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May 27, 2022
• FRONT PAGE-5-27DL.indd While Capt. Waylon Mills has a real knack for finessing tarpon to the hook, his wife, Angie Mills, has a hot hand with a camera. Here are some of her great shots of the…

May 27, 2022
This shot above of a rotating wall cloud (at right) taken by Kelsey Malecha on Monday, May 23 from Boca Grande Pass. The storm was westbound from Charlotte Harbor.  A once-in-a-lifetime…

May 27, 2022
The Boca Grande Fire Department has kept relatively busy with a quite diverse grouping of calls in the last two weeks. On Saturday, May 14 at 5:21 p.m. the fire department was called for mutual…

May 27, 2022
As the sea turtles go about nesting on our beaches, it is both an exciting and promising event for patrollers. Freshly dug nests which contain many eggs are worthy of celebration for other predato…

May 27, 2022
This story was written by Bob Edic, an island historian and archaeologist whose work played a major role in our history. Some of the people interviewed in this work have passed, but the informatio…

May 27, 2022
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May 27, 2022
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May 19, 2022
Go to bocabeacon.smugmug.com for more WRTT photos The bite was strong and many anglers bowed to the silver king in the last two days, with 82 releases documented in the 2022 W…

May 19, 2022
As it turns out, football isn’t the only sport in which Nick Saban proves to have a hot hand. He was on the team that won the #17 Classic on Saturday, May 14. Saban and fellow anglers Nicholas Sab…