ESSAY: Help needed: Military canine mascot story search is on
Have you ever heard of a dog winning the Medal of Honor? I hadn’t until I became a Certified Mentor for the NYC chapter of SCORE. Now my days are filled with mentoring two theater companies, a pho…
Appreciating our regular island journalists
The Boca Beacon is a community enterprise. It is part of a great American tradition, the independent, family-owned community weekly newspaper.
This week, we want to thank the local contributors…
Weekend begins by Bayou, and ends with gumbo limbo
A peaceful lone sculler plied the Bayou last Friday on the opening day for the Boca Grande Farmers Market. Families watched from the Bayou Bridge. It evoked a Thomas Eakins painting. In the 19th c…
A welcome for the director of Mount Vernon
Next Wednesday, Doug Bradburn, director of Mount Vernon, will visit the island as part of a Friends of Boca Grande lecture in their History and Heritage series.
Most people over a certain…