As the West Coast Inland Navigation District (WCIND) wraps up a year marked by three hurricanes, the agency is working on a number of waterway projects across Lee and Charlotte counties. “Great stri…
Work on a sand renourishment project at the south end of Gasparilla Island has now extended north past Belcher Road and the old “Bocahenge” docks.
This week, bulldozers were moving as they pumped…
Lee County Commissioners are beginning to receive applications for positions on the Boca Grande Parking Panel, just as Charlotte County held discussions at their regular commission meeting this week…
Charlotte County Commissioners voted on Tuesday, Sept. 23 to include a statement on Boca Grande Parking in its 2026 State Legislative Agenda. Commissioners also discussed Charlotte County representa…
Harry Kalajian, dog trainer, and columnist for the Boca Beacon since 2018, died Sunday, Sept. 14, after a brief illness.
Kalajian began training dogs professionally in 1986. In a 2023 column for…
Britannica to Audubon, noted nature illustrator
For years before making Cape Haze his home, artist Albert Earl Gilbert was a frequent visitor to Boca Grande. Drawn to the island’s coastal beauty…
The City of North Port has named Irina Kukharenko as finance director. Kukharenko has served in the director role in an interim capacity for the past four months. She joined the city in April 2023 a…
Work continues at the Boca Grande Health Clinic, where the connections to the Clinic of the Future are going in. The road was blocked off this week for basic sewer and water line work. They are expe…
Octopuses can rival the creatures of science fiction: big-eyed, multi-armed, soft-bodied, intelligent, alien, yet home-grown during the Earth’s late Jurassic period, about 140 million years ago.”…
SUP Englewood’s Coffee & Conservation series will return on Tuesday, Oct. 21, with a program focused on the gopher tortoise, a keystone species threatened by habitat loss and environmental chang…
