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BY MARCY SHORTUSE – The Coast Guard announced this evening they located a body near the debris field approximately 40 miles off the coast of Sanibel at approximately 4 p.m. The debris field believed to be associated with the missing family was located this morning. Authorities are searching for a missing family of four who left Sarasota […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE – In the early morning hours of Sunday, June 19, Dylan Gonzalez texted a photo of a juvenile tarpon to his girlfriend, Linsey Peyton. It was the first ever tarpon he had caught on fly, and he was about as happy as he could be. Dylan lived to fish, and according to […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE – The disappearance of a swimmer off Range Light Beach on Saturday has left many locals and regular visitors pondering whether “safe” beaches are really safe at all. Javier Castro, as 22-year-old man from Cape Coral, disappeared in the water while swimming just off the Florida State Park maintained beach called Range […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Was it the red shoes that did it? We may never know, but the team aboard the Jill Marie stepped onto the Whidden’s Marina dock as winners of the 2016 Ladies Night Out Howl at the Moon Tarpon Tournament on Saturday, June 11.
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■ STAFF REPORT Gasparilla Island Water Association, Inc. will be temporarily changing the disinfection process for its Placida and Boca Grande potable drinking water supply. From June 20 at 8 a.m. through July 18, GIWA will disinfect the water with free chlorine, rather than combined chlorine/ammonia (chloramines).
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■ BY SUE ERWIN The Johann Fust Community Library invites all children who have completed kindergarten to come and explore a variety of programs, including puppet and magic shows, juggling and crafts.
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Congratulations to the fifth grade graduates of The Island School!
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Justin Davis didn’t know Boca Grande existed until he helped a friend move to the island 21 years ago. A college student at an Indiana community college at the time, he and his childhood friend drove 24 hours straight and landed in the front of The Temptation around 2 a.m. on […]
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Robert (“Bob”) Lambrecht, age 79, of Boca Grande, Florida, formerly of Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, passed away on June 12, 2016, after a brief battle with cancer. He was born on December 2, 1936. He is survived by his wife Virginia McMillan (“Ginny”); siblings Edward Lambrecht and Susan Siphron; sons, James and Jeffrey, and grandchildren, […]
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We were faced with another American disaster last weekend, a mass shooting that left 49 Americans dead and many more wounded. For just a little while afterward, the American people did what they always do – they cried, they prayed, they came together. Many people who are inherently against certain lifestyle choices some of the […]