When Boca Grande artists Emerson Wickwire, Linda Wolcott and Nancy Bass sat down together and looked at each other’s proposed art pieces for a show they were putting together, they all had a momen…
The Lee Board of County Commissioners voted Tuesday to accept a $120,000 grant from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for the construction of an artificial reef approximately 1…
If you have been trying to obtain the free COVID test kits that the government is sending out and you get a message that says your P.O. Box is registered to a business, you are not alone. Island p…
Next weekend the Boca Grande Art Center will president their annual President’s Art Show, featuring four past presidents of the long-standing organization. It wll feature works in oil, acrylic, pa…
By Bobbie Marquis of the Johann Fust Library Foundation
In the spring of 2020, as the Johann Fust Library Foundation began to plan for the next season, Board Member and Clevelander Deb Nash was…
Jon Meacham may be a Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian, but when he found out that George W. Bush was speaking at a Friends of Boca Grande event in the same week he was, he had a few thi…
Submitted by the Gasparilla Island Water Association
Bonnie Pringle, the Utility Director for the past 41 years, has announced her retirement from Gasparilla Island Water Association Inc., by t…
No damage reported so far on Gasparilla Island
Photos by Taylor Guillerm, Paula Rush and Beacon staff
Early Sunday morning, Jan. 16 storms swept through our area preceding a cold front. As t…
Boca Beacon writer honored with platform in her name at opening ceremony on January 11
The future rookery at Wildflower preserve is now a reality. On Tuesday, Jan. 11 two new platforms were cer…
