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Two important dates have been set as part of annual island Christmas traditions. The annual Boca Grande Christmas Walk is Saturday, Dec. 6. Santa will drive through town in a Boca Grande Fire Department fire truck around 6 p.m., and children will be able to visit with Santa at the Fire Station afterward. The walk […]
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Grammy-winning banjo player, Alison Brown played with the Alison Brown Quintet this past Friday at the Crowninshield Community House. This event is the first concert in the Rhythm & Boots series sponsored by Friends of Boca Grande. […]
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The Boca Grande Historical Society will feature several books as part of its Let’s Talk About Florida series. They include: Totch: A Life in the Everglades,” By Loren G. Brown, Dec. 9 Totch Brown’s memoirs of vanished days in the Ten Thousand Islands and the Everglades – the last real frontier in Florida, and even […]
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BY THE GASPARILLA ISLAND CONSERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION The Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association (GICIA) has completed the restoration of the Bike Path from 1st Street to the north end of the island. It took approximately four months and cost nearly $1.1M to replace the massive amount of vegetation lost due to the Helene […]
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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 enter; […]
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BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE This year we have a back to back champion with Tina Sexton taking home the trophy with her two combined redfish measuring 52.5 inches. Congratulations to Tina and Capt. Danny Latham for their outstanding performances the last two years in the Gasparilla Island Fly Fishing tournament, also known as G.I.F.T. Second […]
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Sarah Sharp Farish passed away on November 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida, surrounded by her family. Raised in Wilmington, Delaware, Sarah was the daughter of Mary and Bayard Sharp. In 1961, she married the love of her life, Will Farish, owner of Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky and former U.S. Ambassador […]
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The blue barrels to gather non-perishable food for the Englewood Helping Hand program are now out in downtown Boca Grande. The barrels are located in front of Crews Bank, the Post Office and both entrances of the Lighthouse United Methodist Church. The barrels have become a tradition in Boca Grande ever since COVID-19. On Dec. […]
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On the 18th of November, Cheryl Midyett of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Boca Grande, passed on to the realm of peace and eternal love. On Easter Sunday of 1944, the daughter of Albert Gustav and Janice Sollberger was born and grew up in Houston, to a “Texas Three Hundred” family whose Hunter and Allen roots predate […]
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From tennis court to animal habitat Mark Horan’s path to conservation work in Boca Grande and Cape Haze began long before he ever paddled out to collect water samples or walked the edges of a burrowing owl colony. His roots stretch back to rural Vermont, where he grew up on his parents’ cattle farm and […]