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The Boca Beacon’s Gasparilla Island Tennis Classic opens on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. The annual all-island tournament will be held at the Boca Bay Pass Club, The Gasparilla Inn Tennis Club and the Boca Grande Club. The matches will begin on Saturday, Jan. 17 and will end on Saturday, Feb. 7. Everyone is welcome to […]
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Monday Dec. 15, Deputy Angelo Lanni of the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, responded to an island man who had found fraudulent activity during a review of his credit reports. The man found that someone had fraudulently used his personal information, resulting in a judgment against his credit, according to the police report. At the time […]
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To kick off the new year the Boca Beacon’s Gasparilla Island Magazine January/February edition is out with new feature stories, recipes, shopping and social pages. Features include “Betty Barndollar’s Boca Grande” a piece emphasizing the charm and people of the island of Boca Grande; “In the Company of Butterflies: Lemon Creek Wildflower Preserve” an informative […]
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Lee County Library System will welcome more than two dozen authors to its 27th annual Southwest Florida Reading Festival on Saturday, March 7, 2026 in Fort Myers. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. readers of all ages can meet their favorite writers, hear behind-the-scenes stories and get books signed at this free, outdoor community event […]
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Kayaking the Everglades is the first talk in a series of free Calusa Blueway Paddling Trail-related programs set for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the Wa-Ke Hatchee Recreation Center, 16760 Bass Road, Fort Myers. Presenter Don Rice is an American Canoe Association instructor, a U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary member and a longtime Southwest Florida […]
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Each year, the Boca Beacon recounts the year past. This edition includes a month-by-month recount of 2025, with a few select photos for each. The year 2025 was all about cleaning up after Helene and Milton. Even still, there is more fixing to do on island. Some houses are not yet renovated, and our civic […]
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Last Saturday, Dec. 13, Lee County Deputy Angelo Lanni responded to The Gasparilla Inn in regards to a stolen and damaged golf cart. A Gasparilla Inn manager told Deputy Lanni that staff had found the rental golf cart early that morning in the tideline on the beach south of 4th Street, according to the Lee […]
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Liz Eastes is a Marine Environmental Specialist with Charlotte County and will be giving a lecture on the Blueway Trails of Charlotte County, and artificial reefs on Friday, Jan. 9 from 10:30 a.m. to noon at Cedar Point Environmental Park.
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Charlotte County adds plantings along 771 Over the past several weeks, crews from Brightview Landscaping Services, Inc. have been working to install the final landscaping elements in the median of the four-lane portion of Gasparilla Road (County Road 771) from near McCall Road to its intersection with Marathon Blvd. That work is now nearly complete, […]
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At the December 16, 2025, Charlotte County Board of County Commissioners Workshop meeting, Sheriff Bill Prummell’s office presented a proposed county-wide ordinance regarding the use of e-bikes. While there are draft state bills (HB243 and SB382) currently working their way through the state legislative process which include technical definitions, penalties for e-bike modifications, and various […]