Tag: Boca Beacon
If you’re wishin’ to go fishin’ …
■ STAFF REPORT
Grab your fishing pole and tackle box and come join the family fun at our youth fishing tournament on Saturday, Sept. 9 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Boca Grande Fishing Pier North.
The...
The Gasparilla Island Act: Part III Measuring buildings and making amendments
■ BY SUSAN HANAFEE
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles about the forces that have shaped development in Boca Grande and on Gasparilla Island.
It’s a scene from the early 1980s...
Chase Taylor doing well after foul ball accident, meets Tebow
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE
Chase Taylor is a very lucky little boy.
After being hit with a foul ball at a Stone Crabs game on August 8, he is not only well on his way to recovery but also got to meet Tim...
Profile Mitch Smith
■ BY SUE ERWIN
Mitch Smith recalls spending the summer months of his youth at day camp at the Boca Grande Community Center.
His father, Myron, worked for a cleaning business on the island for many...
Never forget that Texas could have been us
■ BY MARCY SHORTUSE
This week many of us watched in horror as Hurricane Harvey turned into a nasty houseguest who wouldn’t leave and left thousands of people in Texas and Louisiana homeless,...
A smooth surface: GICIA bike path resurfacing has begun
■ SUBMITTED BY THE GICIA – It has been more than 30 years since the Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association (GICIA) bike path was constructed and opened to the public.
In...
The Gasparilla Island Act: Part II Building in Boca, and a war of words over the island’s future
■ BY SUSAN HANAFEE
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles about the forces that have shaped development in Boca Grande and on Gasparilla Island.
As the tarpon season is getting...
Bridge scale lane set to reopen Monday
■ STAFF REPORT – The installation of the Boca Grande swing bridge’s new scale lane is almost complete, and it is scheduled to reopen on Monday, Aug. 28 at 5:45 a.m. The Gasparilla Island...