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■ BY SUE ERWIN You might see her cruising around town in her pink golf cart or walking the beach with her giant white “polar bear,” a Samoyed canine name Sage. Roselle Agles makes her way around the island daily. When she isn’t busy working as a Realtor for Gulf Coast International Properties, you can find her […]
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To the Editor: Kevin Hagan, president of Englewood Bank & Trust, announced that the bank will serve as a collection point for nonperishable food items and toiletries for the Rotary Club of Englewood’s Food for the Troops drive through the month of May. Those wishing to support our troops may donate at any of the […]
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■ This sailboat ran aground on a sandbar in Gasparilla Pass (Gulf side) last weekend, and is definitely a hazard to navigation at night. Look to your north off the middle bridge, and it is located about 200 yards off the southern tip of Little Gasparilla Island, north of the northern tip of Gasparilla Island […]
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■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Gasparilla Island and its surrounding waters have thousands upon thousands of visitors every year who come for the fishing, the boating and the beaches. Out of those thousands of people we are blessed every year that our accident and drowning numbers remain very low, particularly considering the Boca Grande Fire Department […]
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■ STAFF REPORT The tarpon are biting in the Pass and tournament season is heating up in Boca Grande, so make sure you’re signed up for all the events you’re interesting in fishing. The first event will be The annual Boca Grande Chamber of Commerce Ladies Day Tarpon Tournament will be held on Saturday, May […]
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■ SUBMITTED BY THE GASPARILLA ISLAND WATER ASSOCIATION The Gasparilla Island Water Association measured 2.47 inches of rain Tuesday morning at the wastewater treatment plant after a long-awaited drenching rain Monday night, but that doesn’t mean we are out of the woods yet when it comes to a severe drought. While this week’s rain was […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN The dredging of Stump Pass continues to draw questions, but Charlotte County leaders are calling the project priceless. The dredging will connect Lemon Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. The dredge contractor, Great Lakes Dredge and Dock, has completed over 125,000 cubic yards out of 150,000 cubic yards on the Updrift […]
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■ STAFF REPORT The 78-day 2017 recreational red snapper season in Gulf of Mexico state waters opens Saturdays and Sundays in May starting May 6. On May 27, the season will open daily through July 9. The season will also reopen for Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in September and October, and on Labor Day. This […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN When JoAnn Barwick accepted a secretarial position at a public relations firm in New York City at the age of 22, she never would have guessed the serendipitous path that would eventually lead to a thrilling career. She grew up in the Midwest in Rockford, Illinois and attended Wagner College, a private […]
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Lucy Stanton, 96, of Boca Grande, died on May 2, 2017. She was born Lucy Jane Keeler in Evanston, Illinois, and was the daughter of Lucy Derwent and Edwin R. Keeler, who was later president of the Rockford Lumber and Fuel Company. Lucy grew up in Winnetka, Illinois and attended the Shipley School and Pine […]