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August 12, 2022
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August 12, 2022
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: R.N. Lindsay Dalton 

August 11, 2022
There is a new face at the Boca Grande Health Clinic.  Say “hello” to the new registered nurse, Lindsay Dalton. Nurse Lindsay has been a part of the clinic staff for about a month and is excited t…

ON THIS DATE: A Boca Beacon Timeline

August 11, 2022
Boca Beacon backpages FIVE YEARS AGO School was back in session, Bill Kunkler passed away, and pirates took over the Boca Grande Child Care Center. TEN YEARS AGO The Boca Grande United…

ECOWATCH:

August 11, 2022
Boca Beacon backpages

First the phone numbers change, now the Community Center hours … what’s next?

August 5, 2022
While they may seem like first-world problems to some, two changes to our daily life on Gasparilla Island are creating some confusion – the requirement of dialing the area code prior to placing a …

Coach Kiesling, retiring? No, not really

August 5, 2022
If you were to find ten young adults who grew up in Boca Grande during the 2000s and ask them who the most influential people in their lives were, you can be guaranteed a good number of them would…

OBITUARY: The woman who loved the water … Bonnie Kay Pringle

August 5, 2022
1964 – 2022 Bonnie Kay Pringle, 58, died on Sunday, July 31 at home in Rotonda. She was born in Punta a on May 8, 1964 to June (Reynolds) and Merril “Buddy” Fulton. Bonnie grew up in Placida, h…

TURTLE TRACKS: A rare wonder found on a Boca Grande beach

August 5, 2022
This week on turtle patrol, a Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association patrol volunteer was stunned to discover a very unusual hatchling. On rare occasion, an anomaly such as this poses a unique challen…

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Teacher Susan McKenzie eager to start her first year at TIS

August 5, 2022
There is a special place in Susan McKenzie’s heart for second-graders. She loves teaching all elementary grades, but second-graders have a “special wonderment” about them. “There is an excitement …