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Boca Grande Hope For Haitians reaches goal to build 50 homes

April 14, 2022
Boca Grande Hope For Haitians has reached its fundraising goal to build 50 homes and a community center in Périgny, Haiti, bringing hope to families who lost almost everything after a devastating …

PROFILE: Jorge Matos

April 14, 2022
A rest well deserved after a career well done  …  The municipality of Sabana Grande is located in the western coastal valleys of Puerto Rico some 1,144 miles from Boca Grande. This …

Boca Grande Community Center looking for a special person to fill a special job

April 14, 2022
The Boca Grande Community Center has a position to fill; and it needs to be filled by just the right person. What they call “Program Specialist” we call “Heart of Boca Grande.” For those of us …

This date in the Boca Beacon …

April 14, 2022
FIVE YEARS AGO In celebration of Florida Lighthouse Day, 108 lucky people climbed the Gasparilla Island Light (formerly known as the Rear Range Light). They were the first-ever civilians to acc…

Backcountry fishing with Capt. Sandy Melvin

April 14, 2022
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Photo pages: Hank Wright Golf Tournament

April 14, 2022
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Railroad Plaza, Fugate’s building sold

April 8, 2022
Last week two real estate transactions took place that were quite important to the downtown historic district – the purchase of the Railroad Plaza building in the 400 block of E. Railroad Avenue a…

Jo Anne Speer: 1928 – 2022

April 8, 2022
‘Kin to almost everyone on the island’ As the sun would start setting on any given day, you might find Jo Anne Speer down at 1st Street beach. Sometimes her nephew and caretaker, Nelson, would …

COVID booster update from the BGHC

April 8, 2022
On March 28 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of a second COVID-19 booster shot for persons over the age of 50. Additionally, persons over the age of 18 with compromised imm…

Stahl, Brokaw take stage at Fust’s first Author’s Luncheon

April 8, 2022
Two journalistic legends took the podium at the Johann Fust Library Foundation’s first-ever Author’s Luncheon Thursday, April 7, at the Gasparilla Inn. The crowd of 100 was enthralled by the wit a…