Written by Staff Report on . Posted in Letters to the Editor.
Response to last week’s letter from Ron Raedeke on their memories of sharing the same street in Chicago. To the Editor: The randomness of a conversation with a stranger at the concert a few weeks ago stirred many wonderful memories of all the occasions we shared with our tenants at 2012 N. Cleveland in Lincoln Park. We are […]
Written by Staff Report on . Posted in Sports & Outdoors.
Shorebird/seabird beach nesting season begins Feb. 15, 2024. Each nesting season, Charlotte County staff installs temporarily fencing and educational signage around solitary and colony nesting areas to provide a safe buffer zone. Beachgoers are advised to avoid posted shorebird/seabird nesting areas and leave dogs at home. Dogs are seen as predators and have the potential […]
Written by Staff Report on . Posted in Events, News.
Auction item donations continue to stream in for the March 2 Strawberry Festival. Last year, the big donation prize was a vintage VW Beetle. This year, the top prize for bidders may be a Bintelli Beyond golf cart. Built in Charleston, S.C., the Bintelli is a street-legal cart, with more solid wheels and a higher […]
Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in Breaking News, News.
About 17 Boca Grande citizens came out Saturday, Feb. 9 for a meeting at the Community Center on the situation with the U.S. Postal Service in Boca Grande. The meeting was facilitated by a postal employee, but other citizens came out to the afternoon meeting to share stories, ideas and complaints. While no firm path […]
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The dates for upcoming Boca Grande tarpon tournaments have been set. “The tournaments” are a great tradition, said Betsy Joiner, president of the Gasparilla Island Maritime Museum. “It’s exciting as the weather gets warmer and tarpon start coming out. Everyone gets tarpon fever.” The season begins with the Ladies’ Day Tarpon Tournament, hosted by the […]
Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in Events, Sports & Outdoors.
Jessica Pate, the lead scientist for the Florida Manta Project, will be in town on Thursday, Feb. 22 to speak on The Mysterious Manta Rays of Florida. Pate started the Florida Manta Project in 2016 as a part of the work of the Marine Megafauna Foundation. She will be here as part of a lecture […]
Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in Featured News, News, Police & Fire.
Last Saturday Feb. 10, there was an elevator entrapment on island. The Boca Grande Fire Department quickly rescued stuck passengers from a third-floor elevator at 5091 Gasparilla Road after a 911 call. There was a separate case on Jan. 27 that was also resolved. “You see how regular they are,” said Boca Grande Fire Department […]
Written by Anna Ridilla on . Posted in News.
Two projects, including a signature house at 181 Gilchrist Ave., were unanimously approved by the Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board on Wednesday, Feb. 14. The proposed house on Gilchrist is a two-story design. A site plan submitted by Daily Janssen Architects of Palm Beach showed the proposed two-story cottage on Gilchrist to be situated next […]
Written by Anna Ridilla on . Posted in Community History.
The second History Bytes program for 2024 featured Boca Grande native Carolyn Parkinson Nabers sharing about her mother’s life on the island. Mary Ellen Vickers Parkinson was “a true Southern lady,” she said. Carolyn spoke to a full crowd in the Johann Fust Library Loggia on Wednesday morning next to a table filled with historic […]
Written by Boca Grande Health Clinic on . Posted in Events, Health & Wellness.
The Boca Grande Health Clinic and Foundation will welcome Yale-trained and board-certified psychiatry specialist Alexander P. Miano, M.D. on February 20, 2024, for an in-person talk on resilience. Resilience is the ability to cope with and recover from adversity and setbacks experienced during difficult moments in our lifetime. Through innate and acquired factors and coping […]