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BY MARCY SHORTUSE – Bruce Rougraff is a self-proclaimed beach bum from way back. When he was a child, living in Houston, his family would head to the Galveston Bay beach almost every weekend, and some of his fondest memories are of those trips. Those memories, and those of going to the beaches of Southwest […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE – It’s been a long, hard road to find out exactly what Lee County calls the thin strip of land that borders the sea wall between 1st and 4th Streets, but the Lee County Property Appraiser’s office has done some homework and come up with the best information we have received so far. […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE – Here’s a riddle for you: What is something that local fishing captains get a whole lot of, other than fish, when they’re out on the water? The answer is, questions. They get questions about what types of fish their client might catch, and at what times of year, why they use the […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE – It was old home week at the last installment of History Bytes at the Johann Fust Community Library on Wednesday, Feb. 12, with Milton Bell as the speaker and John Johnson, Carolyn Bell, Robert Johnson, Mary Knight Vickers and Betsy Fugate Joiner in attendance as well. Robert Johnson, whose family ran the […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE – The friendly smile and platinum hair that has become so synonymous with Boca Grande Health Clinic Chief Executive Officer Hilja Bilodeau’s presence on the island will be disappearing soon, as she will be retiring this year. After facilitating many very positive changes at the Health Clinic and Annex, she is leaving with […]
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BY MARY COOK – In 1941 she took over the staggering work of running Alliance, France’s largest spy network, a corps of 3,000 agents. She described herself as merely “the wife of an officer, mother of a family, member of no political party, and a Catholic.” In reality, however, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade thought like a man. Lynne […]
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STAFF REPORT – The Library Foundation is honored to once again welcome Roxana Robinson to speak in the library loggia. Her most recent novel, “Dawson’s Fall,” takes place in stormy, post-Civil War Charleston during 1889. It is a time and place fraught with division, both social and political, and racial conflict. The main character, Francis Dawson, […]
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BY OLIVIA CAMERON – The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is currently displaying the artwork a Boca Grande resident and woman of history. Susan Michod is part of the show called “With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985.” Michod has led the “pattern and decoration” movement since 1969. This movement surfaced […]
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BY BOOTS TOLSDORF – If you are lucky enough to have a ticket for the performance of “Leading Ladies,” directed by lovable, wonderful and talented Tad Ingram, you are in for a rollicking good time. Spoiler alert: think ‘“Some Like it Hot.” Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.’ And make sure you take some Aleve before you come. Otherwise, […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE – Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno was the guest at a special fundraiser here on the island recently and got a check from a very special contributor for his election fund. Some contributions came in after the reception was over, including one that was very special. The $1,000 check came from former […]