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Get in touch Our office is open Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.  Mailing Address P.O. Box 313Boca Grande, FL 33921 Physical Address  431 Park AvenueBoca Grande, FL 33921 Phone 941-964-2995 or800-749-2995 Fax 941-964-0372 Our Team Dusty Hopkins Publisher/General Manager Garland Pollard Editor Daniel Godwin Art Director Caroline Clabaugh Sales Rep Matt Gutman […]

PROFILE: Jim Brown

Jim Brown is our local Boca Grande Arrow Pest Control man, a Vietnam Veteran, proud husband and father, and a passionate breeder of Chesapeake Bay Retrievers. You can also add to that list that he’s one heck of a storyteller. Jim and his wife Karen have been raising Chesapeakes since 1998. While they love all […]

OBITUARY: Christopher Rembold

Christopher Rembold passed away on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, at 84 years of age. He was a graduate of Western Hills High School, where he is a member of its Athletic Hall of Fame, and the University of Cincinnati and a partner at National Machine Tool where he worked for 48 years. Boca Grande became […]

OBITUARY: Lara Loughlin

Lara Loughlin passed away on Aug. 28, 2021 at the age of 27 years old. She was a mother-to-be, with her baby boy Alan to be born in February of 2022. Lara was born in New York City, and was raised in New York until she was nine years old where her and her family […]

OBITUARY: Gorham”Jerry” Cross

Gorham Lamont “Jerry” Cross of Needham, Mass., formerly of Weston, Mass. passed away on August 25, 2021. Born in 1929, he was the son of Gorham Lamont Cross and Margaret Warren Cross. He is survived by his children and their spouses, John Cross (Peggy), Jennifer Peterson (Curt), and Heather Woodworth (Charlie); his grandchildren, Ted and […]

Island chef can whip up a souffle or a bodybuilding competition win

You can always count on a chef to whip it, whip it good (Devo). And when you’re a professional Boca Grande chef like Trish McIlroy, that “whipping” extends to bodybuilding. Trish McIlroy is the NPC Ironman first place winner of the Masters 40+ division, a competition that was just held at the Sarasota Opera House […]

Island native needs a little help from the community

The Atha family had a summer that none of them were expecting. What started as a little discomfort and indigestion for Loretta Atha, quickly escalated in an unexpected way. On July 8, Loretta was taken to her Gastroenterologist for pain and swelling of her stomach. A CT scan was ordered for the next day, and […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Recalling 9/11

September 11, 2021, marked the 20th anniversary of four coordinated terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist group, against the United States. The attacks began at 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, when terrorists crashed a hijacked commercial jet into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. A second hijacked […]