Community
Ice Cream Days
January 23, 2025
Keep your puffy jackets on as Enzo keeps a chill over Florida this weekend. Saturday and Sunday will be sunny, however, with highs of 65 and 73 degrees. Here Aliyah and Jeremiah Andrews enjoyi…
Hurricane restoration work continues on the GICIA Bike Path
January 23, 2025
Please continue to use caution while using the GICIA Bike Path. Crews on heavy equipment continue to work to restore the walking path and fill the steep washout areas along the paved section of the…
Now, we’re open too!
January 23, 2025
Manny Sanchez & Barbara Anne Plante (left) are standing in the renovated Barbara Anne’s Jewelry & Repair. Jennifer Gulli, Debbie DiTomo and Dina Beaumont of Sunsets of Boca Grande stand in f…
Englewood Chamber thanks donors for hurricane relief
January 16, 2025
BY THE ENGLEWOOD CHAMBER
Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of the Englewood community and a substantial contribution from the Lighthouse United Methodist Church of Boca Grande, the Englewood…
Lee County beach access reopens across Gasparilla Island
January 16, 2025
Lee County has announced that a number of beach access points have officially reopened on Gasparilla Island. The beach access points, part of Lee County Parks & Recreation, were closed after Hur…
Progress on Post Office this week
January 16, 2025
The Boca Grande Post Office, closed since Hurricane Helene, this week is one step closer to completion.
Owner Mark Spurgeon said that there is progress in the renovation, which involved the tota…
Coral Shoppe ribbon cutting
January 16, 2025
The Englewood Chamber held a Ribbon Cutting for The Coral Shoppe For People, Pets & Home located on Dearborn Street in Englewood on Thursday, January 9. Jane Moyer, former owner of The Island Do…
Trash to Treasure with Inn staff
January 9, 2025
The Gasparilla Inn employees are participating in a trash to treasure initiative – bringing the island back together. The first meeting to collect and clean remaining debris was well attended and ev…
ESSAYS: Meeting Roger in paradise; he was the ‘city’ kind of homeless
January 9, 2025
BY RICK STAGER
You may have seen a shopping cart abandoned on the side of Gasparilla Road near the billionaire’s airport on New Year’s Day and wondered how it got there. Let me tell you the story…
Meet Your Lee Commissioners; new in office, David Mulicka
January 2, 2025
On Election Day in November, two seats on the Lee County Board of Commissioners were up for election: District 3, which includes much of South Lee, and District 5, which covers the Northwest portion…