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To the Editor: I had the opportunity to stop by the Smart Studios on Boca Grande last week to view their “Nature Protests” art exhibit in an effort to increase environmental awareness of what is impacting our beaches in Southwest Florida. Several local artists used a mixture of watercolor, oils, multi-media collages and photographs to […]
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To the Editor: Please let me explain my actions regarding the protest art show I just hosted at my gallery. I have a problem, you see, a problem with pollution because I am an asthmatic. I can’t breath the air if there are too many nasty things in it, and I have to go to […]
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To the Editor: If you were one of the nearly 200 guests who attended the Boca Grande Club’s 11th annual Tennis Ball, I know you had fun. It was another wonderful event that truly benefited the programs, services and homeless animals of Suncoast Humane Society. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, staff and volunteers […]
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■ STAFF REPORT History will be made this Saturday, Feb. 9 as the Gasparilla Island Lighthouse will shine its light across the island for the first time since the fall of 2016. Everyone is invited to help celebrate the event at a party held by the Barrier Island Parks Society. The event begins at 4 […]
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■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE In the last three weeks the Boca Beacon office has been flooded with letters, emails and other forms of communications regarding service at the Boca Grande Post Office. With about 50 messages in front of us with all sorts of problems presented we can only come to one conclusion: There is a […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Join Mote Marine scientist Dr. Jim Locascio for “Coffee with a Scientist” at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 13 in Mote’s Boca Grande Outreach Office located at 480 East Railroad Ave. in Boca Grande. Dr. Locascio’s presentation, entitled “Response of Snook to the Red Tide Event,” will include preliminary results from research […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN It started out as a memoir in the 1990s. Alice Gorman began to chronicle her life. More than two decades later, Gorman published her first novel, “Valeria Vose.” “I sent the manuscript to an editor who had been one of my fiction teachers, and asked if he thought it was worth publishing,” […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Capt. Marian Schneider embarked on a journey 27 years ago and started Grande Tours, an ecotourism business just off island on Placida Road. Inspired by her father’s example and the lessons she learned from him, Schneider built a business with a foundation firmly rooted in the love and respect of the environment, […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN History Bytes, sponsored by the Boca Grande Historical Society and U.S. Trust, will be held again on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 11 a.m. in the Johann Fust Library Loggia. Hank Hendry is a sixth-generation Floridian. His great-great-grandfather Francis Asbury Hendry first visited Fort Myers in 1853 as a scout for the Army […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Boca Grande resident Frank Newlin shared some personal stories of what it was like growing up on the island with his grandparents during the 1950s through the 1970s with a large crowd at the Johann Fust Community Library on Wednesday, Feb. 7. He talked about his grandparents, E. Mortimer & Elizabeth Battles Newlin […]