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Naturalist wonders on Hemingway’s six-toed cats on a Key West journey BY DR. JOHN FLETEMEYER Key West is America’s southernmost city. Cuba is only 90 nautical miles away. It’s a city steeped in nautical history that boasts many eccentricities and oddities that are found nowhere else. One life-is-stranger-than-fiction oddity is the population of six-toed cats […]
Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in Editorial.
Above, a Boca Beacon file photo from Hurricane Charley, 21 years ago. This week, we have a reminder from Chief C.W. Blosser about the hurricane season ahead, encouraging people to plan for what may or may not come. Back in the olden days, you just had to bring your lawn furniture in and get some […]
Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in Breaking News, Community, News.
At a joint meeting of Charlotte County’s state delegation, Sen. Ben Albritton, Rep. Danny Nix and Rep. Vanessa Oliver heard from constituents about the budget year ahead, and in a long listening period that followed, took comments on the parking issue in Boca Grande. Senate President Albritton said that he was “just learning about this” […]
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FROM BARRIER ISLANDPARKS SOCIETY Editor’s Note: This is the first of six weekly wildlife articles submitted by the Barrier Island Parks Society to raise awareness. If you’ve been on a barrier island in Southwest Florida or along the coast, you might have heard a high-pitched whistling call from an osprey (Pandion haliaetus). The osprey, also […]
Written by Anna Ridilla on . Posted in Education, Profiles.
The art of teaching On Monday The Island School opened its doors for a new school year – and for Valerie Cotton, it marked her first day as the on-island art teacher. After volunteering once a week last year, she’s now back on campus as an employee. “Last year, I was here once a week,” […]
Written by Delores Savas on . Posted in Columns, Sports & Outdoors.
“At the end of the day,the government and local government all bow to public pressure [regulatory] enforcement is weak, and environmental litigationis near to impossible,so there is an urgent needfor extensive public participationto generate another kindof motivation.” Ma Jun, National Geographic Explorer, an environmentalist, journalist, shares the view that the responsibilities to save the oceans […]
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BY ARLENE HALL, BGSTA SECRETARY Can you believe we are only at the halfway point of this sea turtle nesting season? The word “only” used here is as an option, in case you are not a sea turtle fan, although I have yet to meet any such fans. Only three more months to go, assuming […]
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BY KAREN GRACE,BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY In 1915, Peter Bradley of the American agricultural Chemical Company had 26 banyan trees planted on each side of what was then Second Street. The trees may have been part of a 1914 master plan produced for the company by landscape architect Carl Rust Parker. Banyan trees were proposed […]
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Around 2 p.m. last Thursday, July 31, Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to the Boca Grande Club on a report of a missing wedding band. According to details listed on a Charlotte County sheriff’s report, on Monday, July 28 at about noon, a couple, both in their 30s, went to the fitness center. When […]
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Above, a close up of the proposed changes to the entrance, which will have a wide ramp from Park Avenue. The Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board will meet at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 13 at the Community Center to discuss two new projects up for approval. The main item will be the discussion of […]