanchard House of Punta Gorda

October 22, 2021
T Michele Walker
Community

Jim Blaha knows that to tell a story, you need many voices. To tell the story of black history in Boca Grande, Jim reached out to the Blanchard House in Punta Gorda. “The Blanchard House had been...

Kay Kemper

October 22, 2021
T Michele Walker
Profiles

If you are in the market for a motivational speaker for your next graduation, Kay Kemper is the woman for you. Energetic, optimistic, and full of joie de vivre, Kay could inspire the most woebegone...

Halloweens past with the kids of Boca Grande

October 22, 2021
T Michele Walker
Community, News

It was a simpler time. A time when children would watch “Father Knows Best” and “The Brady Bunch” in their feety pajamas. A time when the best ride in town was a banana seat bicycle with playing cards...

Breast cancer: Looking toward the future

Breast cancer treatment has come a long way in the past 100 years. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was believed that breast cancer was an infectious disease whose spread was expedited by...