A kind and anonymous X.com user reached out to the Boca Beacon Twitter feed this week, suggesting a PGA-like shuttle for Boca Grande to help preserve the independent merchants on the island after pa…
Last week, there were no actual items relating to Boca Grande on the agenda of the Lee County Commission. But there was one item that was indirectly related, by inference and omission. Commissioner…
Above, a Boca Beacon file photo from Hurricane Charley, 21 years ago.
This week, we have a reminder from Chief C.W. Blosser about the hurricane season ahead, encouraging people to plan for what m…
The last real top 40 hit from James Taylor was a duet with J.D. Souther. The song “Her Town Too” did not reach that high on the Billboard list in 1981, but many will remember it as a lament about ho…
This Friday, The Beacon office will be closed for the Florida Press Association annual meeting. The paper won 18 awards, including one for the work of the hurricane fund and for the volunteers from…
Don’t worry. This is not a sermon, but be warned that we will start with an analogy from a theologian.
The late Welsh preacher and physician Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones had a way of thinking through t…
Thursday morning, three crows flew over Park Avenue, one leading with a full hamburger bun in his mouth, the other two blackbirds in hot pursuit. The hamburger bun had both sides attached. It did no…
This Fourth of July we are in a countdown to July 4, 2026 – our nation’s 250th. Is it a semiquincentennial or a sestercentennial? Bicentennial, in 1976, was a lot easier to say.
In 1976, there wa…
Just in time for our nation’s 250th Birthday, Walt Disney World will close its Tom Sawyer Island and its companion Liberty Square Riverboat on July 6. The boat, waterway and island will disappear in…
Surprise is the supremely effective tactic of war, in history and legend: Troy and the Trojan War, Trenton at Christmas, Tet and Normandy. Throughout history, the element of surprise makes the diffe…
