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BY BOOTS TOOLSDORF A cast of familiar faces and more than a handful of new faces to the Royal Palm Players’ family will delight you in laughs as the reading Craving for Travel is presented in the Boca Grande auditorium on Friday, March 14 and Saturday, March 15 at 7 p.m., and Sunday, March 16 […]
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Daily and monthly traffic totals have been calculated for the Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority for January and February. Total vehicle crossings were up by a little over 2,000 cars this January compared to last January 2024, a much smaller increase than the jump from January 2023 to January 2024, which was more than a 5,000-car […]
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Work with Ford Foundation; thinker on resource economics BY FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE At 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 29 in the Community Center Auditorium, Margaret Walls, senior fellow and director of Resources for the Future will be discussing “Fires, Floods, and Hurricanes: Living with the New Normal.” In her talk, she will look at […]
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A crew from the women’s fashion retailer Hunter Bell was in Boca Grande recently to photograph part of their spring 2025 line. Hunter Bell, launched by its namesake designer in New York City in 2006, takes a bit of a coastal prep look with their resort wear. Each season they pull from a range of […]
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The Gasparilla Inn employees are participating in a trash to treasure initiative – bringing the island back together. The first meeting to collect and clean remaining debris was well attended and everyone enjoyed pizza after their hard work. Photos submitted
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A peaceful lone sculler plied the Bayou last Friday on the opening day for the Boca Grande Farmers Market. Families watched from the Bayou Bridge. It evoked a Thomas Eakins painting. In the 19th century Eakins depicted rowers on Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River, often with a bridge in the background. On that brisk chilly Friday across […]
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Features on presidents in Boca Grande, a hurricane roundup, and a weddings page The January/February edition of the Boca Beacon’s Gasparilla Island Magazine is out now with new feature stories, recipes, shopping and social pages. Featured stories include a history of Florida’s National Airlines, a collection of photos from Hurricanes Helene and Milton, a look […]
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The island Disaster Fund is now at $3,596,000 to aid island non-profits and businesses. “It keeps coming in,” said co-organizer Larry Hannah, who is one of a group of volunteers who are helping to sort and select the donations that have helped with recovery from hurricanes Helene and Milton. Officially they are ending the fund […]
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This Friday’s paper is the first of the new year. Despite still recovering from the dual hurricanes this fall, Boca Grande was crowded with visitors this week, here to ring in 2025 in paradise. Families packed onto bikes and golf carts to shop at local businesses, eat ice cream at The Pink Pony and enjoy […]
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It’s all in the numbers. Who doesn’t enjoy a date with a good number? Was your date a good number? That’s what we get next week with New Year’s Day, always a 1-1. Christmas Day was a good number, 12-25-24, but a greater date will be 12-25-25. On Christmas Day, we talked to friends visiting, […]