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Madi loves to cook and bake, and is quite good at it, according to her mother, Dana, as well as others who have had the good fortune to be recipients of her culinary generosity. Madi’s reputation as a great cook and a wonderful young person gained public recognition during the COVID pandemic, when she wasn’t even a teenager yet.
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Paul Blaschko, Ph.D., assistant professor of philosophy at University of Notre Dame, will be speaking on Thursday, March 30 as part of St. Andrew’s Faith and … Lecture Series. All are welcome, free of charge, at this event. Dr. Blaschko’s topic will be “The Good Life – Reasoning with the big questions of happiness, faith […]
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Are you feeling the need for some donut-y goodness? The Gasparilla Inn & Club has what you need, as they have just set up their own little “Picnic Basket” in the empty lot kitty-corner to the Inn’s front door. There you can find some of the items that you used to find at the bakery, […]
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Lemon Bay Conservancy will hold a public open house at Lemon Creek Wildflower Preserve on Saturday, Feb. 11 that will included guided trail walks, environmental presentations and more. The first walk of the day, aptly named the “Early Bird” Birding Walk, will depart at 8 a.m. to observe some of the upland and wetland bird […]
Written by Boca Beacon Reader on . Posted in Letters to the Editor.
To the Editor: Several years ago, The Gasparilla Inn rebuilt the bridge that traversed the Boca Grande bayou and the golf club. At that time a “temporary” metal bridge was put in place for passage. This “temporary” bridge is much lower than the old or new bridge, thus making it impossible for boats, kayaks, paddleboards, […]
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To say the house was packed at a presentation given by Pulitzer prize-winning author Jon Meacham and American historian and law professor Annette Gordon-Reed is an understatement. A captivated crowd listened to the two talk about “In the Hands of the People,” a book they co-wrote, which delved into the topics of American presidents and […]
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On Saturday, Jan. 21 at approximately 7:46 p.m. the Boca Grande Fire Department responded to the 500 block of Gulf Boulevard for a golf cart on fire, fully engulfed. It took some time, but firefighters eventually got the fire extinguished, with full loss of the vehicle. While the final determination of the cause of the […]
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Other wildlife up here have been luckier. The eagle’s nest behind Boca Dunes is intact although I haven’t seen the occupants yet. And the osprey have rebuilt on every platform in the area. A dead raccoon was fished out of our pool, one of a family of six, I suspect, seen marching in single file behind Mom a few years ago. It would have been a prize-winning photo if I only had an iphone at the time. On a crazier note, I haven’t seen a cock roach this year as I go for a snack in the middle of the night. Could they also have drowned? It won’t be a Boca Grande winter without them.