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It’s always amazing when lives are saved by the fates, good fortune and kind hearts. Mark Futch rediscovered that feeling last Thursday as he cruised in his seaplane up around the Peace River just north of the Nav-a-Gator Restaurant. Mark was with Rogan White, son of author Randy Wayne White. He was teaching him to […]
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The Literature Forum inaugurated its 2015-2016 season on November 12 with an excellent presentation of Eudora Welty’s novella, “The Ponder Heart.” The discussion was ably led by David Jenkins, a veteran Literature Forum presenter and participant, and was dedicated to Bob Shandorf, the loyal Forum member and presenter who died unexpectedly last summer. Bob was […]
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Every Wednesday at 10 a.m., the Multi-Purpose Room at the Boca Grande Community Center is filled with the sound of harmony. It’s the sound of Grande Glee. It’s the sound of Boca Grande’s happiest singers. Here’s why Glee is so Grande.
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■ BY SUSAN ERWIN Islander and local business owner Jon Burdette started visiting Boca Grande in 1985 when his grandparents were introduced to the island by Stewart Turley. By the early 1990s, his family had made Boca Grande their weekend home. Originally from Wellington, an area just west of Palm Beach, he attended school there, […]
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The Boca Grande Area Chamber of Commerce will host the 2015 Christmas Walk in downtown Boca Grande on Saturday, Nov. 28 from 5 to 8 p.m.
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Want to be one of the first to have your 14th Annual Taste of Boca Grande tickets? The event will be held on Monday, Feb. 1 at the Boca Bay Pass Club. The event starts at 6 p.m. Enjoy fabulous food from over 20 local restaurants, great beer and wine and live music from the […]
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■ BY MISTY NICHOLS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE GICIA The GICIA has set its sights on Mercabo (the 30-acre parcel at the entrance to the Boca Grande Causeway). With the threat of development looming and Charlotte County again amending their comprehensive plan to allow for an increase in density from the current 3.5 units up […]
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SPECIAL REPORT After seeing its case gutted and its lawyer publicly called out by a Charlotte County judge, the owners of the Professional Tarpon Tournament Series capitulated and walked away from its nearly three year old lawsuit aimed at silencing Save the Tarpon and the group’s more than 28,000 supporters. The sudden PTTS surrender on […]
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■ STAFF REPORT The Boca Beacon and Lee County Parks & Recreation is proud, once again, to sponsor the 2015 Turkey Hoop Shoot. It will be held on Saturday, Nov. 21 and begins at 10 a.m. Register the day of the event between 9:15 and 9:45 a.m. on the basketball courts of the Boca Grande […]
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The Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association announced this week that board members will be working in earnest in the next few weeks to secure pledges from community members to purchase the Mercabo facility at the base of the Boca Grande Causeway. The purchase price of the property is $20,600,000. According to the GICIA, an […]