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2025 4-Digits out now
March 20, 2025
The eagerly awaited 4-Digit Phone Books are out now. Pick up yours at the Boca Beacon office, 431 Park Ave, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Special parking lot pick up times Tuesday (3/25) or W…
Celebrated floral designer Jennifer Figge speaks to Boca Grande Garden Club
March 20, 2025
BY LAMAR TOOLE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB
On Wednesday, March 5, Jennifer Figge, floral designer and owner of Figge Floral Studio in the greater Boston area, shared her eclectic style of her art- a…
Explore Cook, Peary at Fust Library Mar. 27
March 20, 2025
Are you intrigued by the polar explorers and how the media covered their historical expeditions? On Thursday, March 27, at 4 p.m., the Johann Fust Library Foundation will present a Literary Series E…
Princeton Fishing team makes yearly pilgrimage to Gasparilla
March 20, 2025
The Princeton Fishing Team has once again returned to Boca Grande for their annual spring fishing trip. Their trip is a spring tradition that began about 35 years ago, and which continues to this da…
Boca Grande Art Center Spring Show March 17-19 at St. Andrew’s
March 13, 2025
Babs Vanyo
The Boca Grande Art Center will present its first exhibit of the season, made possible by the generosity of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and Italiano Insurance.
It will be hosted a…
Next veteran Honor Flight on April 8; Anheuser-Busch sponsors locally
March 13, 2025
If you are a veteran and have never taken an “Honor Flight,” Southwest Florida Honor Flight, Inc. is looking for you. For the first time, the local group will have its first sponsorship by Anheuser-…
Friday Night Frondezvous Mini Market Returns
March 13, 2025
Every Friday in March, The Pink Pony Courtyard will host the Friday Night Frondezvous Mini Market from 6 to 9 p.m..
The upcoming March 14th event features live music by “Shindig,” complimentary f…
Pancake breakfast at the Methodist Church
March 13, 2025
Pancakes are being prepared with cheerful hands! Ginny Bell and Rich Houck are busy at work. Stop in for pancakes every Tuesday through April 8 at the Lighthouse United Methodist Church. See here fo…
Shorebird nesting season has started; Charlotte County nesting surveys begin
March 6, 2025
Shorebird and seabird nesting season began in February and ends August 31. To help protect nesting birds, county environmentalists are beginning survey work.
Florida is home to many species of sh…
Question on whether awning and window treatment is ‘historic’
March 6, 2025
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…