A BOCA BEACON TIMELINE
FIVE YEARS AGO
Dr. Raymond James joined the Boca Grande Health Clinic staff.
TEN YEARS AGO
The Mote Marine Laboratory branch on the island was about to ope…
By Hector Flores, Charlotte County
The Christmas and New Year’s holidays are a time of celebration and reflection. I wish you and your loved ones health, happiness and a deserving respite from …
In some cases, insurance premiums are up 400 percent on island homes for fiscal year 2022-23
Everyone has been aware of the unavoidable insurance premium increase that would come after Hu…
The actions of one local man erratically driving drunk last Friday, Dec. 9, could have had a much worse outcome than it did.
According to witnesses, that day at approximately 7:30 a.m. Timmie …
No one in Boca Grande could have missed the presence of Gaston TDR on the Island the last two months. Their double-container knuckle loaders are hard to miss. They have been up and down the Island…
Get ready, because Santa is coming to Boca Grande – and he is bringing along COVID-19 and his cousins flu and RSV for Christmas dinner! As you all have probably read, RSV (Respiratory Syncytial V…
Jon Reecher was cool as a cucumber on Tuesday, sitting in his office at The Gasparilla Inn & Club. All around him was a frenzy of activity – carpets were being cleaned, brass was being polishe…
If you want to kick a man when he’s down, wait for a hurricane to hit, then take his giant fish.
This actually happened, but not to a man as much as to a marina. Boca Grande Marina, to be speci…
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church will hold a Christmas celebration beginning Christmas Eve at 4 p.m. with a special family service. At 7:30 p.m. a musical prelude will be featured, with stringed inst…
