News
GICIA releases dates for tours of Mercabo Preserve
December 24, 2021
By Misty Nichols, GICIA
The Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association is excited about relaunching the Volunteer led tours of the Mercabo Cove Site in 2022. These site tours ha…
Windy was an understatement: 60+ mph winds recorded on Solstice Day
December 24, 2021
On Tuesday morning, Dec. 21 it was one of those mornings when you saw a lot of people looking concerned and asking one another, “What is going on?”
Wind. It was wind that was going on, and a l…
Boca Grande Health Clinic CEO reflects on challenges and blessings of a year of change
December 24, 2021
By Mark Driscoll, CEO of the Boca Grande Health Clinic
As 2021 draws to a close, it seems only appropriate to reflect on the challenging year we have all had! Marked most obviously by the unpre…
An in-depth look into the Royal Palm Players’ ‘Miracle on 34th Street’
December 24, 2021
By Nancy White
Twas a night before Christmas … 10 nights to be exact … the Royal Palm Players performed Miracle on 34th Street, the fifth of 10 performances of Christmas hope and joy, at on…
Drivers, please drive the ‘right’ way on the street behind the post office
December 24, 2021
The following is a message from Lt. Jeff Corkhill, Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Boca Grande substation.
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Function here in Boca Grande would like to w…
An Island Christmas Poem
December 24, 2021
Twas the night before Christmas
and all around
No noses were frozen, no snow
fluttered down.
No children in flannels were
tucked into bed.
They all wore their shorty
pajamas i…
The Boca Beacon … daily? In a sense, yes
December 24, 2021
There’s a big change on the horizon for your weekly island newspaper. The Boca Beacon’s website will be keeping you up to date 24 hours a day, seven days a week after January 3.
That means we’l…