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■ BY SUE ERWIN – Stephanie Tieu is a rising senior at Lemon Bay High School, and she’s been an avid soccer player for the past 14 years. She currently plays forward for the Lemon Bay Manta Rays. Her mom, teacher Tammy Tieu at The Island School, couldn’t be prouder. The team had a respectable season […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN – Betty Hill distinctly remembers arriving in Boca Grande for the first time in 1955. It was a time when there was, quite literally, nothing here with the exception of about 125 people and a bare-bones infrastructure of a town. She recalls that in the 1950s there was the post office, a […]
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To the Editor: The Boca Grande Area Chamber of Commerce’s 26th Annual Ladies Day Tarpon Tournament had a successful outcome with a field of 36 boats and 11 total tarpon released on May 7, 2016. Brendan Coudal designed the 2016 Ladies Day logo and the tournament art again this year. A limited supply of his […]
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To the Editor: We will always be grateful and thankful to the Beacon for the story of John Bourgoin and Walter Tatko. Great story about two great guys who contributed to victory in WWII. They were in the same book, but not on same page (the North African campaign, etc.). We are thankful for their […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE – Capt. Timmy Smith hadn’t caught a lot of tarpon this season up to the time of the 2016 World’s Richest Tarpon Tournament, held last week on Thursday and Friday, May 19 and 20. Maybe that’s because he was saving his mojo up for those two days, because he and his anglers […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Fishing in the 2016 World’s Richest Tarpon Tournament ends at 6:30 p.m. tonight, May 20, and the winners of the competition will be announced downtown during the Boca Grande Invitational Art Festival and Street Party at 8 p.m. Stop by and see if your favorite team won. As of press time, there […]
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■ BY SHARON MCKENZIE BARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY The Barrier Island Parks Society (BIPS) reported that thus far the fundraising for the Gasparilla Island Light restoration project has brought in $1,068,000 in gifts and pledges. Larry Hannah, BIPS director and chair of the fundraising effort, said that “over 350 individual gifts have propelled […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN The Boca Grande Fire Department took part in a Public Protection Classification survey in March. The results are expected to lower island homeowners’ insurance premiums. The survey was completed by ISO, a company based in New Jersey that rates fire departments based on their capabilities to protect a community. The ratings […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN The tarpon were rolling in every direction as the sun was setting on the day of Friday, May 13 … and they seemed hungry. There were 17 teams participating in the annual Howl at the Moon Tarpon Tournament that night, and the tarpon proved to be hungry. The team aboard Capt. […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Creating ice-cold concoctions daily and always serving them with a smile, this week’s profile candidate is Alan Lenard, the newest bartender in town. He started working at The Temp in March, and he already knows many of the locals by name and anticipates their favorite drink orders the moment he sees […]