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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, […]
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By James Blaha, BGHC In 1925, a former real estate company promoted Boca Grande with the following advertisement: “Boca Grande is unique among Florida resorts. For many years it has gone on its way unexploited by commercialism, unmoved by real estate excitement, attending to its business of being beautiful and restful and the winter home […]
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The Johann Fust Library Foundation team is working hard to restore the library so it can reopen soon. In the meantime, the foundation invites you back to its courtyard and loggia on Friday, Jan. 17, at 4 p.m., for the first event of the 2024-2025 season, featuring author Lynn Stegner. Author and publisher Nan Doyal […]
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As shops reopen around town, familiar streetscape icons return as well. Here Robin Melvin of Gasparilla Outfitters and Special Effects takes a first look at the shop signs restored by Chuck Forrest. Forrest also re-varnished the bench that sits under their front porch. The bench is a popular rest spot for husbands. The gold leaf […]