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Jane Cartwright Carlson passed away peacefully on September 6, 2021, five days after her 93rd birthday. She was with her three sons when she died at Heritage Oaks of Englewood. She was her usual exuberant self until she was muted by a series of strokes several weeks prior. Jane and her late husband, Byron (“By”), […]
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Jim Brown is our local Boca Grande Arrow Pest Control man, a Vietnam Veteran, proud husband and father, and a passionate breeder of Chesapeake Bay Retrievers. You can also add to that list that he’s one heck of a storyteller. Jim and his wife Karen have been raising Chesapeakes since 1998. While they love all […]
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Christopher Rembold passed away on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, at 84 years of age. He was a graduate of Western Hills High School, where he is a member of its Athletic Hall of Fame, and the University of Cincinnati and a partner at National Machine Tool where he worked for 48 years. Boca Grande became […]
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Lara Loughlin passed away on Aug. 28, 2021 at the age of 27 years old. She was a mother-to-be, with her baby boy Alan to be born in February of 2022. Lara was born in New York City, and was raised in New York until she was nine years old where her and her family […]
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Gorham Lamont “Jerry” Cross of Needham, Mass., formerly of Weston, Mass. passed away on August 25, 2021. Born in 1929, he was the son of Gorham Lamont Cross and Margaret Warren Cross. He is survived by his children and their spouses, John Cross (Peggy), Jennifer Peterson (Curt), and Heather Woodworth (Charlie); his grandchildren, Ted and […]
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You can always count on a chef to whip it, whip it good (Devo). And when you’re a professional Boca Grande chef like Trish McIlroy, that “whipping” extends to bodybuilding. Trish McIlroy is the NPC Ironman first place winner of the Masters 40+ division, a competition that was just held at the Sarasota Opera House […]
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More than 50 beach wheelchairs are now available at Florida state parks thanks to the continuing partnership between the Florida State Parks Foundation and the Surfing’s Evolution & Preservation Foundation, and Cayo Costa is included in the list of parks that received them. The beach wheelchairs can be used in areas with soft sand where […]
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The Atha family had a summer that none of them were expecting. What started as a little discomfort and indigestion for Loretta Atha, quickly escalated in an unexpected way. On July 8, Loretta was taken to her Gastroenterologist for pain and swelling of her stomach. A CT scan was ordered for the next day, and […]
Written by Boca Beacon Reader on . Posted in Letters to the Editor.
September 11, 2021, marked the 20th anniversary of four coordinated terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist group, against the United States. The attacks began at 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, when terrorists crashed a hijacked commercial jet into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. A second hijacked […]
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is making waves at the state’s schools once again with an announcement in the last few days, but this time it isn’t just about mask mandates. Just this week DeSantis proposed the elimination of the Florida Standards Assessment testing, a change that could change place for the next school year. DeSantis […]