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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…