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The Boca Beacon staff traveled to the Sarasota Westin on Friday, July 16 for the Florida Press Association Better Weekly Newspaper awards, and the Florida Magazine Association Charlie Awards. We did pretty well, garnering 15 in the FPA contest and eight in the FMA contest. In the newspaper contest Art Director Daniel Godwin received a […]
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Recently I made a trip to California to see our children and grandchildren. We spent some time in the area from LA to Santa Barbara. As we visited the areas mentioned I began to notice that the majority of people spend more money on shoes and sunglasses or hats than on the rest of the […]
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If you live within the Boca Grande residential historic district and you aren’t comfortable with the possibility of your neighborhood being placed on the National Register of Historic Places, it is not too late to let Tallahassee know.
On Thursday, Aug. 5 the Florida National Register Review Board will make its recommendation regarding the determination of eligibility to the Register, regardless of the fact that a majority of the residents in the district, the Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board and the Lee County Historic Preservation Board voted against it.
Written by Marcy Shortuse on . Posted in Sports & Outdoors.
The death toll for the first half of 2021 is greater than it was in the entirety of previous years
Written by T Michele Walker on . Posted in Profiles, Sports & Outdoors.
The first Jay Joiner Memorial Belt Buckle was given out the year after he passed away, in 1993. The buckle is engraved with an eagle, which represents the best fisherman nature has to offer, and a ruby, Jay’s birthstone.
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BY T MICHELE WALKER – Croquet is believed to have been first played by thirteenth-century French peasants who fashioned ad hoc mallets to whack wooden balls through hoops made of willow branches. The modern game’s origins can be traced to 1852 when a game called “crooky” was introduced to England from Ireland where it had […]
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This is a story of two old Boca Grande institutions and a few of the past and present individuals involved with them over the years.
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After a summer of being closed due to COVID restrictions, musical theater summer camp is back on stage at The Lemon Bay High School Theater. From the looks of it, the children couldn’t be more thrilled.
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You’ve probably seen them scattered along the bike path, in parks, or in other certain public areas. A simple-looking bench with a little plaque or engraving on it with words, quotes, and the name of the person the bench is dedicated to; these are the memorial benches of Boca Grande.
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BY MARCY SHORTUSE – Elsa couldn’t make up her mind what she wanted to be when she grew up, and went back and forth from a tropical storm to a hurricane, and back to a tropical storm in a matter of a few days. On June 24 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spotted a […]