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■ PROVIDED BY TONYA DOHERTY Mark your calendar for the first art show of the season. Boca Grande Art Center will hold their opening show November 16 to 19 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and will continue from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Sunday at 236 Banyan Street, the Boca Grande […]
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■ STAFF REPORT The contractor continues to work on the new overhead roof. This week the lower roof in lane three was removed and is in the process of being replaced. During active construction hours Monday through Friday. two on-island traffic lanes will remain open with the exception of material deliveries or equipment shifts. There will […]
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■ STAFF REPORT A two-day symposium on World War I is planned to take place from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on November 9 and 10 at the Boca Grande Community Center. The event will feature two keynote speakers. Margaret MacMillan will present “The War That Ended Peace,” and Jay Winter will present “What Americans […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Tony Zaranti is passionate about high-quality food and wine service, and that makes him an ideal leader as the new general manager of the Boca Bay Pass Club. Tony was born in Chicago, Illinois, and his parents retired and moved to Las Vegas when he was 10 years old. After he graduated from […]
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■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE This past Saturday was the traditional Halloween Carnival, an event that island kids have treasured for almost 40 years. It was raining by the time the carnival began, but that didn’t stop the fun.The costume parade and contest usually held on the outdoor stage was held instead in the auditorium, and […]
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To the Editor: Susan Hanafee has done our island a great favor by researching and describing for us the tortured history of the Gasparilla Island Act. I hope our residents have taken the time to read her articles, because too many of us will tell you that our island is protected by the Act so […]
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■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE From Bocaween to the Halloween Carnival, our island has always held the Halloween holiday in high esteem. We may not have residential trick-or-treating, but we do have our own variety of haunting festivities to make the spookiest of nights complete. Many years ago Halloween was – shall we say – an […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN The Boca Grande Historical Society bus trip to Manatee Historical Village and Cortez Maritime Museum is filling up quickly, so if you’re interesting in going, get your tickets now. BGHS member Jim Blaha said there were just nine spots open as of Wednesday afternoon. “The trip to the museum and fishing […]
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■ SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB On Wednesday, Nov. 1 at the season-opening meeting of the Boca Grande Garden Club’s 20th year, Dennis Whigham, an extraordinary orchid ecologist with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, will speak to us about his efforts to preserve and propagate the rarest terrestrial orchid in eastern North America, […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Placida resident and Englewood Rotary Club member Kenn Visser partnered with the Salvation Army recently to send 1,400 water purification kits to people in Puerto Rico after the recent hurricanes. Visser is the vice president of sales at Water One, Inc. He’s lived in the Placida area for more than 25 years, […]