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Placida Art Market to open
September 29, 2017
■ STAFF REPORT The Placida Art Market will begin its ninth year of shows on Saturday, Oct. 21 with a new and unique group of artists and craftsmen represented. All work displayed at the Art Market is…
Yes Virginia, hurricanes are real … so don’t shoot the messenger
September 18, 2017
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE You will have to forgive me this week as far as the content of the paper goes, our office has had no way to put out a newspaper this week. We have no power, no phones, no internet…
Baking for Texas
September 8, 2017
■ Ronica Davis of Native Gardens and her friends Pat Cole, Rebecca DeRosa, Tina Tersigni, Karissa Cumberland, Annie Fransoz and Kourtney and Teresa McDaniels held a bake sale to raise money for peopl…
Bucket brigade for Texas: Lighthouse Church donates flood buckets for hurricane victims
September 8, 2017
■ BY SUE ERWIN Members of the Lighthouse United Methodist Church of Boca Grande set a challenge for the congregation to collect items and put together flood buckets and hygiene kits for the victims o…
Disaster planning for residents with pets
September 8, 2017
■ SUBMITTED BY CHARLOTTE COUNTY EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER Residents with pets face additional tasks when preparing for a disaster. All Charlotte County shelters accept pets except the special needs…
The Gasparilla Island Act: Part III Measuring buildings and making amendments
September 1, 2017
■ BY SUSAN HANAFEE Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles about the forces that have shaped development in Boca Grande and on Gasparilla Island. It’s a scene from the early 1980s th…
Chase Taylor doing well after foul ball accident, meets Tebow
September 1, 2017
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Chase Taylor is a very lucky little boy. After being hit with a foul ball at a Stone Crabs game on August 8, he is not only well on his way to recovery but also got to meet Tim Te…
Never forget that Texas could have been us
September 1, 2017
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE This week many of us watched in horror as Hurricane Harvey turned into a nasty houseguest who wouldn’t leave and left thousands of people in Texas and Louisiana homeless, displace…
Make Boca Grande quiet again … redux
August 25, 2017
To the Editor: Thanks for all the verbal support received concerning leafblower noise and health hazards. Remember … if daily and weekly leafblowing were done every other day and week, noise and po…