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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: New mystery ‘Coram House’ just out

Bailey Seybolt Author Bailey Seybolt was in Boca Grande with her kids just this past February on vacation; now she is in New York for the release of her debut novel with Simon and Schuster, “Coram House.” “Coram House,” which came out in hardback on April 15, follows a crime writer investigating mysterious deaths at […]

Donation aids Range Light

Just after a check donation this week from the Boca Grande Disaster Fund to benefit Barrier Island Parks Society, Charles Nadler observes as BIPS President Crossan Seybolt looks at the Range Light with Larry Hannah of the Fund.   Photo by Anna 

OPINION: RANDY REID

Church uncertain about planning 2025 season with parking question BY RANDY REID Our community of Boca Grande is resilient, to a point. Our future as an exceptional community is uncertain. The perfect storm of construction at the Community Center, hurricane damage, loss of State Park access and a restrictive parking ordinance puts our best organizations […]

EcoWatch: Hallelujahs and OMGs

“Christianity, we must treat nature with the same aweand wonder that we reserve for human beings.And we do not need this insight in order to believe in Godor to prove his existence.We need to breathe;we need for us to simply to be.” Ecumenical Patriarch Banthomen, 2010 This week’s combination of Easter on the 20th and […]

Stanley O. Ikenberry 1935-2025

Stanley Oliver Ikenberry, 90, passed away peacefully on April 1, 2025, at home in Boca Grande surrounded by his family. Born March 3, 1935, in Lamar, Colorado, to Oliver and Margaret Moulton Ikenberry, he was a visionary leader in American higher education and a devoted husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, colleague and friend. Stan spent […]

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Ford Coupe in Boca Grande North

Dr. Chris Russo You may have noticed a sleek black moonshine-era car cruising around Boca Grande over the last few months. That car, and its owner, Dr. Christopher Russo, live at Boca Grande North. Chris, as he prefers to be called, hopes you will stop him sometime and ask about his car.  “It is such […]

SW Florida Fishing: Snook in the backcountry bite

BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE Lots of great fishing this week in the windy conditions. We have really started to target the snook in the back country the last few weeks and some really nice sized snook have been around. Along with the slot snook lots of smaller but hard fighting snook have kept trips action […]