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SUBMITTED BY THE FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION Heavy rain and rough weather along southwest Florida’s Gulf Coast are impacting sea turtle nests along the beaches, jeopardizing the eggs and hatchlings emerging from the nests. Many nests of loggerhead and green turtles have been documented this year in Charlotte, Collier, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas and […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE Busy. It’s the word that comes to mind when thinking of Jennifer Burdette Campbell, a work-at-home mom to three children who calls Boca Grande her home. She and her husband, Dan, own Campbell Mechanical, a building information and infrastructure company, and Jennifer can frequently be seen around The Island School and the […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE It doesn’t take long to get used to having something so good as the Boca Grande Farmers Market around. Residents of the island have become familiar with the Friday routine of stopping by for lunch, a cup of coffee, live music and, of course, lots of fruits, vegetables and plants. But, according […]
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BY JACK SHORT Two weeks of onshore wind and pounding waves have taken their toll on sea turtle nests here on the island, but authorities do not seem alarmed, saying that changes to the beach profile and the resulting sea turtle nest losses are expected. A representative of the Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association said […]
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Water service was interrupted for most of the island for several hours on Thursday, Aug. 6. As of 3 p.m., water pressure had been restored, though a boil-water notice will be in effect for at least the weekend.Bonnie Pringle of Gasparilla Island Water Association said their contractors were performing sewer repairs, when they compromised a water […]
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BY JACK SHORT Three years ago, I wrote my first profile. The subject was a former ambassador to Morocco and an undersecretary general of the United Nations. I could barely fit his resume on any number of pages, and in trying to show how elite he was (and consequently how important I was), I produced […]
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Boca Grande has gorgeous beaches and, even though they are public, they have a wonderful way of giving beach goers a sense of privacy. As Boca Grande becomes more popular as a beach destination, the issues and perils of parking are going to have to be addressed. In light of that fact, the Gasparilla Island […]
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BY JACK SHORT Defendants have begun to answer accusations made against them in a lawsuit over access to Three Sisters Island. The lawsuit was filed almost immediately after the resolution of decades’ worth of acrimonious dispute between homeowners in Boca Grande Isles, a private, planned community connected to Gasparilla Island by bridge, and Three Sisters […]
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BY JACK SHORT Both Silver King Entertainment, LLC and Save the Tarpon, Inc. would rather their case be heard by a judge and a jury of peers than a magistrate. The Charlotte County Court issued an order on July 15 canceling a scheduled, non-jury hearing in an ongoing case between the two corporations. That case […]
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE Just over the bridge and to your right there is a historic little piece of old Florida where you can find treasures all year long. It is one of the oldest inhabited points along the Charlotte Harbor Coast, and if you concentrate hard you can start to understand just how it used […]