BY MARY BETH SCHNEIDER
I should have died this past summer. Not the illness kind of death, but the drop-dead kind that makes everyone ask “What happened? She was so fit!” Thankfully, it wasn’t my…
Shorebird/seabird beach nesting season begins Feb. 15, 2024. Each nesting season, Charlotte County staff installs temporarily fencing and educational signage around solitary and colony nesting areas…
Auction item donations continue to stream in for the March 2 Strawberry Festival. Last year, the big donation prize was a vintage VW Beetle. This year, the top prize for bidders may be a Bintelli Be…
About 17 Boca Grande citizens came out Saturday, Feb. 9 for a meeting at the Community Center on the situation with the U.S. Postal Service in Boca Grande.
The meeting was facilitated by a posta…
Look out for the March/April edition of Gasparilla Magazine, featuring stories on water aerobics, fly fishing and the Lemon Bay Golf Club.
Keep an eye on your mailboxes for the new edition or sto…
The dates for upcoming Boca Grande tarpon tournaments have been set.
“The tournaments” are a great tradition, said Betsy Joiner, president of the Gasparilla Island Maritime Museum. “It’s exciting…
Jessica Pate, the lead scientist for the Florida Manta Project, will be in town on Thursday, Feb. 22 to speak on The Mysterious Manta Rays of Florida.
Pate started the Florida Manta Project in 20…
Last Saturday Feb. 10, there was an elevator entrapment on island. The Boca Grande Fire Department quickly rescued stuck passengers from a third-floor elevator at 5091 Gasparilla Road after a 911 ca…
On Friday, Feb. 9, there was a report to the Boca Grande Fire Department of a flipped golf cart. The report came at 10:28 p.m. from 1800 block of Gasparilla Road, with multiple patients and some ble…
Two projects, including a signature house at 181 Gilchrist Ave., were unanimously approved by the Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board on Wednesday, Feb. 14.
The proposed house on Gilchrist is…
