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 conta…
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 w…
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 Fe…
“There will be more plastic in the oceans than there are fish by 2050.”
Universal comment
Earth Day will be celebrated this year on April 22, 2024. It was born in 1970 when millions of people…
To the Editor:
As Joni Mitchell sang “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
My eyes could not believe the likes of the building plans for the Island located longitude and latitude as…
Earth Day is coming up this weekend. This week, we have a column about Earth Day from Delores Savas as well as a small article about one of the Earth Day activities in our news section. There are al…
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE
Snook have been the deal in the back country this week. Lots and lots of snook have been caught on white bait through March and into April.
If you are looking to targe…
BY CAPT. JOE LECLAIR
With warmer waters it’s time to shift gears and search for monster tarpon.
Recently we fished through heavy rain and wind in the muddy waters of the everglades and 10,000…
BY BRET KUEBER, M.D., ASSISTANT MEDICAL DIRECTOR, BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC
April, the birth month of James Parkinson, is Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month. Parkinson’s is a degenerative syndro…
