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Boca Grande ladies’ tennis event brings Miami group here
May 15, 2025
Each year, Paula Barth brings a group to Boca Grande from Miami for tennis. This has been a tradition for the last decade. This year the friendly competition was held at the Boca Bay Pass Club. Abov…
Maps detail island parking spots, right-of-way landscaping
May 15, 2025
Almost 500 parking spaces lost to unpermitted gardening
At the parking community meeting on Tuesday, May 13, Lee County Commissioner David Mulicka presented several large maps prepared by county…
Easement noted at Lee County meeting
May 15, 2025
There is only one scheduled item relating to Boca Grande in the upcoming Lee County Board of County Commissioners meeting set for May 20 at 9:30 a.m. It is a notice to Petition to Vacate a drainage…
Port Boca Grande Lighthouse reopens after storms
May 15, 2025
The Port Boca Grande Lighthouse & Museum opened May 5, after, what they generously called, eight months of “stormy setbacks.” The re-opening was a celebration, as Linda Edic, the wife of the lat…
Unextreme makeover of ‘this old house’ of Bob Vila approved by board
May 15, 2025
Other approval is house by famed architect of Mar-a-Lago
Two important Gilchrist house renovations, including a house formerly owned by Bob Vila and another house designed by the architect of Mar…
Grande Tradition and Captains party kicks off the ‘World’s Richest’
May 15, 2025
The 2025 Grande Tradition honorees were the late Freddy Futch and Capt. Wayne Joiner.
Freddy Futch was local fishing guide and grew up at Gasparilla Village, north end of island. He was born in 1…
Spartan racer Emily Wheeler prepping for world title in December
May 15, 2025
Emily Wheeler, owner of Aqua Boutique and Boca Grande Trading Company, is ranked third in the world for three different types of Spartan races. Throughout this year she will be racing for another wo…
Commissioners visit to talk parking
May 15, 2025
Tuesday, May 13, over 200 community members gathered in the Lighthouse United Methodist Church to discuss parking regulations. Lee County Commissioners David Mulicka, Cecil Pendergrass and Brian Ham…
Methodist Church announces agreement with neighbors on parking
May 15, 2025
Tuesday’s meeting at Lighthouse United Methodist Church regarding parking started with an announcement that the church had struck an agreement with neighbors in its decades-long fight over parking o…
Native takes first in Ladies day
May 15, 2025
In the Ladies Day Tarpon Tournament last Saturday, May 10, there were a total of 37 boats. Team Native won first place with two fish caught.
Fishing was from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and there wer…