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■ STAFF REPORT On Thursday, Aug. 8 Lee County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a residential burglary on the island (exact location redacted due to Marsy’s Law). According to reporting deputies, contact was made with the complainant, who is the caretaker of a home in Boca Grande. The caretaker said he witnessed a […]
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Joseph “J Baldy” Rinaldi, 76, passed into the never on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 10, 2019, surrounded by family and friends. He died from complications related to his battle with lung cancer. Baldy was born Joseph Leonard Rinaldi on April 21, 1942 to Joseph C. and Dolores F. (Colapietro) Rinaldi in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN If you’ve visited Hudson’s Grocery recently, you might have noticed a new face helping to run the store. Sporting a bright pink T-shirt, Mike Bower has been working hard at the store, learning how to run the business for the past several weeks. Working alongside his grandfather, John White, a long-time employee of […]
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■ BY JOELLEN WILSON, BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST Ten years ago Bonefish & Tarpon Trust (BTT) started a tarpon-tagging project in Charlotte Harbor. Back then we used heavy and expensive satellite tags. But those clunky tags gave us precise daily locations of each tagged fish during their fall migration. We learned generally where the fish […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Sporadic and intense lightning storms were named as the culprit in two fire incidents that occurred this week. The first call came in on Wednesday, Aug. 7 at 8:26 p.m. as an outside fire. It turned out to be a tree on fire in the 200 block of Damficare Street. The second […]
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■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE UPDATED STORY AS OF THE AFTERNOON OF FRIDAY, AUG. 9 … A Code Enforcement officer was on the island Friday morning, and he has already closed out several of the complaints against businesses that have been lodged in the past few weeks. As of Friday, Aug. 9 complaints against Seale Family […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Images of Jupiter’s beloved, iconic Light are everywhere, and now a very special one is coming to a Florida Tax Collector’s office near you. On Aug. 9, the Department of Motor Vehicles will offer official ‘Visit Our Lights’ Florida Lighthouses’ specialty license plate with a redesigned look featuring an original artist’s rendering […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Boca Grande came out in full force to Litchfield, Maine to honor one of our own, Chief Joe “Baldy” Rinaldi, this past weekend. It was a little bit hectic to try to get all the photos and stories together for this week, but stay tuned next week for the complete lowdown on the […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Lee County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call from an island resident on Thursday, Aug. 1 regarding a stolen golf cart charger from her fenced yard. According to reports, the victim said sometime between July 25 and August 1, someone came into her yard and took her golf cart battery charger, […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association patrol members have had to battle some stormy mornings over the past week during their daily patrol duties, but they were happy to report three nests hatched. There were no new nests reported this week. Note: It is illegal to remove a sea turtle, so if […]