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Lee County has reopened the dog park, tennis courts and restrooms at Wheeler Road Community Park, which had been mobilized for use to help Gasparilla Island’s recovery from Hurricane Milton. “Lee County thanks Boca Grande residents for their patience these past months as the county wrapped up its Hurricane Milton operations,” wrote Communications Director Betsy […]
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Englewood Helping Hand (EHH) needs your non-perishable food donations to assist individuals in need in Englewood. Deliveries are made to the food pantry weekly. EHH’s Blue Barrels are back in downtown Boca Grande in front of the post office, Crews Bank, and the Lighthouse Methodist Church. EHH has almost doubled its client traffic and increased […]
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The Galway Girl, a former U.S. Navy Landing Craft Utility, or LCI, was near the causeway Saturday before last cleaning up the sailboat that had been lodged near the Placida Fishing Pier. The vessel was refitted before Hurricane Ian, and came here to support disaster cleanup. The vessel is owned by O’Sullivan Marine Equipment. Their […]
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On Tuesday, Kelli Carpenter was out on Park Avenue, taking down the Boca Grande Preschool sign. They are in the midst of a temporary move to Grove City in March. Once there, they will be preparing for a return to the island, but elsewhere. The group is also prepping for its April 7 Annual Beach […]
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The Board of the Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority (GIBA) met Wednesday, Feb. 5, for a quarterly report on bridge operations and upcoming remediation work. “We’ve made excellent progress in hurricane repairs,” said Executive Director Kathy Banson. January 2025 traffic was up two percent from last January 2024 and revenue was up two percent as well, […]
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BY SUSAN HANAFEE Imagine having a great time eating strawberries and brats, bidding in the silent auction, and checking out the bargains and books at the annual Strawberry Festival in Boca Grande. Now imagine that all that fun benefits charities that serve local women and children in need. No need to imagine. It’s all true. […]
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Dusty Hopkins knows how to tell a good story. It is one of the things that makes him a natural as the owner and publisher of the iconic Boca Grande newspaper, the “Boca Beacon.” Dusty was the guest speaker at this week’s History Bytes, sponsored by the Boca Grande Historical Society and hosted by the […]
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Florida’s beach sand replenishment project for the south end of Gasparilla Island at Gasparilla Island State Park has begun. Last summer, the state solicited bids for the renourishment of the south end. The process includes over 150,000 cubic yards of fill that is “compatible with the existing native beach sand.” The Florida Department of Environmental […]
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Commissioner Kevin Ruane addressed the long-debated structured parking plan for Boca Grande during the regular Lee County Commissioners meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 18. “On April 22 the commission voted unanimously to authorize me to move forward evaluating the parking situation in Lee County on Gasparilla Island,” Ruane said. “Over two years since then I’ve had […]
Written by Delores Savas on . Posted in Columns, Sports & Outdoors.
The assumption that animals are without rightsand the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is positively an outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity.Universal compassionis the only guarantee of morality.” Quote attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher Since the second and fourth centuries BCE, with the earliest reference found in Greek […]