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■ BY SUE ERWIN Capt. Marian Schneider embarked on a journey 27 years ago and started Grande Tours, an ecotourism business just off island on Placida Road. Inspired by her father’s example and the lessons she learned from him, Schneider built a business with a foundation firmly rooted in the love and respect of the environment, […]
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■ STAFF REPORT On Tuesday, Feb. 5 Coastal Conservation Association Florida, Duke Energy and the FWC began releasing more than 10,000 juvenile and adult redfish in southwest Florida counties beginning with a 1,000+ redfish release in Pasco County. Each of the five upcoming releases include approximately 1,000 to 1,500 juvenile fish and 25 to 30 […]
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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 MARCY SHORTUSE This week we bring you these delightful dishes To explain how the “Taste” fulfills all palatable wishes. Jambalaya and pinks, fried donuts and pie You’ll fill up your belly in the blink of an eye. Shrimp and dumplings, chocolate peanut butter mousse, If you have questions do not feel obtuse. We’ll […]
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■ STAFF REPORT On Saturday, Jan 12 St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church parishioner John Lovo led a band of 22 volunteers who installed exterior wall sheathing for a new three-bedroom, two-bath single-family home in Port Charlotte. This simple concrete slab home is the eighth that St. Andrew’s has built as part of the nine-church Apostles Build […]
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Jim Nance, long-time Boca Grande and Cashiers, N.C. resident, passed away peacefully on January 14, 2019 at his home in Englewood, embraced by the love of his life – his wife, June. Jim was born in Siloam Springs, Arkansas on August 22, 1927, the son of Jesse Carroll and Mae Marre Nance. Jim attended Louisiana […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN There was only one item on the agenda at the Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board’s meeting on Wednesday morning, but it unsheathed plenty of discussion. The proposal was to demolish the existing boathouse at 789 7th Street East and construct a new two-story boathouse in its place. Lee County Planner Peter Blackwell said […]
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Nancy Brinsfield Wallace, age 74, died August 28th at Talbot Hospice in Easton, Md. The cause was lung cancer. She was born January 25, 1944 in Fairlee, Kent County, Maryland, the daughter of the late William S. and Kathryn Smith Brinsfield. Mrs. Wallace graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa. She worked as an […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN After living in Boca Grande for decades, working at the phosphate docks and raising a family here, Joe Freeman recently came back to visit the island to attend the opening celebration of the current exhibit at the Boca Grande Historical Society’s History Center. The Historical Society held a special sneak preview for […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Every year in paradise has its merits, don’t get us wrong … but this year could have been better. Red tide was the headline stealer of the year, taking precedence over even the all-encompassing Gilchrist debate. We coughed … and we coughed … and coughed some more as the bloom that seemed to […]