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■ PROVIDED BY MOTE MARINE Do you love trivia? Mote Marine Laboratory recently launched a new online game called “Who Wants to be a Sea Star?” on mote.org. This game was originally created for Mote’s Oh Baby! exhibit. This fun interactive game is an expanded version of what is currently on display at Mote and is fin-tastic […]
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■ The Island School began their school year on Thursday, Aug. 10 with 60 students attending. There were Coleman boys in the reading tent, hugs all around for Head of School Jean Thompson and Isabella Steyer, bright and shining new kindergarten faces with teacher Megan O’Connor, kids chilling out with teacher J.T. Tremaine, a great […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN The Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board approved two certificates of appropriateness at its monthly meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 9. The first item on the agenda was a request to construct an addition to the existing garage into the front of the property at 1071 10th Street East. The applicant proposes to construct […]
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■ STAFF REPORT New at the Boca Grande Historical Society is an Archival Research Center where individuals and organizations will be able in the near future to access the many materials the Society archives. These include maps, VHS tapes and DVDs, artifacts, subject files, oral histories, History Bytes presentations, newspapers, photos, letters, architectural drawings and […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN The majority of sea turtle nests survived Tropical Storm Emily. Thankfully, reports from the turtle patrol front lines are very positive and the storm has not been as destructive as storms breaking at this time of the year in the past. Many nests have been washed over (when the waves break […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Dean Laux, who writes a bi-monthly column for the Boca Beacon titled “Remembrances,” has just completed a new book that was almost two years in the making: the true story of Werner Meudt, a German of Jewish heritage, whose “remembrances” are vastly different from those of his American counterparts in the so-called […]
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William Charles Kunkler, Jr., beloved husband of Diane, gave up his soul to God on Sunday, August 6, 2017 after 88 extraordinary, full years. Bill’s marriage with Diane filled 61 of those years – a union which Bill would say “got him into a lot of trouble” because he ended up with 7 favorite children, […]
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Adair Newman appreciates spending peaceful days in Boca Grande. She lives on the island with her daughter, Carol Stewart, and her son-in-law, Doug. Carol is a Broker/Associate at Michael Saunders Real Estate. Adair was born in Milwaukie, Oregon, just south of Portland. When she was 19, she signed up for a cadet nursing program that […]
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■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Every year, the first weather event of the hurricane season usually serves to spur many of us into setting our plan of action in case severe weather hits us, and this year is no exception. After Tropical Storm Emily formed almost right over us this week, there’s been an small influx […]
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■ STAFF REPORT A half-open window alerted a local restaurant owner to nefarious doings at his establishment on Friday, July 28. According to a report by Lee County deputies, the owner of South Beach Bar & Grill contacted them on that day after observing that a back window which opens up over the back bar […]