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■ STAFF REPORT The Literature Forum’s January meeting will feature a reading by the Royal Palm Players of “The Trip to Bountiful.” The play, by Horton Foote, was originally produced on NBC television in 1953 before moving to Broadway later that year. It gained major fame as a motion picture in 1985, starring Geraldine Page, […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Michael Grunwald, award-winning author of “The Swamp,” will present a lecture on the history of the efforts to tame the Everglades and more recently the attempts to restore it, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 16 in the Boca Grande Community Center auditorium. “The Swamp” is a New York Times bestseller, a […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Sometimes life can throw a wild curve ball, disrupting daily routines and putting obstacles in the way of those trying to move forward. Boca Grande residents Edie Gardner and Tim Dumas will be the keynote speakers at a free event at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 9 at the Boca Grande […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN When U.S. Sugar CEO Robert Buker took the stage at the Boca Grande Community Center auditorium on Wednesday evening to discuss Florida’s sugar industry, audience questions following the presentation sparked both support and irritation. Buker provided an inside look at the sugar and citrus industries, focusing on Florida’s oldest and largest […]
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■ SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE CAMERA CLUB On Tuesday, Jan. 9 at 10 a.m. in the Houghton Room of the Boca Grande Community Center, commercial photographer and graphic designer Perry Johnson will speak to the Boca Grande Camera Club on “Editing and Modification Tools for the Digital Photographer.” Johnson is the founder, owner and […]
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■ STAFF REPORT On Friday, Jan. 19 Royal Palm Players presents a one-night-only event guaranteed to raise your spirits as you raise a glass of wine. It’s “The Boca Girls,” and it’s a spoof. A reading. A lot of laughs. Alice Court, Linda Rollyson, Ann Fletcher and Erica Ress Martin are The Boca Girls. They’re […]
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■ SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB The Boca Grande Garden Club will host the well-known author, radio commentator, newspaper columnist, and gardening legend, C.L. Fornari, who will speak on the topic of her latest book, “The Cocktail Hour Garden: Creating Evening Landscapes for Relaxation and Entertaining,” in addition to adding advice from an […]
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Virginia “Jinny” Estelle Garrett Cunning, 100 years of age, passed away on Friday, December 15, 2017 at Elizabeth House, a hospice facility in Flat Rock, N.C. Jinny was born in 1917 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of the late Lewis and Rebecca Kimmelman Garrett. After graduating from Bryant Business College in Providence, Rhode Island, […]
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Calvert Cottrell Groton, 87, of Boca Grande died on December 25, 2017. He was the youngest son of the Rev. John Mansfield Groton and Anngenette Cottrell Groton of Westerly, R.I. He is survived by his wife, Louise (Loulie) Mauran; his children, Anne Jacobs of Yarmouth, ME, Virginia Goelz of Briarcliff, NY, Calvert Groton, Jr. of […]
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To the Editor: A 12-foot long great white shark weighing nearly 1,700 pounds recently journeyed away from its normal stomping grounds and is swimming off the coast of Tampa Bay. Miss Costa is an immature great white shark that was pinged by OCEARCH, a nonprofit research group, on September 23, 2016 off the coast of […]