Island School PTO thanks community
To the Editor: The Island School PTO would like to thank everyone for their hard work in making the Chowder Dinner SO successful!
We would have never been a…
For anyone up early Wednesday morning, there was a particularly effective full moon coming through the clouds, different from a clear-sky full moon. With the clouds intermittently covering and uncov…
“A Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. Forest are the lungs of our lands, purifying the air of our land and giving strength to our people”.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Two weeks have pass…
This week, Lee County voted to turn one of the two tennis courts on Wheeler Road into four pickleball courts. The case should not be viewed as simply that pickleball is winning over tennis (which it…
By JIM COCHRUN, GUEST EDITORIAL
I grew up in Naples in the early ’50s. In those years, Naples was a small, tranquil and pristine Old Florida community of 1,500 residents. The bulk of the populati…
By EMILY HALY, M.D.
January is Thyroid Awareness Month, a time when the medical profession focuses attention onthat tiny gland located in the lower front part of your neck. While small in compari…
By JOHN VALICKAS, Guest Columnist
Part of the uniqueness and the cultural identity that Boca Grande enjoys comes from its rich historical roots. Although many of the island’s historical structure…
The Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board had only one item on the agenda Jan. 10, namely the designation of 446 4th Street East as officially “historic.” The building, which houses Bowen Construc…
Editor’s note: Capt. Jeff Corkhill (pictured above at right) will be moving on from Boca Grande as of Monday, and Lt. Jeff Sawicki, who had been at Captiva Island, will be taking his place. Island r…
Raid sets standards for local retail shopping centers
Just before Christmas, the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Gaming Control Commission executed a search warrant of two casin…
