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■ BY SUE ERWIN Jeff Simmons has spent 25 years working about every position at “The Temp” restaurant and bar on the island. He started out as a busboy in 1991 and is currently a partner/owner of the establishment. “I had a friend who was a chef at the restaurant, and he mentioned […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN The Boca Grande Historical Society will feature guest speaker Theodore Cover at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 25 at the Boca Grande Community Center Auditorium. Cover is a retired mechanical engineer, a member of the Suncoast Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society and a member of RealRail, the Sarasota […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN If you’ve stopped into the Boca Grande Health Clinic over the past couple of years, it’s very likely you were greeted with a smile by Jonna Foos. Jonna has been a patient representative at the clinic for almost two years. Originally from La Porte, Indiana, Jonna grew up and […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Alice Gorman will be speaking at an event, “New Beginnings from Crisis,” that will be held at the Boca Grande Community Center, Houghton Room, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 5. The discussion is part of the Friends of Boca Grande series “Lessons Learned from Living” moderated by Grace Ott. Gorman […]
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Bess Finch, recent resident of Boca Grande, passed away on September 29, 2016, at her summer home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was born LewEllyn “Bess” Lundeen in Atlanta on February 25, 1929. She spent an active, varied, and artistic life in the Greater Atlanta Area until Fall 2014 when she relocated to Boca Grande. In […]
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BY SUE ERWIN – Pete Scott is a lucky island local who has experienced the good fortune of growing up in Boca Grande before the island grew to become an international tourist destination. After years of work experience both on and off the island in many different skill trades, he now spends six days every […]
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To a Thief: For shame! Did you have to sneak around in the middle of the night lest you be seen by my neighbors as you stole my miniature pine tree from an urn in front of my home? That little pine has a story. It was originally only 4” – 5” tall, one of […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Richard Anderson spent a considerable amount of time in Boca Grande beginning in 1988, when he worked as a planner for Lee County. When he first arrived on the island, he met Robert Johnson, the harbor pilot for Boca Grande. “That was back when Florida Power and Light used to be […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN It’s difficult to pinpoint a “hometown” when talking with local fishing Capt. Leighton Ingram about his childhood, but if he had to choose a place where his roots were firmly planted, it would be Boca Grande. His father, Robert Leighton Ingram, was a corporate fishing charter captain, so the family lived […]
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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 […]