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Police & Fire


February 16, 2023
Sometimes, doing the right thing and enforcing important laws isn’t as easy as it sounds. Such is the case with the continuing saga of a person hired by two island organizations who, it was discov…

February 16, 2023
If you’re tired of the unreliable cell phone service the island has experienced since the storm, be thankful you don’t have an emergency call to make. Jim Turpin found out last Friday, Feb. 10 tha…

February 16, 2023
The Boca Grande Fire Department and island Lee County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to several calls this past week, included one of a missing woman who was found, and an agency assist to lo…

January 26, 2023
On Saturday, Jan. 21 at approximately 7:46 p.m. the Boca Grande Fire Department responded to the 500 block of Gulf Boulevard for a golf cart on fire, fully engulfed. It took some time, but fire…

January 20, 2023
The Boca Grande Disaster Relief Fund, administered by the Lighthouse United Methodist Church of Boca Grande, has announced that the last day to donate to the fund will be January 31. While the …

January 6, 2023
On the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 4 at approximately 8:25 a.m. the Boca Grande Fire Department got a call that no one wants to get – a gunshot wound victim on the beach at Range Light Beach on Gul…

December 15, 2022
The actions of one local man erratically driving drunk last Friday, Dec. 9, could have had a much worse outcome than it did.  According to witnesses, that day at approximately 7:30 a.m. Timmie …

December 15, 2022
If you want to kick a man when he’s down, wait for a hurricane to hit, then take his giant fish. This actually happened, but not to a man as much as to a marina. Boca Grande Marina, to be speci…

December 9, 2022
Three victims from a plane that crashed in the Gulf off the Venice coast this past weekend have been identified, but one of the bodies is still missing. The three St. Petersburg residents flew fro…

December 9, 2022
Congratulations are in order for several local first responders as they have recently been promoted. Jeff Knowles will be promoted from Firefighter Paramedic / Shift Supervisor to Lieutenant. …