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If you’ve visited Gasparilla Island State Park recently, chances are you might have seen Park Ranger Skyler Seidenberg putting up beach flags or doing other various duties during his shift at the park. Skyler was born in Detroit, MI. His mother moved to Jupiter, FL (near Palm Beach) when he was about 1 […]
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■ SUBMITTED BY THE GICIA As we enter the holiday season, the Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association (GICIA) is pleased to see new trees being planted along the Gilchrist median. When Lee County announced their plans to replant coconut palms along the Gilchrist median where they had historically once stood, GICIA emphatically encouraged the idea. In fact, […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN The Boca Grande Historical Preservation Board met Wednesday, Nov. 9 to discuss four agenda items. The first request was to rehabilitate 271 Gilchrist Avenue. The applicant proposes to improve the eastern porch of the existing single-family residence by replacing the shed roof with a gable roof and the existing […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Pearce Presnell has been coming to Boca Grande since he was a young boy. His father, an avid boater and fisherman, started bringing him to the island 25 years ago. “We used to vacation here, and then my dad bought a place here in the 1990s. My brothers and […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN The weekly island Farmers Market is coming back. Boca Grande Farm and Fish Market will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Fridays starting on January 6, 2017. The market will still be located at the ball field on Wheeler Road. More than 33 vendors are expected […]
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■ STAFF REPORT On Tuesday, Dec. 13 the Board of Directors of the Johann Fust Library Foundation welcomes the Boca Grande community to the library at 11:30 a.m. to celebrate “Sheldon Kaye Daye,” in honor of the Lee County Library System director who will be retiring at the end of this month. Kaye was […]
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To the Editor: Volunteers from Boca Grande and surrounding cities – making up a multicounty area team – have collected enough gift-filled shoeboxes to reach more than 31,400 children in need through the Samaritan’s Purse project, Operation Christmas Child, but they are not resting on their success. Although local drop-off locations have closed for the […]
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■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE The planting of new palm trees on the Gilchrist Avenue median solidifies the fact that Lee County is done discussing the parking controversy that has surrounded that island thoroughfare for almost two decades. It began on Tuesday, and it is still going in earnest as of press time. According […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Boca Grande real estate broker Kevin Hyde was born in Port Jefferson, New York, and he’s been spending the summers in southwest Florida since he was 5 years old. He remembers when he was a boy, staying at The Gasparilla Inn cottages where his father entertained business clients. “The […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Gasparilla Island Water Association, Inc. (GIWA) will be temporarily changing the disinfection process for its potable (drinking) water supply. GIWA will disinfect the water with free chlorine rather than combined chlorine/ammonia (chloramines) beginning on November 28, 2016 through January 3, 2017. This conversion to chlorine (which is a stronger disinfectant) from chlorine/ammonia […]