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October 2, 2025
On the agenda for next Tuesday’s Lee County Board of Commissioners regular meeting is a beach and shoreline funding item with the Barrier Island Parks Society listed as one of the recipients.  If…

October 2, 2025
The new Mote Science Education Aquarium at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota is opening to the public next Wednesday, Oct. 8. Mote SEA will provide science education and enhanced levels of ocean…

September 25, 2025
It was this weekend, one year ago, that Hurricane Helene hit the United States. It caused over $78 billion in damage, with over 250 fatalities in its path from the Yucatan, past the tip of Cuba and…

September 25, 2025
As the West Coast Inland Navigation District (WCIND) wraps up a year marked by three hurricanes, the agency is working on a number of waterway projects across Lee and Charlotte counties. “Great stri…

September 25, 2025
Work on a sand renourishment project at the south end of Gasparilla Island has now extended north past Belcher Road and the old “Bocahenge” docks. This week, bulldozers were moving as they pumped…

September 18, 2025
A proposed tax levy and budget expenditure increase for the Boca Grande Fire Control District was approved during a public hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 17.  The proposed total levy is $8,080,322…

September 18, 2025
BY KAREN GRACE, BOCA GRANDE HISTORY CENTER Betty and Jack Barndollar first came to Gasparilla Island in 1959, a year after the bridge had been built. Three years later, they built a house and mov…

September 18, 2025
On Wednesday, staff from the Boca Grande Health Clinic and others signed a beam to be placed in the Clinic of The Future, on the site of their old health annex. From left are Natalie, Andrew, Alex…

September 18, 2025
Last Thursday, Sept. 11, the Boca Grande Fire Department held a push-in cemermony for its new tender and engine. There was also a prayer and moment of silence for the victims of 9/11…

September 16, 2025
On Tuesday, Sept. 16, the Lee County Board of Commissioners voted to expand a newly created Boca Grande Parking Panel to 15 members, with each of the five commissioners in charge of nominating three…