Editor’s Note: As newsrooms have closed across Florida, new organizations have grown. A report from Suncoast Searchlight, which has been breaking big stories in neighboring counties.
BY EMILY LE…
Last weekend, the beaches were clean. No actual hurricanes depositing refrigerators, boats and back porches. The volunteers, all from off-island, signed up for duty for the Barrier Island Parks Soci…
“The developing nations had given to the free market the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it these farmers, farmland and communities, their forests, wetlands, and prairies, their ecosystems…
BY ERNIE VANDERWALT
Three days without salt. That’s a long stretch for a man who counts water as oxygen, and I felt every hour of it. A tropical storm had stirred the Gulf into a wild mess, and m…
I’m about to complete another circle around the sun.
Our days are getting shorter and my body says I’m getting older. I’m excited about our upcoming season change and looking forward to getting o…
Occasionally, it is helpful to address a number of issues as we see them. A few thoughts for a mid-September, in A.D. 2026:
1. The diesel goes upward: It is not news that gas and diesel prices (n…
We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93 who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.
Bob Taft American pol…
BY JAMES J. BLAHA BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Pictured Above, Joe Spadaro. BGHS Archives
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
– H…
BY ERNIE VANDERWALT
A friend of mine texted me from Portugal the other day, where she and her husband have been living for a stretch now. We got to talking about freedom. Real freedom, not the ki…
It is now 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001. The question of how to remember that day, and that time, is still unresolved. Do we turn on the TV again, to horror-watch those fateful morning TV moments, w…
