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The Lemon Bay Women’s Interclub team will be headed to Regionals at Heron Creek next week. Interclub is a part of Florida State Golf Association. It is a six week tournament, three at home games and three away games. It is a match play event. Polly Flinn and Carolanne Taub are the Captains of the […]
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BY CAPT. WILL WATERHOUSE In between fronts this week, the fishing was great. As water temperatures began to rebound from the low 50s to the 70s, the fish were active and looking to feed. Lots of nice big redfish have been caught in live bait and artificial. We are also seeing the snook showing up […]
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The Lemon Bay Girls Beach Volleyball team sponsored the “Catch a Convict” sheepshead tournament as a fundraiser. Cape Haze Marina hosted the event. The weather and fish cooperated, with plenty of thieving convicts, sheepshead, in attendance. The event was held Feb. 21. They enjoyed a strong turnout and raised more than $13,000 to support the […]
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BY ROB ROBBINS PRESIDENT, FRIENDS OF CAPE HAZE On Feb. 9, the Charlotte County Planning and Zoning Board voted 4-1 to forward on to the Charlotte Board of County Commissioners a recommendation to rezone by Hutton MF Cape Haze LLC. The rezoning would allow a 135 unit apartment building behind the Cape Haze Ace. The […]
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The Boca Grande Area Chamber of Commerce has introduced the first annual Gasparilla Grande Slam Back Bay Fishing Tournament, to be held on March 28. This inshore fishing event celebrates competitive angling, sportsmanship and coastal heritage targeting redfish, snook and speckled trout. On Saturday, March 28, lines will be in from 9 a.m. to 1 […]
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BY THE ISLAND SCHOOL FOUNDATION The Island School Foundation’s chairperson, Mary Johnston, summed up the day: “Conditions couldn’t have been much worse, but our community came out with their best!” The Island School, a tuition-free charter school for grades K-5, held their $1,000,000 Golf Challenge last week on a chilly, windy winter day at The […]
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Editor’s Note: This has been rescheduled as of 2/5/26. ‘Everything (and everyone) alive today is descended from an organism that somehow survived the impact. But it does not follow from this that they (or we) are any better adapted.’ The Friends of Boca Grande Community Center is set to host one of the most influential […]
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Built to Last: What Winning Restaurants Do Differently, an in-person program featuring restaurant industry leader Ed Rensi, will take place from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Feb. 23,, at the Military Heritage Museum in Punta Gorda. Presented by SCORE Port Charlotte and hosted in partnership with the Punta Gorda Chamber of Commerce and the Charlotte […]
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Severe drought is impacting nearly all of Lee County, causing grass to change from lush green to dry and brown. From Charlotte to Collier counties, dry weather ranges from moderate to severe. The National Weather Service reported that 2025 was the sixth driest year on record in Fort Myers, and the consequences have rolled into […]
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Above, Kappy’s Richie Woodham and Brandi DeBruler with Tenpenny, at center. Members of the band of country singer Mitchell Tenpenny came to Gasparilla Island before playing the Big Boy Toyz Expo in Port Charlotte last Friday. A staffer at Kappy’s happened to recognize them as part of a country band from Tennessee. “They came in […]