The Fourth of July holiday on Gasparilla Island attracted a large number of visitors, including the extended Thomas and Westerberg families, down from Sarasota.
The family came to stay at The Gas…
The 70th Anniversary of Andrea Doria sinking July 26, 1956
Perhaps one of the most famous maritime disasters, and the first steamship disaster to receive extensive television coverage, was the si…
FIVE YEARS AGO
Boca Grande Community Center’s summer camp enjoyed visits from Monty the banded water snake and Charlotte the curly-haired tarantula!
TEN YEARS AGO
The Gasparilla Inn & C…
The Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board will consider two items at its upcoming meeting next week on July 8, including raising the parsonage on the First Baptist Church of Boca Grande campus to…
Perhaps one of the most useful trends unleashed by the Bicentennial in 1976 was a nationwide interest in family history. And what it took was often some family member, the family historian, who not…
FIVE YEARS AGO
The National Register controversy continued in Boca Grande with residents protesting what they considered an invasion of privacy.
TEN YEARS AGO
The Gasparilla Island Light pr…
The Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board will consider two cases at its meeting on July 8.
The first case concerns 1000 10th Street. It is a request to change the house’s status from contribut…
FIVE YEARS AGO
Work had begun on the expansion project at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church with the home next door razed and the lot cleaned.
TEN YEARS AGO
The Gasparilla Island Bridge Aut…
The Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board unanimously voted down a proposal by the Diocese of Venice to tear down the old Boca Grande Preschool building and construct a new chapel and office build…
FIVE YEARS AGO
Sassy Tarts Bakery celebrated one year in business. Originally, they were vendors at the Englewood and Boca Grande farmers markets and eventually needed to have a larger kitchen sp…
