Letters to the Editor
Letters: Dear islanders: Try a blower-free Christmas week
December 11, 2025
To the Editor:
Leaf blowers driving you inside? Glad you’re not home when your neighbors’ crews are scheduled? Have you had to restrict your activities due to the toxic cloud put at head height b…
Letters: Improved access to beaches with management
December 11, 2025
To the Editor:
Gasparilla Island State Park is an oceanfront treasure. This resource is currently underused. The state park has over one mile of beachfront land with five parking areas. There are…
Letters: Thanks for donations to Humane Society
November 20, 2025
To the Editor:
The Suncoast Humane Society would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who participated in our recent pet food and cat litter donation drive. Your generosity ma…
Letters: Gulf of America in history exhibit
November 20, 2025
To the Editor:
I read an interesting article in the Boca Beacon last week regarding the new BG Historical Society’s new home and exhibition. So my wife and I took a ride over to the new location…
Letters: Ideas to change the atmosphere here
November 6, 2025
Editor’s Note: Last week, Emerson Wickwire sent us a letter mailed to Charlotte County commissioners, in the wake of their concerns about parking in Boca Grande. The letter, in the Oct. 31 issue, ha…
Letters: Public letter to Charlotte Commission
October 30, 2025
To: Charlotte County Commissioners Ken Doherty, Christopher Constance, Bill Truex, Stephen Deutsch and Joseph Tiseo
Dear Commissioners:
I write respectfully as a long-time resident of our smal…
Letters: Get together for a live discussion of issues of interest
October 2, 2025
To the Editor:
I just watched the national news. It covered the possibility of a government shutdown, then the meeting of the military heads.
After that, it moved to the Artificial Intelligenc…
Letters: Interlocal pact could shore up island off season
September 25, 2025
Editor’s Note: An open letter to Lee Commissioners from a Charlotte resident in the parking discussion.
To the Editor:
I urge you to consider adopting an interlocal agreement that extends the…
Letters: Increase in fire budget questioned by resident
September 25, 2025
To the Editor:
Regarding the increase in the Boca Grande Fire Department budget.
Where is the additional 8.5% increase in the budget going? We see the budget, are told that it is 8.5% mo…
Letters: Charlotte resident responds to Lee County process and impact
September 18, 2025
To the Editor:
So it appears, according to Richard Weber in his letter to the editor of the Boca Beacon of September 12th, that transparency and welcome really are solely in the eye of the behold…