FIVE YEARS AGO
Lee County and Gasparilla Island beaches were closed due to concerns over COVID-19. Boca Grande Fire Department launched their new app.
TEN YEARS AGO
A record number of manat…
BY KATHY Y. FUTCH
A few weeks ago, Delores Savas remembered special island people. I would like to add a few of the ladies who are memorable to me, in no particular order of importance.
Watchi…
BY JIM COCHRUN
It was 1954, I was 14 and we were living in Naples. At the time, Naples had a population of 1,500 people. As a typical small town, everyone knew each other. My father had a close f…
To the Editor:
The Boca Grande Historical Society History Bytes for this season is in the “Books!”
I can’t say enough about what a wonderful group of speakers shared a “Byte”!
A special THA…
The fate of the Amory Chapel, severely damaged during hurricanes Helene and Milton, is still in question. The issue came up after the Boca Beacon raised it with Lee County Planner Peter Blackwell at…
A group of routine house elevations easily passed the Boca Grande Preservation Board at its monthly meeting on Wednesday, March 12, but it was a movie still from the 2003 Boca Grande movie “Out of T…
Four residential projects, as well as a commercial façade improvement, will come in front of the next meeting of the Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 12, at the…
Charlotte County is now looking to return the old Placida Bunkhouse back to Placida for restoration, in a site possibly north of the Causeway stoplight.
Resident John Valickas has been working wi…
The Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board has scheduled a meeting for Wednesday, March 12 at 10 a.m., at the Community Center Auditorium, 131 1st Street W.
Five projects are set to be discusse…
BY JAMES J. BLAHA, DIRECTOR BOCA GRANDE HISTORY CENTER
The Roaring Twenties and The Jazz Age are just a few of the labels that historians have applied to this unique period of U.S. history. Altho…
