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BY MARCY SHORTUSE Sam Samsonov and his wife of 53 years, Margaret, sat by the pool at their Grove City home on Monday afternoon, July 20 in good spirits. They sat with a folder full of emails and good wishes people from all over the country have sent them, and literally breathless with the knowledge […]
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BY JACK SHORT In spite of at least a year of discovery and preparation for a hearing between Charlotte County and certain property owners, and local conservationists, all parties agreed to terms that prevented a hearing. Representatives of some parties seemed to consider the rescission of objectionable amendments more of a temporary obstacle, however. On […]
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On Saturday, July 11 at approximately 8 p.m., the Boca Grande Fire Department responded to a report of a boat that had run into the mangroves on Boca Grande Bayou.When firefighters arrived, by water and by land, they found a boat with three people onboard set far back into the mangroves. They reported they were […]
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When you go to the beach for the day, it’s a long haul between the sand and the parking lot. Sometimes, in the fray, an item will escape your grasp, or you’ll look back and see a piece of garbage laying on the beach. Do you go back? It may seem sometimes like one […]
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Edward Cruz, former CEO of E.E. Cruz and Company, Inc., philanthropist and entrepreneur, passed away on Tuesday, July 14 at his home in Bay Head, New Jersey with his family by his side. After treatment for lymphoma in 2001, Mr. Cruz enjoyed 13 years in remission, during which he sold his business and became an […]
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JoAnne (Jo Jo) Faulstich passed away on June 29, 2015 in Southwest Florida after a lengthy illness. She was a native of California and lived in Boca Grande for more than 30 years. Jo Jo graduated from Redlands High School in Redlands, Calif. in 1972. She attended Humboldt State in the 1970s, where she pursued […]
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John O. Hastings, 85, died peacefully surrounded by family on June 24, 2015. He was a resident of the Boca Grande Club. John was the beloved husband of Susan and the late Mary Kate (nee Worcester) and loving father of John (Sarah), Tom, and Margaret (Clayton) Marsh. He was the dear grandfather of Harry and […]
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Captain James “Jimmy” Andrew Robertson, 60, passed away peacefully Saturday July 11, 2015. He is survived by his wife of 40 years Marjie; his daughter, Julie Jean (Jon); his beloved grandchildren, Savannah and Hunter; his Mother, Joan; sisters Susan, Kathy, Barbara and Mary; his brother,Tommy; many nieces and nephews; and his three Labrador retrievers, Ben, […]
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BY JACK SHORT She’s Chrissy to most, but only if you knew her after she moved here. Or before she became a professional. It’s a little confusing. She had switched to Christine in order to be taken more seriously, but Boca Grande apparently has a surfeit of Christine’s (or Christina’s), so it was back to […]
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Dear People of Boca Grande, The Boca Grande Farmers Market appeals to you for help and assistance in finding and identifying new market location alternatives. When we began our plans in the summer of 2014 to establish the market, the greater part of our laborious energies went to trying to quickly identify a suitable and […]