Skip to main content
Search Results for “un

Lit Forum ends season, announces next season’s selections

To the Editor and all of our supporters: More than 200 lovers of fine literature attended the past season’s Literature Forum. Able presenters and discussion leaders, including Pat Agger, Sue Fuller, Sally Brust, Hilari Fix, Charles Clarke, Anne Beatty and Ellie Crawford, brought the selected books to life by describing the history of the time […]

Three thoroughbreds with island ties to run the Derby

■ BY SUE ERWIN Boca Grande’s own William S. Farish’s thoroughbred, Code of Honor, completed his major preparation earlier this week for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby by working a half-mile in less than 47 seconds with exercise rider Brian Duggan. The horse is kept at Lane’s End Farms in Versailles, Kentucky. Code of Honor, a chestnut-colored […]

PROFILE: Becky Hunt

BY SUSAN ERWIN – Becky Hunt is passionate about pursuing her goals in life, and that diligent trait has clearly been passed along to her daughter, Evie, who has been The Island School reporter for the Boca Beacon since last fall. Becky was born in Clermont, Florida, a town just west of Orlando. “My parents […]

New parking ordinance amendment adopted by Lee County commissioners

Lee County commissioners approved an amendment to the Boca Grande Parking Ordinance which includes several changes to the way things are currently done. Last Tuesday, April 16, commissioners met at their regular meeting to discuss the proposal, which they approved unanimously. Changes include no parking on the south side of Belcher Road (primarily for fire, […]

Candy is needed for the hunt!

■ STAFF REPORT The Boca Grande Easter Egg Hunt is right around the corner, and the time has come to gather your baskets, your best Easter bonnets and your bags of individually wrapped soft candy to drop off at the Boca Grande Community Center. The hunt will take place on Saturday, April 20 at 10 […]

BGHS announces change in board members

■ BY SUE ERWIN Marty McFadden is the new president of the Boca Grande Historical Society. Board members of the Boca Grande Historical Society elected new officers, as well as discussed other business affairs, at the annual meeting on Tuesday, April 9 at the Boca Grande Community Center. “It’s been a terrific year for the […]