Written by Boca Beacon Reader on . Posted in Letters to the Editor.
To the Editor: After all the pushback to the original Fishery complex development plan in Placida, I was shocked to see Charlotte County in the process of allowing the new plan … this plan includes a hotel, condos and a marina, all packed into the old Fishery complex over the causeway from Boca Grande. The […]
Written by Boca Beacon Reader on . Posted in Letters to the Editor.
The 12th annual Charlotte Harbor Regatta is scheduled for February 4-6, 2022. Approximately 45 boats are participating this year. Classes invited are Hobie Wave, Hobie 16, Weta Trimaran, F18, A Class cat, Harbor 20, 2.4mR, and Windmill. Other classes will be considered by request.
Written by Staff Report on . Posted in Letters to the Editor.
The Englewood Invitational Winter Art Festival will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday, January 29-30, and will have something for everyone.
Written by Boca Grande Health Clinic on . Posted in Health & Wellness.
By Thomas J. Ervin, M.D., Boca Grande Health Clinic Being asked “What do I do about COVID?” is a complicated question for anyone in clinical medicine to answer. If the COVID-19 pandemic was an elephant (it is large), it’s description would depend on which part of the anatomy was being viewed or described. The pandemic […]
Written by Delores Savas on . Posted in Columns, Opinion.
A reader has asked why I only seem to write discouraging news concerning wildlife and the environment. Sorry to say, that is what is happening right now. I wish that the air were clean, waters were not polluted, manatees were not dying from starvation because seagrasses, their main, critical food, are gone due to lack of regulations that govern fertilizers, runoffs, leaking septic tanks and oil spills.
Written by Marcy Shortuse on . Posted in News.
The guest speaker on the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 19 at the Boca Grande Community Center was the focus of a very appreciative and attentive audience – an audience that filled every chair and two additional rows in the auditorium … and the Houghton Room … and the Boca Grande Woman’s Club. The presenter spoke of his newest book and his artwork with a relaxed, casual demeanor and at many points had the crowd howling at his antics with his sister, who joined him. Their family looked on from the first two rows and seemed to enjoy the presentation as much as the audience did.
Former President George W. Bush and his sister Doro were the pair who took the stage Wednesday night, with the focus of discussion centered on his book titled, “Out of Many, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants.” With a cover adorned by several of President Bush’s portraits of the people interviewed on the inside, it is a beautiful book … inside and out.
Written by Marcy Shortuse on . Posted in News.
When Boca Grande artists Emerson Wickwire, Linda Wolcott and Nancy Bass sat down together and looked at each other’s proposed art pieces for a show they were putting together, they all had a moment of clarity.
Each one of them was featuring animals in their work.
“We looked at each other and said, wait a minute. Animals. It just sort of happened,” Wickwire said …
Written by Marcy Shortuse on . Posted in News.
The Lee Board of County Commissioners voted Tuesday to accept a $120,000 grant from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for the construction of an artificial reef approximately 15 miles off the coast of Captiva.
Written by Marcy Shortuse on . Posted in Health & Wellness.
If you have been trying to obtain the free COVID test kits that the government is sending out and you get a message that says your P.O. Box is registered to a business, you are not alone. Island post office boxholders have been calling the Boca Beacon office, asking where their tests can be sent […]
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ext weekend the Boca Grande Art Center will president their annual President’s Art Show, featuring four past presidents of the long-standing organization. It wll feature works in oil, acrylic, pastel and watercolor …