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Cell phone tower update: More COWs are coming before new tower is put in place

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The current providers of service have responded to the immediate needs in Boca Grande for interim service brought on by Hurricane Ian. There is service uncertainty due to capacity limitations and demand from island visitors.

The Boca Grande CSWG has established a dialog and working relationship with the current providers of service – AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. The group is reviewing current and future plans for Boca Grande. Each of the providers have enthusiastically offered support and solutions.

Historical Society needs new volunteers to help keep island history alive

Written by Sheila Evans on . Posted in News.

“As a volunteer, you can learn more about the island you love, or teach us all the stories you know!” said Diff. “We’re looking for volunteers to help foster our island’s vast culture, while having fun and meeting new friends in the process. History spans so many different topics and we’re sure to find something that satisfies anyone’s interests.”

The West Coast Chaos are jamming! Under 12 boys take second championship 

Written by Sheila Evans on . Posted in News.

The West Coast Chaos sounds like something Hurricane Ian left in its wake, but it actually is a group of highly committed and skilled young soccer players from the Englewood area.  There are a number of teams under the “Chaos” umbrella, both boys and girls teams, but the team getting recognition at this point is […]

Art After Dark Part II featuring Susan Wood a smashing success

Written by Sheila Evans on . Posted in News.

It’s not every day that a photographer with the body of work that Susan Wood has is featured in a slideshow on the side of a building on a tiny island like ours. It happened, though, on March 30, as the second in a series that celebrates the senses called “Art After Dark.” The J.McLaughlin store hosts the events, which are held for charity. Wood, a world famous photographer to the stars of movies, music, fashion, and politics, as well as a highly skilled photojournalist capturing down-to-earth happenings, was thrilled to be part of it. 

THIS DATE IN THE BOCA BEACON

Written by Marcy Shortuse on . Posted in Community History, News.

FIVE YEARS AGO Boca Grande Causeway history was made after a massive Spring Break party a one-day car crossing record was set – 4,989 to be exact. TEN YEARS AGO Andy Ireland presided over his last GICIA meeting as president. He handed the key to Bayne Stevenson. Angela Steffan and Jack Damioli were named to […]

The word from the wickets

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The second Annual Gasparilla Mallet Club Tournaments are in the history books, and they were resounding successes, according to Skip Russo, one of the tournament’s directors. At least 24 people took part in each of the two one-day tournaments, one for Golf Croquet on March 14, and one for 6-wicket Croquet on March 21. Some participants played in both tournaments.

The Spadaro family returns to Boca Grande …

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Joseph Spadaro came to Boca Grande in the 1920s. On Sunday, March 26, 2023, his great niece, Celeste Markle, came to the Boca Grande History Center to learn more about him. Her brother Bill Perta who lives in Vermont had called a few weeks earlier looking for information about his great uncle. Since Celeste was visiting from New Haven, Connecticut with a friend in Venice, Bill gave her the information that the History Center had created three notebooks about Spadaro and the Boca Grande Hotel he’d built and opened in 1929.  

Library Foundation presents two professors and authors in conversation

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The Johann Fust Library Foundation is excited to present a unique program featuring two professors from the University of Central Florida, Chrissy Kolaya and David James Poissant, in a conversation about writing on Tuesday, April 4 at 4 p.m. Chrissy Kolaya and David James Poissant are scholars and inspired writing teachers, but beyond that, they […]

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Lewis Carlisle

Written by Sheila Evans on . Posted in News, Profiles.

It was not long before Lewis was sharing with John and Anne the story about the camping trip to Maine, and the guide’s plan to make a bowl out of her piece of a tree. “And John said, ‘Well, you know, you ought to think about going to the Dog Park and seeing if there are any burls left over there in all the wood they’ve been piling up.’ It was 25 feet high or so. And with that idea from John and Anne, I decided to go over to the site and look. However, the contractor — and probably rightly so — told me that I wasn’t allowed on the site; that there were too many construction things and they were starting to chip up wood, and there were just dangerous things going on. So I left.”