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Here’s your lineup for the 2025 Boca Grande Film Festival
January 30, 2025
Get ready, film lovers – the wait is over! The Boca Grande Film Festival is bringing you an unforgettable lineup of cinematic magic. From thought-provoking dramas to breathtaking documentaries, eigh…
No Bike Parade this year
January 30, 2025
Goodbye to a longtime family spring break tradition, at least this year. There will be no Spring Bike Path Parade or Spring Fair, according to the Boca Grande Woman’s Club.
The Boca Grande Woman’…
Over the hills where the spirits fly …
January 30, 2025
It might look like the West Coast or New England at the end of this rocky road, but this was the south end of Gasparilla Island, as an ultralight took a gander at the riprap along the Gulf two Sunda…
Fust Library reopening set for Tuesday, Feb. 4
January 30, 2025
The Johann Fust Community Library, 1040 West 10th St., Boca Grande, will reopen at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 4. The library was closed due to damage from Hurricane Milton.
Regular operating hours ar…
Keylime Bistro to reopen in Depot; no firm date set
January 30, 2025
The Keylime Bistro will reopen, though they do not yet have a firm date. Owner Sandy Stilwell Youngquist expects that it could be in February or March, but she said that it is a guess, as there are…
OPINION: BRANDON SHULER
January 30, 2025
Water quality problems bigger than Lake Okeechobee
BY BRANDON SHULER
Much recent hay has been made about the current Lake Okeechobee discharges fueling a low-intensity red tide (Karenia brevis…
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Hometown son … Mike Nabers
January 30, 2025
No one can regale you with a good story like a fisherman, unless it’s a boat captain. Boca Grande is a mecca for such storytellers, and Mike Nabers is one of the best. Besides his exploits on the wa…
EcoWatch: Is it too little too late?
January 30, 2025
Have Snowbirds will travel Chilly nights and windy haze Time to fly to warmer days Off in flight with Gulf Stream power Resting and flying on the hour We Snowbirds take a Southern route To balmy tro…
SW Florida Fishing: Better weather, better fishing…
January 30, 2025
BY CAPT. SANDY MELVIN
Finally we broke the winter weather pattern we’ve been in the past three weeks and are seeing some low winds, sunshine and warmer days.
Snook are already beginning their…
SW Florida Fishing: Cold, rain and fog …
January 30, 2025
BY CAPT. JOE LECLAIR
But we are still catching some fish and having fun doing it. I recently had the pleasure of fishing with out-of-town guests who told me of subzero temperatures and iced and s…