By Marcy Shortuse and T Michele Walker
The pandemic continues to transform the labor force. During the first months of 2021, millions left their jobs, resulting in what some call “the Great Res…
Never has there been a time when wildlife rescue volunteers were needed more on Gasparilla Island. To say there is a dire lack of people willing to pick up and drive injured or ill wildlife to loc…
Boca Grande’s St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church will hold a dedicatory concert for its recently installed organ. The free organ concert will feature Dr. Jeremy Filsell, who has been hailed as one of t…
When we first met Kim Newlin back in 2005, she was a wife, a mother of two young children, and a new business owner of Newlin’s Mainely Gourmet. Today, she and Frank are happy and “Newlin’s,” as t…
NOW IS THE TIME TO CONFESS YOUR LOVE,
WHETHER IT’S RED AS FIRE OR WHITE AS A DOVE; YOUR LAST DAY TO SEND THEM IS FEBRUARY 8,
IF YOU KNOW WHAT’S GOOD FOR YOU, YOU SHALL NOT BE LATE! Email yo…
BY KAREN GRACE, BOCA GRANDE HISTORY CENTER
Janet Gillespie who lived in Boca Grande between 1978 and 2004 told stories of the jobs she held, the friends she made, the programs she helped start …
SPECIAL TO THE BOCA BEACON BY TIMOTHY WRIGHT
Friends from decades past, I came to regard Patti Middleton as the true artistic nature muse of our coast. Her passing in May of last year seemed em…
SUBMITTED BY NANCY WHITE, ROYAL PALM PLAYERS
Here’s the scoop! The Royal Palm Players are presenting a rescheduled table reading of “Proof” in a theater-in-the-round setting created on the Frie…
This past Sunday, Jan. 30, the First Baptist Church of Boca Grande honored their pastor, Dr. (Pastor) Gary Beatty and his wife Betty for 50 years of service to the Lord Jesus Christ. Of those year…
Anyone who has traveled River Road from just north of Englewood to the I 75 offramp knows that it can be a tedious, time-consuming, even dangerous drive. Recently the Florida Department of Transpo…
