Editor’s Note: Earlier this season, the Boca Grande Health Clinic and Foundation hosted a Grande Rounds lecture on resiliency, featuring Yale-trained and board-certified psychiatry specialist Alex…
BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY
The 2024 sea turtle nesting season for Gasparilla Island officially kicked off on May 1, and runs through October 31.
Trained Turtle Patrol volunteers with th…
The publisher of this newspaper has an expression that he is fond of repeating. In Boca Grande, every day is different, but every year is the same.
This can be seen in our column to the left of…
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE
It is starting to feel like summer here in Boca Grande and that means one thing. Tarpon! The tarpon are starting to show up in the passes and in the harbor. Look to tar…
Young puppies or adopted dogs of any age have one thing in their mind and that’s “Take Over”. In the beginning when you bring them home they show you a cute happy playful side of themselves. You t…
BY KATHY FUTCH
Tarpon fishing became quite the sport in Boca Grande Pass, which is the deepest natural harbor in Florida. When the water temperature is just right and full of tasty shrimp and c…
To the Editor:
Your April 12 editorial (Why Placida Matters to Gasparilla Island) is very much on point. I wonder if what you’re describing is essentially what the Comprehensive Plan should con…
There are many “very important” and “formerly very important” or “previously important” or “pretty important” people on Gasparilla Island. We have acronyms for them. This week, we spied one of the…
BY CAPT. SANDY MELVIN
It’s tarpon time! After what seemed like weeks of heavy spring winds, the area is now loaded with silver kings. While we have seen some tarpon scattered around since late …
