News
4-Digit deadline Friday
January 30, 2025
        
    
        
        
                
Get us your updated address for the 4-Digit Phone Book. Email info@bocabeacon.com or call us at 941-964-2995.
        
        
        
                
                
                        Business and Real Estate: Water Authority elects new officers, announces treatment improvements
January 30, 2025
        
    
        
        
                
The Gasparilla Island Water Association (GIWA) held its Annual Membership Meeting at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church on Jan. 21. The agenda focused on the organization’s recovery efforts following Hur…
        
        
        
                
                
                        Lee Commissioners’ item to address parking minimums
January 30, 2025
        
    
        
        
                
The Lee Board of County Commissioners will hold a regular meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 4. On the agenda is an item to authorize land development code amendments for parking requirements in…
        
        
        
                
                
                        Here’s your lineup for the 2025 Boca Grande Film Festival
January 30, 2025
        
    
        
        
                
Get ready, film lovers – the wait is over! The Boca Grande Film Festival is bringing you an unforgettable lineup of cinematic magic. From thought-provoking dramas to breathtaking documentaries, eigh…
        
        
        
                
                
                        No Bike Parade this year
January 30, 2025
        
    
        
        
                
Goodbye to a longtime family spring break tradition, at least this year. There will be no Spring Bike Path Parade or Spring Fair, according to the Boca Grande Woman’s Club.
The Boca Grande Woman’…
        
        
        
                
                
                        Over the hills where the spirits fly …
January 30, 2025
        
    
        
        
                
It might look like the West Coast or New England at the end of this rocky road, but this was the south end of Gasparilla Island, as an ultralight took a gander at the riprap along the Gulf two Sunda…
        
        
        
                
                
                        Fust Library reopening set for Tuesday, Feb. 4
January 30, 2025
        
    
        
        
                
The Johann Fust Community Library, 1040 West 10th St., Boca Grande, will reopen at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 4. The library was closed due to damage from Hurricane Milton.
Regular operating hours ar…
        
        
        
                
                
                        Keylime Bistro to reopen in Depot; no firm date set
January 30, 2025
        
    
        
        
                
The Keylime Bistro will reopen, though they do not yet have a firm date. Owner Sandy Stilwell Youngquist expects that it could be in February or March, but she said that it is a guess, as there are…
        
        
        
                
                
                        OPINION: BRANDON SHULER
January 30, 2025
        
    
        
        
                
Water quality problems bigger than Lake Okeechobee
BY BRANDON SHULER
Much recent hay has been made about the current Lake Okeechobee discharges fueling a low-intensity red tide (Karenia brevis…
        
        
        
                
                
                        IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Hometown son … Mike Nabers
January 30, 2025
        
    
        
        
                
No one can regale you with a good story like a fisherman, unless it’s a boat captain. Boca Grande is a mecca for such storytellers, and Mike Nabers is one of the best. Besides his exploits on the wa…
        
        
        
                
                
                         
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
