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SW Florida Fishing: G.I.F.T.’s 30th coming up!

October 9, 2025
BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE It’s starting to feel like fall here in Boca Grande and the fish in the backcountry are fired up with these cooler temps! Redfish have been the star of the show so far…

Hurricanes effect on turtle nests; ten remaining as October goes

October 2, 2025
BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY If you’ve watched the local TV news or read a local newspaper these past couple of weeks, there have been many stories about the impacts and recovery associated wi…

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…

When everything comes together, almost like the old days: Capt. Van Hubbard

October 2, 2025
Helene and Milton changed our lives and landscapes. Recovering is hard, slow and expensive. What doesn’t kill us does make us stronger. They hurt most of us profoundly but there is hope and light at…

Appreciation for the old red cent: Mind your business

October 2, 2025
Let me give you a better penny. Those were the last words at the end of a cash transaction at Hudson’s Grocery this week. To celebrate the seasonal reopening of the island grocery, this editor we…

EcoWatch: A last-ditch effort to protect the world’s seas

October 2, 2025
Just as we have the power to harm the oceans, we have the power to put in place polices and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the sea, for the creatures there and…

No new crawls since August on island

September 25, 2025
BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY YAWN. Pardon me, but the sea turtle nesting season for us patrollers is such a boring time. No new crawls have occurred since August 31 and the current nests we ar…

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…

These here lights blink on and off. Life is aglow.

September 25, 2025
It is 6:05 a.m. along “this here” Gulf of America. Those there lights blink off the coast, on the barges pumping sand across the water, to the shoreline. Up in the air, the Range Light blinks its si…