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August 28, 2025

History What Ifs: Boca Grande with no bridge, with an airport, port

BY JAMES J. BLAHA, DIRECTOR BOCA GRANDE HISTORY CENTER “In order to understand the difference between the Boca Grande of 1949 and today, you have to realize that in 1949, Gasparilla Island, of ne…

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One house on Preservation Board list

August 28, 2025

The Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board will meet Sept. 10, 2025 at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church for its monthly meeting. The only item on the…

This date in the Boca Beacon

August 28, 2025

FIVE YEARS AGO GIBA announced that a contract had been awarded for the construction of the southern roadway sidewalk which would include paved sh…

New entrance approved for Community Center by Preservation Board

August 14, 2025

There will be a new entrance at the Boca Grande Community Center, after approval by the Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board on Wednesday. Vic…

This date in the Boca Beacon

August 14, 2025

FIVE YEARS AGO An Iowa man, fishing near the Boca Grande Causeway, was bitten by a blacktip shark as he was releasing it. TEN YEARS AGO The…

History: 800 years ahead for Banyan Street ‘cathedral’

BY KAREN GRACE, BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY In 1915, Peter Bradley of the American agricultural Chemical Company had 26 banyan trees planted o…

Preservation Board review of Community Center entrance ramp

Above, a close up of the proposed changes to the entrance, which will have a wide ramp from Park Avenue. The Boca Grande Historic Preservation B…

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