New at the Boca Grande Fire Department
A 35-year-old former Marine, Dylan Mitchell is beginning a new chapter with the Boca Grande Fire Department after eight years in Sarasota County’s fire serv…
Above, the Little Harbor Marina in Ruskin, just south of Tampa. It was purchased in 2021 and is now advertised as a Suntex Experience. It has operated there since the 1950s. Photo by Garland
John…
Constructing a career as fishing guide
In his nearly two decades on the water, Chris Slattery has turned his lifelong passion for fishing into a career as one of the area’s trusted inshore guides…
Potential World Record in youth soccer
What seemed like another victory for Englewood’s West Coast Chaos U15 soccer team turned into a potential world record a month later when 13-year-old Rowan…
Latest in generation of guide leadership
Above, Dusty with his wife, Nicole, and daughters Alana and Ava. Photo submitted
This year, the Boca Grande Fishing Guides Association took on a new re…
Above, lightning poses dangers to buildings and people, in this 2024 photo taken near the Range Light. Sandi Firtion
Florida used to be called the lightning capital, having been dethroned by Okl…
A family legacy of music
After a career with Microsoft and now with a technology startup, Jason Wickman has gone back to a longtime hobby: not only singing, but songwriting. This year, he put out…
Our local community radio station
Above, Kerri Black gives a tour of the station to local chamber guests. In the background is the studio. Photo by Garland
On Wednesday this week during a mor…
The 70th Anniversary of Andrea Doria sinking July 26, 1956
Perhaps one of the most famous maritime disasters, and the first steamship disaster to receive extensive television coverage, was the si…
Perhaps one of the most useful trends unleashed by the Bicentennial in 1976 was a nationwide interest in family history. And what it took was often some family member, the family historian, who not…
