Incident sparks island-wide reminder: Unplug appliances
A toaster apparently created the possibility of a house fire on Monday, June 16 at the north end of the island. The Boca Grande Fire Depart…
With the summer months comes the start of Florida’s peak mosquito season. Two jurisdictions cover mosquito control for Gasparilla Island.
“We started this mosquito season with a bang,” said Jenif…
The Lee County Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 to match the Boca Grande Disaster Fund’s contributions to replace the Lee County Sheriff’s Office deputy house at its Tuesday, June 17 meeting. …
Victim appears at press conference
The nine-year-old survivor of last week’s shark attack near 22nd Street sat for a press conference from Tampa General Hospital alongside family and doctors on T…
An expired credit card left a Boca Grande resident unable to renew his Post Office boxes through the online system, and worried that he would lose his longstanding box number.
In an email stateme…
BY THE GICIA
The GICIA has undertaken a $1.3 million landscape restoration project for the Bike Path to restore the massive destruction to the native landscape caused by saltwater inundation from…
In 2014, Nancy Sodel’s prized doberman, Cole, was killed after eating the berries and leaves of a coontie palm, which had just been installed in the landscaping of her and her late husband Herb’s ho…
During the Tuesday, June 17 Board of Lee County Commissioners meeting, Chairman Kevin Ruane replaced the previously proposed parking ordinance with a new draft expected to be voted on at an August 5…
Get the family out this summer
Summer is here and it’s hot.
We still have great fishing options. Here are some ideas you can consider. First, get out early to beat the heat. Dress with long sl…
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will host a series of public workshops to seek input on proposed rule changes for lane snapper in Gulf state waters. Staff will provide a…
