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■ BY SUE ERWIN Honoring tradition. That was the common theme at “The Grande Tradition Event” held on Monday evening at The Crowninshield Community House. This event kicked off the 36th annual World’s Richest Tarpon Tournament festivities. Guest speakers from different eras discussed the history of the tournament and how it has changed over the […]
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■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Capt. Waylon Mills was on fire in Boca Grande Pass last Saturday, May 12 as he took Team Blaze to victory with a first place in the 2018 Boca Grande Area Chamber of Commerce Ladies Day Tarpon Tournament. Out of the two tournaments the Pass has seen this season – Howl […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN As of press time, The Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association reported eight turtle nests on the island – all loggerheads. The season has been a bit slow so far, likely due to cooler temperatures recently, but that is changing quickly. “In 2017 at this same time, we had 27 nests on […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN After years of being in the flower business in Boca Grande, Ronica Davis, owner of Native Gardens Florist on the island, will be closing her retail store on Saturday, May 26. There is currently a 75-percent-off sale on everything in the store, and items are going fast. The store is located […]
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T he next two weeks promise to be active on Boca Grande. This weekend Boca Grande will celebrate the World’s Richest Tarpon Tournament, and the downtown area will be closed to traffic beginning the morning of Friday, May 18, at 6 a.m. It will remain closed through Saturday, May 19. We expect the barricades to […]
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■ BY TIMMY SPAIN What is a cowpoke? Do they still exist? Cowpoke can simply be translated as a cowboy. Cowboys are American icons. I’m sure just about everyone has an image in their mind of a cowboy and probably thinks of Texas. Florida is actually the place where it began. It was here where […]
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■ SUBMITTED BY EVA FURNER On a beautiful Saturday morning, an enthusiastic crowd of Lemon Bay Conservancy supporters gathered at Wildflower Preserve to celebrate the start of the Wetlands restoration phase of the Wildflower Preserve Habitat Restoration Project. LBC President Jim Cooper welcomed everyone. Jim noted that the Conservancy has been working on this major […]
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To the Editor: Tarpon season is here, the great fish are biting, and excitement is building in Boca Grande Pass for the 36th annual World’s Richest Tarpon Tournament, a long-standing island tradition. Make sure to stop by the 2018 Tarpon Festival, which is held each year in beautiful downtown Boca Grande to celebrate the return […]
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To the Editor: The 2018 Hurricane season is almost upon us. Although we sincerely hope this is a quiet season and the GICIA Alert List will not be needed, we want to be sure that everyone has the chance to subscribe. As many of you know, the GICIA Alert List originated during Hurricane Charley and […]
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On April 28, 2018 Byong Uk Chung, MD of Boca Grande and formerly of Barrington Hills, Illinois, passed away peacefully after a long illness. He was born on October 20, 1934 in Seoul, South Korea. Dr. Chung graduated from Kyungi High School in 1949 and did his premedical studies at Seoul National University. While there, […]