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On Monday, March 23, Lew Hastings, founder of the Native Now Foundation (and also our executive director at the Boca Grande Area Chamber of Commerce), will give a new lecture about his time on the Cheyenne River and other Indian Reservations in South Dakota. “Reflections on the Reservation” will include a Powerpoint presentation, and there […]
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Nearly 400 people attended the Boca Grande Historical Society’s Tour of Historic Homes last Thursday. Almost 100 gathered for the luncheon at the Gasparilla Inn preceding the tour to hear Bill Morton and Davis Hammond, owners of two of the houses on the tour, muse about life in Boca Grande over the decades and the […]
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Jack Lyons, a native New Yorker and resident of Boca Grande for more than 20 years, died suddenly on Feb. 27, 2015 while on a boat trip with fellow BIPS volunteers to Don Pedro Island. His wife, Bette, was with him. He was 87. Jack was a well-known and much loved figure on the island. […]
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Natalie Stevens Rogers passed away on February 28 in Salisbury, NC. A regular visitor to Boca Grande for a couple of months each winter from 1995 to 2002, she was a loving wife, a devoted mother and grandmother, a compassionate friend, and a brilliant teacher of both nursing and high school science. Her daughter, Nora […]
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Philip Edward Shanley, 61, passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of February 20, 2015 after a five year battle with cancer. Phil was a much loved husband, dad, son, brother, and friend. Phil is survived by his wife of 33 years, Jane; his daughter, Sage; stepdaughter Jennifer (Tim) and their three boys, Brody, […]
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This Saturday, March 7, the grounds of the Boca Grande Community Center and the Crowninshield Community House will be abuzz … not with bees but with patrons full of goodwill, a generous nature and a hunger for strawberry shortcake. The Boca Grande United Methodist Women will host their annual Strawberry Festival from 9 a.m. to […]
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BY JACK SHORT Susan Schultz has settled nicely into the Florida lifestyle. An entertaining aficionada, sultan of shopping, regent of rentals, and barrister of backyard barbecues, she knows how to enjoy her work and hobbies, but also knows that the most important thing in life is the time a person spends with friends and family. […]
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BY JACK SHORT The following is an ongoing recollection of a recent mission trip to Cuba made by the Boca Grande United Methodist Church. This is part two. The six missionaries on the trip led by Dan Christopherson and including Pastor Brian Brightly had a few different goals, one of which was to deliver the […]
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BY JACK SHORT The most recent development in the ongoing dispute between the Boca Grande Isles Property Owners’ Association and 5F, the corporation that owns the submerged plats surrounding the Isles, may have signaled the end of the case with a reported contingent settlement. Charles Ross, esq., a certified circuit civil court mediator, filed a […]
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BY JACK SHORT Representatives of 111 Damfiwill, LLC., presented plans to the public on Tuesday, March 10, to renovate the shop at 360 Park Ave. and build a restaurant next door, at 354 Park Ave., and to provide off site parking at 421 Palm Ave. because of limited space near the proposed restaurant. Because the […]