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Man sentenced in Hudson’s counterfeiting incident
February 11, 2022
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office announced this week that a man who was arrested at Hudson’s Grocery on May 18 of last year was sentenced to 36 months in prison for making counterfeit money.
Denni…
Creative solutions for the ‘Great Resignation’
February 11, 2022
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 Resig…
Boca Grande wildlife needs you!
February 11, 2022
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 local…
Internationally renowned organist to christen new organ at St. Andrew’s
February 11, 2022
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 the…
PROFILE: Kim Newlin
February 11, 2022
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 the…
Last call for Lovelines!
February 3, 2022
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 your…
First History Bytes of season: Pranks and programs
February 3, 2022
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 an…
Friends of renowned island artist Patti Middleton donate her last painting to TIS
February 3, 2022
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 embl…
‘Proof’ by RPP is back on, to be held under the Sunshade
February 3, 2022
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 Friend…
Pastor Gary Beatty celebrates 50 years in the ministry
February 3, 2022
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 years…