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EcoWatch: Butterflies fluttering toward extinction
March 20, 2025
“If you smile when you see a Butterfly, you have happiness in your soul.”
Diana Cooper, poet and author
The beautiful Monarch butterfly has been in the news recently, not because of its beauty…
SW Florida Fishing: The bite is on…
March 20, 2025
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE
The snook have been biting in the backcountry this week! Lots of really nice sized snook have begun to show up around the mangrove islands and they have been hungry. From…
Gulf fishing can still excel this spring
March 20, 2025
Many things seem more challenging this year. We survived multiple hurricanes and most of us suffered damage, many severe. Red tides hang around threatening us, challenging us to work around minimum…
Opinion: The Parable of Lazarus and privatization
March 20, 2025
BY JAY WHIPPLE
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus tells the story of a wealthy man who lived in comfort while a poor man named Lazarus suffered just beyond his gates. Though the rich man ignored Lazaru…
Food for thought: Eating well this Nutrition Month?
March 13, 2025
BY DR. BRET KUEBER, M.D. BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC
Have you ever eaten a light salad for lunch only to raid the cookie jar by 3 p.m.? Have you convinced yourself that coffee counts as breakfast…
EcoWatch: Save your opinions; Your actions count
March 13, 2025
“The World is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”
Paulo Coelho, Novelist, Author of Alchemist, lyricist
Have you noticed lately that quite a few people have an opinion on the fate o…
SW Florida Fishing: Waiting to chew…
March 13, 2025
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE
The redfish and snook have been very active in the backcountry this week!
Between the hard south winds and even harder northwest winds, lots of snook and redfish have…
SW Florida Fishing: Time for the snook to show…
March 6, 2025
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE
Spring is almost here on Boca Grande and the fishing has been very good! We are still experiencing some unsettled weather patterns with high winds out of both the north a…
EcoWatch: Experts claim bird flu is here to stay
March 6, 2025
The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to affect humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all wars of the 20th century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc a…
When radio came to Boca Grande: Gasparilla Island in the Roaring Twenties
February 27, 2025
BY JAMES J. BLAHA, DIRECTOR BOCA GRANDE HISTORY CENTER
The Roaring Twenties and The Jazz Age are just a few of the labels that historians have applied to this unique period of U.S. history. Altho…