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IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Andrew Colburn

Andrew Colburn started his new job at the Boca Grande Health center on the Monday of the week Hurricane Ian hit the island. It was quite a welcome. The storm hit on Wednesday and on Thursday Andrew called clinic CEO Mark Driscoll to see what he should do about coming in.

Kids Classic tournament handed over from Boca Grande Charities to Chamber of Commerce

When Capt. Sandy Melvin, Bill Klettke and Michael Vaughn founded the Gasparilla Island Kids Classic more than a decade ago, it was with one objective in mind – to create a fast-paced, action-packed fishing tournament for kids, while teaching them about the value of helping others. Kids helping kids. That was what it was all […]

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: The Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association

Lots of people in Boca Grande love to walk the beach in the morning. Most of them do not make the trek if the weather is nasty, or if the sun gets too hot. There are some folks, however, who do not do their beach walking for exercise or meditation. They do it to protect […]

THIS DATE IN THE BOCA BEACON

Boca Beacon backpages FIVE YEARS AGO The sale of Las Olas, a home that was once part of the Crowninshield compound on Gilchrist Avenue, broke island real estate records when it sold for $13 million. TEN YEARS AGO The Boca Grande Chamber of Commerce announced that the two-day competition would also include the traditional art […]

Boca Grande Preschool is open for business

The Boca Grande Preschool is back in business. It reopened its doors January 9, and is better than ever. “Little children thrive on normalcy,” asserts Kelli Carpenter, the Preschool Director. Frankly, pretty much everyone needs some normalcy in their lives to succeed. Kelli is making it her life’s work to have the children in the […]

History Bytes begins with tombstones and graveyards

The first History Bytes lecture of the 2023 season, brought to you by the Boca Grande Historical Society and Bank of America, regarded grave matters of the island – literally. The presentation given by Boca Grande Historial Society Executive Director Crystal Diff and Scott Shively, Charlotte County historian, was all about local cemeteries … including […]

A new way for the Hughes Gallery to live on

Over two decades ago when my late husband, Jack, told me he’d shook hands on a lease for a downtown space in Terry Seitz’s new post and beam building, I almost killed him.  After deciding to sell our home on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where we’d raised our son, I was looking forward to […]