This week, the new Mote SEA Aquarium opened in Sarasota, just outside the University Town Center mall. The oft-told local angle is important to retell, as there are many lessons from its 1955 foundi…
BY DELORES SAVAS
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want…
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…
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…
On the agenda for next Tuesday’s Lee County Board of Commissioners regular meeting is a beach and shoreline funding item with the Barrier Island Parks Society listed as one of the recipients.
If…
The temporary bridge over the Boca Grande Bayou being used by the Gasparilla Island Water Association to remove old equipment will be gone by Thanksgiving.
GIWA Executive Director Ron Bolton said…
An experimental SeaRey airplane made an emergency water landing just off Palm Island at Stump Pass on Sunday at around 4:20 p.m. Palm Island beachgoers, as well as a Jet Skier, came to the rescue of…
Mattress firm rip-rap puts wash to sleep
The shoreline hardening project of the Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority is in full swing. The $4.5 million initiative is a long-term solution to the coa…
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…
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…
