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April 20, 2023
Submitted by the Boca Grande Cell Tower Committee The current providers of cellular services have begun the promised activities of sustaining service for Boca Grande. Verizon has filed an in…

April 20, 2023
Elsie Bracken:  1933 – 2023 The one man who could tame Elsie Bracken, has done so. God took her on April 15, 2023, and probably had no idea what he was getting himself into. One perfect…

April 19, 2023
Elsie Selden Bracken, 90, died April 15, 2023, peacefully at home in Boca Grande, FL. She was born in North Carolina. She lived in Sarasota and later moved to Boca Grande, in 1978.   She was fa…

April 13, 2023
The April meeting of the Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board, held on April 12, was far from being a simple one well in advance of the day it was held. Letters had been coming for quite some t…

April 13, 2023
There’s a lot of speculation about a structural “folly” along The Promenade, located behind 161 Gilchrist Ave., called “The Whispering Bench,” or “Whispering Circle.” It was part of the large Crow…

April 13, 2023
‘Kelp’ dinner includes lobster, oysters, red snapper and more As a young fisherman, Bren Smith spent years working long shifts on commercial trawlers that wreaked destruction along the ocean floo…

April 13, 2023
The Boca Grande PurpleStride PanCan walk to raise funds for research and treatment of pancreatic cancer that we wrote about last week will be held on April 29, meeting under the sunshade at the Bo…

April 13, 2023
More than 100 angry people showed up for the North Port City Commission meeting earlier this week to object to what they see as the city’s attempt to railroad through the development of the Warm M…

April 13, 2023
Helping the youth of our community. That’s the goal of the Lemon Bay Golf Club’s “A Better Shot” program. Golf is the vehicle the members of the Club use to help teach or reinforce responsibility,…

April 13, 2023
Families in Périgny, Haiti, have new hope as Boca Grande Hope For Haitians has successfully raised funds to build 37 homes, inching closer to its goal of 40 homes. A community center, a key com…