Written by Sheila Evans on . Posted in Community History, Events, News.
Closing out the season’s History Bytes series was a lively hour of story-telling by jack-of-many- trades and master of all of them, Viola Dyer. She came to the island in the 1980s and established the Pass Marina at the southern tip of the island, before the area around Belcher Road was developed. It was a […]
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The Boca Grande Woman’s Club Spring Fair, All Aboard the Boca Grande Express, arrives on Saturday, March 9. Come out and celebrate what makes Boca Grande special and have a great time with friends and neighbors. It all starts with the Bike Path Parade. It begins promptly at 10:30 a.m. near the traffic cones on […]
Written by Anna Ridilla on . Posted in Breaking News, News.
Early voting for the upcoming presidential preference primary begins Saturday, March 9 for Lee County and Monday, March 4 for Charlotte County. Florida is a closed primary state, which means that only voters who are registered members of political parties may vote for respective candidates or nominees for an office in a primary election. The […]
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On March 14, at 4 p.m., local writers Linda Fairstein, Susan Hanafee, Candice Shy Hooper and Bobbie Marquis will gather in the loggia of the Johann Fust Community Library to talk about how they approach research as it pertains to their writing. Whether you are reading nonfiction, historical fiction, mystery or literary fiction, you enter […]
Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in Breaking News, News, Police & Fire.
The steering committee for Gasparilla Island’s new Auxiliary Emergency Communications system met Monday morning at the Boca Grande Fire Department to hear a presentation about the new system’s capabilities, and to discuss how the communications system will be used by groups and individuals. The system, which consists of simple two-way radios and an island-wide antennae […]
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The leaders of the Boca Grande churches met this week to begin planning for the 2024 Holy Week and Easter services available to the public. With two of the four churches having new leadership this year, some people were wondering if the traditions would still be followed. They will. In Boca Grande there are two […]
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Longtime employees, friends, rally to cause of lost fathers Three of the four men lost off the coast near Venice in an apparent fishing boat accident on Feb. 17 were employees of Safety Harbor Builders on Gasparilla Island. “We were super close with those men,” said Chip Crawford, a co-owner and CEO of the firm. […]
Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in Editorial.
We reside in a sawfish aquarium, Charlotte Harbor. It’s Jurassic Park, and you don’t have to visit Universal Orlando. Last Thursday, sawfish expert Tonya Wiley delivered a talk in Cape Haze as part of a new Lemon Bay Conservancy lecture series. Wiley, from Havenworth Coastal Conservation in Bradenton, is a world expert on the habits […]
Written by Sheila Evans on . Posted in Profiles.
Money and ministry go hand-in-hand for Larry Hannah. His efforts have shown that, in the right hands, money can be the root of much good, rather than evil. Larry proved that beyond any doubt as he headed up the Boca Grande Disaster Fund, under the wing of the Lighthouse United Methodist Church, following the devastation […]
Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in Editorial.
Sixty years ago, the National Geographic came to Florida. The magazine devoted over 50 pages to this state, in a major feature called “Florida Rides a Space Age Boom.” Some of us might admit to having a musty December 1963 edition on the shelves in a stack somewhere. (It had an illustration of the “Triumph […]