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Excitement is brewing as anglers and artists prepare for the 2025 “World’s Richest” Tarpon Tournament and the Annual Boca Grande Tarpon Festival May 13 to 16 in downtown Boca Grande. The Tarpon Festival marks the beginning of tarpon season and celebrates the return of the fish to Boca Grande Pass. The island is preparing for […]
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Keylime Bistro reopened at the train station Saturday. The restaurant was essentially rebuilt, with new kitchen and a removal of the bar, so that the inside seating is larger. All the familiar train elements are still there. The restaurant is owned by Sandy Stilwell-Youngquist, owner of the Historic Captiva Island Inn as part of Stilwell […]
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BY DR. JOHN FLETEMEYER Our local beaches are beginning to experience the annual invasion of sea turtles. Soon there will be mini moon nest craters doting the beach landscape. Most turtles, after being away for two to three years, journey several hundred miles to the beach where they were born. Each turtle will lay up […]
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Competitors in the April 6, 2025 BSYC “Island Championship” are (L to R): Mark Rickenbaugh, Oakley Johnson, Lee Edwards, Nat Leonard, Steve Brink, Sam Howe – Commodore, Bill Ewing, Tom Wilcox, Henry Becton, John Foster, Tom Kimmel and Eric Holch. Patty Brink and Sue Ewing acted as race officers. Final outcome for Group A was […]
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Spring fun is washing ashore at Gasparilla Island! Join the Barrier Island Parks Society for its beloved annual tradition — the Great Seashell Hunt — on Wednesday, April 16, at 11 a.m. at the Gasparilla Island Lighthouse. Inspired by the resourcefulness of the lighthouse keepers who once called the Port Boca Grande Lighthouse home, this […]
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The Boca Grande Camera Club celebrated their last event of the season with a celebration. Front row l-r: Louisa Vestner, Caroline Clabaugh, Walter Fitzgerald, Annie Vorel, Kathy Hawken, Jane Ringer, Susan Wood, Brenda Story, Barb Kimer. Back row: John Berlinger, Jim Hill, Matt Gutman, Larry McNiff, Cynthia Ethington, Karen Ball, Brenda Story, Tom Kimer and […]
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reminds boaters to go slow and keep an eye out for manatees as the slow-moving mammals naturally disperse from their winter refuges. Manatees overwinter in Florida springs, power plant discharges and other warm-water sites, relying on water that is warmer than 68 degrees Fahrenheit. As temperatures rise in […]
Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in Editorial, Sports & Outdoors.
A favorite beach book, for generations, has been Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s “Gift from the Sea.” It uses shells as a metaphor for fixing the stresses of modern America. The book is ultimately not about the beach; it is about one woman’s search for balance in her life. The seaside (and the island of Captiva, never […]
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Shorebird and seabird nesting season began in February and ends August 31. To help protect nesting birds, county environmentalists are beginning survey work. Florida is home to many species of shorebirds and seabirds, which nest directly on the sand of coastal beaches. Charlotte County hosts three species of shorebirds, including Wilson’s plover, the snowy plover […]
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Around 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26 the Boca Grande Fire Department responded to a call of a back injury. A boat had hit a wave and a woman bounced off a seat and hurt her back. “We went out and rendezvoused,” Chief C.W. Blosser said. “Captiva [Fire Department] actually made it all the way […]