On the agenda for the March 4, 2025 Lee County Board of County Commissioners meeting is a donation for landscaping to Wheeler Road Community Park. The donation is from the Boca Grande Disaster Fund…
Issues between churches, parking and median strips are not unique to Boca Grande. Nationally, there have been a couple of cases. The most visible was in 2018, when the San Francisco Municipal Transp…
Scott Shute
Originally from Illinois, Scott Shute moved to Florida nearly three decades ago in search of new opportunities, trading his guitar for a construction career.
Scott was born in Peor…
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE
Redfish are starting to show up in strong numbers in the backcountry! With the weather getting warmer, the redfish have gotten active and willing to bite. We are mostly c…
Boca Bargains Boutique’s grand re-opening is happening on Wednesday, March 5. The Boutique is now located east of the Crowninshield Community House on Banyan Street. The new hours are Wednesdays fro…
Editor’s Note: The Charlotte County Board of Commissioners will hear recommendations for the future of the Placida Bunkhouse on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 9 a.m. Below is an update from John Valickas, a Pl…
The owl’s nest at Lemon Bay High School on Placida Road is continuing to draw attention. This is at least the second year of the nesting, which sits on a street sign over top of Placida Road. The si…
The new Gasparilla Island magazine is out. Inside, are stories on shipwrecks, native plants and the Colt revolver heir who died in Punta Gorda. At your newsstand now.
One of the many regular visitors in recent years to Boca Grande has been former Daily Caller correspondent Henry Rodgers. He happened to be here the week of his leaving journalism, and joining Meta…
