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Kay Kemper
October 22, 2021
If you are in the market for a motivational speaker for your next graduation, Kay Kemper is the woman for you. Energetic, optimistic, and full of joie de vivre, Kay could inspire the most woebegone…
Halloweens past with the kids of Boca Grande
October 22, 2021
It was a simpler time. A time when children would watch “Father Knows Best” and “The Brady Bunch” in their feety pajamas. A time when the best ride in town was a banana seat bicycle with playing car…
Breast cancer: Looking toward the future
October 22, 2021
Breast cancer treatment has come a long way in the past 100 years.
At the beginning of the 20th century, it was believed that breast cancer was an infectious disease whose spread was expedited by…
Turtle Tracts … Week 23
October 15, 2021
By Turtle Patroller Tonya Bramlage
Non-viable, unhatched nests are in the final weeks of excavation.
These nests have not produced a hatching 70 days after their creation. There are a multitud…
Inside out: Why is RPP moving their first show outside?
October 15, 2021
By Erica Martin and Alice Court
Live theater is back. Broadway is back. The West End is back. Touring companies are back on the road. And Royal Palm Players is back, too.
At the end of the los…
PROFILE: Lucinda Dixon Sullivan
October 15, 2021
Lucinda Dixon Sullivan has one heck of a bookshelf. If one did not know that she was a writer, they would immediately guess by the stunning, wall-filled shelves of books that line her living room…
Pass Club renovation moving toward December opening
October 15, 2021
It was seven months ago that demolition began on the Boca Bay Pass Club’s $3.5 million renovation. Today, despite a few headaches caused by the ongoing COVID pandemic, the remodeling is moving along…
Local organizations plan full schedules, keeping fingers crossed
October 15, 2021
Promotional material has been mailed. Fingers are crossed. Boca Grande’s not-for-profits are hoping that everything can return to the way it was before the COVID pandemic struck – even though they c…
GIWA Director Pringle set to retire
October 15, 2021
Bonnie Pringle, the Utility Director of the Gasparilla Island Water Association for the past 41 years, has announced her plans to retire in early 2022.
“It is with mixed emotions that the GIWA Bo…
Flood insurance spikes for Florida residents confusing to some
October 15, 2021
For many people, retiring to a house on the beach is the American dream. Residents of Boca Grande enjoy boating and tarpon fishing, white sugar-sand beaches and for decades, subsidized federal flood…