Written by Staff Report on . Posted in News.
Each year, the Boca Beacon publishes a guide to all things Gasparilla Island, the Boca Beacon Visitor’s Guide. The annual publication is the official guide to Gasparilla Island. The booklet, which is free, has a 30,000 circulation. It is the only all-inclusive printed resource for visitors and residents to find out about all things Boca […]
Written by Boca Beacon Reader on . Posted in Featured News, Letters to the Editor.
To the Editor: The barrels are coming back! Look for them at the post office, Crews Bank, in front of the Lighthouse United Methodist Church office and at the entrance to the church office. Also, look for an article soon with an update on Englewood Helping Hand and the big blue barrels. Jane Caple Boca […]
Written by Staff Report on . Posted in Sports & Outdoors.
As we have written about before, the Boca Grande Area Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Golf Tournament will not be held at The Gasparilla Inn & Club, but has been picked up by a brand-new venue: Wellen Park Golf & Country Club. This is purported to be a stellar course, so why not try it out? […]
Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in News.
It may not be Halloween yet, but any time of year is perfect to celebrate our friend, the bat.
Lemon Bay Conservancy (LBC) has just commissioned a bat nursery that they hope will bring over 300 bats to Cape Haze’s Lemon Bay Wildflower Preserve – all at the same bat time.Possibly on the same bat channel.
“It is the beginning of our efforts to enter into bat conservation territory,” said Tonya Bramlage of the LBC, the group that installed the house at the Lemon Bay Wildflower Preserve.
Written by Marcy Shortuse on . Posted in News.
Progress is being made on the island’s new permanent cellphone tower, as communication has been flowing with Vertical Bridge – the tower company – and contact has even been made with the individual cellphone carriers. The Boca Grande Cell Tower Committee has stated that they have also been in contact with Joe Steele, of T […]
Written by Marcy Shortuse on . Posted in Community History, News.
This new little Shady Lady has taken the place of the old cedar tree across from Hudson’s that was dubbed “the Community Tree” back in 1954. On Monday the old one was taken down to the main trunk, then carefully removed from the ground and hauled away with all of its limbs. A local craftsman […]
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Wini Smart loved two things the most, painting and helping people. In her honor, Smart Studio is hosting a benefit art show and sale featuring original watercolor and oil paintings by the late artist. The show will include local scenes as well as paintings from her travels to tropical islands and Europe. Wini was the founder of Smart Studio Art Gallery, which is now owned and operated by Wini’s artist granddaughter, Rebecca Cleveland.
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Way back in the early 2000s when there were actually two weekly papers in Boca Grande I wrote a column called Backstage with Boots. There I attempted to relate to our Royal Palm Player awesome audience some of the things that went on behind the stage performances. In the beginnings of RPP, budget was pretty […]
Written by Marcy Shortuse on . Posted in Boca Beacon Back Pages, Columns, Entertainment.
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There aren’t many years that start out with so much hope for a “back-to-normal” life, only to have a big old sledgehammer come at the end of the third quarter, but 2022 provided that. Hurricane Ian picked up our island and shook it like a snow globe, and while we didn’t have the same devastation […]