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BY OLIVIA CAMERON – Francis ‘Skip’ Branin has dedicated his work to preserving financial stability within the community of Boca Grande. His skillset has allowed him to monitor the funding for island organizations. Before he was ever wintering on Gasparilla Island, Skip grew up in Cranbury, New Jersey, and now spends summers at the “Jersey […]
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Helen Thrash Fraser passed away at home on March 20, 2020. She was born in 1930 to Dorothy Louise King and Charles Wilson Thrash. Helen had one brother, Charles Wilson Thrash, Jr. – deceased. She suffered with emphysema, COPD, and congestive heart failure. Helen took her Southern twang, grace, wit, beauty and talents with her. […]
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BY I am writing this on April Fools’ Day. Yet, none of us are fools during this time. The rise of COVID-19 has given all of us time to think and process. For my spouse Joy and I, we have taken a little time to sort through old pictures and recall great stories from our […]
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To the Editor, Gotta love this town. My golf cart was stolen and wrecked – Angelo (one of the sheriff’s deputies) met me last night and helped me get the steering wheel put together, enough to get the cart to the Barnichol this morning. While I was waiting on Gary to come from the back […]
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BY ERICA MARTIN – On Sunday, March 22 at 1 p.m., most of the members of Grande Glee were singing their hearts out – together. From Wisconsin to Northern Ontario to Boca Grande, the internet was buzzing with sounds of joy as everyone warmed up during a test run on Zoom. In case you haven’t […]
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BY LAUREN HANA, MD – The U.S. has had an exponential increase in daily new cases of COVID-19 over the last week, with the last three days averaging 10,000 new cases in the U.S. daily. As of March 25, the U.S. has the most active cases in the world. The U.S. total cases now trail Italy’s […]
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Our family is heartbroken to announce that we lost one of the greatest loves of our lives. Bob Hayden loved his family and his many friends, the Navy, his loyal Sigma Chi brothers, his two dogs that always wanted to be by his side – Boomer and Bentley. As Navy lore has it, when we […]
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BY OLIVIA CAMERON – Boca Grande’s Englewood Bank has just hired a new manager to keep their tellers in good hands. Gretchen Holla has been in the banking business since her career history began and she is now part of the island crew. However, her managerial title didn’t fall out of the sky. Gretchen joined […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE – Last week in this same spot on the front page we had two cancellations in our social calendar, with a mention of a third, due to COVID-19 concerns. This week the spot is taken up by us telling you that, essentially, the entire season is canceled. What a difference a week […]
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BY DALY WALKER, MD – The Coronavirus is now moving explosively through the world’s human population. The latest scientific reports warn that without action by the government and individuals to slow the spread of the virus and suppress the number of new cases, hundreds of thousands, even over a million people in the United States […]