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It’s always amazing when lives are saved by the fates, good fortune and kind hearts. Mark Futch rediscovered that feeling last Thursday as he cruised in his seaplane up around the Peace River just north of the Nav-a-Gator Restaurant. Mark was with Rogan White, son of author Randy Wayne White. He was teaching him to […]
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■ BY SUSAN ERWIN Islander and local business owner Jon Burdette started visiting Boca Grande in 1985 when his grandparents were introduced to the island by Stewart Turley. By the early 1990s, his family had made Boca Grande their weekend home. Originally from Wellington, an area just west of Palm Beach, he attended school there, […]
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■ BY SUSAN ERWIN The traffic shift to the new bridge is planned for December and will be done in phases, according to GIBA Executive Director Kathy Banson-Verrico, and machinery testing is currently in progress in preparation for the big event. In the first phase, “off-island traffic will exit over the new bridge and on-island […]
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Want to be one of the first to have your 14th Annual Taste of Boca Grande tickets? The event will be held on Monday, Feb. 1 at the Boca Bay Pass Club. The event starts at 6 p.m. Enjoy fabulous food from over 20 local restaurants, great beer and wine and live music from the […]
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■ BY MISTY NICHOLS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE GICIA The GICIA has set its sights on Mercabo (the 30-acre parcel at the entrance to the Boca Grande Causeway). With the threat of development looming and Charlotte County again amending their comprehensive plan to allow for an increase in density from the current 3.5 units up […]
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SPECIAL REPORT After seeing its case gutted and its lawyer publicly called out by a Charlotte County judge, the owners of the Professional Tarpon Tournament Series capitulated and walked away from its nearly three year old lawsuit aimed at silencing Save the Tarpon and the group’s more than 28,000 supporters. The sudden PTTS surrender on […]
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■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Approximately 100 Boca Grande residents attended a public information meeting on Monday, Nov. 16 regarding a proposed residential development on the empty 10 acres at the southern tip of the island, currently owned by Florida Power & Light. The presentation was brought to the public by the Seagate Development Group, LLC […]
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■ STAFF REPORT The Boca Beacon and Lee County Parks & Recreation is proud, once again, to sponsor the 2015 Turkey Hoop Shoot. It will be held on Saturday, Nov. 21 and begins at 10 a.m. Register the day of the event between 9:15 and 9:45 a.m. on the basketball courts of the Boca Grande […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN The Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority held their quarterly board meeting on Wednesday. Items on the agenda included an explanation of swing bridge change orders, an update on the southern roadway construction project and a review of the 2015 fiscal year audit.
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By Marcy Shortuse This week the tales of a little girl who loved to play, another girl who loves to play tricks and a third girl distraught with grief over a lost love. Welcome to Part II of “Ghosts and Legends of Boca Grande,” a slightly darker side of the island that we call home. […]