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By Misty Nichols, GICIA The Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association is excited about relaunching the Volunteer led tours of the Mercabo Cove Site in 2022. These site tours have been extremely popular in the past and have booked quickly. With the restoration of the Cove completed, the 2022 tours will be the first opportunity […]
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On Tuesday morning, Dec. 21 it was one of those mornings when you saw a lot of people looking concerned and asking one another, “What is going on?” Wind. It was wind that was going on, and a lot of it. What had originally been reported as the passing through of a standard “cold” front, […]
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By Mark Driscoll, CEO of the Boca Grande Health Clinic As 2021 draws to a close, it seems only appropriate to reflect on the challenging year we have all had! Marked most obviously by the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, this year the Boca Grande Health Clinic has seen growth, unparalleled community outreach and a variety of […]
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By Nancy White Twas a night before Christmas … 10 nights to be exact … the Royal Palm Players performed Miracle on 34th Street, the fifth of 10 performances of Christmas hope and joy, at one of their three dinner theater venues, the Coral Creek Club. Three preceding performances took place at the Lemon Bay […]
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The following is a message from Lt. Jeff Corkhill, Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Boca Grande substation. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Function here in Boca Grande would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Your local sheriff’s deputies are working diligently to keep our local streets open […]
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Twas the night before Christmas and all around No noses were frozen, no snow fluttered down. No children in flannels were tucked into bed. They all wore their shorty pajamas instead! To find wreaths of holly was not very hard, For holly trees grow ferociously in everyone’s yard. In front of the houses were daddies […]
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There’s a big change on the horizon for your weekly island newspaper. The Boca Beacon’s website will be keeping you up to date 24 hours a day, seven days a week after January 3. That means we’ll be updating our site as soon as news happens … or at least as soon as we know […]
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It all started with a phone call. “Approximately a year ago, we received a call,” began Jim Blaha of The Boca Grande Historical Society and History Center. “It was from a lady in Tennessee. She had found some books, documents, and even minutes from meetings in her attic, all dating back to 1902, and all […]
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Joan Schmidt believes in the adage “help thy neighbor.” Even if that neighbor isn’t next door. After a series of deadly tornadoes that hit the state of Kentucky last week, Joan Schmidt and Martha Shilett wanted to take action. “Oh my! How can we not?” explained Joan. “We’re just two retired ladies with a quick […]