Boca Grande’s Baptist community celebrated in grande style as the congregation returned to its own church building July 16 for services. The fellowship hall will be the venue for services for a wh…
Author George Bernard Shaw famously claimed youth was wasted on the young. Apparently, he never met Effie Joiner, because she is not wasting a moment of her youth. Effie is not yet 27 but is putti…
On a hot and only slightly breezy Friday in July, some visitors to Palm Island Resort were out playing pickleball. Another group was at Coconuts Cafe, the little shop below Rum Bay Restaurant, re…
The Gasparilla Island Water Association’s “Bayou Bridge” will be dismantled by the first of the year – and maybe sooner, according to GIWA Executive Director Ron Bolton. The low bridge is on 7th S…
Kathy Auman has a fan club. The members are mostly young children, but many are also the parents of these children.
For those who are not familiar with Kathy and what the fan club is all about…
There’s yet another weather phenomenon beachgoers have to watch for in on the Gulf of Mexico. It’s the meteotsunami, a water wave seen June 21 on Clearwater Beach.
The storm is anothe…
