The Calusa Waterkeeper organization is holding its State of Our Water Quarterly Meeting from 9:30 a.m. until noon on Saturday, July 13. It will be held at the Lee County Northwest Regional Librar…
The Charlotte County Board of County Commissioners on June 28 appointed Robin Grace to the Boca Grande Street & Drainage Advisory Board. The appointment is effective immediately and will expir…
Three projects, including a renovation and expansion of the Boca Grande Community Center, were each unanimously approved by the Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board on July 10.
In spite of t…
Mosquito season started with a bang after several downpours moved through Southwest Florida last month.
The rain spanned county-wide, which expanded habitats wider across Lee County, rather t…
The Eldred’s Marina is under contract.
“It is true,” said Michael Fay, chairman of the U.S. Capital Markets group Executive Committee of the brokerage Avison Young Global.
Fay, of Miami, was…
Gavin Morley is among the newest members of the Boca Grande Fire Department. He is not a rookie at firefighting though, since he served on the Charlotte County Fire Department for five years, foll…
I’ve always been concerned about preserving our fisheries, their heritage, our traditions and the ways of the watermen that live from them. My grandparents, especially Guy Lewis, instilled the imp…
Recently, there were Army Corps of Engineers technicians on island surveying the beach for renourishment. The crew was for the Jacksonville District – Lee County Gasparilla Shore Protection Projec…
Stories in the Boca Beacon related to beach nourishment and renourishment, sand erosion and dunes on Gasparilla Island and in Lee and Charlotte counties. Some recent headlines, in reverse chronolo…
