Profiles
PROFILE: Dianne Pavia
December 4, 2015
BY SUE ERWIN – Island employee Dianne Pavia has worked as a cashier at Hudson’s Grocery for the past year. She is originally from Massachusetts and relocated to Rotonda West two years ago. “My twin s…
Profile: Jon Burdette
November 27, 2015
■ BY SUSAN ERWIN Islander and local business owner Jon Burdette started visiting Boca Grande in 1985 when his grandparents were introduced to the island by Stewart Turley. By the early 1990s, his fam…
PROFILE: Nicole Tillotson
August 28, 2015
BY MARCY SHORTUSE
Island School teacher Nicole Tillotson is just settling into her new classroom this week. She is sharing the duties of teaching third, fourth and fifth graders with last…
Profile: J.T. Tremaine
August 21, 2015
BY MARCY SHORTUSE
J.T. Tremaine, a new teacher at The Island School this year, is a man of many talents. He learned at an early age by watching his father, Robert, that knowing how to do…
Profile: Jennifer Burdette Campbell
August 14, 2015
BY MARCY SHORTUSE
Busy. It’s the word that comes to mind when thinking of Jennifer Burdette Campbell, a work-at-home mom to three children who calls Boca Grande her home. She and her husband, Da…
Profile: Mary Smedley
August 7, 2015
BY JACK SHORT
Three years ago, I wrote my first profile. The subject was a former ambassador to Morocco and an undersecretary general of the United Nations. I could barely fit his resume on any n…
PROFILE: Gene Glidden
July 24, 2015
BY JACK SHORT
Gene Glidden is soft-spoken, ruddy-cheeked man whose cheerful demeanor belies the ruthlessness of the man who sits atop a commercial and residential painting empire.
Just kidding…
Profile: Christine Stites
July 17, 2015
BY JACK SHORT
She’s Chrissy to most, but only if you knew her after she moved here. Or before she became a professional. It’s a little confusing. She had switched to Christine in order to be…
Profile: Joshua Karl
July 10, 2015
BY JACK SHORT
Joshua Karl would have had to try pretty hard to end up in a place more different than Boca Grande. When he grew up here on the island, he went by Joshua Johnson, of the “harbor pil…
Profile: Scott O’Connor
July 3, 2015
BY JACK SHORT
To put it simply, Scott O’Connor is living the good life. He and his wife, Kristin, aren’t cruising the seas in luxury yachts or gambling in Monte Carlo, but he lives in a tropical…