By Mark Driscoll, CEO of the Boca Grande Health Clinic
As 2021 draws to a close, it seems only appropriate to reflect on the challenging year we have all had! Marked most obviously by the unprece…
By Nancy White
Twas a night before Christmas … 10 nights to be exact … the Royal Palm Players performed Miracle on 34th Street, the fifth of 10 performances of Christmas hope and joy, at one…
The following is a message from Lt. Jeff Corkhill, Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Boca Grande substation.
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Function here in Boca Grande would like to wis…
Twas the night before Christmas
and all around
No noses were frozen, no snow
fluttered down.
No children in flannels were
tucked into bed.
They all wore their shorty
pajamas ins…
There’s a big change on the horizon for your weekly island newspaper. The Boca Beacon’s website will be keeping you up to date 24 hours a day, seven days a week after January 3.
That means we’ll…
It all started with a phone call. “Approximately a year ago, we received a call,” began Jim Blaha of The Boca Grande Historical Society and History Center. “It was from a lady in Tennessee. She had…
Joan Schmidt believes in the adage “help thy neighbor.” Even if that neighbor isn’t next door.
After a series of deadly tornadoes that hit the state of Kentucky last week, Joan Schmidt and Martha…
The year was 1921. Women had just fought for and won the right to vote, Warren G. Harding had just taken the oath of office, and Margaret Mary Loviner was born in Columbus, Ohio.
If you’re fortun…
