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Push a pole, watch the birds, grasp opportunity in 2025
December 27, 2024
We celebrate the birth of Christ, Christmas and welcome a New Year.
2024 was tough on most of us and I’m looking forward to 2025. While times have been challenging, we live in a very special pl…
EcoWatch: Tis the reason for the season
December 19, 2024
“Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the rivers of time flow past. Today’s Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.”
Gladys Taber, author o…
SW Florida Fishing: The spirit of Christmas … on the water
December 19, 2024
BY CAPT. JOE LECLAIR
If you believe in the true spirit of Christmas then you know about all things red and green, silver and gold, happy days, warm nights and the wonderful smells of the holida…
EcoWatch: There is still time to make this a green Christmas
December 12, 2024
“When you give someone your time you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give is your time.”
Rick Wa…
SW Florida Fishing: This nice holiday weather is a call to fish
December 12, 2024
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE
The holiday season is in full swing here in Boca Grande and the fish have been biting!
The cold weather and fronts have got the backcountry fish fired up and on the …
History: Christmas Eve memories and Louise Crowninshield
December 12, 2024
BY KAREN GRACE, BOCA GRANDE HISTORY CENTER
For many years, Christmas Eve at the Louise du Pont Crowninshield Community House brought Santa and gifts. The Community House was opened in 1936. Mrs…
Health: Choices we make during difficult times can shape recovery
December 12, 2024
Path to repair lives challenges many
As the holidays arrive, Boca Grande finds itself in a season unlike any other. While the spirit of community endures, the effects of Hurricanes Helene and M…
EcoWatch: Are we facing another day of infamy?
December 6, 2024
“A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Words spoken after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Former President Franklin Roosevelt would be disappoi…
SW Florida Fishing: It’s in the family blood…
December 6, 2024
BY CAPT. JOE LACLAIR
With plenty of time to tie up some new bugs, I get excited to try new things. The files these days have better quality hooks, readily available materials and the world of g…
EcoWatch: Consider buying American-made products
November 28, 2024
“I have come to a resolution myself, as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price wha…