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To the Editor: It was with regret that we read Sheriff Scott’s March 2 editorial about guns, in which he seemed to side not with police chiefs across the country but with the NRA. Among developed countries, the U.S. alone is plagued by gun violence, which takes a life every 15 minutes. Since 1970, 1.4 […]
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Response to the Johann Fust Library Foundation’s upcoming presentation by Amor Towles has been so amazing that it is now sold out. According to Lindsay Major, the president of the Library Foundation, they regret the fact that they cannot accomodate everyone who is interested in attending the author’s lecture. Questions can be directed to the […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Royal Palm Players presents a one night only event guaranteed to raise your spirits as you raise a glass of wine. It’s ‘The Boca Girls.’ And it’s a spoof. A reading. A lot of laughs. Alice Court, Linda Rollyson, Ann Fletcher and Erica Ress Martin are The Boca Girls. They’re backed by a […]
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BY SUE ERWIN – Fans of Beethoven and Mozart will not want to miss a performance by the Tesla Quartet on Sunday, January 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Boca Grande Community Center. The quartet will feature their unique Provocateurs program, highlighting works from Joseph Haydn and Sergei Prokofiev. The foursome will do a second […]
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Put on your dancing shoes and begin practicing the two-step. The Grammy-nominated Pine Leaf Boys band is coming back to Boca Grande, headlining the Boca Grande Historical Society’s 2018 fund-raiser on Sunday, Feb. 18. “Since their last appearance here we have had many requests to bring back this much-loved band,” says Historical Society President Karen […]
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The Boca Grande Health Clinic Foundation will host a coffee/pastry reception on Tuesday, Jan. 30 in the Banyan Room at The Gasparilla Inn & Club to introduce some of the key management of the Healthnetwork Foundation. They will make a short presentation to their members and to members of the community at large on their […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Inspire. Educate. Preserve. Those are key efforts that the Barrier Island Parks Society board members strongly hope to achieve in 2018. BIPS held its monthly board meeting on Wednesday morning at the Amory Memorial Chapel at Gasparilla Island State Park. The focus of the meeting was implementation of the 2017-2020 strategic […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Michael Grunwald, award-winning author of “The Swamp,” will present a lecture on the history of the efforts to tame the Everglades and more recently the attempts to restore it, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 16 in the Boca Grande Community Center auditorium. “The Swamp” is a New York Times bestseller, a […]
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■ STAFF REPORT On Friday, Jan. 19 Royal Palm Players presents a one-night-only event guaranteed to raise your spirits as you raise a glass of wine. It’s “The Boca Girls,” and it’s a spoof. A reading. A lot of laughs. Alice Court, Linda Rollyson, Ann Fletcher and Erica Ress Martin are The Boca Girls. They’re […]
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Virginia “Jinny” Estelle Garrett Cunning, 100 years of age, passed away on Friday, December 15, 2017 at Elizabeth House, a hospice facility in Flat Rock, N.C. Jinny was born in 1917 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of the late Lewis and Rebecca Kimmelman Garrett. After graduating from Bryant Business College in Providence, Rhode Island, […]