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OPINION: VAN HUBBARD

Easter. Plus, we do not have a rewind if you want that photo Easter is our most significant religious holiday. It’s also a time many of our winter visitors head home. Spring’s fishing blossoms with flowers, and hungry fish and less people. We are thankful for Jesus’ sacrifice and blessed to enjoy our special piece […]

Let’s meet more often. Ham or lamb?

On a beautiful Easter weekend, there are family visits, decisions about seating and the ultimate choice, ham or lamb? To be honest, this editor is in both camps on that one. The key is to ensure that if there is ham, there must be cheese covered scalloped potatoes. The weather this week has been perfect. […]

EcoWatch: Hallelujahs and OMGs

“Christianity, we must treat nature with the same aweand wonder that we reserve for human beings.And we do not need this insight in order to believe in Godor to prove his existence.We need to breathe;we need for us to simply to be.” Ecumenical Patriarch Banthomen, 2010 This week’s combination of Easter on the 20th and […]

Lee-Charlotte Meeting Includes Presentation on Gasparilla Cooperation

Today’s joint meeting of Charlotte County and Lee County will be at 2 p.m. at the Charlotte Harbor Event & Conference Center. One item concerns coordination efforts in Boca Grande, with Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority, the Boca Grande Municipal Services Unit. The agenda is HERE. Issues and agreements to be discussed include water quality, Vincent […]

Great Seashell Hunt on Wednesday at Lighthouse

Spring fun is washing ashore at Gasparilla Island! Join the Barrier Island Parks Society for its beloved annual tradition — the Great Seashell Hunt — on Wednesday, April 16, at 11 a.m. at the Gasparilla Island Lighthouse. Inspired by the resourcefulness of the lighthouse keepers who once called the Port Boca Grande Lighthouse home, this […]

Lee, Charlotte set  Punta Gorda meet

Lee and Charlotte Counties will hold a joint meeting in Punta Gorda on Tuesday, April 15, 2025, to discuss a wide range of issues, including coordination efforts in Boca Grande. The meeting is open to the public, and interested citizens are invited to attend and provide input. The 2 p.m. meeting will be between the […]

Grande Chorus Sensational Sixties

The Grande Chorus performed “The Sensational Sixties!” at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. It was a packed house!                                                             Photo by Dusty

This date in the Boca Beacon

FIVE YEARS AGO Mercabo Cove was moving along with the concrete reef balls which were being delivered and ready for installation. TEN YEARS AGO Island resident Daly Walker and a few of his close friends took the “big” trip to Texas. Walker outbid all competitors at the Hank Wright Live and Silent Auction. FIFTEEN YEARS […]

Shore pleasing Lighthouse cake

Cappy Powell, pictured with her husband Peter, was surprised with a Boca Grande Lighthouse cake by her sister in Georgia at a family dinner. She said that she refused to cut it it was so beautiful.         Photo by Anne Paul Josey

Community Center breaks ground on Island School, Renaissance plan

Close to 100 people were present Thursday, April 10, to celebrate the groundbreaking for the expansion of The Island School. This is the first on-the-ground manifestation of the Friends of Boca Grande’s Renaissance Campaign, in cooperation with Lee County, updating and modernizing the facilities associated with the Boca Grande Community Center.  Marta Howell, CEO of […]