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Clean water event brings a crowd to Power House

March 25, 2022
BY SHEILA EVANS Shown above, Capt. Rhett Morris, Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades and Gil Smart, executive director of VoteWater and policy director of Friends of th…

Carlton Ward to talk about Florida’s ‘big cats’ at presentation on March 29

March 25, 2022
BY SHEILA EVANS Florida’s wildlife is being threatened, and it is the people who live in the state who can save it. This is the message Carlton Ward, Jr., wildlife advocate and award-winning ph…

Glee’s ‘Songs of Hope’ coming on April 7 and 9

March 25, 2022
SUBMITTED BY GLEE Boca Grande’s “Glee” will be bringing hope to the island and to young people across greater Englewood at the Lighthouse United Methodist Church on Thursday, April 7 and Friday…

Who knew something so irritating could be so beautiful?

March 25, 2022
BY JULIE SALVETTI “THE PEARL GIRL” Welcome to the world of cultured pearls! Pearls that are cultured, cultivated, farm-raised and cared for are some of the most beautiful and rare specimens in …

GICIA Mercabo Cove seagrass planting effort continues

March 25, 2022
In January 2016, the Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association successfully acquired the Mercabo property located at the entrance to Gasparilla Island. It was in late 2015 that a …

Banyan Gasparilla Sound units moving fast; completion date set for end of 2023

March 25, 2022
Gulf to Bay Sotheby’s International Realty has received an overwhelming response and reservations for Banyan Gasparilla Sound, the development that is being built where The Fishery was once locate…

A new season soon to begin for Royal Palm Players: Are you going to audition?

March 25, 2022
BY ALICE COURT With one production left in this season, the celebratory Anniversary Show, Royal Palm Players is turning its eye to next season. With a new technical manager on staff and a new m…

Wrong Key

March 25, 2022


Hortoons

March 25, 2022


PROFILE: Kacy Joiner Cheske

March 25, 2022
You won’t catch Kacy Joiner Cheske buying fish from a market or a store. And who can blame her? Kacy was born and raised in Boca Grande, and anything other than fresh-caught-from-the-Gulf simply w…