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This season the Boca Grande Art Center is pleased and grateful to offer rotating displays of their exhibiting artists’ works at the island’s recently re-opened Crews Bank & Trust on Park Avenue. First to be featured this month are several encaustic monotype pieces by Susan Shaffer, a founding member of the BGAC and 45-year island […]
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As the first Farmers Market of the season kicks off in their new temporary location, the community showed up in large numbers to offer their support. It was a beautiful morning by the water. Stop over and see them Friday mornings from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. through March. More photos by Matt here
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The Suncoast Humane Society is having an opening celebration this week for its new campus at 2620 Worth Avenue in Englewood. Suncoast is also hosting a “Raise The Woof Community Day” from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 11. There will be a scavenger hunt, food trucks, merchandise, raffles, vendors and special animal […]
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This season, the white pelicans returned to the area, and are now decamping on some of the new sandy flats created by Hurricanes Milton and Helene. In their yearly migrations, they find time to rest and recoup across the state, and in our area up and down Coral Creek and on Gasparilla Sound. […]
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Boca Grande residents called Lee County about the dead mullet on beaches. As of Wednesday, Lee County Parks & Recreation had brought a dumpster and a surf rake to beaches. The equipment, according to Betsy Clayton, a spokesperson for Lee County, is specifically designed to clean up fish-kills and other beach debris. “The dumpster has […]
Written by Anna Ridilla on . Posted in Education, Events, Featured News, News.
It is time for The Island School’s Ninth Annual Chowder Dinner on Friday, Jan. 17, from 6 to 9 p.m., at The Gasparilla Inn Beach Club. There are 18 restaurants and eateries participating this year so far: Apulia, Boca Bay Pass Club, Eagle Grille & Miller’s Dockside, Gasparilla Inn, Hudson’s Grocery, Newlin’s, Placida Grill, Scarpa’s, […]
Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in Featured News, News, Real Estate, Sports & Outdoors.
A new promotional board for the Boca Grande Fishing Guide Association is part of a wider effort to promote traditional fishing guides in Boca Grande. The association, which replaced the board just before the New Year, tried to replicate the old guide as much as they could. “Ian took it out. It’s been gone for […]
Written by VAN HUBBARD on . Posted in Columns, Featured News, News, Sports & Outdoors.
It’s a new year, but I’m stuck reminiscing about old observations. I’ve read several older books about fishing; it’s amazing that it took me 70 years to discover that I didn’t invent the wheel. What I’m talking about is, the more I read about past lifetime fisherfolk back in the ’40s through the ’60s, the […]
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Bishop Douglas Scharf of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida has appointed the Rev. Michelle L. Robertshaw as provost of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, effective February 16. Her first service at the Cathedral will be Sunday, March 2. “I am eager to partner with Mother Robertshaw and St. Peter’s during this time of […]
Written by Boca Beacon Reader on . Posted in Community, Letters to the Editor.
BY RICK STAGER You may have seen a shopping cart abandoned on the side of Gasparilla Road near the billionaire’s airport on New Year’s Day and wondered how it got there. Let me tell you the story. On New Year’s Eve, I was driving west on Gasparilla Road to the UPS store in that strip […]