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■ BY MARY COOK Prominent British author/historian Andrew Roberts was back in Boca Grande last week on Wednesday, January 30. This time he came because the island wanted to hear about his book Churchill, Walking with Destiny. Why another Churchill biography, when 1,009 had already been written? First, as reported in the news, Queen Elizabeth […]
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■ STAFF REPORT The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is holding several public meetings to gather community input about the agency’s aquatic plant herbicide treatment program. These meetings will provide the public with an opportunity to provide feedback about management activities on Florida water bodies during the past 12 months. The meetings will […]
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Sally Austerberry Dinan, a full-time resident of Boca Grande, died at home on February 1. She fought a fierce year-long battle with esophageal cancer, only to succumb just days before her eightieth birthday. Sally was an alumna of Kingswood School-Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, for which she held an abiding affection, and a 1961 graduate […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN After serving in the Navy for almost five years and an accomplished 32-year career with IBM, Charles Stark returned to his original passion and earned a master’s degree in history at State University of New York. He always had a yearning to teach. “I wanted to teach all along, because my mother […]
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To the Editor: In light of recent discussion of “gun violence,” here are some facts to frame the issue (most are FBI uniform crime statistics). Suicides account for about two-thirds of all U.S. firearm deaths. The U.S. homicide rate has fallen by more than half since its height between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, despite the addition […]
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To the Editor: Thank you to the 120 people who attended the informative and moving January 25th presentation on the national gun violence epidemic at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, titled “When Gun Violence Hits Home.” The event was hosted by Boca United, a group of Boca Grande community members who are interested in issues of […]
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■ STAFF REPORT As February approaches, we want to make you aware that you have another option to report your love on Valentine’s Day. Send your Valentine the ultimate expression of adoration by submitting a Love Line in the Boca Beacon. Send your salutation to mshortuse@bocabeacon.com. Our Valentine’s edition will be Friday, Feb. 15, so […]
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■ BY COMMISSIONER JOHN MANNING The following was written by John Manning, Lee County Commissioner for District 1. This letter pertains to the changes in beach access parking and county parking that have taken place in the last year. In the many years I have served as your representative on the Lee County Commission, your […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Islanders packed the Boca Grande Community Center on Thursday, January 24 to hear two gracious and amusing women speak about a couple that is near and dear to the heart of Boca Grande. Ellie LeBlond Sosa, granddaughter of George and Barbara Bush, and her mother, Doro Bush Koch, held an interactive discussion about […]
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■ STAFF REPORT The first annual Boca Grande Film Festival will begin with the jaunty cult classic “Captain Ron,” held on the lawn of the Boca Grande Community Center on Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. Sit on your golf cart or bring some chairs along. Films will be shown on Thursday, Friday and Saturday during […]