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Survey: Respondents against adding bridges to islands

Written by Anna Ridilla on . Posted in Community, Featured News, News.

Charlotte County Facilities Construction & Maintenance department has released survey results from local residents on accessibility to and from bridgeless barrier islands on the coast. Islands include Palm Island, Little Gasparilla Island, Don Pedro Island and Knight Island/Thornton Key. According to the department, over 70 percent of the respondents were either satisfied or neutral with […]

Superstars: Locals remember O.J. and Hulk’s Lou Ferrigno

Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in Entertainment, Sports & Outdoors.

There was a week in February of 1975 that the late Orenthal James Simpson was king of Rotonda and Cape Haze. The event was O.J.’s victory the ABC Superstars competition, which aired Sunday, Feb. 23, 1975 across the ABC Television Network.  Twenty-five million Americans tuned into the afternoon program, which featured top sports celebrities competing […]

Remembering Rob Wells of Cabbage Key

Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in Featured News, News, Obituaries.

Robert Wells Jr., the founder of the modern Cabbage Key and the Tarpon Lodge, died Tuesday. Wells, and his wife Phyllis, purchased Cabbage Key in 1976, after he left a job as director of admissions at High Point College in North Carolina. Today, son Ken Wells manages Cabbage Key and son Rob Wells III manages […]

Gaza aid worker caught his first fish here

Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in Featured News, News, Obituaries.

Jacob Alexander Flickinger, a 33-year-old humanitarian food aid worker for the charity World Central Kitchen, was killed April 1, 2024 while delivering food aid in Gaza. He is the nephew of island resident Lynn Seibert and has spent many seasons here on Gasparilla Island growing up with family and cousins. “He loved Florida,” Seibert said. […]

Captains founders visit to talk Clean Water at Eagle Grille

Written by Anna Ridilla on . Posted in Featured News, News, Sports & Outdoors.

Captains for Clean Water held an event at Eagle Grille on Tuesday, April 16 to discuss the organization’s conservation work since its founding in 2016. Hosted by Chandler Converse, Capt. Doug Stewart, Jim “Hooter” Hoyt and Capt. Mark Liberman, the event featured co-founders Capt. Daniel Andrews and Capt. Chris Wittman who spoke about some of […]

SW Florida Fishing: Tarpon starting to show up

Written by Guest Columnist on . Posted in Columns, Sports & Outdoors.

BY CAPT. JOE LECLAIR With warmer waters it’s time to shift gears and search for monster tarpon. Recently we fished through heavy rain and wind in the muddy waters of the everglades and 10,000 islands. It could be my favorite place to fish. While we did not land any 200 pound tarpon we got into […]

Ask a Doc: Parkinson’s disease can now be detected through the skin

Written by Boca Grande Health Clinic on . Posted in Columns, Health & Wellness.

BY BRET KUEBER, M.D., ASSISTANT MEDICAL DIRECTOR, BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC April, the birth month of James Parkinson, is Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month. Parkinson’s is a degenerative syndrome that results in the gradual loss of brain circuitry involved in movement, thinking and behavior. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the first clear medical description […]