By Thomas J. Ervin, M.D., Boca Grande Health Clinic
Being asked “What do I do about COVID?” is a complicated question for anyone in clinical medicine to answer. If the COVID-19 pandemic was an el…
The guest speaker on the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 19 at the Boca Grande Community Center was the focus of a very appreciative and attentive audience – an audience that filled every chair and two a…
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 moment…
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 15…
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 pos…
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, past…
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 e…
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 thing…
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 the…
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 the…
