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On Wednesday, March 27 at 4:30 p.m. at the Boca Grande Community Center, Linda Fairstein will interview John Wood Sweet about his book “The Sewing Girls Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America.” Linda Fairstein and her husband, Michael Goldberg, have been residents of Boca Grande since 2017. For twenty-six years, Linda […]
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Lee County voted to accept the Resilient Lee Recovery and Resilience Plan for final consideration during the Board of County Commissioners meeting on Tuesday, March 19. This plan is the product of the Long-Term Recovery Task Force, which was approved by the board back in December 2022, just months after Hurricane Ian caused widespread destruction. […]
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The Boca Grande Preschool has completed construction on a new playground that includes a play structure, play yard, storage room expansion, easels and a tall security wall fencing the entire area. The playground was funded during the 2020 Beach Ball fundraiser, and construction began in 2023 after several permitting delays, said Preschool Director Kellene Carpenter. […]
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Great white Penny first found in Carolina blue waters Penny the Shark seems to be making an early Easter visit off of Gasparilla Island. Tagged at 522 pounds as a juvenile, the Carcharodon carcharias great white shark pinged about 50 miles off the coast. Penny is being tracked by the website Ocearch.org and was tagged […]
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Those on the island at noon and 5 p.m. will know what time it is without a watch or iPhone, as the carillon is now ringing at First Baptist Church of Boca Grande. “The Baptist Church carillon is back playing again,” Pastor Gary Beatty said. “It plays a spattering of hymns.” The carillon plays at […]
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In Boca Grande, a number of civic-minded island residents showed up to assist Kathy Crumb from Lee County, who worked with her husband Duane Crumb at the polls Tuesday. The county is always in need of workers because of the distance from Fort Myers. For two decades, regulars Jay Whipple and Jay and Sue Spurgeon […]
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To the Editor: Boca Grande celebrated the 2024 Boca Grande Woman’s Club Bike Parade and Fair on March 9. “All Aboard the Boca Grande Express” was possible thanks to the 100 or so dedicated Woman’s Club members and community volunteers who helped both prior to the big day as well as during the events. It […]
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To the Editor: It will be hard to top this past February History Byte program! We were blessed with beautiful weather each week, a lovely garden setting and a fantastic group of “Byte Lovers”, at the Johann Fust Library each Wednesday! Of course the four great women who shared “Her Story” each week made this […]
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To the Editor: On behalf of Suncoast Humane Society, we would like to extend heartfelt thanks to the Boca Grande community for the overwhelming and generous support it showed at the 3rd Annual Dogs for Dogs fundraiser held on March 16th, 2024. We also would like to thank the very talented Green Flash Band for […]
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To the Editor: I would like to comment on the proposed Boca Grande Peninsula and Marina project to be built by Cookie Potter and Jay Feinberg at the historic Gasparilla Fishery site in Placida. As a direct descendant of Gus and Addie Cole, who came to the area in 1918 and helped to build and […]