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■ STAFF REPORT Lee County Parks & Recreation and the Boca Beacon are sponsoring a Youth Fishing Tournament this Saturday, April 29 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Boca Grande North Fishing Pier. Bring your rods, tackle boxes, drinks and snacks; they will supply the bait. These tournaments are live bait, catch-and-release events with […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Attention all sea turtle fans. The Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association is seeking volunteers to help patrol the beaches for the upcoming nesting season. It appears that nesting season has started early this year. The first nest was spotted on Monday, April 24 around 48th Street on zone 4. The loggerhead nest […]
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■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE. After several months of intense research, the Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority thinks they have narrowed down the cause of a popping sound under the new swing bridge when it opens and closes. It’s not arthritis, the bridge isn’t breakdancing, and it’s probable a little dry ice will fix the situation […]
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■ SUBMITTED BY GIBA The GIBA quarterly board meeting was held on Wednesday, April 24, 2017 in the Woman’s Club Room at the Boca Grande Community Center. The executive director’s report included traffic and revenue figures for the first two quarters of 2017. Traffic counts were flat compared to last year, with a corresponding one-percent […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN A little girl with island ties who’s been battling cancer since last year has been handling it like a true warrior, and we thought we’d give you an update on her progress. Several months ago, Zoe Guy experienced a common cold that just wouldn’t go away. After weeks had passed, her […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Ten female athletes who were members of the Arizona State University swim team reunited recently at the Sharp House in Boca Grande. They had not seen each other in nearly 40 years, but once they were together again, it seemed like a day hadn’t passed. The ladies swam together at ASU […]
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■ SUE ERWIN Gasparilla Island State Park Ranger Jon Dillard loves being outdoors. And in October of 2015, he landed a job in an ideal place to launch his career. Jon is from Clermont, Florida and attended school in the small town just west of Orlando. Jon said it used to be a quiet, rural town […]
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To the Editor: The Literature Forum has ended another successful season. More than 200 lovers of fine literature attended the past season’s Literature Forum. Able presenters and discussion leaders, including Sandy Jacobs, Davis Hammond, David Jenkins, Tim Yonker, Edes Gilbert, Susan Hastings, Cathy Ballman and Jim and Karen Grace, brought the selected books to life […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN The Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board held a meeting on Wednesday, April 19, which left a few members of the community disappointed. Four cases involving special certificates of appropriateness were on the agenda. The first item was a request for an addition to the west side of the house at 291 Palm […]
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■ BY SUE ERWIN Ethan Edson, a marine scientist with Northeastern University, visited Boca Grande this week and coincidentally planned the trip around an Earth Day exhibition in Dallas, Texas. Edson will join a panel at the event tomorrow (Earth Day) to discuss plastic pollution in world oceans. Using ingenuity, he developed a product called […]