The City of North Port has named Irina Kukharenko as finance director. Kukharenko has served in the director role in an interim capacity for the past four months. She joined the city in April 2023 a…
Work continues at the Boca Grande Health Clinic, where the connections to the Clinic of the Future are going in. The road was blocked off this week for basic sewer and water line work. They are expe…
Octopuses can rival the creatures of science fiction: big-eyed, multi-armed, soft-bodied, intelligent, alien, yet home-grown during the Earth’s late Jurassic period, about 140 million years ago.”…
SUP Englewood’s Coffee & Conservation series will return on Tuesday, Oct. 21, with a program focused on the gopher tortoise, a keystone species threatened by habitat loss and environmental chang…
BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY
Here we are in mid-September, and the number of remaining incubating nests continues to steadily decrease as the last nests hatch. No new crawls have occurred sinc…
J.McLaughlin has appointed Lee Anne Henrico as chief creative officer. She will oversee the brand’s women’s and men’s design, product conception and creative marketing and communications. “Lee Anne…
Featuring Mah Jongg, shell collections and a natural cemetery
The new edition of the Boca Beacon’s Gasparilla Island Magazine is out now with new feature stories, recipes, shopping and social pag…
Two Lee County Parks parking rangers will continue to serve Lee County Parks beach access on Gasparilla Island.
“There are no staffing changes being made with the Boca Grande-based rangers,” said…
BY THE BARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY
Editor’s Note: This is the last of six weekly wildlife articles submitted by the Barrier Island Parks Society to raise awareness about the issues facing our is…
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…
