Dana Pellant and Natalie Cole, nurses at the Boca Grande Health Clinic, were a rescue team driving through storm-ravaged Boca Grande in the first days after Hurricane Ian hit the Island. Natalie’s d…
BY DUSTY HOPKINS
What in the world do you do with a 56 foot tall sailboat mast that has snapped off and is now stuck in the muck on the bottom of the bayou, but the other end is still attached to…
Boca Grande Charities, Inc. – a charitable foundation founded by Capt. Sandy Melvin (and now includes Ron Walker and Pat Waterhouse) – helped save the day regarding fuel, not only on Gasparilla Isla…
Homeless bees are trying to take over the food truck at Whidden’s Marina. Cindy and George Cera and their son Tucker are doing their best to feed the confused bees and direct them away from their co…
FIVE YEARS AGO
The Boca Grande Island was in a heated debate regarding a proposed assisted living house along East Railroad Avenue.
TEN YEARS AGO
The Mote Marine Laboratory deployed the…
BY CAPT. SANDY MELVIN
Typically September and October are our rainy months around the Island.
The rainwater enters the Peace and Myakka River water basins and comes down into Charlotte Harbor…
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has established a hotline for reporting displaced vessels still on Florida state waters because of Hurricane Ian.
When Hurricane Ian s…
