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■ STAFF REPORT Circle the last Saturday in March on your calendar for the annual tradition of the Boca Grande Spring Fair. This day is the Woman’s Club’s gift to the community, when island children, visiting grandchildren, and the young at heart will reveal their creativity and let loose for a few hours of excitement […]
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■ PROVIDED BY BIPS Heed the “Call of the Islands” and head to BIPS’ 23d annual Green Gala! The BIPS Green Gala committee has put together a collection of fun and unique items for this year’s “Call of the Islands” fundraiser, to be held on Monday, March 25 at 5:30 p.m. Start planning now and […]
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■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Boca Grande has reached a new milestone recently, and it is quite impressive: The village has been named No.9 in a list of the top 20 zip codes by average adjusted gross income on the Bloomberg 2019 “Ultimate Zip Codes” list. Sandwiched between Los Angeles at No.8 and Kenilworth, Ill. at […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Have you ever wondered about the relationships between music, math and the planets, and the intricate mystery behind the force of their combined equation? You can wonder no more by attending a special presentation by Island School teachers J.T. Tremaine and Diana Donlon. Everyone is invited to spend some time on Tuesday, […]
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■ BY BOOTS TOLSDORF Rosette is 19 years old and was living with her husband and one-year-old son in a mud house in a swampy area that flooded every time it rained. At first, her husband forbade her to attend Street Business School. She persisted and was able to begin her tiny vegetable stand with […]
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■ STAFF REPORT The Friends of the Boca Grande Community Center will present a one-day symposium regarding sea level rise, and our understandinf of the theoretical and practical issued of its affect on local coastal communities. It will be held on Friday, March 22 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Boca Grande Community […]
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■ STAFF REPORT If you are anywhere near the Boca Grande Community Center on Friday mornings, then you’ve already heard Grande Glee practicing their first full-length concert – “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” This fun-filled 90-minute show, by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, is the story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis […]
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■ STAFF REPORT The Hermitage Artist Retreat’s Fridays @ 5 series continues with Jon Thaxton: “Red Tide: The History, Causes and Future,” Friday, March 22 at 5 p.m., on the beach at the Hermitage Artist Retreat. Thaxton, director of community investment at the Gulf Coast Community Foundation and a leading environmental advocate, will give a […]
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William Joseph (Bad Bill or Wild Willy) Carlstrom, age 79, of Port Charlotte and Boca Grande, passed away December 29, 2018. Bill was born in Queens, N.Y. on August 8, 1939, the son of Norman and Kathleen Carlstrom. A celebration of life will be held at ten March 19, 2019 at Our Lady of Mercy […]
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J Pepper Frazier, an island resident of many years, passed away on March 6, 2019. He was born to George and Marion (“Mimsi”) Frazier on July 5, 1945 in New York City. He was so sick when he was born that he underwent an emergency christening, from which he emerged as “Sean.” His father hated […]