Mahjong tiles, jumping with tarpon
For Sarah Sheridan, Boca Grande has never been just a vacation destination. It has always felt like a second home, a place layered with childhood memories, fami…
Above, Scozzafava awards Laffaire with a diving coin. Photo by Matt
In July 2024, Marie-Laure Laffaire was visiting Gasparilla Island from Paris, France. For years, she and her three children alw…
Above, the new “Share the Road” bike pavement markings this week. Photo by Garland
The Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority held committee meetings Wednesday, Jan. 14 at the newly remediated admini…
Above, Browne, in a profile in 2004, and below, in a story in 2009 while on the Preservation Board, as he railed against ugly island signage at the beach streets at a meeting.
A funeral will be…
A crew from St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church assisted in the construction of the Sexton house in Port Charlotte. The volunteer crew installed wall sheathing on the exterior, one of a dozen or so ch…
The Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 99, is holding a Boat America Course on Saturday, Feb. 7 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the South Gulf Cove HOA Building, 14859 Ingraham Blvd., Port Charlotte. Le…
Janice Hursen of Grande Stitches is holding an in-store trunk show featuring Julie Pischke Designs throughout the month of January. Needlepoint canvases by Julie will be offered at 20 percent off re…
Last Friday, the Fust Library’s mobile bicycle unit was out with some of the latest bestsellers. Here, Stacy Bak with the library branch was distributing books. The mobile bicycle unit donation…
Once again, the Boca Grande Art Center partners with Crews Bank & Trust to present rotating local artists’ exhibits at its Park Avenue branch. January features mixed-media works by Susan Shaffer…
“No,” he said, “that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.”
Anna Sewell…
