A great day for the dogs!
More than 50 people turned out to witness the ribbon cutting of the Wheeler Road Community Dog Park, which will be opening by the end of the summer with full amenities.
Written by Marcy Shortuse on . Posted in News.
More than 50 people turned out to witness the ribbon cutting of the Wheeler Road Community Dog Park, which will be opening by the end of the summer with full amenities.
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Joseph Spadaro came to Boca Grande in the 1920s. On Sunday, March 26, 2023, his great niece, Celeste Markle, came to the Boca Grande History Center to learn more about him. Her brother Bill Perta who lives in Vermont had called a few weeks earlier looking for information about his great uncle. Since Celeste was visiting from New Haven, Connecticut with a friend in Venice, Bill gave her the information that the History Center had created three notebooks about Spadaro and the Boca Grande Hotel he’d built and opened in 1929.
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Bob Frederick, a much-loved father, grandfather and great grandfather, passed away on March 22, 2023, with family at his side. Born in Elkhart, Indiana in 1926, Bob grew up there with his parents and older brother. Like so many others of the “Greatest Generation”, Bob served in the Navy in World War II. After the […]
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It was not long before Lewis was sharing with John and Anne the story about the camping trip to Maine, and the guide’s plan to make a bowl out of her piece of a tree. “And John said, ‘Well, you know, you ought to think about going to the Dog Park and seeing if there are any burls left over there in all the wood they’ve been piling up.’ It was 25 feet high or so. And with that idea from John and Anne, I decided to go over to the site and look. However, the contractor — and probably rightly so — told me that I wasn’t allowed on the site; that there were too many construction things and they were starting to chip up wood, and there were just dangerous things going on. So I left.”
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We sat down with Bradley Ruhmann, marketing director for Crews Holding Company and the banks attached to it. He said he understood that the comfort level of many who have a vested interest in the health of our financial institutions has been rocked but comparing local banks to banks like SVC or Signature isn’t just like comparing apples to oranges … he said they’re in entirely different universes.
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Art After Dark is a sensory celebration that the J.McLaughlin store will be hosting the evening of March 30. This is the second such program the store has sponsored, using its outside wall as a canvas to display iconic photographic work. This time the artist is Susan Wood, world famous photographer to the stars of movies, music, fashion and politics, as well as a highly skilled photojournalist capturing down-to-earth happenings.
Written by Sheila Evans on . Posted in Education, News.
Mote Marine Laboratory’s March Coffee With A Scientist, held Tuesday, March 21, at the Boca Grande Community Center, brought visions of the fictitious Dr. John Doolittle to some people’s minds. The presentation never mentioned the doctor who could talk to the animals, but Dr. Beth Brady, Mote manatee vocalization specialist, did explain how she has […]
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Boca Grande Health Clinic is pleased to present the next episode in its “Secrets to Longevity” web video series, where we pay tribute to Boca Grande’s seniors. “We had such a great response to these videos when we launched the longevity series last year that we are continuing the series throughout 2023,” said Mark Driscoll, […]
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Madi loves to cook and bake, and is quite good at it, according to her mother, Dana, as well as others who have had the good fortune to be recipients of her culinary generosity. Madi’s reputation as a great cook and a wonderful young person gained public recognition during the COVID pandemic, when she wasn’t even a teenager yet.
Written by Boca Beacon Reader on . Posted in Letters to the Editor.
To the Editor: On behalf of Suncoast Humane Society, we wish to thank the Boca Grande community for their overwhelming support of the second Annual Dogs for Dogs Fundraiser held March 18th. Over $20,000 was raised in support of Suncoast’s mission to provide programs, services and support of pets and the people who love them, […]