Over the past week, the red tide organism Karenia brevis was detected in 72 samples along Florida’s Gulf Coast. Bloom concentrations (>100,000 cells/liter) were present in nine samples: six in Pin…
To the Editor:
The members of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and the Very Reverend Michelle Robertshaw, as well as the members of First Baptist Church of Boca Grande and Dr. Gary L. Beatty, Past…
To the Editor:
On behalf of Suncoast Humane Society, we wish to thank the Boca Grande community for their overwhelming support of the second Annual Dogs for Dogs Fundraiser held March 18th. Ove…
Hope Hutchins Benton, died unexpectedly on March 3, 2023 at the age of 83, just two days after her best birthday ever. She was in the Bahamas, on a boat, with her family and friends. She had taken…
Patricia Goddard Hicks, born April 11, 1945, passed away on March 13, 2023. Patricia was born in St. Petersburg and lived there until moving to Tampa in 1958. She attended and graduated from H.B. …
Dave Endres is a businessman who has kind of a strange business model. He makes jewelry and then gives it away. He does the same thing with pumpkins. He plants and raises them and then gives them …
The residents have contacted the right people. The ball is rolling. And cleanup has begun at Gasparilla Mobile Estates.
Yes, the cleanup that park owner Carol Kropp reported would be $4 million…
If you’re reading this on Friday, March 17 before 1 p.m.. make a plan to stop by Hudson’s Grocery and taste some of the newest Florida wine to hit the market. Co-founder Marshall Bush, daughter of…
Gasparilla Island Lighthouse to be set back to rights after storm
The old Gasparilla Island Lighthouse, a.k.a. the “Range Light” is having some post-Ian work done, as she is listing just a touc…
Don’t forget the Celebration of Life for Capt. Jackie and Sandy Bylaska on Saturday, March 18 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Crowninshield Community House.
If you are interested in attending, pl…