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Major landscaping for 5th Street Boca Grande gateway

BY THE GASPARILLA ISLAND CONSSERVATION & IMPROVEMENT ASSOC. The Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association has announced the initiation of two significant bike path improvement projects in a Wednesday, June 26 press release. This summer, GICIA will repair the steep edges of the paved path and relandscape the bike path between 5th and 7th Streets. […]

America’s Signers of the Declaration ‘put it all on the line’

Americans often take for granted the hard-won freedoms celebrated at the Fourth of July. We should not. Our duty not to forget starts with the Declaration of Independence signers. The signers had everything to lose if the effort was unsuccessful. One forgotten part of the Declaration is at the end, where they pledge their great […]

Briefs: Charlotte’s Flores now state president

Charlotte County Administrator Hector Flores will begin a one-year term as president of the Florida Association of County Managers on Thursday. Flores was elected by fellow members of the FACM board of directors at the organization’s annual business meeting in 2023. “It’s an honor to be able to lead such a distinguished group of public […]

Fishing is unique to each of us

Many of us start fishing as kids, introduced by parents or grandparents. It seems to me the younger we are exposed to the outdoors the deeper it imprints. My first memories are about fishing. About five years old I caught a pickerel on a red and white Jointed Pike Minnow, casting under an overhanging bush. […]