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BY ARLENE HALL,BGSTA SECRETARY Month one of sea turtle nesting season is in the books – and more importantly, on the beaches. The season officially began for BGSTA on May 1 and we documented exactly 600 total crawls (including both nests and false crawls) through May 31. Of those 600 crawls, 164 were loggerhead nests […]
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Local artist Watson Wu, a digital sound effects artist and professional photographer, has worked on a new commercial just out for Pennzoil. Wu has a long list of film and commercial clients, including work on Mercedes-AMG and Lexus ads. His most recent project was to capture the sounds of a race car at a drag […]
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Kiwanis Club challenge BY JAMES J. BLAHA, DIRECTORBOCA GRANDE HISTORY CENTER “Miss Lana Turner, famous movie actress and her husband, Mr. Dan Topping, who spent four days in Boca Grande on their yacht this season will not return again until the Yacht Dock (L Dock) is in better repair and electric current and other facilities […]
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Last Friday morning, May 30, a sea turtle nest with 144 eggs was relocated from Gasparilla Island State Park due to pending beach renourishment. Shown here, a mother-daughter team, Anna and Raquel Tripp, from Ecological Associates Inc. relocating the nest. Ecological Associates is an environmental consulting company in Florida that does sea turtle monitoring, among […]
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There is a new sign that things are getting back to normal in Boca Grande. The artwork and pews are returning to Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church. Fr. Anthony Hewitt, pastor, announced in his church bulletin last week that restoration work on both facets of the church’s physical facility had been completed and would […]
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On Monday, June 2, there were some businesses out of water at the north end of the island. Ron Bolton, executive director of the Gasparilla Island Water Association, said that a directional drilling company hit a water main, which temporarily cut out service for some. The main was quickly repaired. Because of the recent rain, […]
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At 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 29, the Boca Grande Fire Department responded to a dumpster fire at 5858 Gasparilla Road. The dumpster was near a storage building and the small fire was reported on the call as not extinguished and “threatening non-residential building.” The fire department responded to the fire in the Marina Village […]
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On Friday, May 30, Lee County Deputy Sheriff David Scozzafava was contacted in reference to two fishing rods that were stolen from a 26-foot Gause center console vessel at the Miller’s Marina. The owner of the rods provided a general description of the stolen items and estimated the theft amount at $1,080, according to the […]
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This burrowing owl was just off Gasparilla Road on Tuesday, near Coral Creek Airport. The owls are good at adapting grasslands and golf courses. It is one of the smallest owls in Florida. Main threats are loss of habitat and harrassment by humans and domesticated animals, according to the FWC. […]
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Last Thursday, May 29 around 2:22 p.m., two golf carts collided in the middle of the GICIA bike path at 7th Street, with “one cart rolled” according to a Lee EMS report. One of the carts was traveling south on the path and hit the second cart. The official emergency report from Lee County EMS […]