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■ BY SUE ERWIN Capt. Marian Schneider embarked on a journey 27 years ago and started Grande Tours, an ecotourism business just off island on Placida Road. Inspired by her father’s example and the lessons she learned from him, Schneider built a business with a foundation firmly rooted in the love and respect of the environment, […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN History Bytes, sponsored by the Boca Grande Historical Society and U.S. Trust, will be held again on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 11 a.m. in the Johann Fust Library Loggia. Hank Hendry is a sixth-generation Floridian. His great-great-grandfather Francis Asbury Hendry first visited Fort Myers in 1853 as a scout for the Army […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Boca Grande resident Frank Newlin shared some personal stories of what it was like growing up on the island with his grandparents during the 1950s through the 1970s with a large crowd at the Johann Fust Community Library on Wednesday, Feb. 7. He talked about his grandparents, E. Mortimer & Elizabeth Battles Newlin […]
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■ STAFF REPORT Award-winning Santa Rosa Beach artist Kathleen Broaderick will be offering a two-day oil workshop at the Boca Grande Art Center this month. An intensive two-day “Bold & Beautiful Oils” workshop is set for February 26 and 27 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Broaderick will teach creating clean, beautiful paintings in oil. […]
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■ BY BOOTS TOLSDORF Once again, Royal Palm Players will perform February’s comedy. This year, it is a cast of 11 sharing great laughs in Noel Coward’s “Present Laughter.” The cast is a familiar composite of some veterans and some newbies, including Chuck Barnell, Maggie Bush, Ann Fletcher, David Jenkins, Joan Kale, Mark Masselink, Priscilla […]
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■ STAFF REPORT On Tuesday, Feb. 5 Coastal Conservation Association Florida, Duke Energy and the FWC began releasing more than 10,000 juvenile and adult redfish in southwest Florida counties beginning with a 1,000+ redfish release in Pasco County. Each of the five upcoming releases include approximately 1,000 to 1,500 juvenile fish and 25 to 30 […]
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■ STAFF REPORT The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is holding several public meetings to gather community input about the agency’s aquatic plant herbicide treatment program. These meetings will provide the public with an opportunity to provide feedback about management activities on Florida water bodies during the past 12 months. The meetings will […]
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Sally Austerberry Dinan, a full-time resident of Boca Grande, died at home on February 1. She fought a fierce year-long battle with esophageal cancer, only to succumb just days before her eightieth birthday. Sally was an alumna of Kingswood School-Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, for which she held an abiding affection, and a 1961 graduate […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN After serving in the Navy for almost five years and an accomplished 32-year career with IBM, Charles Stark returned to his original passion and earned a master’s degree in history at State University of New York. He always had a yearning to teach. “I wanted to teach all along, because my mother […]
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To the Editor: In light of recent discussion of “gun violence,” here are some facts to frame the issue (most are FBI uniform crime statistics). Suicides account for about two-thirds of all U.S. firearm deaths. The U.S. homicide rate has fallen by more than half since its height between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, despite the addition […]