Tag: Boca Beacon

Should I laugh or should I cry?

To the Editor: Should I laugh or should I cry? This liveable and loveable village of Boca Grande with its Mediterranean touch under a strict Prussian Law and Order Regime? Everything...

Profile: Mary Mazyck

August 8, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News, Profiles

■ BY SUE ERWIN Mary Mazyck spent almost four years in Ecuador serving with the Peace Corps before returning to her hometown of Tallahassee, where she spent a year riding horses for a living. “I...

Code enforcement cases still in limbo, Pass cam gone because of complaints

August 2, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE Some changes have been made downtown in light of the recent complaints made to Lee County Code Enforcement by an anonymous person or persons, including the removal of tables,...

FWC to public: ‘This is not the Wild West’

August 2, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE After a few emails and phone calls from this office to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, a new message has been sent out to the public. Whether it will be...

Rosemary F. Bowler, Ph.D. — August 24, 1929 – July 26, 2019

August 2, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News, Obituaries

■ BY SANDY JACOBS Rosemary Fannie Bowler, 89, until recently a resident of Boca Grande, passed away on July 26, 2019 after a brief illness. She is survived by her sister Eleanor Bowler Craveiro,...

Fire Department no longer a ‘lost and found’

August 2, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ STAFF REPORT The Boca Grande Fire Department is not a repository for lost and found items and will no longer receive, secure or handle any lost and found items. Lost and found items are...

Road paving …

August 2, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ STAFF REPORT The Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority will be having the road paved from Placida Road to the toll booth beginning some time around August 12. Be prepared for one-lane traffic and...

More disoriented hatchlings were found this past week

August 2, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY SUE ERWIN A Boca Grande Sea Turtle Association patrol member found a wandering newly hatched loggerhead turtle getting ready to cross the road near the Range Light last Friday morning, so she...

ISLAND SHERIFF, FIRE AND EMS NEWS: Fire Department, EMS respond to fainting and water rescue

August 2, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ STAFF REPORT Boca Grande Fire Department and EMS workers responded to two calls this week, among others – a potential water rescue and a person who had fainted from heat exhaustion. On...

New playground should be completed by the end of August

August 2, 2019
Marcy Shortuse
News

■ BY SUE ERWIN If you drove down First Street near the Boca Grande Community Center this past week, you may have noticed some construction cones around the kids’ playground area at the front of The...