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The Boca Grande Community Center will hold a dedication for the groundbreaking ceremony for the new The Island School at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 10. Dignitaries and donors, as well as the school, will be there. It is the first major part of the Friends of Boca Grande’s Renaissance Plan. Commissioner Brian Hamman of […]
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BY CAPT. JOE LECLAIR It’s always a thrill to see people catching snook in the springtime in super shallow water. If I told you we have caught all the good ones we have seen, I would be lying. The hunt continues and there are a few schools of snook moving out of the back of […]
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The Lee Board of County Commissioners will vote on Tuesday, April 1 to conduct a public hearing for the Gasparilla Island Water Association (GIWA) to adopt a new rate structure and rate study. On January 21, 2025, GIWA voted to implement a new rate structure with a 3.5 percent increase on April 1, 2025, followed […]
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Young Life’s mission is to introduce teens to Jesus and help them grow in their faith. They do this by going where teens are and building mentoring relationships throughout middle and high school. Young Life staff and volunteers want to walk alongside teens through these difficult years and provide a space for them to just […]
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Island churches want to invite our entire community to join together in a time of prayer. We are asking that everyone stop wherever they are on Wednesday, April 9, at noon and pray for peace and unity within our Boca Grande community, within our nation and throughout our world. Lighthouse United Methodist and St. Andrew’s […]
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The Boca Grande Egg Hunt will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 19, at Wheeler Road Community Park, 305 Wheeler Road, Boca Grande. This free event is sponsored by Lee County Parks & Recreation and The Friends of Boca Grande Community Center. Activities include egg hunts for ages four and under, five to seven […]
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Above, the west side of the Boca Grande Community Center this Wednesday, just before concrete footings were to be poured in their recovery from fall hurricanes. Right, more of the interior; new support columns for the floors had to be added after old and rotten joists were removed. The renovation is a joint project of the […]
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There’s something remarkable happening on the golf course that has never occurred before. The face of the game has changed more in the past five years than the previous 50, driven by unprecedented diversity. Across the country, ladies golf is booming, which has driven new offerings at area clubs, Coral Creek and Lemon Bay. According to […]
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Lee County Parks and Recreation has opened the 19th Street paddle craft launch as well as beach accesses on 1st, 3rd, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 17th and 19th streets. Access at 3rd Street and parking at 5th Street were reopened last Friday, March 21. Beach access at 5th Street remains closed at this time, according to an update from Lee County […]
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Lee County has posted the agenda for the next Board of County Commissioners meeting, on which there is an item to “Direct to Public Hearing Gasparilla Island Parking Ordinance Amendments.” The item is number 43 on the administrative agenda for the 9:30 a.m. meeting on Tuesday, April 1. It specifies that if voted through, commissioners would […]