BY BETSY JOINER
Whidden’s Marina is the longest-running family-owned business on Gasparilla Island. Its story began with founder Sam Whidden in the early 1920s, his home and the marina building c…
What began as a writing project between a grandmother and her transgender grandson has become a published young adult mystery. “Leo, Detective,” written by award-winning former journalist and myster…
World War I veteran created a legacy on Gasparilla Island
Above, the Red Gill Fish House, c 1935
BY KAREN GRACE, BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Wini Smart begins her book, “Whidden’s and Ol…
Above, work on toll lane 3, or the self scan lane, this week. GIBA photo
The Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority Quarterly Board meeting was held on Thursday, August 20, 2026, at the Authority’s o…
Lee County Property Appraiser Matt Caldwell has issued the annual Truth In Millage Notices for 2026 property values.
The TRIM Notice shows property owners the assessed value of their proper…
Above, Powell marking the progress in between one of a number of sets of slow raises for the house. The concrete foundation band was added before it was raised.
At the beginning of the week, cre…
The September/October edition of Gasparilla Island Magazine is out. It features dragon boat racing, the road to Cortina for Paralympian Allie Johnson, the Morse Museum of Tiffany in Winter Park and…
A man was arrested for driving under the influence around 9:40 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 15 at the intersection of Gasparilla Road and Clubhouse Drive, Placida.
Logan Gillis, 18, was traveling…
Last week, the Gumbo Limbo tree on the 5th Street median just before Gasparilla Road, was toppled by an afternoon storm. Arborist Rick Joyce, president of Forestry Resources Ecological Inc., said in…
Editor’s note: We sent a set of identical questions relating to Boca Grande to both of the Lee Commission candidates for District 5 earlier this month. In Lee County, the commissioner is elected acr…
